I just seen something cool....Sacred Yards

[RG]

I have all but one secret in the second level. Will someone
please help?

* secret wall on right side of temple
* secret wall in frog room
* secret armor on pedestal
* secret health under stairs
* secret on roof

[xxzen]

secret area, where you found the secret on the right side of the temple, to the right of that building on the other side of the sand dune, there is a secret area, you can get there by having the bull knock you into it.

[DuraSack]

Quote: from xxzen on 3:17 pm on Mar. 27, 2001
secret area, where you found the secret on the right side of the temple, to the right of that building on the other side of the sand dune, there is a secret area, you can get there by having the bull knock you into it.
hehe....before Dune...none of a secret need to use bull attack or rocket jump to find or complete.
But Dune is the first level that need rj to reach a secret.
(The secret ammo depot of Dune)

[Magnum]

I didn't have a bull on level 2.  I had to "rocket jump"
Maybe its cause I'm a wussy and only playing on normal.
But the secret you haven;t found is the one in the first open area.  Near the entrance to the 1st inside area (the one with the secret panel to the harpees) on the same side as you use to get to the harpy secret--blast yourself up near the tree--there is a secret up there--practice w/ rocket launcher--you have to get it just right.  If there is an easier way I am not aware of it

[xxzen]

well then how did you get them without Bull or Rocket Jump (used bull for 2 in 2nd level), ..... don't leave us hanging.......

(Edited by xxzen at 9:58 am on Mar. 27, 2001)

[Magnum]

I should clarify--I didn;t have a bull on the part where the secret in question is located (begining of level). *At the end of the level you can get on the roof by clibimg up the left hand side (jumping here helps as well) as you face the entrance to the tomb. *But the secret in the 1st open area (near the harpy secret) I had to use the rocket launcher--maybe I am forgetting there was a werebull there but I am pretty sure the only one on level 2 was at the end near the tomb entrance.

[RG]

I tried to get back to that area, but didn't think to
rocket jump. Thanks dudes.

[Oh No]

There was one bull in that area. It comes out relatively early, when you get one of those big boulders to fall. I didn't know about the secret area before I killed the bull, but jumping, I could see some stuff over the dune. So, I used rocket jump to get there. Wasn't too hard.

[Seriously]

How are you all using the rocket in the second level?  Does it become available to us in Level 1.  I can't find the rocket that early in the game...

[TheBeagle]

first level, up the ramp from start, turn right, jump on pillar, jump on wall, on rooftop below wall.

[Magnum]

Apparently then you can get to it from both open areas.
Is this correct?

[weezR]

rocket jump? how do you rocket jump?
haven't fingered that one out yet.

[Scampie]

You rocket jump by pointing the rocket launcher downwards and jumping while you shoot.

Wee!

(Edited by Scampie at 8:52 pm on Mar. 27, 2001)

[Mortimer]

You don't have to RJ to get to the secret...that'd mean people playing in tourist/easy mode couldn't get it, and from what I've seen, all of them are accessible on every difficulty :)

Just run at the dirt wall, about 1/3 of the way to the other secret, and jump...try it a few times, it is possible.

[Magnum]

whats this--rocket launcher not availabvle in easy/tourist or not strong enough to bounce you around.

Anyway tryed to figure out how to get there on my own w/o being pushed and like the man says jumping about 1/3 way up to the harpy room works--takes a bit of trial and error.  Still haven;t figured out how to get a were bull to bounce me there from the 2nd open area

[Meathead]

Ok, where is the secret armor on pedestal???

I've looked and looked but can't find it...

Thanks!

[Digital Knight]

The armor isn't on a pedestal--it's on the top of one side of the door that leads out of the room where you first encounter the marsh hoppers (frogs from hell).  Once inside that room (after clearing it), if you're facing the door you came in through, there is a bounce pad to the right of the pillar on the right side of the door.  The armor is on top the pillar on the left side of the door (again, if you're facing the door from the frog room).

