DM-Starfall

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Universal Research Station - Starfall.

Somewhere in the 41st galaxy. Seeking out new lifeforms in the hopes of finding cures to mankinds worst diseases. With all the research done, the crew of USR-Starfall can now only sit and wait for the Mothership to come and take them home...

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Reality Fakers Present

DM-STARFALL For Unreal Tournament 2003

Author: Paul `Sharpfish` Timson ©2002 All Custom Content.

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Title:  DM-STARFALL
Filename:  dm-starfall.zip  
Version:  1.00  
Last Update:  Tuesday, 17th December , 2002  
eMail Address:  [email protected]  (check website for latest contact details)
Author's Homepage:  www.realityfakers.tk 
Credits:  ©2002 Paul Timson / Reality Fakers  
Thanks to:
Gradient (for 3DSmax > UED3 tutorial)and Loosecontroll5 (for early feedback)

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UT2003 Levels By Author:  

4.DM-Starfall
3.CTF-FestiveRidge (Xmas Level)
2.BR-FestiveRidge (Xmas Level)
1.CTF-Tropica 


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Unreal Tournament 1 Maps.

3.DM-Resistor
2.DM-Capacitor
1.CTF-Afinity][

A few unreal one maps not worth listing but available at nalicity.

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Play Information 
 
Game:  Unreal Tournament 2003 
Level Name:  Starfall
Game Type:  Deathmatch 
Botmatch:  Yes  
Single Player:  no  
Teamplay:  no  
Difficulty Settings:  Only For Bots  
New Meshes: Yes (in map file itself - DO NOT USE WITHOUT PERMISSION)
New Textures:  Yes (in map file itself)  
New Sounds:  No
New Music:  No (actually yes but I decided to leave it out for filesize reasons) 
Mods:  No  
Mutators:  No  

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Construction 

Base:  Original Map  
Build Time:  6 weeks - aprox 50 hours a week (including modeling/texture time)
Recommended # of Players:  4-8
Editor(s) Used:  UnrealEd3.0 

Known Bugs: Should be pretty much ok. Other than needing a good sytem/card to run it well. It HAS been optomised greatly - antiportals, zones, meshes optomised, texture sizes optomised - if it does slow down for you it`s because of the detail in the level (and maybe the loop movers - I left out half of them for performance reasons)

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Author's Notes 

A small/Medium size Deathmatch map. This map DOES have good flow but will take a few goes to get the hang of. A lot of time went into creating a `unique` and different enviroment so please do NOT rip this map or the meshes. If you want to use a certain mesh then give credit in the readme, but do NOT make a `different` version of Starfall (ctf etc) that is for me to consider and do in my own time.


Some tips:

1.Double jump onto the high door platform to get into the top of the research station (obvious)

2.Double jump over the rocks by the high pool to get to sniper rifle - you are not `supposed` to climb up from the grassy area so don`t say I didn`t warn you. Note bots WILL also jump over here.

3.Once here you can take the `high` road - jumping from plant to plant - feels great when you get good at it, plus you can pick up a few little items (and get across the outdoors quicker)

4.The redeemer cage is toggled by the `eye` switch above it - shoot to toggle the cage closed/open - you can trap a greedy player here and either leave him (and laugh at him) or shoot him through the `bars` - note it will also crush them if they are under it when it is closed. ( I suppose I should tell you that you CAN release yourself from this by looking up and shooting the trigger through the bars.)

5.There is one way up each hill from the ground level - these are pretty obvious as everything else is pretty much blocked by plants.Look for the clear purple coloured rock (or follow the bots!)

6.Performance on this map depends a lot on CPU power. I find with a decent card (gf4ti4200) that lowering details does little - and of course it looks better at full details - get a new cpu if you feel left out :) Couple of things you can do is turn off decolayers (grass/foliage) this is the biggest draw of fps - note the grass is not high enough to be used as an advantage for those with it off.

Visit www.realityfakers.tk for more 2k3 map news.

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Copyright / Permissions 


This level is copyright by Paul 'Sharpfish' Timson ©2001. 

Authors may NOT use this level as a base to build additional levels without explicit permission from the Original Author.

Authors Definately may NOT use the custom meshes in the map file without contacting the Author and crediting the creator (me) in the readme.

You are NOT allowed to commercially exploit this level, i.e. put it on a CD or any other electronic medium that is sold for money without my explicit permission! 

You MAY distribute this level through any electronic network (internet (web/ftp), FIDO, local BBS etc.), provided you include this file and leave the archive intact. 

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UNREAL TOURNAMENT (c)1999 Epic Megagames, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Distributed by GT Interactive Software, Inc. under license. UNREAL TOURNAMENT and the UNREAL TOURNAMENT logo are registered trademarks of Epic Megagames, Inc. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners. 


UT2k3 is *NOT* like quake3 and it kicks UT`s ass... get over it 8-)