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Name of Mod : GunFu, for Quake II File Name : gunfu055.zip Version : 0.55 Date : Jan 9, 1998 Author : FuSchnick E-mail : amichaelsen@hotmail.com Web Site : none yet TYPE OF MOD ----------- DLL : Yeppers. Sound : No. MDL : No. Maps : No. Graphics : No. Source code is not included anymore but still available upon request. (The zip file was getting a tad large). VERSION NOTE ------------ Version 0.55 works with Quake2 3.10 for Win95. I am pretty sure my code is in ANSI C but havn't tested that out yet, so I don't know if it can be compiled on other platforms yet (if you can do it, let me know!). FOV is still broken until I can get my hands on the updated Quake2 DLL source. WHATS NEW IN 0.55? ------------------ * Now works with Q2 3.10 * Life Drainer weapon (see below) * Railguns have limited ability to fire through walls * Proximity Scanner (see below) FORMAT ------ I use MS Visual C++ 4.0. If you know how to compile the normal Quake2 dll source then this works just the same. I used no special options whatsoever. Oh and the gamex86.dll is the release version, if that makes any difference (besides speed and file size :) INSTALLATION ------------ Make a directory called "GUNFU" and toss GAMEX86.DLL in there. Then run Quake2 with "+set game GUNFU" and off ya go. GunFu can read a Message of the Day file and display it to clients. Create a text file in the MAIN "Quake2" directory named "motd.txt" and put in whatever you want, limit 500 characters and try to keep it under 40 columns for those 320x200 people out there :) FEATURES -------- * Death Messages * Improved Statusbar * Blaster and Hyperblaster shots ricochet * MIRV Proximity Mines * Chain Shotgun * Pipebomb Launcher * Life Drainer * Homing Missile Launcher * More realistic Railgun * Proximity Scanner * Watch/Compass Combo * Message of the Day Support * Built in Help DETAILS ------- Death Messages: One death message per weapon type (all "bullet" weapons are the same right now). More messages when I get more creative. (If you have a really good idea, email it to me) Improved Statusbar: Automatic. I followed the advice from Decker's tutorial on status bar hacking and now you can see all four special items at once (Rebreather, Envirosuit, Invulnerability, and Quad) and see their countdowns seperately. They are also in the lower right hand corner instead of the center of your screen. They only drawback is if you play in 320x200 resolution, the Quad icon covers up your "selected item" in the lower right and you cannot see what you have selected until the Quad time is up. At higher resolutions this is not a problem. I think in the next version I will remove the rebreather and envirosuit to make room for ammo indicators. Blaster / Hyperblaster Ricochet: No command for this, it is automatic at no extra ammo cost. Lasers lose 5 points of damage power every time the ricochet and disapear when they drop to 0 damage. They also disapear after a certain alotted time (the defaults from normal Q2). A blaster does 15 damage in deathmatch so it will stop on the third wall it hits. Hyperblaster does 20 so it can bounce three times and stop at the fourth. This DOES mean that when you have Quad damage on you can ricochet many more times! Note that hyperblaster bolts have a very short lifespan and will probably expire before they reach their maximum number of bounces when you have Quad on. I left the time limits in so that servers didn't get bogged down by tons of blaster bolts flying about. MIRV Proximity Mines: The MIRV grenades replace the normal hand-tossed grenades. They no longer blow up in your hand if you hold the button too long, but they will fly out on their own if you don't let go. After three seconds OR hitting an enemy, the MIRV will explode into 5 grenades that spread out in a small area. These will arm after 3 seconds and self destruct after 60. Once deployed, the proximity mines look for any monster or player that wanders too close and leaps at them! When they get real close they will explode mid-air at about head level or so (depending on how you move after they jump... they aim for the head assuming you hold still). Besides this nifty feature, they also randomly hop about once in a while. This means that holding still in the middle of a minefield will probably NOT save your life! This hopping makes noise however, and the more mines that are there the more chance of hearing them hop. This means that small groups of mines make little noise and large groups make quite a racket. The damage of the mines was reduced to make up for their surprise value. A single mine or two in the open will wound your enemy but not hurt him. 5 mines behind a door or around a corner will almost certainly kill