SPQ2: Defensive Measures v1.02  --  9-3-2001
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This add-on unit requires Quake 2 -- version 3.20 recommended
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   "--Please report to the briefing room."
   You're lurched out of your musings by the sound of Sergeant Sparks over the 
ship's intercom.  Being on the special-operations reserve team, you weren't 
part of the first drop.  Your involvement so far in the Earth-force assault on 
Stroggos has been somewhat benign, involving ship-side support and gathering 
intelligence from relatively safe areas on the surface.  But even so, the 
catastrophe that befell the squads that never even got the chance to engage in 
their mission is still fresh on your mind.  You wouldn't even consider refusing a 
mission no matter its possible outcome, but trepidation lingers nonetheless.
   "Yes, sir," you respond as you hustle into the briefing room.
   "OK, good.  Listen up," Sgt. Sparks turns from the communications console at 
his desk and faces you.  "We've been running hi-res surface scans in the big-gun 
area and according to that along with intel from the surface teams in the 
logistical sector, there's bad news.  As you know the security laser grid was 
just taken out a few hours ago.  Problem is, there were a lot of laser towers 
that appeared to be offline or already dead but we're getting power signatures 
from them.  They didn't go completely dead like the others.  And we just got wind 
of some major power signatures not far from the big-gun reactor, centered around 
two buildings, apparently a complex of some sort -- right in the middle of these 
towers.  If those towers are a backup grid like we think they are, we got a 
serious problem.  There's no way we can drop teams for reconnaisance in the big-
gun area with something like this in the way, not after what happened during the 
first drop.  Big-gun is next on the agenda which means we need to take this thing 
out as soon as possible."
   Before you can think over this, Sgt. Sparks continues.
   "We have a mission and you're one of the lucky ones.  The complex is possibly 
the control center or power distribution center for this secondary grid.  I know 
it's a risk but there's no other teams anywhere near this area and we need this 
dealt with now.  What we'll be doing is dropping a small team of you just outside 
the far end of the complex, in some canyons that should be good for cover.  We 
want this to be as covert as possible, for obvious reasons."
   "What if this thing wakes up on us--"
   Sgt. Sparks interrupts: "J.C. and the techs have been down in the hangar 
cooking up some improvements to the drop-pod shielding since the, uhh, first 
drop.  What we've come up with is a sort of active electromagnetic-canceling 
field -- stealth, if you will.  It also acts as a kind of EMP that projects an 
in-phase field in the direction of an incoming energy-weapon and tries to repel 
it or drown it out.  Basically an on-demand forcefield of sorts."
   "And I get to test-drive it."
   Sgt. Sparks nods.  "And right away too.  We want to get this started right 
away, before this thing DOES decide to wake up.  If it does it's gonna be ten 
times harder to take it out.  I called on you because I know you've had training 
in covert ops, and if anyone can make this happen it's you.  But I do need to 
know," Sgt. Sparks looks directly at you, "are you up to this?"
   "Yes, sir, I am.  That's why I'm here."
   "Thought so," he smiles.  "Get suited up and report to hangar deck in one 
hour."
   You turn to leave.
   "And good luck, soldier."

   You arrive at the hangar deck to the sight of techs stowing data discs and 
other gear in the drop pods being prepared.  You wonder yet again at how an 
element of technology as alien as the Strogg could be so incredibly similar to 
Earth technology.  The truth was that these Strogg discs were so similar to Earth 
CD's that making them was a trivial matter.  In the short time the Earth forces 
had been here, malicious programming had been repeatedly used to successfully 
corrupt computer operations in the logistical sector.  Obviously you would be 
attempting the same thing.
   "Everyone get ready to board," Sergeant Torres says, walking up.  You board 
your drop-pod, the cover is closed and you wait for launch.  You've already been 
on the surface twice, but this is your first drop-pod landing.
   Sgt. Sparks comes on the radio: "You've been briefed on what's at stake here.  
To recap, you're to infiltrate the complex, link up however possible so you can 
send and receive intel, eliminate resistance as necesssary, and take whatever 
defensive measures are necessary in shutting this thing down and securing the 
facility.  And, meet up with the teams at the reactor site ... in one piece.  
Godspeed."
   "Launch in 10 seconds," Sgt. Torres says.

