name

5th elem team frags

your frags

LeeLoo's frags

Alien team frags

date

Tom Black Jack Reynolds

73

57

16

??

3/9/99

Jeff gilkenator Gilkey

55

43

12

20

3/8/99

Zeke chinageek Sikelianos

51

35

16

25

3/8/99

Jeff gilkenator Gilkey

50

27

23

24

3/7/99

Chris profeSSor Porosky

49

29

20

24

3/7/99

3/7/99 After all my excitement at getting the soundtrack working, I tried it today and it doesn't work anymore. I used to run the soundtrack with media player, then launch the game with the gameb2.bat file. If any of you get it to work, let me know.

3/6/99 After a little playtesting, I changed the level to q2dm2. LeeLoo gets stuck less often on this level. If you downloaded the previous gameb2.bat file, get a new copy. I also added an optional soundtrack file, 5elem.zip.

3/2/99 Lee Loo's Quake2 Challenge is up and running.

This time it's you and your partner, Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Sebat, against 4 aliens, all teamed against you at Tokays Towers (q2dm2). LeeLoo has Level 5 aim, Level 5 combat skills and Level 5 aggression settings, so just cover her back and stay out of her way.
 

Setting Things Up

Step 1, Install EraserBot

Install the EraserBot modification to Quake2.  You can get it from the Essentail Files section at http://redwood.stomped.com or from http://impact.frag.com .

For those clueless about the EraserBot mod, it adds computer generated deathmatch opponents to Quake2. 

Step 2, Get the skins

If you do not have OldGuy's skin pack, then you have no choice but to download all 5 .zip files. The files are less than 1MB each, so you should be able to pull them down in 6 min a piece at 28KB/sec.

If your have copied over OldGuy's skin pack, the challenge will work if you just download the "leeloo.zip" file. The sorb and xenoid player/model files are identical to used OldGuy's copies. The sligg and grey player models differ by the addition of sound files added to the directories. 

The "leeloo.zip" file has a new skin I developed that shows LeeLoo more like she was in the movie that the other LeeLoo skins I have seen. The new skin/model got rid of the ponytail, gave LeeLoo pants and a shirt, fixed her suspenders, and gave her red hair. She also has female sounds.

Unzip the files into your quake2/baseq2/players directory. Or better yet, download them into a temp directory and then copy the directory over so you won't accidentally trash out your quake2/baseq2/players directory.

 

Download the "bots.cfg" into the quake2/eraser directory. It is the same as the original bots.cfg, with additional lines for the leeloo and alien bots and teams used by the challenge. These lines should not affect normal eraserbot play. You might want to save you original bots.cfg file anyway, but if you forget, you can get a fresh copy here, except it's called "botsold.cfg".

bots.cfg

botsold.cfg

Step 4, Get the launcher file

Download the following .bat file into you quake2 directory.
 

gameb2.bat
 

The file contains a single line that will launch the eraserbot quake with settings for the contests. It is explained in further detail at the bottom of this page.

Step 5, Final Housekeeping Details

The "group" and "disperse" commands can be used to cause LeeLoo group near you or be dispersed to attack on her own. Sometimes LeeLoo gets lost or stuck in a corner of the map. These commands help get her back into the game. If you want to use these commands, bind a key (I used the "g" and "d" key) in your "config.cfg" file in the eraser directory. See the following example:

bind g "group"

bind d "disperse" 

If you have any tricky aliases or key binding script files that you exec at the Quake2 console, when you play quake2, don't forget to put a copy of these files in the eraser director. Otherwise you won't have access to them. These usually are rocketjump macros etc. Once the game starts up, you can quickly type "exec myfile.cfg" to set these up before running off to start the challenge. Or, copy them over to the eraser directory and add +exec myfile.cfg to the command line in gameb2.bat.

Start up the EraserBot Challenge running the .bat file. You can click on it from Windows Explorer. 

IMPORTANT: After round finishes, quit quake2 and copy the log file "qconsole.log" that in the eraser directory and the demo file "gameb2.dm2" in the eraser/demos directory as verification of your score. They are overwritten everytime you run the .bat file. E-mail in the team, your's and LeeLos' frag count.  Later on I'll put up the winning demo file on this page for download so everyone can see how you did it. 

Step 6. A final bonus, the soundtrack (optional)

A final bonus, download the soundtrack .wav file (zipped up). Unzip it anywhere, then use some wavefile player (Example: mediaplayer) with loop forever set to really set the atmosphere. The soundtrack file is a .wav file of the music from the 5th element movie trailer. I guess by now you guys have figured out what my favorite movie is.

NOTE: I got this working 3/6/99, but it doesn't anymore. All I did was reboot. I have no clue why. If anyone knows how to play a .wav file in the background during Quake2, let me know. Here is the zipped .wav file if you want to try this out:

5elem.zip (369KB)

Cheating

I know you guys are clever, can probably hack a fake log file and demo file so it looks like you generated 500 frags, or secretly run cheat codes etc. Don't bother. I don't want to waste my time on looking for this sort of stuff.  Let's keep this fun.

Submit your frag counts (you can enter multiple times) to me at [email protected]

quake2 +logfile 2 +set game eraser +skill 1 +map q2dm2 +dmflags 20 +timelimit 10 +bot_calc_nodes 0 +bot_chat 0 +view_weapons 1 +skin male/grunt +record gameb2 +cvarlist +teamplay 1 +addteam 5elem +join 5elem +addteam alien4