This creates a very small light and you should make the light much larger by changing the radius value on the properties tab in DEdit.

You should be able to see the circle that the light will illuminate in DEdit after you add it to your level.

Also, you must select all of your brushes and turn on Gourard shading or lightmapping.

Lastly, if you just want to see your brushes you can select them and turn them all to fullybright. But your models will not have any light applied to them.

There are several tutorials on the planetshogo editing page that should help you with this process.

The 3ds2abc program seems to have problems with it. I have not been able to successfully convert a model either. I am not sure what version of .3ds file it needs.

However, I believe the 3ds plugin works better and you should be able to use that to convert your model. But I have not tried this yet.

It is most likely a driver problem. You should download the newest drivers for your computer. Be sure that you have the most recent DirectX 6 drivers installed. Also, be sure that you have downloaded and installed all of the Shogo patches. If you have any more problems, please post in the PlanetShogo forums with more detail as to your computer setup and problems.

You should be able to adjust the gamma in your display options dialog box for the voodoo2. This is where I do it. Also, there are several utilities availabe on the web that can Tweak your settings.

If this doesn't work then you can try to shogo gamma setting. If you bring up the console with ~ then type

Gamma X

where X is the number you want to set it at. Try low numbers at first, like under 4.0. Also, before you change it you should just type

Gamma

and it will report what the current value is.

If you need more help, ask in the PlanetShogo forums and anyone there can help you out. As they use these programs regularly.

Please help - this code is essential to a game mod I'm in the middle of (I bet you can guess it) and I have all the models etc.

It reads the mouse offsets with m_pClientDE->GetOffets() and then rotates the player. Then it moves the player in the direction he is facing in the X and Z coordinates.

Also, I believe that it checks to see if the left key is pressed by calling m_pClientDE->IsCommandOn() with some parameter and if it is then is rotates the player to the left by some small amount. This amount depends on the current FrameTime so that it is constant and not frame rate dependent.

If you don't know C++ coding very well, its not going to be all that easy to do this. Please post any question you have in the Modifications forum on PlanetShogo or to the shogo-mod mailing list for further help.

Did you try to un-rez the shogo.rez files? That is the only time that I have ever gotten that error. If you are running Shogo with some different options or it you un-rezzed shogo.rez into a directory that was not named shogo then you could see this.

What it is saying is that it can't find the CShell.dll file to use to run Shogo. This file is only visible if you have un-rezzed shogo.rez.

Also, if you did a full install and then deleted shogo.rez you might experience this. If everything else fails you can try to reinstall Shogo and that should fix any problems.

When you walk over it, it blows you upwards.

I cannot find anything(controls) that can doo this.

That "wind jumpy thing" is a wind volume brush. As I understand it you should create a brush that is the size of the area that you want to be affected by the wind. Then put those little green arrows inside it and click Bind to Object... Then choose Volume Brush from the list and I believe that Wind is a choice.

Then you should select the brush and open up the properties and you can set the direction and strength (I think) of the wind.

If this is not quite right then ask in the Editing forum, I think someone there has tried this. Someone was making a car launcher that used wind I believe.

You should try this out and if you can't get it to work try reading this page and try asking at the PlanetShogo forums.

Many people have done this so they should be able to help you out.

I am learning AI currently and when I have a good grasp of it I will attempt this also if nobody else has.

If you can get a lot of people to ask for it, someone would probably be willing to write it. So if you go to the PlanetShogo forums maybe you can get a lot of people together who would like this feature.

The only way to do it would be to write a MOD that allowed you to do this. And nobody is going to take the time to write a MOD just to allow the Tractor Beam in Single player.

Besides, the game isn't designed to do that so it would be a major cheat and would make the game not any fun.

However, unlike Quake2 the Shogo source uses the LithTech engine and is not wrapped up in the engine like Quake2 is. For this reason many MODs are possible with Shogo that are simply impossible with Quake2.

Quake2's engine makes many assumptions about what you are doing and how you are doing it. Shogo's LithTech engine is a very robust engine that makes hardly any assumptions. For this reason essentially more of the game is editable by users.

In fact it is possible and often preferable to simply start from scratch using the LithTech engine and all of your own custom code for a Shogo TC. You could then develop any type of game from a FPS to a RTS game like Starcraft if you wanted to.

Should I send it back or is there something else wrong? Please reply with some help or suggestions for me.

The problem is with your TNT card. Unfortunately for some reason the TNT doesn't work with the Fog in Shogo. I believe that some new drivers will fix this, but the best thing to do is simply disable fog. You can do this from the Options... button in the Shogo dialog box.

If you could please help me out, I would greatly appreciate it.

Also, if you are interested you can sign up for the LT-Linux developers list which is run by Monolith.

Send mail to listar@lists.lith.com with the subject of 'subscribe lt-linux'

Only one question...
Will there be an upgrade patch for Shogo? If so when will it be out? If it is already out, where may I find it? Ok, one question that is muti. LOL

Several more patches are underway and you can check their progress on this page.

MonoLith is however working on a Glide port which should make the game run a little faster. This is due out in the 2.3 patch for Shogo and you can check on its status at www.shogo-mad.com.

Pretty disgusted,

I am part of a team which is working to alleviate these problems with Shogo. We are working hard and have MonoLith's support so hopefully we can resolve these issues. I hope that you stay around or check back when we have this all fixed.

The project is called ShogoWorld and you can read up on it at www.radikus.net

"Could You please Tell me all the steps on how to play Online?"

[I have tried all sorts of Versions of GameSpy but none of them support 'Shogo'.]

At this point Shogo will show up on the left side of the GameSpy window. It should list Unbound and Master Server I believe if you click on it. However, no servers will show up yet.

You need to click on the Updates button on the menu and then choose Update Master Server List. Be sure that you have Shogo selected in that left hand window also. When you do this GameSpy will get an updated list and is ready to go.

After this, when you want to find a game of Shogo you should click on Shogo and then right-click and choose Update or Refresh and it will get the current server lists from the master server.

Clicking update does a check for more servers, doing a refresh simply queries all of the listed servers for current status.

Many people have complained about GameSpy not working too well and like to use Kali at www.kali.net. This program works similar to GameSpy. However, to find the list of TCP/IP servers using Kali you must click on the TCP/IP button. I haven't used Kali in a while so you should ask on the planetshogo forums if you need any more help.

The only way to prune this would be to un-rez all of the shogo*.rez files as described in the LithTech tools. You could possibly delete sound.rez also, I really don't know.

You could delete all of the SP levels I believe. Also, you could possibly remove the textures and models not used in Multiplayer. However, this would require determining which textures are and aren't used in the MP levels. Also, if someone releases a new map that uses the SP textures it would be a problem.

Basically, if you un-rez all the .rez files you can try to delete stuff that seems like it is only for SP and see if it works. That is the only way to go.

ShogoWorld will contain many, many modifications to Shogo including:

Plug and Play Models
Squishie support built in.
An improved HUD
Network lag fixes
And several extra gameplay options.

This MOD is under work right now with the aid and support of MonoLith and will be completed as soon as we can. However, with the extent of the changes it will take some time.