him if he rushes in! Firing a MIRV costs 5 grenades. If you have less than 5 grenades available, you will toss single proximity mines instead. It is possible to get close enough to a mine to make it leap at you and then back away before it is close enough to explode, but you must be aware of the mine first (or just have blazing fast reactions) to pull it off. Chain Shotgun: The Chain-Shotgun and normal Chaingun are both on number 5 (or whatever key you assigned to "use chaingun"). When you press 5 you will toggle between the two chaingun types. Every time you press 5 it toggles between weapon types now... this is a known bug so don't email me about it. The chain-shotgun acts just like the normal chaingun, except instead of firing single bullets it fires shotgun spreads at the same speed! To make the weapon even remotely fair I reduced the damage it does significantly. It will still rip you a new one even on low damage so lookout! This was mainly made as an easy-to-aim weapon for us HPL out there. It annoyed me that even with a super fast rate of fire, you could sweep a chaingun past your foes and have it miss completely. No more! Now you can tag a significant amount of hits on them even with terrible aiming skills. Pipe Bombs: The Pipe Bombs and Grenade Launcher are both on key 6. The same rules for selecting the chaingun modes applies here. Pipebombs cost the same as normal grenades and do the same damage for now. They expire after 1 minute. To detonate them, bind a key to "cmd detpipe" and press it. Note that you can only detonate bombs within 1000 game units of you. Your Radio Shack[tm] pipe bomb remote control fizzles out beyond that range. Homing Missiles: Homing missiles use normal ammo but do half the damage of a normal rocket. Toggle between rockets and homing missiles like the above two weapons. The missiles will track the CLOSEST enemy within their line of site (line of site is about 90 degrees like your own, and extends 1000 units in front of the missile). They do not turn instantly but gradually turn towards their target, so dodging is possible if you see it coming. They cannot see through walls either so you can hide around sharp corners. Realistic Railguns: The railgun now has a *limited* ability to shoot through walls. The rules are thus: The slug acts like normal until it hits a wall or other solid object (players and monsters are not considered solid for this purpose), then it will CONTINUE to travel for another 300 world units (about 20 yards or so) doing HALF DAMAGE to any other objects it hits. Walls greater than 300 units thick will eat a rail slug entirely. Players hiding behind thin walls are safe if they are at least 300 units away from the entry point. I had to use this method because letting the railgun fire straight through all walls to its maximum range created problems with the railgun particle trails (the damage part still worked fine though). Proximity Scanner: "cmd scanner" will now toggle your Proximity Scanner on and off. When it is on, it will detect all players and monsters within 1000 units of you and up to 300 units behind solid objects, and create a green spark (and sound) either on the entity (if visible) or on the wall where the entity should be seen. The sparks are visible ONLY to the player using the scanner (all players may of course use their own scanners at any time). Since the scanner follows the same rules as the railgun, you should be able to hit anyone close enough to create a signal with it. The scanner only updates every 0.5 seconds, so moving targets are very difficult to hit this way. The best use of the scanner is for detecting your enemies or picking off a slow or still target behind a wall with the railgun. The scanner consumes 5 cells every 0.5 seconds... a high cost, but it is a powerful tool. The railgun and scanner make a very powerful combination now... even at half damage the ability to shoot through walls is a very powerful weapon. I feel that this is not too unbalancing however because the scanner eats cells so darn fast and the 2Hz refresh rate makes hitting a moving target nearly impossible. Campers, however, will need to be on guard because a target holding still is easy to pick off, and there isn't any way to tell if someone is scanning you (yet). This liability is made up for partially by the ability to camp in entirely new places now and pick targets off through the walls! After all, cells will become a sought after commodity now and not all of the players can be scanning for campers all the time. In general however I think this combo will lean the power a little further away from camping strategies. And remember, if you can scan someone they can scan you too! Life Drainer: As promised I finally made a "naughty