   After a burst of intense acceleration, you begin to descend, slowly at first, 
then more rapidly as though on a cosmic roller coaster.  Weightlessness turns to 
turbulence as the rapidly-thickening atmosphere takes its effects.
   "Heads up, marines!  The laser grid just activated -- get ready to dodge!"
   "Oh, great.  You guys better have got this new shield right," you mutter.
   "Incoming, six o'clock.  Pull hard left!"  You pull left, faintly hearing a 
laser fizz by off to the right, out of range of the viewscreen.  You check the 
altimeter: almost to ground level but still too high to fall and land in one 
piece.
   "Incoming--!"
   Ssszz-ffow!  The unmistakeable sound of a laser blast screams as the pod is 
slammed to one side.  So much for the repulsor-shield idea--either that or this 
was a helluva hit.  The readout reports damage to thrusters and attitude control 
as you struggle to maintain course.
   "Crap--one more hit like this and it's over--"
   Sszzz-POW!
   Showers of sparks -- spinning -- smell of burnt circuit boards -- a roar -- 
vertigo -- then blackness...

   You come to, lying face-down on the ground.  Despite the crash-landing and 
having been ejected from the pod, you seem to be uninjured.  It looks like you 
can still carry out the mission.  Your focus falters, still dazed from the crash.  
At once you're jolted back to your senses by the angry sizzle of a nearby laser 
bolt scorching the ground, followed by a muffled explosion.
   "The laser grid ... at least I got down here alive."
   Then silence -- nothing but the wind.  You look around, trying to clear your 
vision, trying to make out your surroundings and get some sort of fix on your 
position.
   The pod is nowhere to be seen.
   "The disc..."
   Alarm turns to relief when you see the disc and a weapon nearby.  At least I 
can try and pull this off, you think, assuming I ended up near the planned drop 
zone.  You check your field computer, which fortunately you had in your pack to 
begin with, to see if any updates were able to be transmitted.  Nothing.  There 
must be some sort of communications link failure.  No matter, you think.  The 
ground-based com link should work through the Strogg communication network which 
was hacked into just after the first drop.  Just a matter of finding out what's 
going on, you think as you gather your things and prepare to set off down the 
ravine.
   Toward what, you're not sure.

                            HLR Productions presents:
                          ***  DEFENSIVE MEASURES  ***

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* Unit Information *
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Title:                 Defensive Measures
Author:                HLR Productions
Homepage:              http://www.netxn.com/~poinsettia/index.html
Current email:         poinsettia@netxn.com
Permanent email:       hlrsierra@yahoo.com (use this if the other one ever dies 
                                            sometime in the future)
Archive filename:      defens.zip
Files:                 defens.txt
                       defens.html
                       defens.bsp
                       defens2.bsp
                       defens3.bsp

Game:                  Quake 2
Single-player:         That's what it's all about
Cooperative:           Supported - 4 starts (but untested)
Deathmatch:            Fully supported in defens and defens2, and highly 
                       recommended
                       defens.bsp (16+ players) (defens and defens2 are a series)
                       defens2.bsp (16+ players)

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* Installation and Play Notes *
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Move defens.bsp, defens2.bsp and defens3.bsp to \quake2\baseq2\maps\
The beginning map is defens.bsp 
Those of you playing Q2 should know how to do this by now.  But if you don't...
To start, set your skill level if necessary: At the Q2 console, type (leave off
the quotes) "skill 0" for Easy, "skill 1" for Medium or "skill 2" for Hard.
Begin playing by typing "map defens".

