Your most beautiful layout(s) in your doom mapping carreer.

[Doomkid]

5 minutes ago, Joshy said:

These two layouts of mine are equivalent to Michelangelo's David:

 

The resemblance is clear, especially in the second map. Put some pants on for Christ's sake, there are children here!

[Phobos Society]

17 minutes ago, Joshy said:

These two layouts of mine are equivalent to Michelangelo's David:

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Fuck I love Shadow Port, indecentness and all. That's just not on. You'd never catch me swearing for example.

[mArt1And00m3r11339]

1 hour ago, Archi said:

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I don't make beautiful layouts.

What is the name of the level at the top? It looks pretty big. I know level 30 is "Chronoblast."

[Bridgeburner56]

3 hours ago, Pirx said:

 

Amazing. How many hours does building something like this take?

 

Hundreds of hours. I shit you not. I have not played any game other than doom since march. I say this not to frighten you, but to present an honest representation of the effort involved. Eg the elementalism shots that you may have seen are the product of 20 to 30 hours of work. That is one room. Don't aspire to this unless you are willing to sacrifice your every available disposable moment of time. But I enjoy this.. That is what drives me to create these abstract  ornaments of chaos. Feel free to join me in the event horizon and burn in your own obsession. 

 

*FYI I'm a little bit drunk but this is essentially how I map. With an obsession bordering on pathology*

 

[Archi]

1 hour ago, mArt1And00m3r11339 said:

What is the name of the level at the top? It looks pretty big. I know level 30 is "Chronoblast."

Rush map12.

[Tristan]

[Chopkinsca]

Not sure if it's beautiful, but it's the most unique looking of any map I have ever made.

[valkiriforce]

5 hours ago, elend said:

Haha, that super mario map! Amazing. Where can I play this?

 

Right here

 

6 hours ago, yakfak said:

i don't deal in beauty

 

4 hours ago, Archi said:

I don't make beautiful layouts.

 

Both still beautiful. I can't get enough of these threads.

[Aquila Chrysaetos]

I don't try to make my layouts pretty so much as functional, but there are a few I like the look of.

Rigel Kentaurus from Mayhem Orange.

 

Malebolge, originally intended for Infernew until I withdrew. I love the interconnectivity of this one.

 

A nice vanilla-compat layout. It would be uglier if I'd gone with limit-removing or Boom, because then it would've been a great big room.

[elend]

@Aquila Chrysaetos They definitely look very nice! And of course it‘s also important for them to be functional. :D

[Breezeep]

Sometimes I do spirally stuff like this:

 

 

And sometimes I do simple stuff like this:

 

 

To be quite honest, I find making maps with not too many complex angles easy to work with.

[Dexiaz]

I've posted this image earlier somewhere...

 

NSFW.

 

NO, I AM FREAKING DEADLY SERIOUS, IT'S A NFSW IMAGE:

Spoiler

 

It's not my best map layout, of course, but it's the most...craziest?

[Tristan]

2 hours ago, Breezeep said:

 

 

[an_mutt]

I love trying to make my shapes flow into each other, so have an automap where I feel like I managed it nicely:

 

 

 

[Soundblock]

These height distribution diagrams, planning out my entry for the 10 Sectors challenge.

 

[Catpho]

14 minutes ago, Soundblock said:

These height distribution diagrams, planning out my entry for the 10 Sectors challenge.

That's amazing :D

[Remilia Scarlet]

 

 

I'd say either Freaky Panties or the final area of Umbra of Fate. 

[elend]

Hmmm... freaky panties for me! Love all those lines.

[mArt1And00m3r11339]

2 hours ago, elend said:

Hmmm... freaky panties for me! Love all those lines.

I've played Freaky Panties.

 

[StormCatcher.77]

I think, this:

 

 

This is a map called "Iced Sanctuary" for Bloodspeed project. It's boom megawad with alot of well-detailed maps. Hope we can release it in near future.

[elend]

You better release this!

[Deadwing]

Since people are posting than one, I'll post other few I do enjoy :P

 

Trying to make something out of rounded shapes:

 

 

Some sort of Hall of giants style:

 

 

These are from moonblood:

Very simple but it feels very Doomy for me:

 

 

Another of my favorites:

 

[Skeletonpatch]

This masterpiece:

 

Spoiler

Okay, I made that when I was eleven years old. My mapping skills have improved significantly since then and yes, there is a room shaped like a boat for no reason.

 

Here's some maps that I'm actually proud of:

 

Platform Base

I made this for Nova III, which Scotty should be releasing sometime later this year.

 

Cave of Damnation

This is a Heretic map, and was my entry for HUMP mini.

 

All the other maps in this thread look amazing! If I had time I'd probably try to hunt down and play all of them.

[Pegleg]

1 hour ago, Skeletonpatch said:

masterpiece:

 

Is that a little sailboat at the top of the map?

 

If there's ever another Recycled project, perhaps you could revise this map, but you'd have to keep the sailboat.

[Marlamir]

Soo many awesome layouts here. Sad i will never join them because my artist skills or whatsoever are worst that 5 year old child (*sigh*).

[elend]

@StormCatcher.77 @YukiRaven How did you actually render those map layouts? I noticed you have different color schemes than wad-archive or Slade3 even.

[Remilia Scarlet]

4 minutes ago, elend said:

@StormCatcher.77 @YukiRaven How did you actually render those map layouts? I noticed you have different color schemes than wad-archive or Slade3 even.

I wrote my own program that supports only UDMF maps a few weeks ago.  Quite early in design, but as you can see, it already works well enough for basic use.

 

I have no idea what StormCatcher used XD

[elend]

@YukiRaven Wow, that is really amazing, actually. I always wanted something like that actually. Preferably with options like "size", "color schemes", "show things - yes/no", a possible vector export, etc. xD I checked out your archive on github, but I can't use anything without a GUI. :p Great work though, your map layout really looks good in that image.

[Xyzzу]

I don't really know if any of these can be considered "beautiful" to me but there's definitely some notable and interesting ones for me. Welp, here goes nothin'!
 

Here's my most recent map; I put the rest of the layouts I wanna show in the spoiler but this right here seems to be my most "conventional" map for Doom so far:

 

Spoiler

Here is Sosuria, my map for SOSU's birthday done in a few days:

 

Live In Clover, a speedmap I did in ASS 35:

 

This mash-up of my first map and first speedmap in Team Rocket:

 

MAP14: The Starlighter in Confinement 256: The Mystery of Scrapped Concepts:

 

MAP05 in the above WAD:

 

And Stratospheric Domain, my map for Hexen:

 

[StormCatcher.77]

@elend

I was grab a bunch of GZDB screenshots and join it together in Paint.NET. Applied some gamma corrections. Unfortunately, I haven't any programming skills. I spending all my free time to mapping now.

 

Here another one good looking layout:

 

 

It's "Flooded Palace" for Texture Extravaganza CP.