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

[Relinquished]

I've attached my final teaser picture of my current project 'Technomancy.' All the scenery and map design is now finished, and it is almost ready for beta testing. My final tasks are lighting and finalising the game play elements, which I'm going to test before posting.

I'm really excited about releasing this, and it will be my first map posted to the idgames archive. It has taken a great deal longer than I expected, but I've really pushed myself with this one, trying many things I've never attempted before. I'm looking forward to showcasing it in the very near future.

 

[Remilia Scarlet]

 

 

EDIT: Herp derp, I just noticed the misaligned skulls XD

[Paul977]

A Plutonia Revisited insipired map, wip

 

[Cheshire Sphinx]

I'm working on a map for the Heretic Upstart Mapping Project (HUMP) tentatively titled 'Valley of the Gods' or 'Valley of Temples'. It's a meant to be a sprawling, nonlinear and highly interconnected (I hope) map. Right now, I'm still learning the (limited) textures and blocking out the map itself. I think it's coming along pretty well and once I start detailing, it'll really shine.

 

Layout:

 

 

Temple along northern part of the map:

 

 

Central path:

 

 

 

I'm still learning the textures (and Heretic in general), so there's room to improve.

[mypetrobot]

I'm a doomworld lurker, this is my first post.

 

Over the past week I've been diligently working on my first WAD in 15+ years. In high school I used to churn out Doom content for my friends on a regular basis, so I can't say I'm a newb, but I will say that making maps with these modern tools is way different [easier?] than whatever we had back in the late 90s (I wanna say I used DoomEd, but screenshots of the software are elusive and my memory is shot). Needless to say, it was slow going at first while I was regaining my footing, but I think I have a reasonable handle on this stuff.

 

Anyway, I'm embracing the doomy techbase aesthetic but attempting to strictly use only custom textures that I make (my day job is in the visual arts). My goal is to make 1 large map with vanilla Doom gameplay, but a bit of a metroidvania style of progression. Who knows what'll come of this, hopefully I'll be able to ride this wave of motivation to a successful completion of the map.

 

Here are a couple screenshots, all of this stuff is in flux and subject to drastic changes:

 

 

 

 

Thanks for letting me share!

[Dreamskull]

On 2/25/2016 at 5:09 PM, everennui said:

I would love to see everyone's prize masterpiece. If you spent over 50 hours on your map I would love to see it.

I've created a mega-level and would love to release it here for you, but I'm not sure how. 

 

Its really large and very challenging. I'm sure you'd get a kick out of it. Can anyone help?

 

Edited August 26, 2017 by Dreamskull : Added a Picture

[scifista42]

11 hours ago, mypetrobot said:

my first WAD in 15+ years [...] strictly use only custom textures that I make

Architecture and textures both look awesome!

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back in the late 90s (I wanna say I used DoomEd,

This DoomEd? It's unlikely you had access to the original, official DoomEd, which wasn't publicly available until 2015.

10 hours ago, Dreamskull said:

I've created a mega-level and would love to release it here for you, but I'm not sure how.

Impressively complex map. If you want to release it, upload your wad to any file hosting site and post the link (read this before).

Edited August 26, 2017 by scifista42

[mypetrobot]

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Architecture and textures both look awesome!

Thanks man, it's getting there!

 

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This DoomEd? It's unlikely you had access to the original, official DoomEd, which wasn't publicly available until 2015.

Yeah, that's the DoomEd (not the official one)! To confirm, I set-up Windows 3.1 on Dosbox and installed the program. This loading screen is forever etched in my brain:

 

 

I took a few other screenshots for posterity (since I couldn't find any yesterday with a quick google search):

 

 

 

[Gez]

Hey, are you okay with uploading these screenshots on the Doom wiki?

[mypetrobot]

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Hey, are you okay with uploading these screenshots on the Doom wiki?

Sure, no problem. I uploaded them and added them to the DoomEd 4.2 wiki page. The change is pending review.

[everennui]

12 hours ago, Dreamskull said:

I've created a mega-level and would love to release it here for you, but I'm not sure how. 

