Ribbiks Posted March 18, 2013 As usual: I got bored, opened doombuilder, drew shapes, and proceded to copy/paste the shit out of them. 64k sidedefs and 300 monsters later I arrived at this: arctan.zip (tested in prb+, cl9) There's not a whole lot to see, but here's the automap after I'd just finished drawing it (click for bigger pic): As the fractal approaches its limit the perimeter of the shape is a square rotated by arctan(1/2) radians, hence the name. The gameplay was sort of an afterthought, so only hit the switch if you feel like having a bunch of monsters teleport in :). 0 Share this post Link to post
dannebubinga Posted March 18, 2013 My FDA is to lousy to be looked upon! Cool map, though hard as hell... :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted March 18, 2013 I seem incapable of making easy maps nowadays :). Also I imagine recording a FDA for this would be painful, seeing as you'd have to play through all the waves again after each death 0 Share this post Link to post
mouldy Posted March 18, 2013 Fractal map is an interesting idea. I'd like to try something out along those lines, though in a more architectural sense. You can see fractal tendencies in large complex maps as it is, due to the limitations of the geometry and texture resources I guess, lots of repeating details and similar rooms, corridors, stairways. 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted March 18, 2013 http://content.wuala.com/contents/kuchitsu/Doom_DEMO/FDA/arctan_mem_FDA.zip?dl=1 I don't know much about fractals but recently I found some pics on wikipedia and thought they were really cool: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quaternion_Julia_x%3D-0,75-0,14i_variant.jpg - looks almost like a monster from some creepy game http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Julia_set_%28reversed_formula_3D%29.jpg 0 Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted March 18, 2013 mind re-uploading that memfis? I get some 'unable to expand' errors trying to decompress the zip, might be corrupted or something 0 Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted March 18, 2013 Strange. Try this link: http://speedy.sh/cJFMs/arctan-mem-FDA.rar 0 Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted March 18, 2013 ty. nice demo, your perseverance towards beating my bullshitty maps is impressive :) 0 Share this post Link to post
gggmork Posted March 18, 2013 Nice creative map and music (did you make the music?) and the gameplay looks fun from the demo (haven't played it yet). Not sure if you tried this, but after you make a piece of fractal you can join all the smallest squares together, and join all the mediums etc. Then when you copy past, join the first chunk of smalls w/ the pasted chunk etc. So eventually you can just click on all the smalls with a single click to maybe try something like raising each nest's floor higher or whatever. (maybe a better way is just tag all the smalls etc and search for the tag). EDIT: I tried like 15 times and suck at the end 4x viles and die. Also its obvious you did join the sectors or whatever because the nests have different light shades. 0 Share this post Link to post
gggmork Posted March 19, 2013 There, finally beat it, that was hard: http://filesmelt.com/dl/arctan-1-319-uvmax-cl9-ggg.lmp 0 Share this post Link to post
Obsidian Posted March 19, 2013 OH MY GOD LAG Ahem. My computer is somewhat crap. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Obsidian Posted March 19, 2013 gggmork said:Did you use prboom+? Nope, ZDoom. It's ma default Dooming port. Heh. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted March 19, 2013 nice demo ggg! And naw I didn't write the music, it's from a japanese PC game called "Nocturnal Illusion". I liked it because it reminded me of a museum or something, which was kinda the vibe I was going for. @obsidian: in addition to performance, apparently there's also some discrepancies between scrolling floor speeds in prb+ and zd (unless that's been fixed?), I forget which one's faster/slower, but just a warning that the monsters may not enter at the intended rate. 0 Share this post Link to post