"Darkmere" - ID# 8DF8K3P2 *custom architecture*

"Darkmere" - ID# 8DF8K3P2
By Chris Shades Oliveri aka SHADESMASTER
FIstfights and custom architecture!

I´ve been waiting for this map ever since I saw part of it on youtube! =D

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Ok, that was short, kind of disappointing considering how good you architecture is.

Hehe thanx! It's partially an homage to a HeXen map of the same name, the start area especially. :D

Oh, and subsequent versions of this map will see it last longer, first publish isn't last publish. ;)

Looking forward to trying this out tomorrow evening. Darkmere was my favourite map of HeXen.

Very nice use of the grid room. You wisely use liquid surfaces so the demons can walk on them and still look natural. You probably know that you can't make solid walking surfaces in the grid room because demons can't walk on props. So using blood as the floor is wise. Of course, some may wonder why all the walking surfaces are liquid, so you may want to distract them with other effects (rising blood level, maybe). Still, I noticed some demons still had trouble navigating around all the custom props you put there. For a small short map, that's ok. For a big long map, you gotta find some ways to deal with that. Seeing demons stuck near props repeatedly can be immersion-breaking. I can't really help you there since I'm struggling with it myself. But I'm all for you to expand this idea into a bigger map whatever your workarounds may be.

I'm making a map with original architecture too, but with the UAC "storage facility" module, which is a huge empty room with an actual floor (albeit UAC-style) that I don't need to cover up, unlike the grid room.

Fuck, I wish i could make anything like that without eating all of memory, Really cool map gj .

I plan to expand it by utilizing more traditional modules, both UAC and Hell. I do plan on custom architecture throughout so you can barely recognize them, however - I have the UAC module with the wide chasm that will become for example the Darkmere castle. And I have specific ideas for where I want it to go.

Post it on SnapMap Hub, Pretty sure many people would be interested in it, DW SnapMap forum is barely visited .

Will do - but to do so after I expand it? Hmmm....

As you wish ;) .