Doom Marine
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Description:
INTRODUCTION :
After having worked whole 2008 year on textures, sounds and sprite design on "Hoki no Dookie" project, instead to review it to make it compliant with Doom2, I decided to plan a new project.
Let's work on a brand new map totally designed for Doom1 and Doom2.
Project codename : Aw3som3
Target : More than a simple arena, create a detailled historical monument in a Doom1 Doom2 compliant Map
Monument Location : Seattle, WA
Deadline : End 2008
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1035/1301798715_adf3d13bc5.jpg
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1. THE MAP
GET READY FOR AN AMAZING WORK ON LIGHT :
This megawad offers the most wide vitral surface of whole America, consequently a work sector by sector is required to recreate progressive aspect of lights.
GET READY FOR A REAL CHALLENGE TO CREATE CURVES :
As Doom engine is not able to create curves, to recreate them, need to use square.
But as the roof is 120 feet height the player's perspective of 45 degrees will smooth them, also textures could fool the player by creating false round effects.
GET READY FOR A FANTASTIC WORK ON TEXTURES :
In order to make the map compliant with both Doom1 and Doom2 users, after a manuel extraction of all their ressources and classification, 102 textures and 81 patches are compatibles.
Consequently, it need to be usefull to focus on those textures and patches. Luckily, a bowel interior is mostly pink which matches with Doom palette.
By working on this texture analysis, and after have proceeding test, it is possible to follow a scale that allows photographic reconstitution that will respect the monument :
1 pixel = 3 centimeters (1 inch)
32 pixels = 1 meter (3 feet)
64 pixels = 2 meters (6 feet)
96 pixels = 3 meters (9 feet)
128 pixels = 4 meters (12 feet)
http://www.terragalleria.com/images/france/fran2777.jpeg
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2. THE GAMEPLAY
- Multiplayer only
- Compliant with all existing engines, online engines, OpenGL engines (also including original Doom2 DOS).
- 3 playable levels in a same map : Hall, Roof, Catacombs all linked by stairs.
Fight in the hall, climb to the roof, push your opponents in the deep... hide yourself in the catacombs
As the engine didn't allow to generate maps that have different levels on a same sector, all 3 parts need to be linked by teleporters.
In order to reduce the inconvenience between each area, the teleport images would be turned transparent and the player will disappear in dark areas.
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/images/caen/abbaye-hommes/resized/caen-st-etienne-chancel-wc-gfdl.jpg
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3. THE DEVELOPMENT
Worked the complete january month on documentation, art, vitral, drawings...
Looking now for mappers that are interested to join this project, in order to help them I'll provide drawings coming from the monument, textures analysis, vitrals photography, cathedral photography.
Few ideas coming from technical drawing could be improved in the WAD and will be explained to solve many issues such as optic vision of curves, progressive lights, ceils and floors.
WIP would be used to report the evolution.
Regards from Seattle, Washington.
Raymundo, webmaster of http://www.icemanpage.com
iceman_57@hotmail.com
For more information, please visit:
http://www.wadsinprogress.info/inde...stwads&wad=1053
Here is the titlescreen:
http://students.washington.edu/hp1985/Prank/Untitled-2.jpg
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07-24-08 03:00
