Impie Posted December 11, 2017 (edited) Why was this perfectly good starting map changed to a different one? There wasn't anything wrong with the original apart from the out-of-place green fog effect in an early area. Otherwise it was a good introductory map in the same stylistic vein as the Doom shareware maps, and frankly the only map that ever stood out in my memory. The replacement map feels like a half-baked draft of another map altogether: it has some decent areas, but a really awkward start atop an awkwardly shaped catwalk, and requires the player to use keys, which really shouldn't be a thing on the very first map of the first episode. If a map is going to be replaced, shouldn't the original map be severely lacking, and not perfectly suitable? Was the new consensus to just replace every freedoom map altogether? I'm a little out of the loop with the project's current direction, or if it even has one. 3 Share this post Link to post
Maya Posted December 11, 2017 It was a Boom-compatible map and removed in 0.11, because Freedoom changed to limit-removing + (I'm not 100% sure about this) the author didn't want to modify it. 2 Share this post Link to post
Spie812 Posted December 11, 2017 Spectra got the reason it was replaced correct. I never really liked the replacement. It's far too orthogonal and generally uninteresting. It's only saving grace is the Aquatex texture usage. 0 Share this post Link to post
YukiHerz Posted December 12, 2017 The new map was made by someone with little to no experience in mapping, so there's lots of sharp angles and generally uninteresting architecture. Said inexperienced mapper also wrote this post :p, I've been wishing to re-do the map but I'm caught up in other projects. 1 Share this post Link to post
Impie Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) On 12/11/2017 at 8:08 PM, YukiHerz said: The new map was made by someone with little to no experience in mapping, so there's lots of sharp angles and generally uninteresting architecture. Said inexperienced mapper also wrote this post :p, I've been wishing to re-do the map but I'm caught up in other projects. I don't think the map is terrible overall, just not as suitable for the e1m1 slot as the previous map. Was there a practical reason for freedoom changing to limit-removing? Is the project more versitile that way? I dunno, the longer freedoom goes on, the more it feels like it's not sure what it wants to be. I figured if it's trying to be a free copy of doom, it would have iwad maps in the same style as the original game, but the newer maps have a very modern complex and monster-spammy feel to them. You could honestly just take the wonderful doom megawad and slap it into phase 1, have a doom 2 style boom-compatible community project for phase 2's maps, and be done with it (if the wad authors were up for it). 2 Share this post Link to post
RjY Posted December 13, 2017 20 minutes ago, Impie said: Was there a practical reason for freedoom changing to limit-removing? Like all Doom engines, Chocolate Doom is useless without an IWAD. If Chocolate Doom can use Freedoom for its IWAD, then Chocolate Doom is useful without a non-free/proprietary dependency. This is a practical benefit, e.g. it allows Chocolate Doom to be "promoted" out of contrib into Debian main. (Whether or not it is sufficient to justify the change, I leave to your opinion☺) 2 Share this post Link to post
Impie Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, RjY said: Like all Doom engines, Chocolate Doom is useless without an IWAD. If Chocolate Doom can use Freedoom for its IWAD, then Chocolate Doom is useful without a non-free/proprietary dependency. This is a practical benefit, e.g. it allows Chocolate Doom to be "promoted" out of contrib into Debian main. (Whether or not it is sufficient to justify the change, I leave to your opinion☺) I understand that. My question was, why upgrade the project from boom-compatible to limit-removing? or are the two topics related? Assuming Boom doesn't already count as limit-removing. I assumed when the second poster mentioned that, they meant changing the project to UDMF or something really advanced. 0 Share this post Link to post
Arctangent Posted December 13, 2017 Limit removing is actually more limited than Boom, due to it being vanilla with a couple ( not all ) limits removed. So it's not comparable to UDMF in the slightest. 0 Share this post Link to post
Impie Posted December 13, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, Arctangent said: Limit removing is actually more limited than Boom, due to it being vanilla with a couple ( not all ) limits removed. So it's not comparable to UDMF in the slightest. Okay, so I had it backwards? So the previous e1m1 was more advanced, and the project downgraded to be closer to vanilla, hence the map wouldn't work anymore (and hence the green fog effect in the underground area)? 0 Share this post Link to post
Diabolución Posted December 14, 2017 Freedoom 1.0 will be vanilla-compatible. Limit-removing maps are being tolerated as interim goal. But they will be simplified in the future in order to avoid drawseg / visplane overflows (mainly), if feasible, or replaced with pure vanilla maps. 3 Share this post Link to post
Teivman Posted December 14, 2017 Doom the way id did would make somewhat alright replacements for phase one. But that would be too easy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Impie Posted December 14, 2017 12 hours ago, Litrivin said: Freedoom 1.0 will be vanilla-compatible. Limit-removing maps are being tolerated as interim goal. But they will be simplified in the future in order to avoid drawseg / visplane overflows (mainly), if feasible, or replaced with pure vanilla maps. That might solve a lot of map design issues on its own. 0 Share this post Link to post
Diabolución Posted December 15, 2017 19 hours ago, MrD!zone said: Doom the way id did would make somewhat alright replacements for phase one. But that would be too easy. That wouldn’t work anyway. Its txt file clearly states: “Authors may NOT use the contents of this file as a base for modification or reuse.” Interestingly, there is a vanillified and retextured (to use only textures of doom.wad) version of the old C1M1, created a long time ago: https://www.doomworld.com/files/file/16691-aaa/ 0 Share this post Link to post