DoomWiki Month in Review (Issue #42)

[Xymph]

Aloha! (It's been a warm, dry summer here.) Last month, two important milestones were reached on The Doom Wiki. Revenant added UDMF support to Omgifol (at last), so scripted generation of map images for large(r) UDMF and mixed-format projects became possible. Previously I had postponed doing the map views because that just isn't practical via SLADE's manual GUI steps. So now map images were added for:

 

Adventures of Square (29)
The Edge of Time (30)
Confinement 256 (60)
DUMP Episode 2: Dump Harder (67)
DUMP Episode 3: BFG Edition (80)
RAMP (200)
Strange Aeons (45)
Nerves of Steel (18)
Splatterhouse 3D (18)
Project Einherjar (35)
Midgard Outlaw (15)
Operation Body Count (9)
Operation Sea Wolf (8)
Ashes: Afterglow (21)

and the deathmatch spawn images for SpaceDM9.

 

Secondly, secretive specialist Getsu Fune/NMM caught up on all pending maps needing secret descriptions (except a few newly added PWADs, which will undoubtedly follow in the next few days). That was another big batch. Congrats!

 

What else? Gauss walkthroughs? Check (the remainder of Plutonia 1024, Sillouhettes of Phobos, and part of Simplicity). All sorts of small improvements by various busy-bodies? Check. New articles? Double check:

 

Core Content

 

Bigbrik Games
Doom Classic Bundle
Doom Franchise Bundle
Endless Random /idgames WAD Adventures
Epic Games Store
Hacx keys
Wadarcheology Project

 

Games

 

Doom 3: Mars City: Union Aerospace Corporate Division/Walkthrough
Doom for Super NES map articles

 

Utilities

 

GetWAD
Listacs
TED
WadPtr
Zwadconv

 

Mods

 

100 Minutes of /vr/
200 Minutes of /vr/
300 Minutes of /vr/
Ascension
Baker's Dozen
Belial's Bad Brain
Eclipse
Elementalism
End Point
Eternal Revelation
Generator of Evil
Grid 64
The Horror Collection
ICAR2015
The Inquisitor III
Long Days
Napalm
Nightomb
Nordhell (GZDoom)
Nordhell (limit removing)
Sin City 2: The Satan Complex
Sin City 3
Titan (WAD)
Titan 2
TNT: Renascence
To Fight
WolfenDoom: Blade of Agony
Zodiac

 

People

 

Action Max
Alden Bates
Bartekmil
Christophe Calamoneri (Necrotikflesh)
Ashley Carr (Dj Redlight)
Charcola
Chookum
John Coffey
EnragedEggplant
Fiendish
Jerrysheppy
Nathan Maxx (Lippeth)
Chris Leeson (Psyrus)
Michael Lundy
Cristiana Montanari (Thelokk)
Sitri
Smeghammer
Mark Snell (Kram Llens)
Nils Vandamme (NilsTheRed)

 

Index of previous issues

 

[Dimon12321]

34 minutes ago, Xymph said:

Doom for Super NES map articles

That's a nice touch. I remember SNES maps were absent in the articles, though even now I keep orienting on PC images, except for E2M2(3) where they placed a secret exit.

[Dynamo]

Excellent work all around! So glad to finally see UDMF support after so long. Another nice milestone was that the Lost Levels for Doom 64 now have full walkthroughs, as well. :)

[Xymph]

1 hour ago, Dynamo said:

Another nice milestone was that the Lost Levels for Doom 64 now have full walkthroughs, as well. :)

Oh of course, sorry for skipping that.

[Quasar]

On 9/1/2022 at 8:54 AM, Dimon12321 said:

That's a nice touch. I remember SNES maps were absent in the articles, though even now I keep orienting on PC images, except for E2M2(3) where they placed a secret exit.

If the SNES article uses the PC image, it means the hash of the PNGs were identical when the image was generated. Many (I dare say most) of the maps in SNES Doom in fact change absolutely nothing about the architecture.

[Devalaous]

The old Sewerside map is missing from Adventure of Square (accessible with 'map OLDSEWER'), it should probably be covered for archival sake, and since its still in the game and perfectly playable, albeit without music.

[Dynamo]

2 hours ago, Devalaous said:

The old Sewerside map is missing from Adventure of Square (accessible with 'map OLDSEWER'), it should probably be covered for archival sake, and since its still in the game and perfectly playable, albeit without music.

Just to verify, is @Jimmy also the author of the old version?

EDIT: Confirmed.

Edited September 13, 2022 by Dynamo

[Xymph]

2 hours ago, Devalaous said:

The old Sewerside map is missing from Adventure of Square (accessible with 'map OLDSEWER'), it should probably be covered for archival sake, and since its still in the game and perfectly playable, albeit without music.

Done.