----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hover Public Beta v0.60 -- 11-15-97 -- Means of Destruction ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Hover Public Beta v0.60 Type Of Modification: Total Conversion Description Hover is a 3D racing action game built with the Quake engine and developed by Means of Destruction. For a more complete description see below. Contact Inf.: http://www.planetquake.com/mod/ Authors: Tritian: Project Leader, Modeler, Sound Tech, and Web Pimp Phlipt: QuakeC Programming Totally: Skins, Textures, and Graphics cl2: Initial QuakeC Code, Track, and Initial Concept Please check the "CLOSING STATEMENTS" section of this document to see E-Mail addresses, ICQ #'s, and other information about the authors of this MOD. Contributers: SmokyG: Misc. Sounds BloodGrove: Misc. Sounds DarkVein: Misc. Sounds DeathKnight: Startup Sound Warped: Conback.lmp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Table Of Contents ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Overview A. What's in this release B. What will be in future releases II. The Story III. Your Craft A. Information B. Controlling Your Craft C. Cockpit and Chasecam views D. The Status Bar IV. The Weapons A. Your Arsenal B. How To Use Your Weapons C. Bindings and Impulses V. Items, and Powerups A. The Item Powerups B. The Hardware Powerups VI. Installation VII. F.A.Q. VIII. Bugs IX. Closing Statements X. Copyright Stuff XI. Disclaimer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Overview ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hover, simply put, is a fast paced 3D virtual reality racing shot-em-up built with the amazing Quake engine by id Software. Hover puts you up against other human players over a multiplayer environment where there are no rules, no regulations, just fast paced racing excitement. There are no caution flags, nor any ambulances or fire trucks waiting at the side lines to bring you home to mommy. This is not a game for the weak of heart. If you hesitate, you die. Your primary goal is to get to the finish line first, and you must use all the hardware and software at your disposal, combined with your keen intellect, to achieve this goal, and to stay alive. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I-A. Overview: What Is In This Release ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * new physics and cool effects * new models * new graphics * new sounds * one new map (track01.bsp) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I-B. Overview: What Will Be In Future Releases ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * cooler physics and effects * more models (4 different crafts to race with, each with there own cool features) * more graphics (replacing all of Quake's graphics with new ones * more new sounds * more maps!!! * hoverbots! Check http://www.planetquake.com/mod/ regularly for updates and new features we are implementing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The Story ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In late 2016, a scientist named Ron Zelt theorized a new form of transportation using the Earth's own natural magnetic field! By placing several highly intense electromagnets inside a vehicle and reversing polarity, he theorized you could obtain a hovering effect. Further more, by distorting this field, you can propel yourself. Summer, 2023. The first prototype of the Zelt Hovercar was unleased. Infront of a press conference of thousands of reporters, scientists, and spectators, the Hovercar rose of the ground about 4 feet, turned 180 degrees, and shot off so fast, that when the vehicle finally stopped moving, they had to peal the test pilot's remains off the seats with a spatula. While a slight setback, it certainly impressed people, which is when the government started funding the project. 2026, the now formed Zeltech Enterprises unleases a great breakthrough in Hovercar technology, Inertial Dampeners. By counteracting the intense acceleration of the Hovercars, this made possible safe usage, and Hovercars started appearing in retail chains all throughout the civilized world. Late Summer, 2030. The nations of Earth break out into World War III, finally, the struggle ends when the Japanese Empire launches 12 nuclear warheads to all major cities throughout the world, the resulting counter strikes took out 82% of Earth's entire population. 2032, Earth rebuilds from the war, and a new form of entertainment is formed, Hoveracing. With no rules except get to the finish line first, people begin to stock there cars with weapons and new gadgets, defensive and offensive devices alike. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Your Craft ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In Hover you pilot a state-of-the-art magnetic levitation vehicle. It is important to learn all the systems and subsystems of your craft. Your survival depends on the knowledge of how to use your craft and the components of your craft effectively. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III-A. Your Craft: Information Specifications ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Manufacturer: Zeltech Enterprises Model: EMHV-31337 Propulsion System: Zeltech Geo-Electromagnetic Drive 304. Top Speed: 360Mph, 450Mph with afterburners Acceleration: 0-360 in 2.3 seconds Equipment: Low grade deflector shielding, Afterburners, Cloaking Device, Increasus Damagus Maximus Armormant: Machine Guns, Proximity Mines Missiles: Electromagnetic Burst Missiles, Sidewinder Missiles, Homing Missiles, FLASH Missiles ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III-B. Your Craft: Controlling Your Craft ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Basics Moving Forward: Up Arrow Turning: Left and Right Arrow Reverse: Back Arrow Float left: < key Float right: > key Change Weapon: / Activate Upgrade: Spacebar Additional Impulses: impulse 1: machine guns impulse 2: prox mines impulse 3: missiles impulse 10: cycle weapon impulse 50: chasecam / cockpit view toggle impulse 51: lap indicator / enemy craft range indicator toggle Please note that all impulses and movement keys can be configured anyway you like them through the options menu and the console. