
               In memory of STANLEY KUBRIK,
        Director of the film "2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY"
          who died suddenly just a few days after
               the initial release of DM2001.

                 He will be sadly missed.
  

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Title                   : 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
                          For those who will never make it to space.
Author                  : Wayne Young (AKA Slartybartfast)

Date                    : 4th March 2000
Version                 : Version 2.0. (Re-compiled for Unreal Tournament)

Filename                : DM2001][.zip
File contents           : dmorbit.utx
                        : earth.utx
                        : realsky.utx
                        : DM2001][.unr
                        : wdy_mods.u
			: dm2001][.txt (this file)

Email Address           : wayne@ganimede.demon.co.uk
Home Page		: http://www.ganimede.demon.co.uk
Description             : Unreal Tournament Death Match on a rotating space station,
                          similar to the one featured in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
                          by Stanley Kubrik.
                         
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Revision History

Changes introduced in Unreal Tournament Version ...

* Added screenshot picture that appears in the map browser.
* Thanks to improvements in UT itself, bots are now deadly ;)

Changes introduced in Version 2.0 ...

* You can now look out the top of the segments and see the solar reflectors.
* Addition of two traps - the Reactor Core Purge, and the Freezer.
* Working showers in the crew section.
* Additional structures in the construction zones.
* Working "hot plate" in the kitchen.
* Fixed the "ghost" urns in the swimming pool.
* Whole load of "details" added for effect.

Things that *STILL* haven't made it in ...

* Sound for the shuttle - couldn't get it to work :(
* "The Blue Danube Watz" by Strauss as background music - any offers to Trak it ?
* A bunch of minor stuff I don't have time to do :(

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Play Information	

Single Player           : No.
Deathmatch              : Yes.
Recommended No. Bots    : Up to 12 if you have a PII/266+ with 128MB of RAM and a Voodoo 2,
                          Voodoo 3 or TNT 2 card.
                          8 or less if you have a less capable machine.
                          Any more than 12 bots and it gets pretty frantic !!

This map is big. It *will* run slowly in places. I know this. This map basically started
out as a proof-of-concept map and just grew. If I do it again, I will make the overall
size of the station half what it is at the moment (a quarter the volume). These are some
frame rate figures you can expect to see ....

* Pentium, 200MHz, 64MB, Voodoo Graphics (original Voodoo card), 512 x 384 x 16bit colour
Frame rates between 6 and 20 - *lots* of stalling - one second pauses
between areas and lots of disk thrashing. With more than 6 bots in the game,
these figures got even worse. Overall, it was more or less un-playable.

* Pentium II / 266MHz, 64MB, Voodoo Banshee, 800 x 600 x 16bit colour
Frame rates between 14 and 30. Much smoother play. Still lots of stalling,
and disk thrashing. Overall, playable, but with anoying pauses and breaks in
play, usually during heavy action.

* Pentium II / 266MHz, 128MB, Voodoo Banshee, 800 x 600 x 16bit colour
Frame rates between 14 and 30. Much smoother play. No stalling, no pausing
between levels. Overall, very playable even with 12 bots in the game.

* Pentium II / 450MHz, 192MB, Voodoo 3 3000, 1024 x 768 x 16 bit colour
What can I say ? The frame rate never dropped below 50 and sat at 60
(refresh rate) most of the time. Overall - smooth as a baby's bottom with
images as crisp as a fresh lettuce :-)


Oh well, one lives and learns.

The good news is that this map looks *GORGEOUS* !!! Just play it - you'll see :-)

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Installation instructions

Put the following files in the folders indicated.

DM2001_v2.unr ----> unreal/maps (or wherever you keep your new maps).
dmorbit.utx   \
realsky.utx   |---> unreal/textures
earth.utx     /
wdy_mods.u    ----> unreal/system
dm2001_v2.txt ----> To wherever you like :-)

KNOWN BUG :
If, when you run the map, you get a message that says something like
"couldn't load blah..blah..dmorbit...blah..blah", try doing the following:

copy dmorbit.utx to your unreal/map directory and rename it dmorbit.unr

Yes, I know this sounds crazy, and I don't know why this helps, but it does.

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Construction

Editors used            : UnrealEd (Unreal V2.24 and UT V3.)
                        : PaintShop Pro V 4.14
                        : Corel Draw V 4.0
New textures            : dmorbit.utx - Most of the new textures.
                        : realsky.utx - Star maps of the real sky -
                                        Look out for the "Big Dipper" and Orion :-)
                        : earth.utx   - Planet earth textures.
New classes             : SequenceLight - Allows a light to blink on and off with a
                                          precisely controlled sequence. (used for the
                                          exterior blinking red lights).
                        : ObjectPathRetrig - A retriggerable version of the existing
                                             ObjectPath class (for the shuttle ride).
                        : TrigAmbSound - My own version of TriggeredAmbientSound,
                                         that works!! (Used for the showers).
Known Bugs              : There are some problems with some of the zone portals - 
                          sometimes the fake backdrop shows through when it shouldn't.
                          This is much better than it used to be.
Build Time              : 6 months worth of evenings - on and off.


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Other maps by the Author ...

The original DM2001 - most downloaded Unreal Deathmatch map of all time (at least
up to the time I wrote this anyway :-)

Tons of "experiments" to push the bounds of the Unreal engine - none published.
For example, I made a map with a moving mirrored door long before the Quake 3 demo
and Unreal "mirrormove" maps saw the light of day. Shame I didn't release it :(

An un-released map of the 3Dfx Interactive Headquarters in San Jose -
with some "Men In Black" style changes to the interior :-)

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A message from the author...

I have to give a great big *THANK YOU* to all the people who have taken the time
to put up those useful tutorials on the web. Without some of the insights, I may
have given up map building long ago.

Thanks also to everyone who encouraged me to finally release this. Especially QAPete
and Lord MaSTeR over at Nali City, and Mike Chytracek at Unreal Action. Without the
exposure they gave my original screen shots, this map would probably still be
languishing on my hard drive. Keep up the good work guys!

Enjoy

Oh, and thanks to Tim Sweeney and all the people at Epic for being so damn clever :-)

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(C) Copyright 1999,2000 Wayne Young

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