tentacle" type weapon. The Life Drainer shares the Grenade Launcher/Pipebomb Launcher key. When you fire, a tentacle shoots out up to 250 units. If it does not hit anything (or hits a non-living thing) it will simply retract and you can try again. If it hits a living target, it will attach to that target and damage them at a rate of 25 points per second, ignoring armor entirely! Even better is that YOU get 40% of the damage done added to your life total! The tentacle will detach when the victim either runs beyond its range, runs around a corner, or dies. The reason why you only get 40% is so two players could not sit and drain eachother continously... they will both lose more than they gain. Firing the drainer costs 5 *HEALTH*. If you have less than 5 you may not fire it. I will probably change this in the future to let you try it... Watch / Compass combo: Yes! The finist Swiss craftsmanship brings you this handsome 24 karat timepiece with built in compass. Just bind a key to "cmd watch" to see the current time (according to the server's clock) and your direction in rough compass letters (for instance N, S, E, W, and more detailed ones like NW, NNW etc). No big use yet, but I thought maybe they could be nice in future co-op games with really well coordinated teams :) Available in Mens and Ladies styles. Message of the Day: When a client connects or types "cmd motd" they will see whatever the contents of the "motd.txt" file in the main Quake2 directory contains. Try and keep the text to 500 characters or less. People running 320x200 resolution are limited to 40 columns as well. GunFu help: Typeing "cmd gunfu" will display a list of commands and buttons for the varius new modifications. This will implement a feature soon to display the settings on their weapons, but is not working yet, so don't email me about it. KNOWN BUGS (Or: "More Features") ---------- "R_Cullalias: no such frame" and similar errors. I think now that this is a bug on id's part and not mine. Only happens when someone is gibbed by a HUGE amount of damage. All "bullet" type weapons create the same death messages, they have no differentiation in classnames. So machine guns, chain guns, both shotguns, the chain shotgun, and the railgun all make the same death message. I'll have to make something creative to fix that. For some reason I couldn't make the hand grenades cycle through weapon types like I could with all the others, so for now normal hand grenades are missing and you can only use MIRV's if you don't have the grenade launcher. Pressing 5, 6, or 7 will toggle your weapon type every time you press them. Also nextweap and prevweap do not change the toggle states. FOV doesn't work. Teleporters have no special FX. These were changed in the Quake2 3.09 dll but the new source wasn't released yet. When it is they will be easy to fix. This bug isn't my fault :) The Life Drainer animation is a little bit too jerky. I will work on smoothing that out. To make the Railgun particle trails visible to all potential victims I had to use MULTICAST_ALL... there must be a more efficiant way to do it. FUTURE PLANS ------------ None of these are guaranteed to be created ever, but they are things I am considering: * A realistic grappling hook (Looks like someone already did this one... maybe I can use his code if he allows me?) * Sticky Bombs or Laser Trip Bombs * Gaseous or other lasting, area effect bombs * Something with Lasers :) * A more advanced physics system * Hologram decoys * Some kind of stealth or cloaking device AUTHOR INFO ----------- I'm a beginner at coding for Quake 2 (I never coded for Q1) but I have been using C for a while now, so the transition was easy. I like making interesting weapon mods but I try to NOT make them overpowered or too unbalancing. I am open to input on tweaking the current weapons to make them more fair in the long run. Also, most of my weapons tend to be well suited to us HPW's out there... most do not require you to be super accurate or be able to snap shot quickly to work well. Of course, a LPB will still have a slight edge with ANY weapon, but the difference is not as great as, say, the railgun, which a LPB can use up close if he is good and a HPW can only use effectivly at long range or on slow moving targets. COPYRIGHT/PERMISSIONS --------------------- This mod may not be distributed without this textfile included intact. This mod may not be distributed on CD without my express written permission (Try asking first, I'll more than likely agree). You may use this code to learn from but please give me credit if you use it for any of your own mods. And if you use any of my code to make your own mod I still need to give permission for it to be used on any CD! FuSchnick (amichaelsen@hotmail.com)