TUC is a Duke3d/Blood/Shadow Warrior crossover mod for Duke3d. It's an old project by me.. I've been working on it in various forms since 2006. I did a demo in 2006 in eduke32 and it came out ok. I redid it later in gzdoom and made it a huge crossover mod for 10 games or so and that wasn't that good. I later on rebuilt it again in gzdoom and it came out ok... But since then I realized that I should return to duke3d due to the polymer tenderer and other reasons. Hence the creation of TUC 2.0 for eduke32.
TUC 2.0 takes place in LA, Tokyo and back in the 1930's in texas. Caleb, Lo Wang and Duke Nukem all go to the same strip joint in LA and all of the sudden the combined armies of the duke3d aliens. Shadow Warrior ninjas and Blood Cultists attack them. 2 out of 3 die. You choose the one who survives to try to get revenge. All get to use their guns in this mod and all are playable characters. All enemies from duke3d plus 5 enemies from blood and shadow warrior show up in this.
The mod is a huge download. It should be installed in it's own folder not in the duke3d folder. Unzip the download found here to a new folder and put your duke3d.grp in that folder. Run the TUC2Nukem.bat to play as duke. Run the tuc2lowang or the tuc2caleb batch files to play as either lo wang or caleb instead.
The levels for the mod were generated with a new version of randuke, version 5.1. This new version uses prefabs made by me. They aren't great looking but they are original and it has some big improvements over previous versions including
-Rooms that are formed by joining prefabs together.
-Switch locked Doors
-Space Station and Duke3d 1.4 military base themes
This new version however is the most buggy and slowest of them all. It regularly freezes in the middle of creation of a level which can take 5-6 minutes sometimes. It also has a bug where it can infinitely loop while making rooms. It however does the best levels of any randuke version.
Running it is similar to older versions but things have changed a little.
First unzip the randuke version to a new folder C:\randuke. It will require dosbox to run. Go to a dos prompt and set the theme by typing:
cd C:\randuke
theme <number>
Where <number> is
1 = duke3d 1.4
3 = duke3d 20th anniversary world tour
4 = TUC Lameduke theme
5 = TUC Shadow Warrior city theme
6 = TUC Shadow Warrior Temple theme
7 = TUC Blood theme
8 = Duke3d space station theme
9 = Duke3d 1.4 military base theme
Now download and run dosbox. Once inside dosbox type the following commands in
mount C: C:\randuke
randuke
it will ask you how many structures to put in. A good sized level will have 20+ structures.
The next value will be additional structures. Set that to zero.
The next 3 values should all be one or it will break. Hit enter when it prompts and be patient.
It <should> build your level.
Go back to a non dosbox prompt and type:
cd C:\randuke
copymaps <name of level>
where <name of level> is a name you want to give the level.
Now go into eduke32 or 20th anniversary world tour and load the new map file named
what you named it.
In 20th anniversary you can type ~ in a level and then type in map <map name> where <map name> is the name you gave it in the copymaps step.
This will be my last blog post here... And my last project..
EDIT : Patched randuke to fix 2 major gamebreaking bugs with themes 8 and 9... Make sure to redownload it....
