Doom Pictures Thread 2023

[Matthias]

I don't know

 

[INfront95]

Are we sharing our Boom Slopes now? Heres mine, did a thing inspired by Bri's Screenshots a while ago.

[Dragonfly]

Did someone say boom slopes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[INfront95]

13 minutes ago, Dragonfly said:

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Did someone say boom slopes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ma god, i didn't think you did shadows with it. Thats why your wad weights 100+mb ;) totaly stealing the technique

[Xeogred]

 

30 years and they're still fighting. :) DOOM IS ETERNAL!

[Pechudin]

9 hours ago, Dragonfly said:

Did someone say boom slopes?

 

I thought these weren't kosher? I guess as long as you don't make the player move over them.

[Dragonfly]

3 hours ago, Pechudin said:

I thought these weren't kosher? I guess as long as you don't make the player move over them.

 

Pretty much this yeah. Though it's Doom, do what you want! We wouldn't have a single percentage of the cool maps and mapping techniques we have today had people not experimented and gone against the grain. :)

[Not Jabba]

16 hours ago, Dragonfly said:

Did someone say boom slopes?

 

It's funny how much better these look than the perfect smoothness of actual slopes in a lot of cases, at least when used well.

[yakfak]

 

i really wanted to make a normal doom 1 sewer/ "toxic refinery" themed map

it doesn't work in doom.exe though, there's a bit where the floor should recede and turn to nukage and it forgets to transform and im agog

[SiMpLeToNiUm]

Avast ye scurvy Doomers!!

[MFG38]

Beginnings of the closing map for my WIP limit-removing set. Might do a proper announcement of the thing soon.

 

 

Pay no mind to the STARTAN in the first shot.

[Pechudin]

On 12/15/2023 at 12:12 PM, Dragonfly said:

 

Pretty much this yeah. Though it's Doom, do what you want! We wouldn't have a single percentage of the cool maps and mapping techniques we have today had people not experimented and gone against the grain. :)

 

Why are we calling them boom slopes though? Shouldn't they be limit-removing slopes?

[Pechudin]

9 hours ago, SiMpLeToNiUm said:

Avast ye scurvy Doomers!!

 

Looks good, but maybe a bit too brown. Kinda hard to distinguish details.

[Pechudin]

Almost finished.

 

EDIT: For those that wonder, I did post this before but the map languished in dev hell a bit.

[jaeden]

Some new evil and fiery WIP screenshots...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rifleman]

Corrupted alternatives to Doom sphere powerups

 

[NiGHTMARE]

My little contribution to Doom's 30th. Sadly still just screenshots for now!

 

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[INfront95]

So, i touched Makkon trimsheets again.

[NeilForshaw]

Experimenting with saving states during a map to make vids/gifs showing a level being built
 

 

 

Made for the PUSS XXXII D30 project

 

 

[DoomGappy]

5 minutes ago, NeilForshaw said:

Experimenting with saving states during a map to make vids/gifs showing a level being built
 

 

 

Made for the PUSS XXXII D30 project

 

 

What's your method?

[BluePineapple72]

2 hours ago, NiGHTMARE said:

My little contribution to Doom's 30th. Sadly still just screenshots for now!

 

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Holy shit! These look super good! What engine are you making these with?

[Dragonfly]

2 hours ago, NeilForshaw said:

Experimenting with saving states during a map to make vids/gifs showing a level being built

Oooh, this is awesome!

 

Is this something you can essentially automate and just map as normal? If so I'd be *very* interested in using this some time :D

[NiGHTMARE]

6 hours ago, BluePineapple72 said:

 

Holy shit! These look super good! What engine are you making these with?

 

Thanks! So far most maps are limit removing, but the final release will require a port that supports Boom, DEHEXTRA, and possibly some other modern features.

 

The 3D effects seen in a couple of shots are vanilla compatible BTW.

[Deadwing]

Woah, is it too hard to make these boom slopes?

[MFG38]

9 minutes ago, Deadwing said:

Woah, is it too hard to make these boom slopes?

 

Not hard per se, just sort of tedious. They're essentially just sectors with a length of 1px in one direction and height differences of 1-2px.

[Deadwing]

1 minute ago, MFG38 said:

 

Not hard per se, just sort of tedious. They're essentially just sectors with a length of 1px in one direction and height differences of 1-2px.

 

Ah, I see! What about the texture, do you have to combine ceiling + floor texture to get what you desire?

[Dragonfly]

The texture side of things is where the difficulty can arise, but again, it's not that difficult or time consuming with modern tools. Careful use of UDB's stair builder can automate almost all of it for you, if used correctly.

[MFG38]

1 minute ago, Deadwing said:

 

Ah, I see! What about the texture, do you have to combine ceiling + floor texture to get what you desire?

 

In some cases, yes, but naturally it depends on the visual effect you're trying to achieve. I've actually done very little with these types of slopes myself, so I won't pretend to be an expert on the matter. Most of my knowledge of slopes comes from the ZDoom side of things.

[Deadwing]

Thanks a lot, guys!

 

It's also better not to abuse them too much as well, right?

[INfront95]

43 minutes ago, Deadwing said:

Thanks a lot, guys!

 

It's also better not to abuse them too much as well, right?

If possible. They are contributing in increasing of linedef count, and overall filesize. Blink  and your wads will weight more than you expect.
But again beauty demands sacrifices.