Shrines

The inhabitants of the world of Quake are not altogether unreligious. There is a plenary collection of deities and household teraphim. Travelers may choose to pay their respects by lighting a candle and thus receive a blessing. It is important to distinguish between teraphim, who serve as physical representatives of deities and idols, who are treated as deities of themselves. However, one may alternatively disregard such lesser deities and distinctions entirely and pay respects to a higher deity by counting these shrines as unholy, desecrating them by smashing them to receive an alternative blessing from an elder god. What one does must be considered carefully, even atheistically ignoring shrines may have consequences.

Benefits

These are the shrine benefits. Detailed per style benefits given in the chart further down.

Respects are paid simply by walking up to a shrine's table structure. The candle(s) will be lit by trigger.

Desecration is performed by destroying the shrine table. Desecration after Respects will remove the respect blessing and may possibly be met with even stronger consequences. Desecration affects all players in coop.

Blessings are only granted for that level.

Construction Standards

All shrines must have at least one candle placed mostly centered on a 32 high table structure with a thin trigger_once that is sized 8x32x32, with the trigger thinnest at the table front, touching the table, trigger top surface flush with tabletop, and trigger centered with the table. The candle should start off by setting spawnflags 1 and giving a targetname.

The trigger_once must target an info_shrine with a style type set, while the table shall be a func_breakable that targets the same info_shrine. When an info_shrine is targeted, it checks if the target is a player for Respects, or a breakable for Desecration.

Shrine theming should be consistent with the guide in the chart below; arrangement, details, and shape at mapper discretion. Use of a shrine prefabs as-is is fine, though message should be changed to suit your map's story.

info_shrine should be placed above the table, ideally in a place that makes sense as a point from which aura effects emanate. This is the center of the aura, so place accordingly.

Story Elements

Shrines have a god associated with them that a mapper specifies with message. Associated <blessing> is in the chart below with a different blessing message for when a shrine is respected or desecrated. When blessed, the centerprint displayed will display a message like so:

<god>
of the <style> Shrine has blessed
you with <blessing> 

Or

<god>
of the <style> Shrine has lost influence,
the Elder God blesses with
<blessing> 

Aura

Auras apply the effects in the chart below to any players within the aura. The aura effects are applied once every delay seconds for an amount of cnt. Any monsters who are not of EVIL alignment will always receive healing at the same rate as the delay and cnt and also receive an increase in their pain timer to 5 seconds past the current time, so they won't go into any pain flinch animations while within the aura and can continue to consistently help players. Monster benefits are the same regardless of style.

Blessings

Blessings are always the same according to below, but the response to actions is map specific based on the target set on the info_shrine. Best practice is for desecration to target delay spawned monsters who have nomonstercount of 1 so that shrines who aren't desecrated still show all monsters have been killed.

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info_shrine

Grants blessing when used and runs targets.

style

• Type: integer
• If Set: Choice between 0 through 5. This changes the blessing granted according to the chart here.
• • 0 Earth
• • 1 Water
• • 2 Air
• • 3 Fire
• • 4 Blood
• • 5 Spirit
• If Left Blank: Defaults to Earth type.

proj_limit

• Type: float
• If Set: Specifies override projection radial distance for aura effects, magic sparkles will shoot at the player to form a sort of beam. Only affects blessings that have an aura.
• If Left Blank: Defaults to 384.

message

• Type: string
• If Set: Specifies god name.
• If Left Blank: Defaults to Cthulhu.

delay

• Type: float
• If Set: Specifies time between aura effects taking place, such as healing. Each instance applies effects by the amount of cnt.
• If Left Blank: Defaults to the following based on the style chosen. Ideally, leave at the defaults since the effects are not customizable.
• • Earth: 0.3
• • Water: 0.5
• • Air: 0.5
• • Fire: 0.5
• • Blood: 0.3
• • Spirit: 0.2

cnt

• Type: integer
• If Set: Specifies amount to apply for each effect at each instance every delay seconds. For example, healing effects will add cnt + target.health every delay seconds. Only applies to entities affected by the aura.
• If Left Blank: Defaults to the following based on the style chosen. Ideally, leave at the defaults since the effects are not customizable.
• • Earth: 1
• • Water: 1
• • Air: 1
• • Fire: 1
• • Blood: 1
• • Spirit: 1