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Title                   : Fingers' first Single Player Quake level:
                          Before Nightfall (Had no ideas for a name, then
                          just thought what time of day it looks like ;)
                          Read the DESCRIPTION section before starting
                          to whine about grayflash!
Date                    : 4/21/97
Filename                : ikspq1.bsp
Author                  : Iikka "Fingers" Ker„nen
                          ("„" is an "a-with-two-dots"... In DOS, that is.)
Email Address           : ikeranen@raita.oulu.fi
Home Page               : www.student.oulu.fi/~ikeranen (visit there!)
Snail Mail Address      : Iikka ker„nen
(send me your money!-)    Kiiskitie 4
                          FIN-93400 Taivalkoski
                          Finland
Description             : My first SPQ level, finally ready. I'm going to
                          make an episode of levels in a similar theme, but
                          with darker outdoor areas in each... "Darkening"
                          could be a good title. ;) Let's see if it's cool
                          to fight a shambler in total blackness. :)

                          The theme is a medieval castle. All the textures
                          are finally made by me, there's nothing from id's
                          wads (though some of "my" textures are re-coloured
                          versions of id's). The level has some monsters and
                          enough health to keep you alive... The difficulty
                          levels apply. There is perhaps too much ammo, but
                          before I added them, people kept complaining about
                          running out of ammo... 

                          You MUST set R_MAXSURFS to 1050 and R_MAXEDGES to
                          2600 in order to remove the grayflash. I did
                          everything that should have helped this, but it
                          just won't work. I think you can as well add them
                          into your config.cfg (like: r_maxsurfs "1050").

                          The level is as playable without these, but most
                          people don't like the gray polygons appear. Crash,
                          even you should read this text file. ;)

                          Then the glorious good news: This level supports
                          IKguns v1.1. The exceptionally cool thing in this
                          is that the SAME level works with and without the
                          patch. I've made some custom spawnflag options
                          that can turn any weapon into plasmagun or
                          antishambler (and any kind of ammo into cells).
                          For example, this level has a plasmagun instead
                          of perforator when you run the patch...

                          PS. Get IKSTART.BSP too! It's ready and cool!

Additional Credits to   : ID and who ever created Quest
                          But some discredits to the author of Quest
                          for making it incompatible with my video card
                          without univbe. (The 1.091 worked fine!!)
                          No more nag about the ID's Qbsp, I found a
                          working one.

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* Play Information *

Single Player           : Yes, this is why this level exists.
Cooperative             : Yes, 4 starts.
Deathmatch              : Yes, about 7 starts... Tested agains 3 reapers.
                          Remember, this is a small level! Not for 32 guys!
Difficulty Settings     : Yes
New Sounds              : No
New Graphics            : Yes, lots of new textures. The texture wad will
                          be available to download in the future.
New Music               : No
Demos Replaced          : I recorded one on nightmare, but it's too big to
                          download. I might upload it to ftp.cdrom.com as
                          a separate file.

* Construction *

Base                    : New level from scratch (still under construction)
Editor(s) used          : Quest 1.1 (+usual qbsp etc)
Known Bugs              : Couldn't get rid of the grayflash without r_max's.
                          I'm sorry. :(  Put the r_max's in your config.cfg
                          so you don't need to think about them...
Build Time              : About 26 hours so far. (Does NOT equal one day. ;)

Texture Wad used        : "IKWizard.wad"

Compile machine         : P150 with 16M (DOS) 
QBSP Time               : approx.20 min
Light Time (extra)      : 5 min
VIS Time (level 4)      : (A night < 8 hours)
Brushes                 : a little over 700
Entities                : 250 or so.
Models                  : 50... Lots of monster teleports. ;)

* Other Info *

Check out my homepage http://www.student.oulu.fi/~ikeranen/quake for more
levels. The start map is out already, and ikspq2 is under construction.

The start map is extremely good in few-players DM too, check it out. Also,
it's of course a cool-looking way to select difficulty levels for this map.

And get the ikguns 1.1! It will work in my every single player level.

* Copyright / Permissions *

Don't do anything you would regret afterwards. CD-ROM publishers need my
permission before they can distribute this level. 

Actura Software MAY NOT do anything with these files.

If you want to do something special, like combine this level to a weapon
patch or modify it for CTF, contact me at the address above.