what are you working on? I wanna see your wads.

[Thelokk]

A WIP ss of a humble, little intermission map for my next mapset.

 

[Daytime Waitress]

6 hours ago, Thelokk said:

A WIP ss of a humble, little intermission map for my next mapset.

 

 

Shakespeare truly is for all ages:

"That which we call a rose

By any other name would cause a visplane overflow"

[ViolentBeetle]

The black cobblestone saga continues. I already regret leaving lighting for last, instead of doing it on simpler geomrty first.

 

Were I not mapping for limit-removing, the marble face would be vomiting guts in real time.

[PRO-RC]

A room from a wad I may or may not release:

 

Also some boxes from the same wad:

textures are wonky on the last pic because of me testing with Doom Retro.

[Jacek Nowak (jacnowak)]

Two screenshots from a semi-realistic kinda Duke3d-style city map I'm working on.

[Arbys550]

A cave of sorts:

[Shove82]

This will, hopefully, be my third completed Doom 2 map ever. Did two small for RAMP 2022, which was super fun.

Now i'm trying my hands on abit more complex shapes, using stair builder and OTEX textures. For some other scraped maps I tinkered with attenuated lights and 3d floors, but i'll skip that for now I think (but I saved them all, because you never know!)

It's super fun for most part! But sometimes very frustrating :)

 

Probably 50% done with the map. Maybe :)

 

 

 

[Casketkrusher]

22 minutes ago, Shove82 said:

 

 

This is just a beauty to see!

 

[Gaia74]

 

[Casketkrusher]

Busy with making some custom weapons, this is the Manacle Of Power from Powerslave/Exhumed, I have no experience with custom weaponry but this turns out pretty good.

 

[Martin Howe]

9 hours ago, Casketkrusher said:

Busy with making some custom weapons, this is the Manacle Of Power from Powerslave/Exhumed, I have no experience with custom weaponry but this turns out pretty good.

 

"KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!!" :P 

Spoiler

For those who don't know that quote, it's a Stargate SG-1 reference

 

[Naarok0fkor]

Deimos base.wad, level 6 with the new tek patch...

[Shanoa]

I see you folks and your beautiful WIP! Fear the simplicity of my basic starting room.

 

Ok, silliness aside I finally decided to sit down and stop worrying about stuff regarding mapping. I only made 2 maps, the last one being yeaaaars ago but as they say, to improve and find your style you need to map, map and map again. The important thing to me is at least providing something fun to kill a couple minutes while also not making you wanna gouge your eyes out like it's a WAD from 1994, seeing the feedbacks and hopefully using them to improve whatever comes next. So I decided to start working on an Heretic map, of all things, using the medieval ressources pack, as it's mostly recolours of Heretic textures with some original work the author included. I really dig that blue wall so i'll probably design the level around that theme. That's my only screenshot because it's the only room currently but that's the starting room.

 

While I normally enjoy looking at what UDMF mapping offer I went with "Heretic in Doom format" for this and also cause I'd like to maybe make it playable on stuff like PrBoom+ and/or DSDA for convenience sake and also to see what I can do with the mapping format itself. Will see where it goes. Maybe I should've some dang faith in myself too.

[Womp the Cat]

Had to trash a basically complete map because it was broken beyond my skill to fix. And it was heartbreaking, but started from scratch and feel like I am executing my idea better than before. Here are some screenshots of the new map. 

[Shove82]

Pushing on. Took me forever to get the OLLLL texture to line up on the first pic in roman numerals for the red key door... Not that happy with the stairs thou, kinda put myself in a corner there, I might redo that or not.

Otherwise starting too populate the map with monsters and stuff. Feels like im adding more and more details the longer I go, so I might have to go back to the starting places and add abit more details.

Is that something you other ppl do too?Or should I just leave it as it? Its not like it's barren... :/

 

 

[ukiro]

15 hours ago, Shove82 said:

Took me forever to get the OLLLL texture to line up on the first pic in roman numerals

 

I'd probably have just made custom FLATs for that but this kind of effort is always impressive. There's seemingly no end to how people fiddle with my textures to do weird shit with them, and I love that.

[Sinshu]

I managed to make a fake rotating door in Vanilla Doom using DeHackEd...

 

 

[Shanoa]

 

Excuse my lack of skills to take endearing screenshot, also still tweaking with the light level/room. Pondering which texture/colour to use to break up the usage of the blue texture but i'll see as I design each room, already textured some support ahead of time for the staircase. Ceiling texture also subject to change and whatnot.

[Thelokk]

Clearly an E1M1 tribute.

