**************************************************************************** Tow Arena v2.0 for Shogo v2.2 : http://www.planetshogo.com/towarena/ This mod is dedicated to: Jonathan (SSpeare) Branam and Steven (Smoth) Smith ------------ All coding by Jeff Ploetner (Bunghole) ------------ Majority of maps by Steven (Smoth) Smith **************************************************************************** Table of Contents: I. Installation II. Instructions III. Gameplay IV. Spectators V. Known Bugs VI. Notes VII. New Commands VIII. Special thanks to **************************************************************************** I. Installation: Unzip the files from towarenamaps.zip and towarena22-2.zip into your custom directory. Unzip towarenamaps.zip first. Overwrite any files that may be there from previous versions... Wasn't that easy? :) **************************************************************************** II. Instructions: Run Shogo.exe (click the icon). Click on Customize. Under the "Available rez files:" window, double-click TowArena.rez If you always want to play Tow Arena, check the "Always load these rez files" box. Click "OK". Click Multiplayer. Find a server, or start your own... **************************************************************************** III. Gameplay: Basically, you are pitted in an arena, with full weapons/ammo against 1 and only 1 opponent. You and him (or her) fight to the death, and the winner gets to play the next match, while the loser gets to become a spectator and watch the next match. **************************************************************************** IV. Spectators: When you die, and there are more than 2 people on the server, you will become a spectator. You will respawn in an enclosed spectator area, from which you can watch the next match. If you want, you can press the tractor beam button to go into freefly mode, and actually get into the arena for a closer look. You will be invisible to the other players when you're in free fly mode. If you press the tractor beam button again, you will respawn back into the spectator area. **************************************************************************** V. Known Bugs: The health bars may not initialize properly when changing levels. Weird stuff may sometimes happen regarding spectators or opponents joining or leaving the game at certain times. Sometimes you may have to kill yourself to get the next match to start. The countdown timer plays as soon as you join the game, even if you're spawned as a spectator and the match is already in session. The dedicated server will cause the blue screen of death unless you run Borton's Crashguard or some other crash preventing program. **************************************************************************** VI. Notes: You won't be able to connect to a Tow Arena server if you don't load the .rez file. If you double click a Tow Arena server through GameSpy, you will get an error message. If you copy/paste the IP address into the "Add IP Address" dialog in Shogo without loading the .rez file, you won't be able to see the server. However, if you load the .rez file and do this, you will be able to see it and this is the proper way to connect to a Tow Arena server. All explosive weapons have a larger, more powerful pushaway sphere. The Tow has been given 50% more power. The Red Riot has been modified to make Squeaky Toy explosions. It's power and blast radius have been reduced by 50%. Programming time - Somewhere around 200+ hours. Total amount of code added: ~ 100 KB **************************************************************************** VII. New Commands: Type these at the console: Help - Displays a list of all added console commands for Tow Arena. FlashyColors (1/0) - Enables/Disables the flashy colors. MegaGibs (1/0) - Enables/Disables the megagibs. **************************************************************************** VIII. Special thanks to: ------------------------------------------------------------------- SSpeare Answered countless numbers of questions, taught me MANY things about programming. You 'da man SSpeare! This mod would not have been possible without him... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Smoth Made some of the best maps I've ever seen. Helped me beta- test. Gave me design ideas. Made the images for the health bars. Without him, we'd have very few good arenas to play in. Also, thanks a lot for the hundreds of hours of map compile time that you had to sit through. 'tiz really appreciated. This mod would also not have been possible without him... Thanks Smoth! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac Has helped me through quite a few questions and problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kewl Designed and helped maintain the Tow Arena website. Made the images for the lower left and right hud. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Loki Although he hasn't been around much lately, he has helped me with quite a few questions regarding how certain parts of LithTech and Shogo work. :) Thanks Loki! P.S. Have you signed up for that cloning program yet!? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Stephens Helped me a LOT with some bug fixes for v2.0 and showed me how to make it so that people can't connect to a Tow Arena server without the .rez file loaded. I knew there must have been an easier way. :) Thanks a lot! ------------------------------------------------------------------- All of my beta testers (lab rats) and other map submitters: You know who you are... :) ------------------------------------------------------------------- PlanetShogo!!! http://www.planetshogo.com/towarena/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- And, of course, Monolith, for making Shogo so great. =) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Where's da luv? -> M o n o l i t h <- ------------------------------------------------------------------- -=The End=--=The End=--=The End=--=The End=--=The End=--=The End=- ****************************************************************************