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Welcome
to the Arena file tutorial, this is my first
tutorial so i hope i do good. I dont know if all the
information i give here is right, but i test most of
the it. just mail any problems or corrections to exaer@teamhuh.com.
( if you come across
any misspellings in English
, don't
worry. its because Iam from the Netherlands
).
Arena files are files that are mostly included in
.pk3 files and give information to quake III arena
to be able to put an icon for the map in the map
select menu. This will be very handy because you
dont need any more typing.
1
MAKING THE FILE
First
you are going to need a standard text file, make it
in any program you want ( if you are using Microsoft
word make sure you save it as a text document,
because if you saved it as the standard format ,
quake III arena wont be able to read it ). I used
notepad, because its very simple to use. for now
save the file, the name is very simple: give it the
same name as the name of your map's .bsp file and
add the .arena extension to it ( eg: testmap.arena
). You can save it in this path: quake III arena
base path + \baseq3\scripts\ (eg:
c:\quake3\baseq3\scripts\mymap.shader). Time to move
on to the the next chapter.
2
ENTERING NEEDED INFORMATION
A
requirement in with any .arena file is that all
information is to be surrounded by a { and a }.
First thing to tell quake 3 arena is the name of the
map's file. this is done by entering a key map
following the file's name ( leave out the extension
) . This is how your file should look now:
{
map "testmap"
}
This wont do much if you put in your baseq3 folder.
It will load the map but its not much use yet. Next
we are going to tell quake III arena what bots to
put in the level when playing against the computer.
We do this by entering a key bots and the
value contains the names of the bots seperated by
spaces. ( check APPENDIX A for a
list of gametypes ):
{
map "testmap"
bots "daemia wrack grunt slash"
}
Now quake III arena knows which bots to add to the
level. Next thing is to set the title to be
displayed when loading the map. This is easily done
by entering the key longname and the value
contains the long name of the map, like this:
{
map "testmap"
bots "daemia wrack grunt slash"
longname "the empty place"
}
Were almost finshed now, two more things remaining.
The fraglimit and the game types. First the
fraglimit. Just enter a key fraglimit
following the value.
{
map "testmap"
bots "daemia wrack grunt slash"
longname "the empty place"
fraglimit 20
}
Now the last to do is setting the gametypes. This
tells quake III arena in which gametypes this map
can be used. The key is type and the value
can contain some types seperated by spaces.
Following is a list of types ( check APPENDIX
B for a list of gametypes ):
{
map "testmap"
bots "daemia wrack grunt slash"
longname "the empty place"
fraglimit 20
type "single ffa team"
}
When you have entered the needed information into
your .arena file you should put it in your baseq3
folder, if yo are making a .pk3 file put it in the scripts
folder. Your arena file should now be completed, if
you want to know more head on to the next chapter.
3
EXTRA (UNNEEDED) INFORMATION
There
is one key left to talk about and that is special.
I only know of two values that it can contain, training
and final. training is used in the
very first map. final is used in the duel
with xaero.
APPENDIX
A
Here
is a small list of all the names of the bots for the
bots key:
ranger
phobos
sarge
orbb
bitterman
grunt
hossman
daemia
hunter
wrack
slash
gorre
angel
klesk
tankjr
lucy
biker
patriot
anarki
visor
razor
stripe
keel
uriel
cadavre
bones
doom
sorlag
doom
major
crash
xaero
APPENDIX
B
Here
is a list of all the gametypes:
single
ffa
team
ctf
tourney
EXAER
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