Anticube 2 | Quadropolis

Lord Kv | 2015-03-12 14:45

Anticube 2

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Blurb Interactive non-linear puzzle map for Tesseract

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Detailed description

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Anticube 2 is a puzzle map for Tesseract. You'll find yourself in an interactive, dynamic, non-euclidean world. Supported by 5000+ lines of Cubescript and GLSL code, this map will do things no other Cube 2 / Tesseract map has ever done before. Its theme and concepts are greately inspired by Antichamber and NaissanceE – great puzzle / exploration games with strong surreal atmosphere.

You can start Anticube 2 by loading the map ac2 (/map ac2). To have the best experience possible, please follow these recommendations:

- Avoid using third person camera. It can break things.
- Explore everything. There is no place from which you cannot return. There are many secrets hidden in the map.
- Use your wits rather than brute force. Observe everything.
- You don't need shooting in any way to complete the map. Don't shoot.
- You don't have to solve everything. There are 10 cubes in the map, but you only need 8 to access The Core.
- Use the SVN build of Tesseract if possible (and turn volumetric lighting on)
- This map has music. Make sure you have your music on in the settings.
- Turn your hudgun off (/hudgun 0).
- Don't swich to edit mode until you have finished the map. It will be tempting, but please resist.

Now you're good to go. Have fun!

The map uses many assets from various authors. You can see full credits in map's readme or at map's end area. Special thanks to TristamK and Fishgius for testing.

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Update 14th March 2015
+ Added collisions for rocks
+ Added missing readme
* Cleaned up outside parts of the map
* Small fixes

Update 19th October 2015
+ Included revised scripts by RaZgRiZ
* Minor terrain improvements
* Minor bug fixes

You can now download the latest version of Anticube 2 on Github

URL https://github.com/Kvaleya/Anticube2

Rating

160

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(16 votes)

Comments

Doko | 2015-03-12 18:44

Very nice and entertaining map, it uses a lot of features that i didnt knew that existed. Its way better than the first.

andrius4669 | 2015-03-12 19:30

map looks nice, though I got few errors while loading it. here's my log: http://pastie.org/private/cebazlc4mgky0ku2qqya

Lord Kv | 2015-03-12 19:45

Those errors are only related to the fractal shaders, so if the rest of the map looks ok (more or less like in the trailer and screenshots) it should be playable. I have tried the map on Intel HD 3000 and I got the same errors. I think it's because these GPUs don't support doubles which are used in the fractals.

andrius4669 | 2015-03-12 22:49

"unknown command: volcolor" error seems to be typo, sed -i 's/volcolor/volcolour/' ac2.cfg fixed it;
this helped me to clear shader errors:
sed -i 's/dvec/vec/g' ac2_shaders.cfg
sed -i 's/double/float/g' ac2_shaders.cfg
anyway, thanks for great map, just finished it, was really amazed by muh graphics

Lord Kv | 2015-03-13 07:23

Wow, "volcolor" must have changed to "volcolour" just a few days ago, I didn't notice anything while using the svn but I might have missed it since I made the map in base Tesseract and I get "unknown command: volcolor" all the time there.

Papriko | 2015-03-12 21:05

RaZgRiZ | 2015-03-12 22:56

The cubescript could be optimized in numerous ways. Interested in looking at it together? You can find me on irc, or tell me where else you'd prefer to talk.

Ardelico | 2015-03-13 01:27

Ah so this was the map you wanted the trees for, nice, I like it.

RaZgRiZ | 2015-03-13 21:43

Awesome. I collected all the cubes and found 2 easter eggs. Shore painting and Hidden cave. I think when you said that the one at the end is obvious you meant so by the red candle but i honestly saw the arrow instead of the candle because i was curious to see if you could climb outside. Turns out you can :P

OK, i don't know if i'll see you on IRC or whether you'll see this comment first but i have a few things to comment on, although my vote remains a 10/10 because this is just amazeballs.

1) Put your testing stuff in another map. It's quite a bit of clutter out there.
2) Invest in some clip for both the sections that you can casually walk out of (endgame area) and for the rocks that have no bounding box at all, meaning you can just walk through them in solid geometry.
3) The candles and light out there are so freaking bright and HUGE. Is it intentional or a bug on my part?
4) The blue corridor that loops around in on itself wouldn't work. My guess is that when we were going through the cubescript together we actually broke something.
5) Couldn't figure out those weird block bridges in the pool area for the life of me. In the end i went in editmode, looked through them to see a few solid parts and then i just flew over them.
6) After you walk through the core you come across this area with the reflective bubble worlds. If you fall off, when you respawn you might easily fall off yet again. Not sure if it was me failing back there.
7) There seem to be leftover things inside the terrain and walls. We should do a little cleanup next time.

