================================================================ Title : Cray Oh La Boxes Filename : craybox.bsp Date of Release : Jan 20th, 1998 (11 months after CY2A) Author : Tom Hall Nick : Organon Email Address : tom@ionstorm.com Description : Really fun deathmatch level for three to eight players. Quake 2 only! Two players will have some, er, quiet time, shall we say. Problems : None that I know of. Not as pretty as I'd like, and some clunky things were added to fix too many visible polys or edges or something. That also caused me to take out a cool teleporter and secret place. Ah, well. ================================================================ History ---------------------------------------------------------------- We were porting Anachronox over to Quake 2, and I wanted to be able to talk with the level designers more fluently, and to see what Quake 2 could do. I didn't explore everything, but I got a little taste of the power. I look forward to trying more stuff in the next level. About the name--Squirrel picked on the computer in the main room, saying it looked like a Semi, so I was going to call it [Something] Semicomputer, but he also picked on most people's Quake 2 levels, including mine, for being too colorful. So instead of fixing it, I named it Crayola Boxes, which is also a pun, because there's a computer (could be a Cray) in the main room with boxes around it. I spelled it like that so it can go everywhere without some stupid megacorporation making me change the name. Also, I say "La" a lot in email and ICQ and IRC and CU See Me. Thanks to everyone that tested it (basically Team Anachronox and Bill Nadalini), and thanks especially to Cleaner, Rich, and Larry for their help with design and editing and map bug fixes and BSP workarounds. BTW, I think this looks _okay_ and frame rate is a little slow, but it exists, which is cool. Next one will be pretty and fast... ================================================================ * Play Information * Game : Quake 2 Single Player : No Cooperative 2-4 Player : No Deathmatch 2-13 Player : Yes. There are like 13 spawn spots. Difficulty Settings : No New Textures : None--I like the one-file simplicity. Exit : No * Construction * Editor(s) used : QuakeEd 3, QuakeEd 4 Fuel : Pepsi, iced tea (no lemon, no spoon), orange juice, water, and Baked Lays. Oh, and some awesome bread my girlfriend Melissa made. ================================================================ HINTS ON CRAYBOX Here are some tips on getting around Cray Oh La Boxes. Don't read this if you want to figure stuff out by yourself! ==Main Computer Room You can jump from the railing above the rocket launcher hole onto the crates. You can also just walk onto the shelf behind the boxes. Did you see the armor and health underneath the ramp, too? Hope so. I always go there.... Rocket launcher, armor.... You can climb on either side of ladders, but only the tall one is a hiding spot. You can get to all the window ledges. Everyone wants the cool armor and the rockets--shoot them as they go for the goodies. You can use the computer (that big block of beigeness) to get to the grenade launcher, the outside area, or straight through the window above. Oh yeah, and there's a freakin' megahealth on it! Go! And if you have trouble jumping from the grenade launcher platform to the computer, jump onto the lights, and then up on top of the computer. You can hop from the ladder/teleporter area to the ducts. You can sneak through the little window to the outside. If there's a ledge, you can hop to it somehow. ==Lower Computer Room Know where that extra health is behind the computer. Going down and going around the computers and taking an unexpected way out can lose people pretty easy. ==Outside Grass Area You can hop between all the ledges on the support beams. The platform will squish you! Watch it! You can sneak through the little window. You can hop to the beam then WALK to the Railgun. ==Dark Lava Pit Room You can easily hop to the machine gun on the Lava Heat Vent. The Lava Frogs comment is by the teleporter in the lava. It was in Corpseyard II and is sorta my sig, though not of brushes. I guess it is my Hitchcock appearance or something. ==Central Catwalk Lava Death Room The corners are ladders! You can hop on the bottom of the pipe, onto the little shelf and back on a path. You found the Invulnerability, right? If you hear someone lava-screaming and you are near, run here and start firing--they'll probably be climbing the corners and REALLY vulnerable. Heh heh. ==North Secret Shiny Room You can sneak into the room with the glowing yellow machines in it. Hopping over, you can get to a ladder that gets you to rockets and cells. Falling off early gets you health and a hiding place. You can TRY to hide on the back of the ladder in the main room.... ==Secret BFG Room Crouch to get the BFG obviously. Go on the outside so people running by don't see you. STANDARD TECHNIQUES You can run across 64-wide gaps, like from the crates to the shelf. You will get around a LOT faster if you don't have to jump. Also, if you jump before plummeting in certain places, you will get hurt, while you won't if you just run off. Later! --Tom ================================================================ ("Cray Oh La Boxes" is not an official ION Storm product. Whatsoever. At all.) P.S. Anachronox is going to be reaaaaaaally cool. I can't wait!