[Meathead]

Man that was fast...Thank you!!!

[robbydobby]

well to get to the secret on the roof u can actully climb the wall thats how i got up there

by the way which part are u calling the temple the part where the ball falls down or a differnt room Later

[Magnum]

the temple is the first building you come too

[Spirit in Black]

And what is that secret in fog room?

[RG]

Secret in frog room is wall panel just to your right as you enter the room. Just push on wall and it will move away to reveal gatling gun.

[Sarge]

I was in the Sacred Gardens (or is it Yards?)....anyways, after the intial fighting I entered an outdoor corridor in which there is a single health pill straight forward from the entrance...if you pick up the pill, a tiny little green monster who looks identical to the Jolly Green Giant who throws those green spitballs at you....he says something like "don't hurt me"....So I said "then you shouldn't be here"....sooooo, I ended up carving him with my knife and then all hell broke loose....Funny thing though, when I went close to him to get a closer look, he took a swing at me and knocked some of my health off....

I realize most of you have already seen this, but does anyone know exactly what was said?....I know once I killed the little fella then another voice uttered something....

[Sutiiben Hantu]

Whoa

[booger]

oh my god.  You killed pinky.

[DR.PUNCH IN THE FACE]

you [child born out of wedlock]

(Edited by Captain Plankface at 3:53 pm on April 10, 2001)

[Caid]

BINKY/PINKY/WHATEVERTHEHELLELSEYOUGUYSARECALLINGHIMTHESEDAYS!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[viper45]

Calm down Caid lol......I like Binky for him better, but his real name is Pinky...

[SuperTech]

Booger should know. Was that one of the voices you did Booger?

[Sarge]

okaaaaaaay.....

[Ash]

Pinky is my hero.

[StoneWolf]

My skin is sort of pinkish colored.  Skips a generation....Great Grandpa=Tanned, Grandpa=pink, Dad=tan, Me=PINK!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[viper45]

lol, you so craaazy...

that sounds weird.  hhmmmm.....'craaazy'....

[Max Damage]

I trod on pinky =) Wh00ps!

That was freaky though. Nice easter egg.. Hope to see some more mad secrets in fan levels soon!

[Sutiiben Hantu]

What is this thing?

[milbertus]

Are you asking what Pinky is, Stiben?  He's in Sacred Yards, the second secret level.  Basically a little green guy who talks, and throws those green homing missiles at you.  As an added bonus, a voice says, "You killed Pinky!" when you kill him.

[SuperTech]

An Easter Egg in the Sacred Yards map. A little Green Reptiloid smaller than one of the frogs appears and says do not kill me. If you kill or step on him it says. "OMG they killed pinky" all in a voice that can best be described as Hal-9000. =)

[Sutiiben Hantu]

OH YEAH I remember now!! I didn't know what was going on at the time... I was kinda in a state of confusion...

[milbertus]

You can step on him? *Sweet! *I'll have to try that next time :biggrin:

[SuperTech]

Here you go! Pinky and some tiny Arachnoids that also appear on that level.

http://home.houston.rr.com/supertech/pinky.jpg
http://home.houston.rr.com/supertech/tinyarachnoid.jpg

[Max Damage]

Well, I less 'stepped' on him and more 'ran screaming at him, leapt through the air, and landed both sneakers first on his tiny green skull'.

Of course, that just made the 'oh my god' sound funnier.. I nearly jumped out of my chair when about three seconds after pinky died, his big brother turned up right in front of me!

[milbertus]

Magnum - what they mean about not rocket jumping on tourist/easy is just that - you can't rocket jump on those difficulties because splash damage is disabled.  The rocket launcher is available in those difficulty levels just like all of the others.