EDIT:
<eihrul> the map can disable ao itself
<eihrul> aomin and aosunmin

Lord Kv | 2015-03-14 14:20

Cool, thanks for the feedback and AO tip. You should've played the map with original non-broken config :P Most of the things got broken by our editing, that includes the looping corridor and overbrighted lights (fixing volcolour typo doubles the volumetric light intensity). I've cleared out most of the stuff outside the map and tried to add collision to the rocks. It works but I still had to noclip them in some places to avoid weird collisions. I've also fixed the teleport at the tower of worlds. Since the edited config did have some bugs I'll need to do more testing before including it.

As for the blue puzzle with the bridges, you can figure out how to cross them by carefully looking around.

RaZgRiZ | 2015-03-14 18:45

Well before you include anything or change too much on your part, i've been doing more optimizations to the code and there's more things i need to go over with you. Taking a quick look at camloops made me want to smack you :p

EDIT: I've been going through this thing all day on and off, fixing things, optimizing, cleaning code. At first i horribly broke everything. Shaders, lighting, triggers. I was able to fix all of that though, and even the blue corridor (which was simply a missing $). I have marked areas of interest in the script which i don't know if they need changing or removal, and for now i'd like to think that the code is mostly proper, albeit very messy, as 2000 lines would entail (maybe i should break it all up in many files just to get back at you for being stubborn :P)

For now i'll await your return, and i'll show you how nicely this all runs again once you're back, as well as improve all this MOAR! :)

Nooby | 2015-03-27 23:10

That's just awesome. Until now I didn't even know that Tesseract was capable of something like that. Nice work!

TristamK | 2019-12-28 16:16

https://youtu.be/DT29dmaNiM0
Full walkthrough of this map if someone still interested in. All secrets included.

Zoocata | 2019-12-28 18:48

dont you hate it when you see a node get bumped and you get stoked for an update but it's actually just tristam necroing a post from 5 years ago

TristamK | 2020-01-01 00:23

Pekaface.jpg
Someone should do it :)

Lord Kv | 2020-01-01 15:39

Long live necromancers!

Seriously though, thank you for the walkthrough TristamK! There are some more smiley faces hidden around :)

An update? Ok... I should probably fix the shaders at least, they are all pretty broken on my machines. I've mostly been making hobby 3D engines since Anticube, but I miss mapping and want to get back to it, but I'm really not sure I will/can. That being said, there is a smaaaaall possibility of another similar map (puzzles made using weird scripts), at least a short one. I have some material to build upon back from 2015.

TristamK | 2020-01-10 19:03

Dude, you're alive! :D
Noticed your message just now!

> Long live necromancers!
It's Sauer. Here every second of these one

> thank you for the walkthrough TristamK!
Just made this for all who still didn't pass this map still ^_^

> There are some more smiley faces hidden around :)
Damn. I though i found everything

> An update? Ok... I should probably fix the shaders at least, they are all pretty broken on my machines.
We (me, Razgriz and other) lost contact with you and have tons of questions to you not only about code of Anticube 2 but about other stuff too. For example, crapiamdead want ask you about your map "tectonic" so it's will be very cool if you will join ISMC discord (active sauer mapping community) and answer somehow to him. Here is a links -> discord.gg/YvzTed3 or discord.me/ismc . And this not only one question which people have i think.

> That being said, there is a smaaaaall possibility of another similar map (puzzles made using weird scripts), at least a short one.
If you need people you can be sure that there some of them who can/will help you with it. Atleast i have ideas : )

MisanthropX | 2020-01-10 12:08

Just played it yesterday.

Brilliant!

I was a bit scared at a few points to be honest :) but it was fun never the less.
The only thing that I could not grasp was the yellow bridge in the big room to fall down.
I thought the black patterns on the wall would give me an idea where I can jump onto, but no matter where I jumped and how often, I always fell down.
I saw 4 mapmodels placed in the middle, tried to land on them directly and I still could not make it. I had to cheat then.

The core was surprisingly easy. The sphere with the cubes flying around gave me the idea that I have to jump into them. After trying that countless times, I just passed the bridge and forgot about it.

Unfortunately I couldn't manage to read the QR code from the secret. Maybe I can read it from the source code of the map :)

Even though I had some problems, I still give it a 10/10. It is mind-blowing what is possible with Tesseract :)