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III-C. Your Craft: Cockpit and Chasecam Views ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to your standard cockpit view, your craft is equipped with a holographic projection system which allows you to view your craft in real time from a third person point of view. To access this third person view you must do the following: 1) Bring down your computer console (~ key) 2) Type in Impulse 50 in your console and hit enter For future ease of use, your central computer in your Hovercraft has the ability to bind certain functions to keys on your controlling input device. Load up the computer console (~) and type the following: bind "impulse 50" So if I wanted to bind the S key to switch between views it would look like this: bind s "impulse 50" that's it! now whenever you hit S it should switch to chasecam view. hit S again to turn off your holoprojector and go back to cockpit view ----------------------------------------------------------------------- III-D. Your Craft: The Statusbar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Hover status bar is broken up into 8 sections. The following is a description of them. * Weapons Ammo: This area shows the ammo for the available weapons in hover. The "Lighting Gun" ammo slot now contains the rank you are currently in. (a rank of 1 would mean your in the lead, while 16 would mean your dead last and everyone is lapping you) * Kill Rankings: This area holds the 4 highest ranking players * Weapons Inventory: This area holds icons portraying the weapons in Hover. The first two slots contain the Machine Gun, and Proximity mine weapons. The next 4 slots contain the various missile weapons. The lightning gun slot is replaced with the word "RANK" indicating that the numbers above this slot is telling the user what place he or she is in the race. * Hovercraft Tactical Readout: Previously these two slots held what keys you had in Quake. It is now replaced with a digital display of your Hovercraft depicting how many missiles you have left on your wings. * Upgrade Inventory: The PENTAGRAM icon and the ENVIROMENTAL SUIT icon are replaced with static buttons (switches, dials, whatever). The QUAD icon and the RING icon are now replaced with lights that light up when you are currently using that item. (Double Damage and Cloak) * Health: This replaces the ARMOR section of the quake status bar. It shows you how much health you have left. * Speedometer: Replacing the Health Status, the Speedometer shows the user how many miles per hour he/she is going. * Shield/Afterburner/Cloak/Double Damage Status: This section replaces the AMMO section of the normal Quake status. When you have shields or afterburners, this section shows you a graphical image of that upgrade and how many units of energy you have left to sustain that upgrade. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Weapons ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Your craft is equipped with a variety of destructive weapons. Here is a brief description of your weapon systems and how to use them effectively. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV-A. The Weapons: Your Arsenal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine Guns: Your machine guns shoot armor piercing shells at a very fast rate. This is the basic weapon you start out with, and it is very effective at disposing enemies at long or short ranges. Proximity Mines: You start out with only 3 of these so use them carefully. Proximity mines have a 3 second delay timer before they arm to allow you to get clear of them. There blast radius is pretty large and they cause a substantial amount of damage to any vehicle careless enough to hover across it's path. Electromagnetic Burst Missile: Electromagnetic burst missiles have little damaging effect but they can turn the entire race in your favor. When a craft is hit with one of these the electromagnetic drive on the craft becomes unstable, causing the craft to go completely out of control for a few seconds until the craft corrects itself. These missiles have a sizable blast radius so be careful not to get yourself caught in your own blast. Sidewinder Missile: Extremely deadly dumbfire missiles. Medium blast radius, and very fast. Homing Missile: Half as powerful as the sidewinders, the Homing missile locks on to it's target and will track him down. It's turning radius is not very good so it is possible to lose a homing missile once it has locked on to you if you avoid it good enough. Full Light Amplification and System Hindrance (FLASH) Missile: The flash missile blinds the pilot of the craft for a few seconds and causes several errors in the craft it hits. The most common aftereffect of the FLASH missile is the corruption of the weapon systems, causing them to "stick" a bit. (it's not a bug, it's a feature!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV-B. The Weapons: How To Use Your Weapons ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Your weapons are broken up into 3 sections Machine Guns Proximity Mines Missiles To select your machine guns press "1" on your computer keyboard. To select your proximity mines press "2" on your computer keyboard. Since your craft can only carry 2 missiles at a time you can only have One type of missile on your craft at all times. This means that if you pick up FLASH missiles, then come across HOMING missiles, your flash missiles will jettison off your craft and be replaced with the new missile type. To select your current missile weapon press "3" on your keyboard. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IV-C. The Weapons: Bindings and Impulses ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine Guns: impulse 1 Proximity Mines: impulse 2 Missile Weapon: impulse 3 Cycle Weapon: impulse 10 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Items, and Powerups ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In Hover you have a variety of items and powerups at your disposal to kill your opponents quicker and make you race faster. In this section I will explain those powerups to you and how to use them effectively. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Items, and Powerups: Item Powerups ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So far there is only one item powerup, the missile box. You will find these floating around the tracks at various locations. When you pick up a missile box you will acquire the two missiles. Every missile box has a random missile type in them, so you will never really know what kind of missile your getting until you pick it up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Items, and Powerups: Hardware Powerups ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 4 hardware powerups you can acquire from a menu when the race first starts. These powerups are: Shields Afterburners Cloaking Device Double Damage When you choose a powerup, the hardware to use that powerup will be added to your vehicle, and an icon of how much fuel that powerup has will be displayed in the lower right corner of your status bar. To activate that powerup use the spacebar key. Shields are the only powerup which you don't have to activate, since they come online automatically at the start of the race. You have 100 units of shields and 200 units of the rest of the powerups. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Installation ----------------------------------------------------------------------- MS-DOS: cd quake mkdir hover cd hover pkunzip -d hover11-15.zip cd .. quake -game hover Windows 95: 1) Move into your existing QUAKE directory 2) Create a subdirectory there called 'hover' 3) Move into the hover subdirectory 4) Unpack the mod using winzip in the quake/hover/ directory 5) Place all the .bat files in your QUAKE directory 6) Go back to the QUAKE directory 7) Run the appropriate .bat file for your version of quake Normal Quake: Hover.bat GLQuake: GLHover.bat WinQuake: WinHover.bat The game will now load up, enjoy. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. F.A.Q. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Q) Does HOVER run in GLQuake? A) Yup! Q) Will HOVER run in QuakeWorld? A) Nope! We are looking into the possibility of porting it to QW now Q) How do i switch to ChaseCam view? A) Impulse 50 Q) How do i load the new Hover track? A) In the console type "map track01" without the quotes. Q) Will HOVER do my taxes? A) Nope. Check back for later versions. Q) Where is the Hover web page? A) Glad you asked! http://www.planetquake.com/mod/ Be sure to pick up my gatling gun modification while your there! Q) I DON'T LIKE HOVER YOU GUYS SUCK ALOT AND I BLEAT MY LLAMAS BLEAT!!! A) er... Q) Is HOVER compatible with my AOL software? A) Bwahahahahaha ----------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Bugs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a list of known bugs, there causes, and how to fix them: BUG: Screen stays tinted if you die in the water REASON: Unknown FIX: Type "bf" in the console BUG: Screen stays tinted if you die while hit by FLASH missile REASON: Unknown FIX: Shoot yourself with another FLASH missile and it should go away BUG: Clipping problem with chasecam view in tight areas of the map REASON: Chasecam goes half-way in and out of levels sometimes FIX: Don't go in small areas of the map :) BUG: In GLQUAKE the random blinking lights on the status bar are 1 pixel higher then the non-blinking lights REASON: This is a Engine problem and cannot be fixed. FIX: We are trying to find a work around now BUG: If you fall in the water and die sometimes you respawn half-way across the map at the start line REASON: Unknown FIX: This should be fixed already, tell us if it happens again. BUG: Sometimes if you die your ship becomes a Ghost Ship. You cant die at all, but you can still float around and do things. REASON: Quad Machineguns (?) FIX: Type "KILL" in the console BUG: Some menu graphics seem out of place and discolored REASON: This is a problem with the old quake graphics interacting with the new Hover palette. FIX: We will eventually get around to replacing all the old quake graphics with new ones, stay tuned for future releases. BUG: Hovercraft sometimes goes half-way in and half-way out of walls REASON: This is a bounding box problem within the quake engine FIX: There is no way to fix this. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. CLOSING STATEMENTS ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey. I just wanted to thank you for reading this entire document, and thanks for trying out Hover. Please send all bug reports and comments to the following people Tritian: Project Leader, Modeler, Sound Tech, and Web Pimp Name: James Lazarus E-Mail: Tritian@PlanetQuake.com ICQ: 341554 Phlipt: QuakeC Programming Name: Henry Grantham E-Mail: henry@zipcon.com ICQ: 652306 Totally: Skins, Textures, and Graphics Name: David Myers E-Mail: totally@home.com ICQ: 2354375 cl2: Initial QuakeC Code, Track, and Initial Concept Name: Seth E-Mail: cl2@stomped.com ICQ: N/A ----------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Copyright Stuff ----------------------------------------------------------------------- According to U.S. and International Copyright laws, this Quake total conversion is protected upon creation. That means, if you use this patch in any of the below manners, you will be in breach of U.S. and International Copyright laws, and i will sue you... a lot. You think i wont do it... dont you. Well i dare you asshole. I'm pretty much broke right now, and I could use the money. If you want to make my day, you go right ahead, I'll sue your ass so fast your head will friggin spin. 1) Including this on a commercial software package 2) Selling this, in part or whole 3) Distributing this without the text file 4) Stripping any object from the .pak file and distributing them Ofcourse... all things are negotiable, so if you want to PAY us for using this mod in a commercial package, or doing any of the above with it, we will most certainly listen to your request =) Quake is a trademark of id Software all trademarks go to their respective authors. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Disclaimer ----------------------------------------------------------------------- If your computer is damaged by this, then your shit out of luck There is a shitload of spelling errors, but i dont care. There is probably a lot of grammar errors, so? You aint paying for this Simple enough.. eh? =) Thanks for your interest in Hover. all comments are welcome -Tritian (Tritian@PlanetQuake.Com)