There's nothing important (no secrets, etc) in the elevator shafts.  If you do 
get into one, go to the contrasting-colored square on the floor and you'll be 
teleported out.

For best results, turn off gl_clear if it's on (type "gl_clear 0" at the console) 
if you're using a 3D card (which you should be).  It won't break anything but 
there's a special effect used that won't look good if the gl_clear color is 
anything other than black or dark gray (especially 3DFx cards and their hot-pink 
gl_clear color) if it's on.

If you're one of those wanks who likes to noclip around outside looking for 
secret areas, hidden logic rooms, func_train-lighting areas and stuff (I do this 
all the time), you'll see a bunch of closed-off stairways and a couple other 
closed-off rooms in the first map.  These are open in deathmatch mode.  (To run 
in DM mode, type "deathmatch 1" before starting the map.)  See below for more on 
this.

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* Construction *
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Basis:                 None -- all original
Inspirations/ideas:    Confidence Lost (lighting), Chemical Plant (transparent
                       floor), city2[id] (multi-part doors), The Powersphere
                       Quest (lighting), On Sacred Ground (textures), Waiting To
                       Die (decorations), reactor2[id] (reactors), Magic Lamber
                       Forever (find this on your own:-) )
Skill levels:          Implemented.  (More health in Easy, more monsters in Hard)
                       I designed this mainly with Hard skill in mind.  These are
                       about the same difficulty-wise as the id levels, but 
                       without as many big health powerups everywhere (except for 
                       Easy skill).
Q2 textures used:      Mainly e2u3 reactor, some e2u3 sewer, some e3u3, some e2u2
New textures/images:   No
New sounds:            No
New/replaced code:     No
Editor:                QERadiant 1.47 -- nothing but the *BEST*
                       (and Wordpad for minor entity tweaking)
Build time:            About 5 months spread over nearly 3 years(!)
Compile tools:         [GDD]QBSP3 by Geoffrey DeWan
                       Enhanced QVIS3 by Steven Boswell
                       Arghrad 2.0 (Yeah, baby)
Build/compile machine: P133, 64MB EDO, fast/wide SCSI HD's, 12MB voodoo2.
                       State-of-the-art :-)

Map:                   defens.bsp        defens2.bsp       defens3.bsp
Brushes (world/total): 4472 / 4836       4419 / 4927       2090 / 2366
Enemies (easy):        57                68                25
Enemies (medium):      57                68                25
Enemies (hard):        78                92                31

Compile time:
QBSP3:                 8 min, 14 sec     24 min, 50 sec    1 min, 28 sec
QVIS3 (full):          36 min, 34 sec    2 hours, 13 min   2 min, 31 sec
Arghrad:               3 hours, 33 min   5 hours, 18 min   2 hours, 21 min
(Arghrad using -extra, -bounce 100, -chop 64, -chopsky 256, -chopcurve 64,
-maxlighta 240)

Bugs and quirks:       The first two maps are a bit jittery on slower computers,
                       probably because of all the active monsters.  This goes
                       away as you clear them out.  Interestingly the second map
                       isn't as bad even though it has more monsters than the
                       first one.

                       High r_speeds in some places.  If you're playing in
                       software mode, go down to CompUSA and get one of their
                       house-brand middle-of-the-line accelerators for $49.  OK..
                       seriously, there's quite a bit of grayouts in the big
                       laser room in map 2 if you stand in the corner (r_speeds
                       around 1400 but the room makes it worth it--trust me). 
                       Also some areas are bit on the dark side, even with a
                       Voodoo2 whch normally are bright compared to most OpenGL
                       setups (TNT accelerators and so forth).

                       Occasionally the bad guys at the end start fighting each
                       other after they see you collect the rockets.  I know it's
                       amusing to watch but it isn't what I had in mind.

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* Notes *
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Cooperative: The nonlinear and multi-tasked nature should lend itself well to
coop play.  Unfortunately I have no way to test and play coop so i don't know if
or how well it will play.  If you do get a chance to play this in coop, email me
and tell me how it went -- I'd like to know!

