Installation Guide and other information:

Since you are reading this, you must have extracted the files correctly, so here is a step by step guide to setting Mappack up, and using the new features in your maps:

  1. Make sure you have got ALL the Mappack files in a mappack directory under your quake2 one.
  2. Depending on which version of Mappack you want to use (CTF or standard DM) copy the corresponding DLL file into your mappack directory.
  3. Copy the entity file that corresponds to the editor you use, into the editors directory.
  4. Load the entity file (see this instruction page for help on loading entity files)
  5. Make some damn good maps
  6. The only other difference to running/testing normal Quake2 maps is that you must run Quake2 with the command +set game mappack before loading your map.
  7. Send me any maps you make with Mappack (satisfy my curiosity)

Instructions for distributing Mappack with your maps:

 

You must add both the gamex86.dll file and the pak0.pak file into your map distribution (you may delete files from the pak file if you do not use them)

If you are going to distribute your map on the internet or some other form of electronic distribution (BBS etc) you MUST somewhere add a mention and a link to Omega Productions in your readme file, and also add the following bit of text into an omega.txt file in your zip file:

 

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This map uses the Mappack DLL by Beelzabub (Omega Productions).

To run this map, you must first put the new gamex86.dll file into a sub-directory of your q2 dir.

e.g. C:\games\quake2\mappack

 

Then run Q2 with the extra command +set game mappack (or whatever directory you installed it into)

Then just load the map as normal (see the maps readme.txt file for more map loading information)

If you have any problems with this map, contact the maps author first, then he/she will contact me if he/she thinks it is a problem with my DLL.

 

For more information on other MODs/utilities by Omega Productions please visit our website at http://phrozen.quake2.co.uk or e-mail me at beelzabub@gamedesign.net.

                                                -Beelzabub (Co-Founder of Omega Productions, and author of this MOD)

 

Omega Productions is in no way connected with the maps author, and cannot be held responsible to any damage that occurs whilst using this DLL.

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