[Mrs Muirs Goat]

Guys,

*I've made my first monster for Serious Sam, but adding to the Headman class (yeah I know, not particularly difficult, but there you go). *For fairly obvious reasons, I can't redistribute the monsters in the basic game, but I'd like to have both the basic monsters and my custom additional monsters working at the same time.
*So finally, to the point: *do I need to have the original monsters in a mod DLL to have them available in a mod game? *Is there a way of modifying the monster spawn code to spawn multiple monsters per "standard" spawn point in the original maps (so that the standard maps can spawn my custom monsters in my mod without needing customised maps)? Do we even have access to monster spawn code....
*Finally, are there any FAQs I've obviously missed?

Thanks in advance!

[Alen Ladavac]

Well why not changing the original monster's behavior to be your monsters, and they will spawn in the original maps, instead of the original monsters.

Alen

[Mrs Muirs Goat]

* *This is basically what I did to start with (to ensure that the new monster did what I expected it to without crashing the game or doing anything silly). *However, what I want to do is to *add* extra new monsters. *Having created a headman monster with a walkers missile launcher, I'd like to drop some of them in near groups of rocketeers for a bit of heavy support :) (hopefully up the front so that they don't shoot the Rocketeers in the back - I decided to make them able to blow each other up...)*
* *Worst case scenario, I have to copy and edit all the standard maps to add all my extra monsters in a useful/interesting way, however I wouldn't be able to redistribute them. *As these were originally for my LAN group, this may not be a big deal anyway.....
* *The more monsters (and the more monster variations), the better I say :)

[Bwian]

I highly doubt that you would be able to spawn the new monsters without editing whatever world file that you are playing so that they are specified in the world.

[Jwh]

If you don't want to change the levels you could randomize a little and make some of the headmen get rockets - you could even make this part of the difficulty setting and on serious 75 or 80 percent of the headmen would spawn with rockets. I don't know how this would work not having looked at the code but it seems like a simple way to add new guys to me.

[Mrs Muirs Goat]

I come from a UT coding background, in which replacing spawned objects at map start time is no big deal. *I guess I was hoping that would be possible here too.
Jwh - yeah, I could do that, but it's not exactly what I had in mind, which was additional monsters. By changing all the basic monsters in this fashion, the code would get very messy indeed.
Looks like custom maps are the only way for me to go. *Oh well....

[Jayburner]

How do I fire my weapon?  I'm not joking here guys, I click my mouse but nothing happens, I can't find anywhere in the controls for the fire button.

Please help me, because I really want to play this game.

[BirddoG]

options -> player and controls -> customize controls -> keyboard setup (or sumthing similar, at work, sue me)
there is a list of every command in the game

if that dosnt help then ummm, (and i say this in the nicest possible way) your hopeless :)

[Cacodemon Leader]

Usually the firing key is the left mouse button by default.  Of course, if you are lucky to have one of those mice that has the scrolling wheel, you can change your weapons more easily than an ordinary mouse.

[Smithboy]

If you go to options, players and controls, controls, then you look on the left side of the screen and you can move the page up or down. The fire button is down somewhat I think.

[Iirion Claus]

And if it still doesn't work, do please reinstall :)

[Ive]

Yup, try reinstalling... I've had Sam ignore mouse buttons twice. In menus the button worked, but if you had something bound to it in game or tried to rebind it in menu, Sam didn't register it. On both times I've reinstalled the game and it has begun working then.

[Duzk]

Try reinstalling with newer mousedrivers. If yer a lefty have you switched around with the buttons in windows?

[INTRUDER]

Hey question, for all you newbies. How come you never try reading the manual first and then use it for a coaster. Pages 13, 14 and 15 are about the controls and then page 20 has the game's Tech Support phone number and email address and then this board also has a Technical Section which is for asking this type of question in also.

INTRUDER

[Earthling]

Intruder: Uh... you seem pretty hostile. There is only one and half pages about controls in the euro manual, and it seemed that the guy had configured it correctly, but the game ignored his mouse buttons.

You're right about posting to the Tech forums instead of General forums though.

Also, I don't really think that Take 2's tech support even knows that a game named Serious Sam exists... But I could be (and probably am) wrong.


