UKPAK - 1st release, February 1999
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The UKPAK is a set of teamplay (4on4) maps for Quake 1, made by a group of
UK mappers.


Installation
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Just copy the contents of the ukpak/maps/ dir to your quake/id1/maps/
dir. That's it. If you use a proxy, copy the .loc files in ukpak/locs/
to your proxy's dir. ukpak/guides/ contains graphic guides to all the
maps from an overhead view, have a look at these to help you learn the
maps faster. the ukpak/readmes/ dir contains the readmes the individual
authors have made that may give additional information.

The maps
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This first release contains 8 maps:

UKPAK1 by Porky
UKPAK2 by Zor
UKPAK3 by DaMaul
UKPAK4 by Aardappel
UKPAK5 by Peej
UKPAK6 by Slayer
UKPAK7 by Pingu
UKPAK8 by Biggus

please refer to the individual readme's for more information on these maps,
authors homepages, and contact information.

Legalese
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These maps may be freely copied, and played on any server, in any league
etc., the only thing we ask for is that if you distribute the UKPAK files
you distribute them as a whole and in their original form (the ukpak.zip
file). Modifying the included files needs our explicit permission. If
you use these maps on a particular server or in some league we'd love to
hear about it. As always, if in doubt please contact us.

UKPAK goals and history
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The UKPAK idea started in october/november '98 when me & Porky were thinking
about ways to do something structural about the teamplay maps situation.
The set of maps being played in leagues and friendlies is very small and
mostly the same old id maps. Besides Slayers maps there are very few custom
maps suitable for TP (most are simply too small or badly designed). Another
thing stopping people from using other custom maps is the fact that usually
not everyone has them, and people usually can't be arsed downloading new
maps. Our solution was a pak, this way people get a whole set of maps with
1 download, and hopefully its popularity would make sure that everyone has
them. We also knew that the UKCL people were interested in new maps.

The primary goal for the maps was 4on4 teamplay, and of course designs that
promote good teamplay. As you'll find the the maps support a great variety
of teamplay, from the low armour/weapons e1m2 style tactical maps to the fast
paced armour/RL Slayer style maps and a lot in between, it's all there.
Architecture wise we decide we wanted a common theme, but still allow the maps
to have their own atmosphere. We chose a base texture set that I called "old
industrial" that also borrows from the Q2 waste theme.

Throughout the development period of the maps (november '98 to februari '99) the 
UKPAK team cooperated continuously. From december onwards we had a FTP site 
where mappers regularly uploaded the latest versions of their maps, so that they 
could get feedback from others. This was a great as we could help eachother 
early on, and make sure all maps where up to scratch, and to learn from the 
other maps or "steal" ideas. As we knew that a pak of custom maps could only 
succeed if they were all top quality, we decided to vote on which maps would be 
good enough to be included, and the current 8 are the result of that.

Instead of just releasing the maps, we went through painstaking testing 
sessions, with deadlines for new maps in between. first just with all mappers 
involved to iron out most basic problems, then a public beta test with a special 
server Barrysworld set up for us to use. We had many players have 4on4 games on 
it and this gave use the last bit of feedback needed for final tweaking.

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Besides the mappers who have done such an excellent job, and have put up with me 
whipping them into working faster without even getting paid for it, I'd like to 
thank Barrysworld (www.barrysworld.com) for their support (webhosting and 
servers), Quake Nation (www.barrysworld.com/nation) for continuous coverage on 
the project, the UKCL admins (especially Aerotus) for being so couragous to want 
to use our maps in the league, and of course all those people from the UK Quake 
community who've helped testing and have given us feedback.

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Check our website regularly for new maps and paks that we may release.

http://www.barrysworld.com/ukpak/
ukpak@barrysworld.com

The UKPAK main organizer,
Aardappel aka Wouter van Oortmerssen (wvo96r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)


