🚀 go-pugleaf

"alpamsfq" <alp@m.sfq> writes:

[...]
> the maps are in the duke3d folder itself, and the file really is there...
> i've tried it with and without the .map at the end... i've even renamed it
> to lowercase letters in the hope that it would somehow matter

I don't know what it is, then.  "duke3d -map whatever.map" is the
right command.  I don't know what keeps it from finding the map.
 
> on the other hand... i tried your floater map and it worked fine (even
> though you say it's for atomic only)... 

Since I only have Atomic edition (1.5), I can only see how 1.5 treats
it.  I've gotten mixed reports on whether pre-Atomic edition will
work.

> nice map too... 

Thanks.

> took me 37:44 to do
> it with my usual cheats (god/weapons)

Aw, that takes the fun out of it.  I always figured that if floater
were ever in an episode, it'd have to be arranged so that one wouldn't
have jetpack or scuba.
 
> by the way... is there any way to have unlimited jetpack without the god
> mode cheat?  i've looked through all the con files and haven't seen anything
> for it... as much as i love playing god, it just makes the game pointless...
> even with my health, armor, and weapons at 999 :)

Looking at the source, there's no way.  God mode treats the jetpack
specially.

Didja ever notice that if you're in god mode you can still pick up one
jetpack, but not immediately a second one (until you drain the jetpack
a bit, of course).  That's because (Warning!  Presence of C detected!)
god mode doesn't set `ps[myconnectindex].jetpack_amount' to 1600, the
way "dnstuff" and "dninventory" immediately do (in GAME.C).  Instead,
it keeps setting `p->jetpack_amount' to 1599 every turn (in ACTORS.C).

So (in English this time) only god mode replenishes the jetpack.


> that's the one... i even tried to get around it (being a web designer, i
> know a few tricks) and just got error messages from the server... actually,
> i'm kinda surprised to find anything on the net for this game at all
> anymore... must be due to all you loyal fans who are still waiting forever
> for forever... hopefully i won't die of old age before it comes out

Maybe they'll just skip from Duke 3D past Duke 4ever to the next
version: Duke 5nally Out.  }:)
 

-- 
Tom Breton, calm-eyed visionary