_______________ The Quest for Necronomicon - Doom add-on This file can be distributed freely, as long as it's untouched. DOOM is a trademark of iD Software _______________ History: 1.0b - Release for Pelit-Magazine's Doom Competition. This really an untested beta version . Hope the jury didn't find too many bugs. 1.1 - First Public release. This is beta tested and all (hopefully) the bugs found in the previous release are fixed. Levels and Installation have been modified. There are also a few new sprites added to make a nicer interface at the start. This will be the last version of DOOM I Quest. More info about Quest ][ for DOOM ][ at the end of this text file. 1.2 - A last minute change! Now the ZIP file is much smaller. Thanks to DeuSF. _______________ Files included: README.NEC - Hope you read it already NECRONOM.NFO - This file NEC_RAW.WAD - Raw file of sprites NEC_LVLS.WAD - PWAD with Levels and Textures NEC_SNDS.WAD - PWAD with Sounds and a few sprites NEC_HACK.DEH - DeHackEd patch file NEC_5.GIF - Floor Texture 1 NEC_5_5.GIF - Floor Texture 2 NEC_1.GIF - Floor Texture 3 DEHACKED.EXE - DeHackEd v2.0 DMGRAPH.EXE - DmGraph v1.1 DEUSF.EXE - DeuSF v2.1 INSTALL.BAT - Installation Batch file UNINSTAL.BAT - UnInstallation Batch file DOOM.BAT - execution Batch file _______________ Contents: I. Story of Necronomicon II. General info (Installation) III. About the Graphics IV. About the Sounds V. About the Levels VI. About other minor things VII. Credits.. VIII. Thanks to.. IX. What Next? X. End Part _______________ I. Story of Necronomicon It was the late 16th century. The land was in pure CHAOS and all the people on this earth were living in slavery. The center of chaos was located in the Lands of Neador, it was surrounded by huge mountains. An Old man had told you that it is the place where the chaos can be destroyed. The tale included stories about Labyrinths, Castles and Villages, but these were only tales as the story about a Great Magician who is the ruler of Chaos. Nobody had ever seen him so he might only be a myth. And he also told a story about a book, a great book of magic. The book is supposed to be somewhere inside this ring of mountains, but where? _______________ II. General info (Installation) ----- Why was it made? ----------------------------- The one and only reason for this was money . A Finnish game magazine had a contest for Doom. The idea was to make a level or levels with graphics and sounds, or just a level. Well we thought to give it a shot. It was first quite hard to figure out what to do, but after a while I noticed there wasn't any medieval versions of Doom. There were just other versions of futuristic Dooms, like the great Alien doom and Star Wars doom. ----- What programs did you use? ------------------- Well the maps were made with DEUGCC 5.21, of course. It's really the best there is, just can't wait for v5.3 with 3D preview and all... Then we used DOOMTEX version something for the textures. DMAUD for inserting the sound effects. For the graphics we used Autodesk Animator PRO, excellent!, and inserted them with DMGRAPH v1.1(?). Then the .exe file was fucked up with DeHackEd v2.0. These are all good programs and they will have our biggest thanks! Oh, there was also Image Alchemy used. Then DeuSF of course and also the IDBSP with all its bugs. ----- Installation --------------------------------- Installation doesn't make permanent modifications to your doom! - First copy all the files to your Doom directory. - Then make sure you have about 3Mbs of free disk space. - You should write INSTALL at the dos prompt :).. After that you can use this by writing QUEST at the dos prompt. This is coz we'll have to modify doom.exe and load the PWAD file. - Uninstalling is easy. Just write UNINSTAL at dos prompt. You must have all the QUEST files to complete uninstallation. * To play Multi-Player game do the following: - Rename Doomexe.exe to doom.exe - Run Doom with -file nec_spr.wad nec_lvls.wad nec_snds.wad - Before UnInstalling rename doom.exe to doomexe.exe ----- So what's new??!! ---------------------------- Well this is an easy one. Almost everything is newly done. Here is a short list and description of some special things. ----- Weapons: ------------------------------------- #1 - LANCE, a very useful thing in the medieval world. #2 - PISTOL MUSKET, a non-powerful weapon for daily use. #3 - REPEATING