My first map.

k so I've been working on my first map, here are some shots:

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0007.png
an elevator

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0008.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0009.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0010.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0011.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0012.png

The last 2 screenshots are unfinished rooms. :)

Not bad in some parts, quite a bit of symmetry (so far in what we can see) and I would suggest not putting that wooden plank texture on the slopes (i.e. in the first linked shot, middle of the image). It's better than many "first maps" I've seen.

Mancubus II said:

Not bad in some parts, quite a bit of symmetry (so far in what we can see) and I would suggest not putting that wooden plank texture on the slopes (i.e. in the first linked shot, middle of the image). It's better than many "first maps" I've seen.

omg what about tremor

Also, this map looks pretty cool.

Very good, cant believe that’s your first map.

Greetings

Well, those are the only 2 rooms. I have a bad habit of making things symmetrical. It's pretty tedius work. I don't plan on using any custom textures either. :\

Very nice for an first attempt, a good use of detail here I see nothing boring.
Keep it up:)

Looks very good, and for 1st map it's awesome.

I need your help with making slopes, I would thank you if you'll help me.
I try to make slopes with Doombuilder and it's not going well.

that looks great :) but how can you stand that horrid gamma level O_O

nice nice. especially for a first.

insertwackynamehere said:

that looks great :) but how can you stand that horrid gamma level O_O

I had my video card gamma settings up higher than they normally were. :| So I turned the brightness way down but forgot to change my video card setting back, and was too lazy to raise the brightness again. :D

Impressive screens (for a first try)!!!
Welcome fellow mapper!

Very good taste for layout and textures, but please turn down the brightness values of your sectors, they are too blinding to walk through.

Too much senseless detail for my tastes, althought quite impressive for a first map.

DarkJedi188 said:

Very good taste for layout and textures, but please turn down the brightness values of your sectors, they are too blinding to walk through.

They brightness sector is set at 144... turn town your brightness settings.

DarkJedi188 said:

Very good taste for layout and textures, but please turn down the brightness values of your sectors, they are too blinding to walk through.

Actually the sector light values he has are fine. It's just that he has his brightness settings way up high.

Just remember, Mivalekan, next time make sure the brightness slider bar is all the the way to the left before taking screenshots. :p

Anyway, commenting on the level itself, I think it looks quite nice, especially for a first level. I can tell you my first levels didn't look that good.

I gots me some new shots:

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0000.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0001.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM00002.png

As for the gamma, it's because of the picture format. I had the brightness turned all the way down when I took these shots.

And for those of you who are probably thinking "omgz nice detail but it will have crappy gameplay", after I finish detailing, I plan to focus solely on the gameplay as far as monster and ammo/health placement goes. I'll probably find a few people to playtest it for gameplay value.

Cheers.

Mivalekan said:

I gots me some new shots:

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0000.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM0001.png

http://hosted.nosnam.com/userfiles/Mivalekan/DOOM00002.png

As for the gamma, it's because of the picture format. I had the brightness turned all the way down when I took these shots.

And for those of you who are probably thinking "omgz nice detail but it will have crappy gameplay", after I finish detailing, I plan to focus solely on the gameplay as far as monster and ammo/health placement goes. I'll probably find a few people to playtest it for gameplay value.

Cheers.

Looking good so far. I'd be happy to playtest if you need. (just email the map to Vile1011@yahoo.com and I'll give you feedback)

Great. But don't count on getting it for a while, as I'm a very slow map maker. ;/

Very good work, very beautiful architecture and the level of detail is amazing for a first map :) Impressive :)

Ok, I'm cancelling this project because ZDBSP is a piece of shit.

I was working on my map when I decided to test what I had, then ZDBSP had an error and closed. Zennode wouldn't work either. I tried rebooting, then I opened the .wad, and my map wasn't there.

So this nice wad of yours is all gone, damm what an shame it looked promising.

It shows up in Zdoom (Doom in Doom format), but it won't open because I have scripting in it.

Um, Doom Builder makes backups you know. Well, this is, of course, assuming that you are using Doom Builder.

Yeah, it made like 5 backups, but none of them work.

Try sending the backups to someone, maybe one of us can salvage what's inside.

I had some thing like this but worse. I make my models in .obj format and convert them with milkshape. 3d. to md2 format for doomsday. Milkshape give a error and XP get a reset, and reboot and stopped, be course he was missing a systemfile.
Result reinstall Windows XP.

ouch sitters! I know how you feel Mivalekan. Doombuilder can sometimes gibe me the "unexpected error", and I lose what I have done because I'm a stupid fool who forgets to save regularly.

Yeah, when I got into doom builder I never really saved often cause I was busy talking on aim and having company over, and then it just would randomly crash on me losing the 2 hours of work I just spent.

Heh, I don't make stuff when people are over.

I save Doombuilder every 5 minutes.