 

[Casketkrusher]

Some more progress on the next map. I was actually planning on making a city section behind the walls, but I just suck at outdoors especially city levels. I just deleted the whole section and started making a pyramid which you have to climb but it has some nasty traps while you are making your way to the top. I also had the idea of a Cyberdemon on top of the pyramid. It looks cool but he just straight up fires rockets at you while you explore the outer sections of the map, which is challenging but after some playtesting I considered removing him. Maybe I'll add him back and he aggros when you get behind the wall.

[Shove82]

Moving forward after several things and rooms that felt right but didn't work out was deleted.

Might be the final room on the bottom. Noway near done detailing the bottom stuff thou, and some corridors don't feel right, too small, but we'll see.

 

 

[Egregor]

Another new map. I feel like I've hit a stride, just mapping in bits when I have a spare 30-60 minutes. I've finally found a balance between level length, scale, and complexity that I'm happy with!

Edited August 25, 2022 by Egregor

[Egregor]

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[Shanoa]

7 minutes ago, Egregor said:

Another new map. I feel like I've hit a stride, just mapping in bits when I have a spare 30-60 minutes. I've finally found a balance between level length, scale, and complexity that I'm happy with!

...And just like the last time I said it, I REALLY wanna play and explore this map. Funny enough, seeing your screenshots is what made me go "hmm how about I try my hand at an heretic map" and well here we are, although it's completely different league, haha.

[Egregor]

3 minutes ago, Shanoa said:

...And just like the last time I said it, I REALLY wanna play and explore this map. Funny enough, seeing your screenshots is what made me go "hmm how about I try my hand at an heretic map" and well here we are, although it's completely different league, haha.

Hey Shanoa, that's flattering that you were inspired by screenshots of mine! Your pics are looking really promising as well. Those pastel blues and greys in the Heretic color pallet have a very "warm" feel to them, spite usually being seen as cold drab colors, and those reds and yellows really pop when used sparingly. My suggestion to you would be to experiment more with scale. Make some medium sized rooms with medium sized ledges and pillars, and some larger rooms with larger ledges and pillars, like they were made for giants or dragons. Keep in mind a bigger scale does not have to mean more complex, as this is something that took me a lot of time to understand. As for my screens, they are a tease for an unreleased episode I am working on but it won't be ready for release for many, many months. As for similar finished and released maps that I have made I suggest checking out ROP or ENDQUEST or look at body of works in my profile.

[Shanoa]

11 hours ago, Egregor said:

Hey Shanoa, that's flattering that you were inspired by screenshots of mine! Your pics are looking really promising as well. Those pastel blues and greys in the Heretic color pallet have a very "warm" feel to them, spite usually being seen as cold drab colors, and those reds and yellows really pop when used sparingly. My suggestion to you would be to experiment more with scale. Make some medium sized rooms with medium sized ledges and pillars, and some larger rooms with larger ledges and pillars, like they were made for giants or dragons. Keep in mind a bigger scale does not have to mean more complex, as this is something that took me a lot of time to understand. As for my screens, they are a tease for an unreleased episode I am working on but it won't be ready for release for many, many months. As for similar finished and released maps that I have made I suggest checking out ROP or ENDQUEST or look at body of works in my profile.

Thank you for the kind words! In reality my recent screenshot was taken in a medium sized room with an [ shape, I just ended up taking a bad photo. The room still in WIP, i'm chipping away very slow at it. I'm productive in the night so when I boot the map editor I work a little bit here and there. As for your suggestion I will absolutely keep it in my mind as I map. Lastly, for your own work, it looks like I got a lot of heretic to play. ;)

Edited August 25, 2022 by Shanoa

[Thelokk]

"All bodies are the wrong body." - Tim Cannon

 

[xScavengerWolfx]

A sneak peek at my updated plutonia wad i'm finishing up. I decided to add an open area for the start. This is all i'm going to show for now.

 

Edit: Ok NOW here's the updated version of the opening area of the map. If this doesn't scream "spooky" then i failed as a map maker lol.

 

Edit #2: I just finished the update to my plutonia wad. So it is available now to play. Also here's more screen shots.

 

 

Edited August 27, 2022 by xScavengerWolfx : More Screen shots

[Daytime Waitress]

1 hour ago, Thelokk said:

"All bodies are the wrong body." - Tim Cannon

 

 

Junji Ito WAD's coming along nicely, Thelly.

[Casketkrusher]

4 hours ago, Thelokk said:

"All bodies are the wrong body." - Tim Cannon

 

 

Oh man, that brings back some Rootpain memories :)