This hutt palace was something that I built about a year and a half ago to include in my YKS level series. However, for reasons that I cannot remember, this level never made it in there, so it sat in my backups for all this time.

However, I was digging through my old files today and i found this level. It's very much incomplete, and there's not much there, but i've decided to share what I have to see if anyone cares enough for me to finish it and release it as a stand-alone. This level is incomplete, so not all areas are connected, but there are several walkplayers in the map, so you can get around by using the quickzap cheat.

http://www.pwizard.com/veda.rar

screenshots for those of us who don't want to go through all the trouble without knowing how it looks?

that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm too damn tired to do that tonight.

besides, its only a 1.7 mb download, so i wouldn't consider it to be unreasonable even on dial-up. Thank winrar's fantastic compression rate for that, b/c unpacked its 10 mb. Assuming you have MOTS....

ok, you get one for tonight...

This is the throne room, with a rancor pit below. the rancor in there will attack anything that falls into the pit. Find a screen on the wall and activate it for a surprise...

Most textures were made by me at one point or another.

It looks nothing like RotJ, but who cares, that's brilliant. I love the colorful and ornate look to it. Maybe I'll give this a go tomorrow.

Yay! Thats fun!

That looks pretty good. I like the clean look of it. Who says hutts always have to live in filthy settings?

My suggestion, if you are gong to continue working on it, would be to add curves to the tops of all of the entry-ways in around the walls, like you've started with that one in the middle.

I've come up with a story for this map:

You are the assistant to the palace chef. The master chef got drunk and could not work last night, so you were forced to perform his duties al by yourself. However, Ve'da the hutt did not like your food, so he condemned you to die in the rancor pit. You must find a way to escape from the rancor and then from the palace.

How does the story sound?

Simple, but could turn out to be something really effective if you spice it up a bit. Perhaps, while following these same lines, you could have a bit in the beginning where you have deliver the food to Ve'da from the kitchen to this throne room in say, less than 1:00 minute (I don't know how big your palace is or will be). If you don't make it in time, it cou ld show a cutscene of your charcater going "uh-oh" and about a dozen gammorrean cloising in on you. The nthe screen fades black and you hear some screams and punches and the ga,es ends.

Even if you make it on time, a cutscene then shows the Hutt eating the food, and he dislikes it and has you thrown into the Rancor Pitt. Then you try and escape through a crack in the floor into the sewer pipes (perhaps this crack could be hidden under a bed of hay where the Rancor sleeps). Next you could come out of the sewers into the aquaduct in the palace' outer courtyard. You beat up one of the tenant's and steal his clothes, and then navigate your way tthrough the outer courtyard, grab a key card, and try and get throug the gate. Or you could make it interesting and have several possible exits. You could still expand the story from there by having your character swim across a moat filled with sea monsters (such as diagnoga), and once he gets to the other side must navigate his way into a small town, steal a ship, and escape.

Probably a bit ambitious, but this is just rolling off of the tip of my tongue at the moment.

wow i really liked the ugnaugh-thing I pressed more and more times so that many uggis spawn....:D

but most of them died, because of my sequencer:(

Yes! Finish my palace!.. oh wait... Different Hutt..

In any case, it has promise, by all means, carry on!

Daft's plot ideas are excellent... except I don't recall rancors sleeping on hay. I've kinda never put much thought to how or where rancors sleep (wonder why) but I assume that they stretch out on some flat rocky slab or floor.

Or you could just have your tardiness be the reason for being thrown to the rancor, so either way you end up there. Late with the food? RANCOR! Food is yucky? RANCOR!

The player should get SOME reward for getting there on time though, or noone will care to try. :p

HUTSS REWARD NO ONE EVER

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