 

Its really large and very challenging. I'm sure you'd get a kick out of it. Can anyone help?

 

Use mediafire or Dropbox to host your file and upload it in a new  thread. If you're not done yet and just want a playtest send it to my message box. Otherwise you can look me up on Facebook (same user name (name's Lee Davis)) and send me the file directly. My email is leeallendavis@gmail.com if that's easier.

[Gez]

 

8 minutes ago, mypetrobot said:

Sure, no problem. I uploaded them and added them to the DoomEd 4.2 wiki page. The change is pending review.

Thanks! I've tweaked it a bit to use a gallery and approved the change. :)

[mypetrobot]

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Thanks! I've tweaked it a bit to use a gallery and approved the change. :)

Great! I added a few more screenshots too (pending review), the program was actually pretty robust for the time period.

[Phade102]

@Dreamskull I use google drive for all my files. you should take a look at that.

[Cheshire Sphinx]

Holy crap, DoomEd! I didn't cut my teeth on it, I was using one of those early commercial editors who's name I forget, but man that brings back memories... Great looking map and thanks for contributing those images too. I'm going to go squee like a nostalgic little tart. :)

[Nine Inch Heels]

On 24.8.2017 at 5:04 AM, YukiRaven said:

EDIT: Herp derp, I just noticed the misaligned skulls XD

I have the same issue all the time.

 

1. Make a screenshot

2. upload it

3. look at it

4. ???

5. spot faulty texture alignment somewhere.

[leodoom85]

1 minute ago, Nine Inch Heels said:

I have the same issue all the time.

 

1. Make a screenshot

2. upload it

3. look at it

4. ???

5. spot faulty texture alignment somewhere.

same -_-

[Viggles]

On 7/26/2017 at 1:14 PM, Jaska said:

Some new shots. Bloom effect is great!

 

 

From the roof

@Jaska Nice, several of those building textures were ones I made many years ago for Thief 2 - fun to see them show up in a Doom WAD! Did you grab them from thief.washboardabs.net or are they floating around in a pack somewhere?

Edited August 26, 2017 by Viggles

[Memfis]

On 2017/8/25 at 8:15 PM, Cheshire Sphinx said:

That's really dirty.

[Cheshire Sphinx]

@Memfis Dirty how?

[mypetrobot]

16 minutes ago, Cheshire Sphinx said:

@Memfis Dirty how?

The big red oozing gateway on the left is vaguely vaginal.

[Dragonfly]

You really need to get laid holy shit.

[CyberMutant]

On 2/25/2016 at 11:33 PM, Deadwing said:

 

Looks really good 

[Remilia Scarlet]

Sometimes I'm more excited with how a simple hallway turned out than anything else, though that may be because of all the 3d floor stuff going on here that you can't see.

 

EDIT:  *sigh* here, have an unintended hint for a secret, too XD

Edited August 26, 2017 by YukiRaven

[Kore]

A boom compatible level that's probably going to become my first level ever. I think it's a good sign when you aren't sure what to take a screenshot of.

[leodoom85]

11 minutes ago, YukiRaven said:

EDIT:  *sigh* here, have an unintended hint for a secret, too XD

oops....thanks for the tip XD

[Remilia Scarlet]

Yeah well, it'll be changed now :-P  This is what I get for mapping 30 minutes after I wake up.

[leodoom85]

4 minutes ago, YukiRaven said:

Yeah well, it'll be changed now :-P  This is what I get for mapping 30 minutes after I wake up.

Just replace that soulsphere for a single health bonus and spawn a monster lol

[jazzmaster9]

I'm on a Boat!

[Jaska]

20 hours ago, Viggles said:

@Jaska Nice, several of those building textures were ones I made many years ago for Thief 2 - fun to see them show up in a Doom WAD! Did you grab them from thief.washboardabs.net or are they floating around in a pack somewhere?

Very cool textures! I'll add you to the texture credits.

I took them from here:

https://www.doomworld.com/idgames/levels/doom2/Ports/g-i/hc20