Single-player only in defens3.  It would probably make a good rail or rocket
arena map but I didn't want to bother with it at the time.  If enough people
whine about it (and I'm not anticipating this) I *might* add DM support in a
future or separate DM-only version.

Deathmatch:  Although these maps were designed primarily as a single-player 
mission, I found that their nonlinearity and connectivity allowed for pretty 
decent deathmatch support.  A considerable amount of work went into the 
deathmatch aspects of these maps.  I borrowed a trick from the original id maps 
that I never noticed until I started using Eraser bots: having passages and 
platforms and stuff present in DM mode but not in SP mode, and vice-versa.  (Take 
a look at base2, bunk1, ware1, jail1, fact1, cool1, waste3, strike, city1, city2, 
and city3 for the most noticeable examples of this.)  In defens.bsp, the lower 
elevator is covered up and there are stairways connecting those three floors 
instead.  Also there's a bunch of custom teleporters (used in both maps) in front 
of the other elevator (to go to other floors) and at the beginning and end to 
provide connectivity.  In defens2.bsp, lots of teleporters, ladders in place of 
the elevator, and check out the overhead platform on the second floor.  I 
eliminated all the things needing smarts to use (elevators, etc) because I 
designed these for Eraser-bot play, and bots generally don't know how to operate 
things and I don't want to give an unfair advantage to the player.  To make extra 
things in DM mode and not SP and so forth, just use func_wall's for your 
platforms and to cover up passages and inhibit them in the appropriate modes (set 
the appropriate spawnflags).  For example, to hide the elevator, the frame around 
the button is a func_wall that's inhibited in DM, the button is inhibited in DM, 
and a func_wall covering up the door is inhibited in Easy, Medium and Hard.  Try 
this sometime in your SP+DM map -- morphing-maps are a lot of fun.

Advanced lighting:  I use point lights to give custom colors to lights that I 
can't get with texture lights (at least without making custom textures).  The 
_falloff key-value is key here.  If you want a realistic light source, using 
_falloff 2 (or 1) is absolutely necessary anytime you're using a point light as a 
sourced light (in a custom fixture for example) and for mine_lights (which are 
point lights with models associated with them).  Using _fade by itself won't look 
nearly as nice.  In the caves and a few other places (the "black-lights" for 
example) I used a point light 4 units in front of each texture.  Also I used a 
bunch of point lights everywhere outside near the top of the sky with _falloff 1 
and colored orange to make the orange diffuse sky light.  (It was a pain but this 
was before Arghrad 2.0 and the _sun_surface feature which allows for proper sky 
lighting combined with sunlight.)  The point_light custom-color method can be 
replaced (to better effect) using bmodel lighting instead.  But Arghrad 2.0 
wasn't out when I did most of the lighting.

Geodesic dome:  If you want a prefab of this, email me.  I have two spheres --
one for external (used here) and one for internal.  I meant to (and was asked to)
post this on a prefab site after I made a pic-of-day on Rust, but got sidetracked
and didn't.  Sorry about that.

I started this in September 1998, wanting to finish and release a smaller SP map 
or unit before continuing work on a presently-defunct big multi-map unit that I 
had started, but this hasn't exactly been "almost 3 years in the making" -- it's 
been sitting unfinished for way too long now and the actual total amount of time 
I've spent actively working on it is more like 4 months or so.  I had almost all 
the architechure done by April 1999.  Afterwards I was messing around with making 
some DM maps and other stuff but a lot of my interests were on things other than 
mapping.  In the past couple months I've been sorting through my collection of 
SPQ2 maps so I could rate and archive them and figured it was high time I got 
this out and finished it.

