More Dimensions - Epsilon Build v1.01 file

Hello all!

More Dimensions is running under the Quakespasm-spiked engine because the older versions of the Darkplaces engine do not support the 'Tears of the False God' and 'Forgotten Sepulcher' levels, and the later versions of the Darkplaces engine do not support most computers or graphics cards. You will find it is slower to load/reload levels and quicksave as a result. Unfortunately there are no Mac builds for quakespasm-spiked.

System requirements:
1GB ram
5GB hard disk space
Almost any graphics card or chipset
Windows 7/8/10/11, or Linux



Installation:
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1. Unzip the 'more dimensions' zip to a new folder - DO NOT unzip to your 'quake epsilon' or 'arcane dimensions' folders! It will not work and will break those installations.
2. Copy full (non-shareware) versions of the quake .pak files (pak0.pak, pak1.pak) to the 'id1' subfolder. The game will not run without the full commercial .pak files.
You can purchase full quake off steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/2310/) for about $5-$10 depending on the day and what sales are on.
3. Double-click the "More dimensions.bat" (in windows) or "More dimensions - linux" (in linux).
4. At the menu, go to 'video settings' and change your screen resolution to the highest available.
4. Enjoy.

Sources & Thanks to
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Arcane Dimensions is by Simon "Sock" O'Callaghan (www.simonoc.com) and many, many others, full credits are in ad/readme/ad_v1_80_credits.txt. The homepage for Arcane Dimensions is www.simonoc.com/pages/design/sp/ad.htm

Music (c) 2022 Matt Bentley ie. Xolve ie. myself, with exception of AD_TEARS music by Markie Music (www.markiemusic.com). My music may not be distributed outside of the context of this package ie. More Dimensions.
The hi-res version of the soundtrack will become available at xolve.bandcamp.com

Main id1 map textures by Rygel, fixed in some areas (original rygel textures downloadable here: Icculus.org).

Quakespasm engine by various authors (http://quakespasm.sourceforge.net)

Hub level adapted from the QUMP start map by NewHouse, with permission and thanks.

Many of the following Arcane Dimensions resources, aside from ones I've created, are pooled by Talisa here:
Quakeone.com
Quakeone.com

Individual item/monster hi-def textures by:
Player skins - Bloodvengeance
Glow objects, Shotgun and Spawn, Rotfish, Grunt - Ruohis
Drole - Quadrocket
Projectiles, Buzzsaws, Pendulums, Tome of Power, Book and Stand, Radar Dishes - Talisa
Rotfish - Ruohis, Seanstar
Spider, Scorpion, Golem, Imp - Jeank, myself
Hydra - Jeank and Talisa
Freddie - Talisa, edited by myself
Zombies - reforged, fraggers, ogro, myself
Some wraith textures - QRP, Talisa, myself
Neural-net upsampled/overlayed original Arcane Dimensions textures - myself
Additional gloss for monsters and items - myself
Death-soldier (fury, guard, knight, crossbow, sergeant) textures - Myself using upsampled textures + Seanstar and QRP textures
Demon - QRP, fragger
Additional Sky Textures - Bluntz
Classic Gibs - Osjc
Backpack - Qwre, repackaged by myself
Updated triple-shotgun, plasma gun - Myself using upsampled textures & random metal textures
Wizard - QRP
Knights, Hellknights - Seanstar, QRP, d1554573r, myself
Dog - Quake reforged, modified by myself
Hi-def Healthboxes and lids - myself using upsamples + quaketastic textures by silva carloshp
Ogres - QRP, Fragger, Quadrocket, Nergal, Myself and WA's edit of nergal's texture
Wraiths - QRP for first texture, myself for other upsamples, Talisa for luma and gloss-maps
Effect powerups, exploding box, laser - Ooppee
Eel - from upsamples, gloss/glow by Webangel
Gaunt, Shambler, Bulletboxes, Minotaurs, some bosses - Myself using upsamples + retexturing
Fumigators, Pyros - Myself using upsamples + QRP textures
Book - CV, Talisa
Plague's weapon's pack (edited by Kingennio): Quakeone.com
Some other textures repackaged by Talisa for AD

