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- The Custom Backpack Dropper.. One development of the many coming, of:
- DooMer-Toolz!
- By: Chris Sobotkiewicz
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- Name: Custom Backpack Dropper
- Version: 1.0
- Players: More than one, unless you're retarded..
- Deathmatch: Yes sir
- Cooperative: Surely!
- Teamplay: Oh yeah baby!
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- Ok my friends.. What I have here is a working, fully error checked,
- version of a custom backpack dropping utility.. What is it you ask?
- Well, lets setup a little story, with you blowing people to bits, while
- your teammate sits there with his axe..
-
- Teammate: "Wow, thats really neato completo! Your kicking some ass
- with that Grenade Launcher!"
-
- You: "Yep.."
-
- Teammate: "I wish you could give me that rocket launcher you arent using."
-
- You: "Yep.."
-
- Teammate: "I said, I wish...."
-
- You: "Oh yeah! Here you go, my whining loser!"
-
- Teammate: "Jee thanks, but you forgot to add ammo to that backpack"
-
- You: "Doh! Here ya go, lets kick some butt!"
-
- Well there you have it.. Our simulated players are now both
- happy, and racking up frags.. How did he do it? Well, with The Custom
- Backpack Dropping Utility! Only $19.95.... Er, by: Chris Sobotkiewicz..
- Lets examine how it works..
-
- You, as a client (a player connecting to a server) dont need
- anything! Except some keys configured. 5 keys in all.. Yes yes, alot
- you say, but hey, this is going to come in handy.. And after all,
- knitting a backpack (with shoulder straps might I add!) takes awhile.
- Besides, I can see this being used more on non-mass-I-die-instantly-kill
- servers, but servers with big areas, and places to meet and swap ammo..
- The original quake weapons trade scenario is now possible! :)
-
- Heres the rundown:
- impulse 50: Selects between different ammos to start adding
- to the backpack, and health..
- impulse 51: Increases the ammount to be added by that set value
- for the ammo.. For instance, if you impulse 50
- to shells, and hit the impulse 51 key, each time
- it would go up by 2. (Health goes 0-15-25).
- impulse 52: Goes through the weapons in the game..
- impulse 53: Toggles the current weapon (impulse 52) to be added
- or not..
- impulse 54: spawns a backpack and/or health kit..
-
- Sounds difficult eh? Its not too bad.. Just try it out.. With my
- particular key setup (A=strafe left, S= strafe right, Z=backward, X=jump,
- shoot/run on mouse) I find the QWERF system to work very well.. That is:
- Q=IMPULSE 50, W=IMPULSE 51.... Etc.. Wraps around my little controls
- nicely! :).. And its all real-time defined custom dropping! :)
-
- You'll know when a server supports it, cuz you'll see a message
- when you connect it.. I know for a fact, that the server I run for my
- favorite local bbs will be using it.. Quake-101.. 156.46.216.101.. Try
- there in a few days from the date of this doc, and it should be on there.
-
- Good luck y'all.. And BTW, You can test this single player.. Just
- put this zip into: /quake/droppack or whatever you want, and type:
- quake -game droppack (or whatever) -listen +deathmatch..
-
- KNOWN BUGS:
- -Prints the client message twice.. I've delayed this thing enough,
- and I aint delaying it more to fix it.. Cuz I cant find it :).
-
- FUTURE VERSIONS:
- -Armor/Powerups?
- -Having an inventory of weapons.. ie, 2 super shotguns etc..
- -Easier key system? Maybe skip the ammo/weapons you dont have..
- -Backpack bomb? Add 10 rockets to build a bomb.. Guy who picks it up?
- We wont talk about him..
-
- OTHER WORKS:
- THE JEEP! A little car that will travel around the level.. First a set
- track, then controlled by the user! Comin soon (I hope)
-
- Advanced Team Setter! Dont want to be with people you dont like? Dont!
- When you join you'll be assigned to a new team, all by yourself.. You
- can set the amount of members to be on your team via impulse.. Almost done
- just gotta work around error checking on color switches..
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-
- I WILL be releasing code next version. I just want to work on
- cleaning it up a bit, before I let you all see it and start laughing at me.
- Calling me names, and throwing various objects at me, just because MY
- code look humerous.. No way man, I CANT TAKE IT.. Sorry..
-
- E-MAIL me suggestions to: doomer@bbs.phantasy.com
-
- Thank you all! <sniff>.. The olympics are just ending.. Fireworks
- are going.. America ruled! I tell ya, next time they're here, I'm-a going!
-
- -Chris
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