So, no offense to you or anyone, just pointing out that you could've made your a bit less harsh.

[Caid]

you poor thing. that's so sad =(

[Lupo]

I didn't get that from what jayburner said Earthling. What I read it as is that he needs to go to the customise buttons link that appears to be a header. You know over the top and offset of the settings in custom controls in the menu's. Customise buttons looks like it's the title and NOT a link. I could be wrong on this, but that's how I read his topic. My clue to thinking this is his name, jayburner. I overlooked alot of things when I was a jay burner.

--Lupo

[NoVA]

ahem ... i made a map (small map) i tried to fiddle with the gravity and did it acordingly to the tutorial in the help file and  BOOOOM!!! MUTHA F-CKA!!!!! turned green ... even in the game its green ... anybody know what i may have done?

[Davor Hunski]

NoVA!

What turned green? Can you explain a little bit more what happend to you? What tutorial did you follow and what have you done? I would need more info to help you ....

[Michael Harris]

When you say that it is green, even in the game, do you mean even when you go into test mode in the editor.....or even when you exit the editor and play the world from the game itself?  If this is happening just in test mode within the editor, the the fix likely is......in the immortal words of Hoard...... "For the love of God, man! Use the [6] button!"   (to switch to a rendering mode that doesn't show editing stuff during play).

If it is happening in the game itself, if you wish, e-mail it to me and I'll take a look.

Perhaps before you do that, check out the following, in whatever order works best for you:
- the gravity tutorial on the Serious Editing site
 (see links page here on this site for link to there)
- the gravity tutorials that shipped with the game
 (see c:\program files\croteam\serious sam\help\extras\michaelharris\gravityandsectoring)
  and the corresponding example worlds in the
  Tutorials section of the editor's virtual tree
- the two following recent postings/threads here in this
 forum:
   How Do I Set Up A ForceField
   Forcefield Tutorial (plain text)
 although they focus on the forcefield option of
 gravitymarkers, they touch on the basics of setting
 up a gravitymarker (though because of their focus
 on forcefield, they don't touch on changing the
 orientation and/or type of the gravitymarker,
 which you will most likely wish to do,
 while likely not wanting to mess with the forcefield)

[LSD]

I had a problem with all my textures turning Blue a while back. I rebooted the editor and it went away.

[mlwood37]

Press E or P i think !!! that shold solve your problem

[Smithboy]

hehe, did he go into sector mode?

[mlwood37]

I think so. He has the same problem i first when lerning serios sam Editor ...

[SuperMang!]

the sectoring mode goes away when i test. nothing is highlighted when i test. must be some kind of glitch.

[toastar]

Press 'Z' to see if that helps

[Shrinker]

i had that serious green problem, too and i dunno why - its like you change the amb color of everything to pure green - serious! (this happened not while trying out the tutorial)
after rebooting it was solved
and the blue thing... try out F5! it´s very useful

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...and i thought i´m the only one with these strange problems

[Shrinker]

can´t believe it - i´m a werebull!

[Shrinker]

not F5!
F4!

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sorry

[LSD]

It was as he said, the ambient color had been turned to 100% blue, not the same as the blue entity selection mask.. some kind of opengl error no doubt.

[Scudz]

i just have to say the initial post here cracks me up...
thanks NoVA

[Iirion Claus]

I have a similar problem with everything completely dark turning blue when render lights is enabled; even the weakest light is enough to clear it. I've no idea where's the problem, as it sometimes happens and sometimes not.

[Pinky]

I still can't believe no one took this nick...

[krob]

Maybe it's Pinky but it sure sounds like Binky.  Don't you know it's bad luck to kill him!!!!!!!!!!  Oh my God!

[AntiSnipe]

HEH. I never heard him talk......he didn't live that long, just "You killed Pinky" bit.

[LeChuck]

What happened to max damage and ash?  Someone should try and email them.  A few of the moderators don't post here anymore.  If they're a moderator shouldn't they still work here?