If you review this unit on a level-review site, thanks!  If you want to know what 
my name is for the "author" space, it's HLR Productions.  If you want a "real" 
name instead, too bad. :-) Also, I request that in lieu of a clickable email 
address on any webpages, you post a link to my Defensive Measures page which is 
currently at http://www.netxn.com/~poinsettia/defens.html.  The reason for 
this is for spam control (avoiding spambots and such) -- I'm on too many spam 
lists as it is, thanks mostly to <beeeeeep> ebay when they had clickable email 
addresses (fortunately those are a thing of the past) and I stupidly didn't use a 
proper username.  Your cooperation in this matter is much appreciated.  Also, if 
you want to add this to your local file download site (3ddownloads.com, etc) as a 
local copy or mirror it anywhere, please do.

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* Acknowledgements *
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id Software for one of the Best Games ever.  http://www.idsoftware.com/
Robert Duffy for The Best Editor Hands Down. http://www.qeradiant.com/
Tim Wright (Argh!) for Arghrad, which made the advanced lighting in this map 
possible.  http://www.planetquake.com/arghrad/
Steven Boswell for the great enhanced QVIS3.  (Whatever happened to his site?  It 
used to be at http://yyz.com/~whatis/Quake2/bspvis.html)
Tony Ferrara and David Hyde for Mapspy.  http://mapspy.gamedesign.net/
Lazarus and its dev team for keeping Q2 not only alive but kicking.  This unit 
doesn't use it but any future ones I make will.  If you make SP maps for Quake2 
you owe it to yourself to use the essential SPQ2 mod.
http://lazarus.gamedesign.net/
Rust: News, tutorials, general goodness--need I say more?
http://www.gamedesign.net/

Special thanks go to:
David Hyde and Argh! for playtesting
The Mighty Jihn, partner-in-crime and designer of superb Q2 deathmatch levels, 
for inspiration and playtesting and making me get this done, and being a pal in 
general.
http://jihn.8m.com/

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* Permissions, trademark acknowledgement and usage terms *
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Defensive Measures: Copyright © 2001 HLR Productions.

Quake 2® and related marks and indicia are (registered I assume) trademarks 
and/or property of id® Software: Copyright © 1997 id Software.  For more 
information regarding Quake 2, please visit http://www.idsoftware.com/ 

Those (non-commercial) level authors who want to use portions or ideas from this 
unit as a basis for other levels may do so as long as you give credit (and not 
take half of this level and call it yours--obviously that's uncool) AND Extend 
This Same Courtesy to other authors that I have extended to you. (I am serious 
about that last part.)  Map source in its entirety won't be released, but I'll 
make small portions available if you want a mapping example or to make a sequel 
map.  Although I'm not an uppity 
punk about this issue like far too many authors are (who can eat rockets for all 
I care), and I don't at all mind reasonable "sampling" by hobbyist level authors, 
it's commercial users who are most likely to abuse it and cause problems and 
that's where my concern is directed.  I've had other property misused by 
commercial entities before.  By way of example:  When I say "let me know" if you 
use my pictures, LET ME KNOW.  
This means you, http://www.bagit.com/highsierra/highsierrasportcompany.html 
If they had done as they were told I would have made a proper picture for them 
and helped them implement it.  Instead they net-scraped and more or less 
slaughtered my picture.  This is why I quit allowing commercial use without 
explicitly asking me.  (I'm not really concerned about this incident--this was 
way before I made my terms clearer.  But my point is made I hope.)

THIS LEVEL MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES. 
IF YOU PAID IN ANY WAY TO GET THIS LEVEL, YOU ARE BEING RIPPED OFF
AND SO AM I - PLEASE REPORT THIS TO poinsettia@netxn.com or hlrsierra@yahoo.com

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Basically, if you want to use this unit commercially, 1: read the Quake2 licence 
agreement regarding compiled Quake2 BSPs, and 2: ASK me.  Your cooperation in 
this matter is greatly appreciated.

Quit reading this and go play some Q2!

[Version 1.02 (8-7-2004): Links in readme updated.  Any *.ncinternet.net links 
will still always work.]
