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Capellan said:
Another thought (which may already have been considered): it would probably be a good idea to include a compilation of the original wads in the release, so thst people who are interested can compare the two.

i.e. "1994new.wad" has all the modified levels, and "1994old.wad" has the original levels, in the same order.

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Snarboo said:
I didn't realize that Boom couldn't do custom skies. Do most ports support MBF features? If not, we can choose 3 themed skies and place maps based on participant preferance.

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JohnnyRancid said:
Ughh you removed all those stairs :(

I was hoping you'd do something fancy with it.

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ArmouredBlood said:


I was seeing some cage midtexts on the ceiling with some cacodemons coming out the sides when you went for the armor =/

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JohnnyRancid said:
My map is almost done. I spent a lot of hours on it. I kinda regret it, but I think I may have it done before the end of this week. My map is long and tedious, and apparently Dominique had done the entire map on a 8x8 grid, making all walls very unpleasing lengths, and ceiling textures near impossible to align correctly. There's lots of mazes and thus there's repetitive architecture. The more I playtest it the more I hate the gameplay. I'm gonna have to remove all the things and do better monster placement. I have 3 more maze hallways to finish, and a couple rooms remaining that I need to detail.

But one thing's for sure, it will be a hell of a lot better than the original :)

Also Good luck to Mr. Freeze and Solarn, the maps you guys picked are kinda lousy too, I look forward to seeing what you can do with those.

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Dragonsbrethren said:
After
After (lower translucency value)

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Cybershark said:
Did I miss something or isn't this Boom format - where you're stuck with the default translucency?

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• I feel the pillars on the star elevator should be rounded in the back instead of just flat. Also, instead of placing one in the center of the elevator wall, try doubling them and moving them to the edges instead. It's possible for the player to get hung on the pillar going in and out. Alternatively, you can widen the elevator wall instead.
  
• I love the new marble room near the start with the bloody cracks. One thing I would suggest here is to mark the detail lines as invisible on the minimap. It will look less cluttered that way. This is also good advice in general for details that are not necessary to be seen on Doom's minimap.
  
• The new details in the lava room look nice. The crate stack is fine, but instead of the odd star shaped sector, you could try lowering it down into the lava, putting the lava texture on the floor and making the sector self-referencing to create deep water. The doom wiki has an article and example map of this effect so you can practice instead of changing your map right away.
  
• In the room where you have to open doors with the hanging dude texture, you might want to change the hanging dudes to a wooden door texture. It looks odd opening a door that doesn't have a door texture, and some players might consider it a mandatory secret.
  
• The plasma gun secret in the caco chamber is marked multiple times.
  
• The door entering the cistern has the water texture as the floor in front of it.
  
• I can still scoot around the edge and grab the yellow key in the cistern. Try marking the edge line as impassable or add a railing.
  
• Perhaps the stairs in the center of the cistern should block monsters? The Baron looks weird climbing up them. However, this has no real effect on gameplay.
  
• Perhaps the doors for the spider ambush and the yellow key switch should open at the same time instead of one by one? The doors could also be thinner. To make them all open at the same time, you will need to merge the doors as one sector, remove the lines referencing the old doors, and mark a new line to open all the doors. If you merge multiple sectors, they will have to have the same height, ceiling and door textures.
  
• The baron ambush at the end is still a little brutal, but only because I rushed in there thinking I could take them. :p

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esselfortium said:
It's a weird system but it does work :P

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Cybershark said:

Did I miss something or isn't this Boom format - where you're stuck with the default translucency?

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esselfortium said:
Well, the thing is that once you've put the tranmap lumps into your wad for certain opacities, you can then use those tranmap lumps anywhere in any of your maps that you want a translucent line with that opacity level. Really it works better than just using the built-in translucency, I think, because you don't give the player control anymore over how translucent your stuff should be. :P

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JohnnyRancid said:
My map is almost done. I spent a lot of hours on it. I kinda regret it, but I think I may have it done before the end of this week. My map is long and tedious, and apparently Dominique had done the entire map on a 8x8 grid, making all walls very unpleasing lengths, and ceiling textures near impossible to align correctly. There's lots of mazes and thus there's repetitive architecture. The more I playtest it the more I hate the gameplay. I'm gonna have to remove all the things and do better monster placement. I have 3 more maze hallways to finish, and a couple rooms remaining that I need to detail.

But one thing's for sure, it will be a hell of a lot better than the original :)

Also Good luck to Mr. Freeze and Solarn, the maps you guys picked are kinda lousy too, I look forward to seeing what you can do with those.

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ArmouredBlood said:
I'll check it out, but you'll probably want a few more people in case one or two miss something.

Also did a crapload more stuff off your suggestions snarboo. If you wanna check it out here it is.

I'm somewhat hesitant about the ammo if you don't pick up the plasma gun as it's possible to hit the room with the cacos first and find only the berserk pack, which is why there were two secrets there.

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