MAYhem 1500. 34 maps! Playtesting and stuff this month!

jmickle66666666 said:

what makes you say that?

It's not every day that I see a map with height variation that pronounced and lifts that plentiful. Pretty much an obstacle course rather than a "normal" map. No offence intended, just in case.

@ Gothic: Maybe someone else could grab it and do gameplay edits.

Demonologist said:

MAP09: bond of blood - gaspe
This one was pretty interesting despite somewhat lacking in looks, health gets drained surprisingly quickly should the player stop paying attention.

Well I think I will add some health, others who have played the map complained about this too, but before doing something I wanted to wait for more feedback.

Gothic said:

Actually, no. Please remove my map from this project. And no, I'm not mad for criticism (it's always necessary), I'm just not interested on keep improving this map.

If are 100% sure about this, i'll delete it!

Demonologist said:

It's not every day that I see a map with height variation that pronounced and lifts that plentiful. Pretty much an obstacle course rather than a "normal" map. No offence intended, just in case.

No offence taken! I was just curious about where you saw the originality, thanks for clarifying.

walter confalonieri said:

If are 100% sure about this, i'll delete it!

I'm sure, the only reason why I made this map was for the sake of filling space, no love was put into this map.

Demonologist said:

@ Gothic: Maybe someone else could grab it and do gameplay edits.

Nah, I'll keep it for future mapsets, like I do with all my failed maps.

Gothic said:

I'm sure, the only reason why I made this map was for the sake of filling space, no love was put into this map.

Ok, so i'll remove it from the compilation...

Ribbiks said:

cool brootal pic effingham. If you substitute some of the troublesome reds the pic can be improved a bit imo. here's a slightly tweaked version in the doom palette:

http://i.imgur.com/3XFsEC1.png

Thanks. You're right, of course. I was just trying to avoid having to change each brown pixel by hand and still keep the nice blood patches on the back wall. Ultimately, I realized if I can't keep the big patches, then none of splashes on the back wall make sense. So I cleaned the wall and re-colored all the brown pixels. It does look better.

Edit: Missed some brown pixels.

I'd like to make some improvements:

I updated my map: added some health, added some things to decorate a little more, fixed a misalignment. Link is the same of the first post.

Archi said:

I'd like to make some improvements:
http://i.imgur.com/NGQLj5C.png

So you prefer a cleaner, tidier, three-headed demon? Yeah, it's a bit more Gothic. Thanks. I don't think the reference will be lost, but my first thought was actually that it's now more Lawful Evil and less Chaotic Evil.

Your version wasn't Doom-paletted, so I did that and touched up a few more pixels. I also noticed that the bottom two rows of pixels had converted weird for some reason, so I fixed those. I think it's done.

Edit: Or not. I just threw it into a temp wad as a titlepic to see how it looked. The outside parts of the blood pools, which I know to be dark red-brown, show up as brown. Is this a gamma issue, or did I load the graphic incorrectly?

An update to Somnolent Keep (Version 3): https://www.mediafire.com/?8y9qz982563l4m4

Changes:

-Changed enemy placement in the towers (now you really have to worry about them).
-Changed placement of Chaingun and Super Shotgun.
-Minor Texture Fixes.
-Couple of added items/monsters for multiplayer.
-Teleport destination changes/shifts.

EffinghamHuffnagel said:

So you prefer a cleaner, tidier, three-headed demon? Yeah, it's a bit more Gothic. Thanks. I don't think the reference will be lost, but my first thought was actually that it's now more Lawful Evil and less Chaotic Evil.

More importantly it's more artistically balanced, limiting the red to the two bloodstreams on either side of the pic, and the demon's eyes.

This pic is beautiful and makes me shed a single tear of horror.

Finished the beta compilation!

- DOWNLOAD -

- Added the Zakurum, pcorf, Demonologist, Egregor, Urthar, Pinchy, Marcaek and my upgraded maps to last versions

- Fixed the MAPINFO info bugs

- Added the Chris Hansen, EffinghamHuffnagel and Joe-Ilya skeleton zombie picture as TITLEPIC, INTERPIC and BOSSBACK picture, also added a D_DM2TTL from a midi called evil.mid (not sure about the author

- Removed the "Gothic's really late submission" map from the compilatian, as author wishes

- Added a sky transfer line function in "Drillbit Compression" map, also changed the MP3 file with a proper MIDI version of the track (found on BotB) file to make it work on boom

- Changed the blodgrx textures with the star portal in Corsair map as the author originally intended to do...

- Changed the music from "No Mayhem!" with "Dommin'" from Eternal Doom

- Changed the map list (it could be change in the next compilation):

MAP01 - No mayhem! - Walter C
MAP02 - The Silencer - Impboy
MAP03 - Venom canyon - jmickle66666666
MAP04 - Prayer in Stone - dobu gabu maru
MAP05 - Domain of the generically damned - Cannonball
MAP06 - Castle Bathory - Impie

MAP07 - Scalding Creek - AD_79 and Marcaek
MAP08 - shi - Paul Corfiatis
MAP09 - Bond of blood - gaspe
MAP10 - 1500 BC - Marcaek
MAP11 - 1500 AD - AD_79

