Has anyone done this before?

[Longsword97]

This is meant to be a hologram showing the island that my WAD takes place on, I was just wondering if this has been done before.

 

The red spot is just a "you are here" marker.

 

 

[Arbys550]

I'm sure it's been done before. One thing that comes to mind is eviternity map04, where there's a little replica of another area of the map.

 

As far as miniature models of the entire map, that's pretty cool but I'm sure someone somewhere has done it.

[Juza]

It was done at least as early as 1997, in MAP03 of Eternal Doom.

 

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[Linguica]

This is an excellent example of "Doomcute." @esselfortium @kmxexii As to the specifics, Doom 64 For Doom 2 has a lot of little mini dioramas like that to show what switches do.

[Fonze]

Does this mini-diorama also show a beautiful flower transforming into a skull and the touch of a slider bar?

 

Nah but seriously that's super cute, nicely done :D

[ZeMystic]

Eviternity did it, i believe the third or so map?

[Walter confetti]

It was also made for Knee Deep in Zdoom iirc, for new "map intermissions" and in... Z1M4?

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Also the first time i've seen something like it was in a Duke Nukem 3D User map called MPROCKET or something like that that have a mini replica of a city section in a office room or something like that

 

 

[RichardDS90]

Doom II Meets ZDoom also has something like it.

[Doomkid]

Just throwing this out there, Fred512 did something just like this in his Doomed in Space map from 2016, map07. You pressed a switch and a tiny model in the middle of the room showed a bridge raising between two pieces of land. Naturally, when you go back outside, you find the big bridge raised! I always thought that was an adorable touch.

[kmxexii]

4 hours ago, Linguica said:

This is an excellent example of "Doomcute." @esselfortium @kmxexii As to the specifics, Doom 64 For Doom 2 has a lot of little mini dioramas like that to show what switches do.

 

 

I know that I've seen it before but the one in my most recent memory is this hologram table in Nimrod: Ixnay on the Hombre's MAP08.

 

 

Here is another one from the excellent Reconstruction / Decontruction, meant to represent the station portion.

Edited December 14, 2019 by kmxexii : shrinkage

[Rare Hatchiama]

Look at all these seven layer neato burritos I want to just sink my teeth in to.

[Havoc Crow]

In my MAP12 from dmp15b, the blue key is hidden inside a miniature replica of a different room. Also, at the end of the level, you come across a replica of the entire map.

 

(Actually, in both cases it's meant to be implied that they're not replicas, but the real things, and the "full-size" versions is just you visiting them while shrunk...)