Rust tutorials archives

[knightmare]

I noticed that the Rust tutorials mirror on tastyspleen.net was missing all the images, so I decided to upload a zip of the originals I found on my hard drive.

Here are the original Rust Q2 editing tutorials and example maps from May 1998:
www.markshan.com/knightmare/downloads/rust_tut_052598.zip

I've also reconstructed the Quake2 section of the Rust website from Jan 2008, and put it together with many of the matching example maps from the above archive.
www.markshan.com/knightmare/downloads/rust_quake2_handbook.zip

I'd be interested to know if anyone finds this particularly helpful.

[grieve[Q2C]]

that's a really valuable piece of work. thank you.

[cocerello]

Thnaks for the work. Most of the topic touched there i now hem already but it is nice to have them just in case and to show to others.

[DvSD]

All that extra work you took upon yourself should be very helpful for anyone lurking thinking about joining up and making their first map or just trying to find a good copy of it. It will definitely cut down on my personal time searching the online grid and piecing files together. Thanks from my end!

[knightmare]

One thing I forgot to add is that in the "Rust Quake2 handbook" archive I used "best-match" example maps from the 05/1998 archive. The func_plat example map is probably the wrong one, as it was the only one in the set that contained even a single func_plat. The partial transparency and r_speed reduction maps are among the ones entirely missing.

If anyone has any of the example maps missing from the second archive, please post them and I will add them to and re-upload the second archive.

[DvSD]

Might come in handy when thinking about mapping with KM Quake2. 

[qbism]

This tutorial backup displays images and has working links to example .map files.
panjoo.tastyspleen.net/rust/quake2tutorials.html

[DvSD]

[knightmare]

That backup has some of the same problems I mentioned- a couple missing images (func_areaportal r_speeds). The rust_tut_052598 archive I uploaded is more complete.

I tried downloading the func_plat map and it was the wrong one, it was a func_train controlled by trigger_elevator.

Also, the Jan2008 archive I reconstructed has newer tutorials (such as partial transparency, r_speeds reduction, how to hand-edit .map files) not in the original Rust ones.

[qbism]

In that case, thanks, I'll be downloading the reconstructed archive shortly.

[DvSD]

Good try anyhow qbism!

I'm sure it will turn up eventually, probably buried out there deep in a Q2 vault just waiting to be rediscovered underneath layers of other stuff. Like finding a secret in Q2 or an awesome custom sp player mission, except now it's a community / ies file hunt, loading level  lol.

Thanks for the update knightmare and once again the extra work you took on!

[qbism]

Here's a smaller collection of tutorials. At least there's an actual funcplat.map-
quake2.com/qworkshop/tutorials/tutorials.htm

[DvSD]

Thanks for the link