PISTOL, a very-powerful handgun for a hard day. #4 - MUSKET, not very accurate, but a deadly close distance weapon. #5 - CROSSBOW, and this comes with fire arrows. (I like this one) #6 - MINOR SPELL, a lightning spell. #7 - The SPELL OF NECRONOMICON, a massive spell with awesome destruction power. But first you need the Necronomicon. ----- Items: --------------------------------------- Well not many new ones, just new names. Light Amplification is removed, due the lack of frames in doom.exe ;). I think the rest of the items you can discover yourself. ----- Textures: ------------------------------------ There are about 40 new textures included. There are also 3 new floor and ceiling textures. ----- Monsters: ------------------------------------ We used almost all of the DOOM ][ monsters skills, so there are 5 new monsters. I also had to draw new sprites for the old ones, coz the old ones didn't fit to the theme (in some strange reason). Monsters are colorcoded coz there are so many of them. Knights: color: description: Green A guy walking around with a LANCE Red REPEATING PISTOL dude Grey Normal PISTOL dude Brown A guy with a MUSKET Crossbow dudes: Uses sergeant sprites and you can't tell who's who. Sergeant1 Shoots NORMAL firearrows Sergeant2 Shoots HOMING firearrows MAGE - well see for yourself. The END mage! ----- Musics: -------------------------------------- Yeah right, like someone would have a midi set just for making sounds for doom. So we had to use ones in doom.wad. They were mixed with dehacked. ----- Sounds: -------------------------------------- Yes, there are some new ones of course. See section ABOUT THE SOUNDS for more info. _______________ III. About the Graphics Graphics were done by me and Mikko. Mikko made the MAGE etc. and I had to make all the rest of the superb graphics . No, I'am not gonna reveal what graphics coz it would ruin the suprise. Graphics were, at least for me, the most time taking phase of the project. _______________ IV. About the Sounds Oh yes the sounds, well this was the fun part of the project. Sounds were made with Olli's PAS-16. _______________ V. About the Levels Here are the credits for the levels: E1M1 - Pasi - The Shop E1M2 - Mikko - The Labyrinth E1M3 - Olli - The Pentagram E1M4 - Pasi - The House of Pilars E1M5 - Olli - The Fortress of Hell E1M6 - Pasi - The Blue Village * E1M7 - Pasi - The Castle of Chaos E1M8 - Pasi - The END * = PENTiUM prefered ----- The Shop - Pasi ------------------------------ This small intro level was made in about 1«h. There's nothing fancy about it, it just starts the Quest. Technical info: Vertexes: 94 Linedefs: 118 Sidedefs: 156 Things: 40 Size of file: 12 127 bytes ----- The Labyrinth - Mikko ------------------------ This was my first level so don't be too critical about it. I was asked (forced) to do it. Textures are implanted by Pasi. Technical info: Vertexes: 634 Linedefs: 545 Sidedefs: 632 Things: 173 Size of file: 63 396 bytes ----- The Pentagram - Olli --------------------- This was just a fast-made map because we needed one more map and there was only a week time left. At this time I had just completed Fortress and I was quite had with Doom... Without Pasi keeping the pressure on all the time I would never have made this map. (And if I hadn't done the map I wouldn't be in condition of writing this text....) I think this isn't exactly the best map in our episode but it should be suitable for deathmatch games... Technical info: Vertexes: 759 Linedefs: 771 Sidedefs: 1143 Things: 227 Size of file: 108 783 bytes ----- The House of Pilars - Pasi ------------------- This was also made in around 2 hours. It was originally made because Olli's and a friend's computers were at my place. Yes, we did play 3 player deathmatches the whole weekend. Then we got bored with the old levels, and I made this while my friends were eating. The color coded doors have been implanted later so that in single game you still have to walk around the level. Technical info: Vertexes: 942 Linedefs: 935 Sidedefs: 1147 Things: 142 Size of file: 103 340 bytes ---- The Fortress of Hell - Olli --------------- This was the first map I ever made for Doom. I think it's at least good for a beginner. If I had had more time I would have changed some textures and improved light sources. A nice medieval fortress for solo and deathmatch games. Technical info: Vertexes: 1116 