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- EJECT! A Quake C Modification by Steve Bond
-
- Email: wedge@nuc.net
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- Visit QUAKE COMMAND! http://www.nuc.net
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- Eject is a fairly simple modification that makes the Shotgun and Double
- Barrel Shotgun eject shell casings (VERY cool.) Nothing really technical
- about this one, I made this patch because there were two new things I wanted
- to try to work with - Custom MDL files, and PAK files. As far as models go,
- the Shotgun Shell is just a cylinder mapped with a texture I painted for it.
- Working with PAK files was much easier than I'd expected. (Thanks to Tom
- Wheeley for XPAK - excellent tool.) The PROGS.DAT file, the Shotgun Shell
- model, and the Clatter sound effect are all stuffed into one pak file. Makes
- things a lot easier to set up. Speaking of...
-
- Installation:
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- 1) Make a directory in your QUAKE directory called EJECT
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- 2) Copy the PAK0.PAK from this archive into your EJECT directory.
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- 3) Start Quake by typing "QUAKE -GAME EJECT"
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- 4) Fire your shotgun once or twice. Better yet, go find a double barrel.
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-
- Notes:
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- This is primarily to make multiplayer games more engrossing, if you
- are forced to play with this patch in single play mode, mouselook towards the
- ground and fire the shotgun, you'll get a pretty good idea of the effect.
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- Shells will stick around for 20 seconds, then disappear.
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-
- Known Problems:
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- Uh. Between the time that I painted the texture and it got mapped onto the
- shell and thrown into the game, it looked a little more orange than the
- original red. :( (I still think they look great for their size.) This causes
- them to be visible (glow) in darker areas. Quake's palette is pretty skimpy
- when it comes to rich reds, and the brighter reds all glow in the dark... so
- I did what I could.
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- Sometimes 2 shells will fly out of the double barrel shotgun stuck together.
- Random numbers are pretty safe, but sometimes the same two get picked.
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- If you find any problems with this patch, please Email me. Thanks!
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-
- (If you seek the source for this file in order to add it to an exisiting
- server, please email me.)
-
- -Steve
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