you feel like you're not a good mapper?

[FourLoko Salad]

It gets easier with practice, both making good maps, and not holding your work to other maps. The thing that matters most is having fun.

[BoxY]

Quality wise my maps are always extremely ugly and poorly designed at a technical level but I almost always enjoy actually playing them and that's what it's all about.

[Roofi]

The biggest difficulty is not being a good mapper or not, which is highly subjective, it's rather keeping a constant pace and not losing the motivation quickly.

 

I can make elaborate doom maps but I quickly lose my energy so I actually spends few time mapping and just finishing a map without giving up is an achievement itself.

[Dreamskull]

Ive said it before, but I take too long to do anything. I feel like I could improve things, but on the overall im satisfied with what Ive completed already. Just make sure that the maps you do make are at least fun or challenging to play. Its easy to get sucked into thinking it could have been better, but thats a mental trap. Do what you do for your own satisfaction, not for others. Time spent is a familiarity, thats the consolation.

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by Dreamskull

[rita remton]

On 5/13/2023 at 5:14 AM, Johnny Cruelty said:

I like to map, but sometimes I feel like the content I create might not be good and sometimes I feel like I ain't such a good mapper compared to others

do you guys sometimes feel this way? idk Imjust wish I could map better sometimes

 

because i know i'm not a good mapper, have no artistic talent whatsoever to make good maps and i'm ok with that since everyone is unique (just not blessed with artistic genes). my first map, just a single room with monsters and published publicly 2 years ago :P but it felt nice though knowing at least i got a review (the player stated that he screamed playing my map - you get the idea how bad it was) and the map got 16 downloads even though i suspect my brother downloaded it multiple times to cheer me up :) despite all that, i still (bit by bit) map to this day.

 

Edited May 19, 2023 by rita remton : spelling

[Jack9955]

There's always at least one person to like my map. Bad is subjective.