Dragonfly

@antares031 I would have done lighting a looong time ago but the map is actually a 3D model, as such it's uniformly lit, sadly. the only thing that seems to affect it is 'distance fade'.

Also sorry for the double-post, I got logged out during typing my reply and DW fudged up grrr :)

On a side note, I hope you play this month's Ironman. I wasn't around for your Mapgame stream, but I saw the VOD and it was cool to watch, you mentioned wanting to do it again, but you didn't play Vae Victus :<

I missed out on the VV/VV2 combo due to time restraints at the time and trying to remain commited to mapping, sadly. I could have a go at the ironman this month (July)!

Thanks for all your feedback, I believe I've got all the advice I could possibly need now - all I have to do from here on in is to actually play more wads. I might make a more conscious effort to do more 'playing' throughout 2018 - Join the DWMC, participate in every ironman and maybe even make a weekly/monthly dooming event of my own. :)

Regardless of whether I put everyone's advice into action today or next year, I really do appreciate all the time you and others have taken to type up a solid set of advice. Thank you! :D

Sector count / map stats to help express the tedium suffered :P

Annoyingly at the END of mapping I discovered an easier way I could have done the 3D curved bridge, which honestly was the hardest part of this project so far.

Automap has been tidied from a total triangular mess into this:

Wow!

My body is ready.

Looks good!!

Of course it does @MrGlide - it's ripped from one of the best PSX Games of all time! :P

^{but thank you nonetheless!}

holy lord

That looks really awesome. I hope we can play this soon. Is this a single map or a larger project? 

@rdwpa It's planned to be a bonus map for Skulldash's expansion pack, but as it stands it's on pause due to the whole model being culled when it's centerpoint is out of view.

Very nice , I love Spyro. I was making a Doom map based on the first hub a month go. I should finish it.

How the hell was that done?

Aaaaa Artisans World!

^{... a bit more overcast than I remember...}

I was just testing / learning MODELDEF and the act of modelling as a whole. Turns out there is a website that has (very few) model rips from older games, made by the people who did the spriter's resource. Creatively called the models resource: https://www.models-resource.com/

When I saw the artisans model I couldn't ignore it. GET IT IN GAME!!

So yeah, it's JUST A MODEL at this point, no collision etc. Tempted to make a skulldash map that is in reference to this which replaces the skulltokens with gems! But that's not entirely likely just yet.

Is this in ZDoom or Eternity?

@Ichor hah! 

@Jaxxoon R I have not, sounds like a paradoxial situation that I'll have to see for myself :P

@esselfortium GZDoom. I drew a square in the center of E1M1's room and connected to it from a square room elsewhere with line portals (2 way. interactive). This was to see if the enemies legitimately understand where the player stands despite being somewhre COMPLETELY different - the answer was no, but the imp trying to chase me anded up walking out of the sector through the corner of two line portals, so I guess the engine thought it was valid to place the imp within the empty void inside of the pillar.

Yeah, monsters don't play too well with interactive portals. They work just fine with static ones, though.

Dude, it's like taking a shitty daily quest when grinding. 

Did you find any ghosts? Ghosts are really cool and really spice up the job of anyone working in a hotel alone.

Watch The Shining on your next night shift!

Thanks for the positive outlook on it all! I totally get where you're coming from, and it does seem commonplace to at the very least have a stable job that 'pays rent', with freelancing coming in after that to pay for entertainment / luxuries.

In regards to tax etc, I'm not sure where you're from but I'm in the UK, so it may be that the way tax is handled is totally different based on region.

For now until I fully understand the math behind it, I'm dividing all income into 3:

• 1st third will be moved into a savings account, which will be used to pay all taxes etc.
• 2nd third will be moved into my personal bank account, allowing me to use it as I see fit, most likely on bills and other bs life throws my way
• 3rd third (lol) will be left in the 'business' account, which will go towards my monthly Adobe CC subscription, hosting bills and other business outgoings.

I hope to move various expenses such as mobile phone bill into becoming a 'business expense', so long as I earn enough to consistently pay it off. :)

Oh, of course, after nearly 15 years of regularly posting on forums I still assume people are from the US. OK, forget trading tax tips heh.

That's quite a few accounts you're running. I think the setup's good for organizational purposes, but for practical management purposes, most people never have more than 2 (Savings and Everything Else). I personally keep 1 at the moment, but it's not like I'm so loaded with money I need ways to divide it. But for all the plans and cards and payment scheduling setups and insurance and simply keeping track of activity, general or suspicious, 2's my limit. I don't want account management to become yet another part-time job.

So... hrm, seems you've given in to CC. I refuse; I'm still on my student copy of CS4. I was going to get CS6, but Adobe suddenly pulled all packages from the stores in favor of CC, despite so many still being available and no (practical) reason to not let them gradually sell out the remaining inventory. Simply for financial purposes, I always make one-time purchases wherever possible, as it secures having the thing for as long as I want instead of constantly living under the threat of losing it. And especially in the case of CC, some programs I don't use for months at a time, so that would be all kinds of money wasted just because I can't always predict what work I'll be doing. And if I'm running low on money, why face losing the thing that's supposed to make me money? It's such a terrible plan, I'll just stop now before I take over your entire profile :P

At any rate, I know the US has all manner of ways to categorize things as 'business expense' and other brands of write-offs, so talking with somebody knowledgeable and experienced can get you a lot of advantages you'd never know of (because, at least over here, the government isn't exactly into advertising such things). Like, that guy I mentioned devised some method for a school jazz club to get a drumset and then do some kind of write-off, possibly charitable-donation-based, to essentially get all the money back on the tax return. Who would ever guess?

But yeah, you're with the vast majority in having a generic pay-the-rent job. And it's so much better to be able to split between those two jobs, than to be stuck full-time in a job that's simply terrible and barely getting you by. Plus, I also did a music major in school, so hopefully I'll eventually be able to put out some material and get a little supplemental income off digital music releases as well :P

I still do the same, I naturally assume everyone is from the US until told otherwise! :P

I did think my bank setup might be a bit over the top, but it should assist me in keeping track of what money goes where quite comfortably. I intend to use some kind of finance tracking software / webapp too, I'll be researching into various options next week. Free or insanely cheap is preferred.

As for CC, while the overall cost (over time) is greater, the barriers to entry are greatly reduced. My 'starting budget' isn't massive, so CC at £50-something a month is a comfortable cost vs. a few hundred up front. I do fully understand where you're coming from though!

As for getting an accountant of some description, yes, that is also something I was going to look into next week. I know a few sole-traders so I can ask for some reccomendations of local accountants and the costs involved.

Good luck with your music endeavours! :)

Congrats! Hope everything goes well!

checked it out on my phone and it looked fine to me l, which says a lot considering that most websites feel like a chore to browse sometimes.

Quite very much speediness, in spite of the bootstrap-looking modern design. The topmost ribbon might obstruct a bit too much of the view though.

Website looks great Dragonfly! Best of luck to you as you transition paths!

Soooooo? How was it?

An absolute nightmare. By the time I left my workload had grown, rather than shrunk. I have the same ordeal tomorrow, too!

Busier than a cat burying shit on concrete!