Linedefs: 1265 Sidedefs: 1866 Things: 348 Size of file: 157 811 bytes ----- The Blue Village - Pasi --------------------- Well this one is also a level we had to make to get a whole episode ready. It's mainly a deathmacth level, but there is a thing that makes it quite important. It was made in 6 hours. It has a funny feeling due to the textures it uses. Technical info: Vertexes: 748 Linedefs: 729 Sidedefs: 1059 Things: 160 Size of file: 88 185 bytes ----- The Castle of Chaos - Pasi ------------------- This is THE level. It's so huge that Pentium doesn't hurt, though you can easy play it with any 486DX 33Mhz or faster. (Life below 486 has definitely ended) Anyway, the making took around 3 weeks, and demanded many headaches. Once IDBSP crashed so I had make it smaller. There are several new textures and object. Hope you like it! (there was an ugly bug in v1.0b, but it's gone now.) Technical info: Vertexes: 2314 Linedefs: 2472 Sidedefs: 3776 Things: 315 Size of file: 340 277 bytes ----- The END - Pasi ------------------------------ The final scene. A bit like the E3M9 in normal doom, but still quite special. I specially like the center of it, and thing at the center. Made in approximately 4 hours 2 minutes and 57 seconds ;). Technical info: Vertexes: 179 Linedefs: 181 Sidedefs: 313 Things: 101 Size of file: 26 938 bytes _______________ VI. About other minor things DeHackEd patch was made by me (crowd: not again!). Design was the result of corporated work. The end text by me. This text by me. ----- Hardware used -------------------------------- Computers: Pasi: i486DX/40Mhz, 8Mb, Diamond Viper VLB, GUS and a 15" Monitor. (buy me a bigger HD, please. 1Gb could be nice.) Olli: i486DX/33Mhz, 16Mb, Diamond Stealth, PAS16 and 15" Monitor, running under OS/2 & DOS. (OS/2 rulez...) Mikko: i486SX/25Mhz, 4Mb, Paradise, PC beeper ;), 15" Monitor. (Sounds? what are those...) Other Hardware: Screen Machine -Video card (used on the QUEST ][ monsters) _______________ VII. Credits.. This whole package by (in twisted alphabetic order): Name: Age: Section: Pasi Nikkanen 17 ALL Olli Maksimainen 16 LEVELS, SOUNDS Mikko Korpelainen 17 LEVEL, GFX _______________ VIII. Thanks to.. We would like to thank the following persons: iD Software - for making Doom (now just make that Quake!) Brendon Wyber and - for DEU. Thank you guys! Rapha‰l Quinet - make that v5.3 soon, please. Per Allanson - that GCC port of DEU was needed, thanks.. Bill Neisius - DmGraph and DmAud are so important that this wouldn't been possible without them. Ron Bossbach - thanks for porting Carmack's code for us. IDBSP is great, except those nasty bugs it has. Steve McGrea - DOOMTEX is nice, but the interface ;)... "easiest program I have ever used" Olivier Montanuy - DeuTex and DeuSF are great, but of coz a GUI wouldn't hurt. Sampsa Ranta - Thanks for lending that mouse for me, it made drawing a lot easier. (Floppy Disk Caf‚ - 358-0-3461229, I'm the CoSysOp) Tero Kilkanen - Hmm.. Did you help us? well who cares. (Grand Slam - 358-0-3513124) Juha Airio - Well why didn't you help us??!!?? :( Neptune - Ah, really nice that Screen Machine -Card! _______________ IX. What Next? Well we are developing a QUEST ][ for DOOM 2. It will include more graphics, levels and everything. It will also be tested properly (not like this one). I have already started to work on some new monsters, like a Stone Troll for example. We are designing also a huge Dragon, and lots of other fun stuff. I can't say when this will be finished, but first some editors have to support DOOM2. Anyway this will be hopefully be something better than Alien-TC (GREAT!) which is totally excellent. I'll make sure that you'll notice when it comes out. (Ideas and wishes are welcome.) (I already hate the idea of 30 new levels that we have to make :( ) _______________ X. End Part So did you like it? If you did, then let me know. And if you would like something added to this theme (monsters etc.) then gimme some good ideas. This package is free, but if you have some spare money feel free to donate some for me, if not then at least send me a postcard or something, ANYTHING! If your interested to make something that suits in this theme, then please do. Well I think that's enough bullshit for one text file, see ya! Pasi Nikkanen Kaksostentie 6 R 104 00740 Helsinki FINLAND Signed, Pasi Nikkanen (pasin@mits.mdata.fi) _________