Arcane Dimensions hi-def map texture compilations by:
Sock (arcane monstrosity, start map, 2nd start map, Obsessive Brick Disorder, The Horde of Zendar, Ogre Bastille, Firetop Mountain, Slipgate Conundrum, Arcane Adamantine)
MFX (The realm of enceladus, Foggy Bogbottom, The Crucial Error, The End)
IKWhite and SheSP (Various map textures)
Scampie and Lunaran (Necromancer's keep)
Ionous (Per Asperi Ad Inferi, Leptis Magna)
Pulsar (Leptis Magna, Terror Fuma)
EricW (Terror Fuma, The Underearth)
Bloodvengeance (Obsessive Brick Disorder, The Horde of Zendar, Foggy Bogbottom, Ogre Bastille, The Underearth, Hangar 16, Firetop Mountain, The Mire)
FifthElephant (Place of Many Deaths)
Sean Campbell (Hangar 16)
Noel (The Mire)
Maik "mfx" Franz Xaver (e3m2)
Henrik Oresten (ad_fenrir)
Makkon (ad_tears)
QRP (rogue and hipnotic textures used in most maps)
Myself (additional gloss textures for most arcane dimensions map textures, replacement/new textures for various maps including ad_fenrir, ad_sandcastle, ad_refinery, ad_grendal, start and e3m2, texture reconstructions for about half of the ad_tears textures)

Each map set has it's own sub-authors (who the authors above obtained textures from), all of which are detailed in the readme for that map inside arcane_dimensions_map_textures_consolidated_v2.pk3 (pk3 is a .zip file, can be opened with 7zip or similar).
More detail on credits can be found in the readme files inside each .pk3.

Notes for Modders:
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This has given an opportunity to provide resources for future modders so that people can make their own HD versions of Arcane Dimensions under alternative engines.
These resources include:
(a) The Rygel texture pack in jpeg format (minus the normal maps, which are not useful outside of Darkplaces). This is my optimized version which has some missing textures taken from the QRP texture pack and a few other fixes. On any engine which supports DDS textures, the equivalent 'disolver' pack from ADHD or quake epsilon is better, as DDS textures load faster and have mipmaps precalculated.
(b) Weapon, item and enemy textures for all of arcane dimensions (minus some very small underutilized items, which I didn't bother doing). This includes the AD 1.8 creatures/items, which were not included in the Epsilon AD 1.7 release. Some of these are taken from QRP textures, some from independent artists, and some are combinations of neural-net upsampled textures and stock textures. And some are combinations of all of the above. Only jpeg versions are provided, to save space.
(c) The arcane dimensions consolidated texture pack, in jpeg format. Again, jpeg format is necessary to save space. This pack contains all of the HD textures made by various artists (though usually sourced from QRP) for the various AD levels, and removes duplicates. It also removes files which are already present in the Rygel texture pack. In addition, I have made many efforts to complete the textures of several levels (such as ad_sandcastle) since the existing texture packs for those levels were either incomplete or of insufficient quality. Hopefully now there are not too many low-res textures on each level.

Note that since Quakespasm-spiked doesn't support .skin files, this pack doesn't contain the hi-poly enemy models found in many of the epsilon packs. Likewise it doesn't support normal-mapping or bump-mapping so those textures do not exist here. The AD dog has been swapped out for the original quake dog in this pack, which I prefer.

Tools to use when modding:
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Blender for .mdl texture viewing/out-saving (there's a plugin for this)
waifu2x-caffe for neural-net upsampling (hint: set to CPU in App settings if you don't have CUDA/Nvidia, 2d Illust UpRGB mode, 10x magnify, no denoise, then downsample in photoshop to 20%)
texmex for level texture viewing/out-saving
game extractor for getting files out of .pak files (needs java jre)
obs studio for video capture
dds-crunch for generating decent dds files
alphaconv for identifying which tga/png files have alpha channels
batch image convertor for converting to png/tga/jpg/etc and preserving alpha where possible (alphaconv doesn't actually do this properly - generates corrupted pngs sometimes)
trenchbroom for level editing

Version history:
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21/4/2022: v1.01 - Start map lighting update, update some start map textures.
15/4/2022: v1.00 - Initial release.

Be well and free from suffering