MAP12 - Every wich way but loose - Chris Hansen
MAP13 - Tech Center I-267 - Corsair
MAP14 - You are worshipping a sun God - Inkie
MAP15 - Benedictine convulsion - Obsidian
MAP16 - Art of Suffering - Joe-Ilya
MAP17 - Drillbit Compression - Pinchy
MAP18 - Solemn Outpost - Marcaek and An_mutt
MAP19 - Still more Mayhem -Urthar
MAP20 - Somnulent Keep - zakurum

MAP21 - Eurononymous - Egregor
MAP22 - Monument of Pain - Phobus
MAP23 - Rancid Redemeer - Archi
MAP24 - Intersection of Oppression - Gothic
MAP25 - The way to Jaerdamir - Pinchy
MAP26 - Jaerdamir - Pinchy
MAP27 - Sleep with the fishes - Breezep
MAP28 - AurmouredBlood (still untitled)
MAP29 - Solace of the shadows - Demonoligist
MAP30 - Catastrophe at the Keep of cape caco -Noisyvelvet

MAP31 - Too many homages - Walter C
MAP32 - Sacrificial Circle - Phobus

MAP33 - Isolation Game - Getsu Fune
MAP34 - Isle of the Descendants - Joe-Ilya

What is missing (but it will be done in the next future release):

- Full DEHACKED for all maplist
- All map titles in CILVxx format (i have doomword, but in the conversion from BMP to Doom palette the azure / trasparent color turns pink for some reason)
-A definitive MAP01 (?) if this order isn't good for the players (i have some problems with it me too)

Some bugs:

- Joe-Ilya's map "Art of Suffering" have this unclosed sector over there:


- In pinchy's map "The way of Jadeamir" i found this untagged sky sectors:


Some other bugs in MAP17 and MAP30 needs a re-check from me to be fully proved about them...

Try converting the CWILV images to png in an external program before importing to slade. You can add transparency there too.

Thanks! Also made a ninja edit with fixing a texture, link is the same

Thanks for doing all this work Walter.

Here's an update that should fix the remaining issues.

The sky loads as AASHITTY when I test in PrBoom, I think its just a conflict with the resource format.

V0.97

walter confalonieri said:

MAP20 - Somnulent Keep - zakurum

Forgot to mention a quick spellcheck fix in my latest post with the latest version of my map. Somnulent should be spelled Somnolent.

I've updated a couple things, and named my map Merciless.

Cross-post again, going to finish this on stream:
http://www.twitch.tv/d3archi

MAP21 has wrong music. It's D_COUNT2, not D_COUNT3.

http://i.imgur.com/UjunwKM.png - sky transfer problem.
http://i.imgur.com/kbNV9bC.png - again.
http://i.imgur.com/Y2rd8xo.png - yet again.
http://i.imgur.com/AZxwAMf.png - this is not going to work with cl9. It's a MBF feature, that items are dropping from moving platforms. Use scrolling floor instead.
http://i.imgur.com/luKus1w.png - ugly ceiling IMO.
http://i.imgur.com/Y4Ci3jQ.png - HOM.
http://i.imgur.com/rJDFDUv.png - no comments.

Previous broadcast: http://www.twitch.tv/d3archi/b/675325860

Archi said:

http://i.imgur.com/Y2rd8xo.png - yet again.

That's actually not there in the original map file. No idea what that is.

EDIT: Just had a look. Of the ports I tested, it only showed in GLBoom+.

Maybe its the same issue the abyssal maps had with MAPINFO.

Whenever I can, I try to play the rest of the maps. Can't make good comments, so gonna make demos. These I did just few moments ago, under heavy influence of alcohol. Expect my style being... whatever it is. (Played from map 1 to 9)
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ff11h30zeg71ijd/AADzoC7NUIMXEQL-4SldiSlRa?dl=0

And if you want me to give another (full) run on the map, gimme a holler, and I try to do it whenever I can.

Before I forget, thanks for those who gave some feedback.
And another thanks for Walter for those bro-tier fixes.

I thought the start screen could use one addition, considering the sub-title.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/71kfpckqe0a1iru/mskull.wad

Walter, check your PMs.

Edit: Also finally corrected the last of the problem reds that were turning medium brown at higher gamma in the Bossback.

Somnolent Keep - Version 4 (hopefully the final version!)
Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/dhbep23cfl27w13/M1500SomnolentKeep_V4.wad

Changes:
Detailed the yellow door room a bit more and did a little bit more difficulty balancing for the first archvile trap.

Reminder to compiler: Make sure to fix the spelling of my map name. Thanks!

SunGod V3

added some minor details and expanded the map a bit, fixed visual errors

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hdqbqo0wc8zt8w6/marc_mayhem_final4.wad?dl=0

Fixed and tweaked based on Archi's stream. Thanks for that btw!

Sorry for the waiting, but since there's nothing more to fix on this...

MAYhem 1500 beta1 a

- Added Inkie, Zakurum, Marcaek, Armouredblood and pinchy fixed maps.
- Added EffinghamHuffnagel M_SKULL, CWILVs and fixed BOSSBACK graphics and MAPINFO + DEHACKED fixing, thank you very much! Also, the dehacked doesn't seem to work on prboom, i'll see to fix it in the future (or if any other can help me fix this)...
- fixed the music in map21

I don't know the mechanics of prboom, but there's a second DEHACKED in the wad, just before the MAP12 entry. Is prboom okay with multiple DEHACKEDs, or does it just use the last one it finds?