Phade102

I already played it...I'll do a review in the corresponding topic

I posted demo in thread. Check it out. 

Gotta playing it later tonight. 

Hope you get better man! I've been like that to. Really bad fever.

get well soon! :)

@Phade102Rest well so that you can come back with more energy.

That doesnt seem to help much, it doesnt tell me exactly how to convert it.

You should grab converters and check if they work. 

I convert it by doing this: First, load the map in GZDB. Then press F2 for map options. After that, change the Hexen format to UDMF (of course, you need to put the base resource first before doing the change). Now, you'll have the map in UDMF format. And one more thing, go to Mode-->Nodes viewer mode, then press Rebuild nodes in the Overview option. And there you go, simple as that.

@Nine Inch Heels I would like to think of it was slaughter lite. I will never be designing a map that throws fifteen cyberdemons at you in a room, but I feel that a room with say, five revenants and six hell knights is fair.

This room? Has four enemies. Two of them aren't vanillia.

Awesome work Phade, its nice to hear your mapping speed is really picking up :)

@40oz Thank you! Its awesome to here such a compliment from you!

No, it's ok. This is a good place to vent about things that personally matter to you. As for people that don't want to hear it can just keep scrolling. you're fine, trust me.

Yeah, it's ok to tell us that thing...at least you can feel a bit relieved 

Wow, very sorry to hear that. You have my sympathies.

Yes.

"Most people" are easily pleased.

I gave wads I liked 5 stars. You didn't look very carefully if you think they were all slaughter.

Succinctness is good.

OMG Grain of Salt (salt indeed :^)) how dare you to post your personal opinion about a wad and write a negative review??!!

salt tastes......that's why

Your map looks good!

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But this is my style of mapping, and I like it.

Yeah, this is what it all comes down to. You (probably) can't top the masters, but you can create something they never could because you have your own unique vision.

What's wrong with that screenshot, again?

I'm anxious to see if you like the encounters with them. Its very difficult to place new monsters in such a way that they dont unfairly ruin the gameplay. I managed to deal with them, but I know where they are, so its not a surprise to me. But to other people...Well, thats what testing is for.

Gotcha. I'll be sure of doing a video or a proper review.

I'll be happy to test your map tommorrow. I hope, I won't feel so tired for video recordings like today ;)

LOL thank you, it means a lot as well. Even though all I really do is whine about being bad at a video game on the internet :p 

Exactly. you're not afraid to be honest and be human. so many people on the internet act like someone they're not in order to garner views. you dont do that.

Your WAD is that Experiment Zero, right? MAP02 was alright, unless you radically messed it up in the meantime.

Thanks everyone, i'm actually really enjoying the challenge, its just something new for me. I'm hoping it plays well, i'm trying to make it as smooth as possible.

@stru Yeah i'm runnin it through Gzdoom. It uses dynamic lights, so its a bit different, but I'm also making sure its playable in a software renderer as well.

@leodoom85 No actual cave systems here. its all a completely artifical area, my next level will involve cave systems, which I should be fine with since i'm decent at building things like that.

Ok. Now that you mentioned playable status in software mode, no 3D sloped sectors are allowed :D

@leodoom85 You cant see slopes in zdoom? Thats what I was refering to O.o

@MysteriousHarukoI absolutely do, I saved it to a seperate wad file =)

"By the way @leodoom85 the reason you think you've played this before is because you played the previous map03 which is now map02."......ah, that makes sense...

Looks good!

You don't say...

Still curious how this is set up mechanically, and especially if it is failsafe, or in some way abuseable.

This made me somewhat an inferior mapper.

Theres no scripting involved. none at all. I'm a bit surprised that the idea of the barrels hasn't been done before O.o

@R1ck You are NOT an inferior mapper! Please dont say that, theres nothing wrong with how you map so please dont say there is. We all map in different styles, we all can make things unique from each other. If you remember, I mentioned in one of your screenshots that I loved how you did the lighting and such. that in itself proves that you are far better than me in some aspects.

I feel like when I'm burned out I think about more technical things. Things that don't require a computer. The burnout shows you your limitations. It shows you what you're capable of and it makes you realistically evaluate your goals.

Everything in life is a learning experience. Burning out is part of the experience. Everyone gets to that point at some point. There's a reason why the topic is discussed semi-frequently.

You can release single maps and compile them into one set. I feel like the feedback point is somewhat misleading.

Burning seems to be unavoidable to me. That's just how I am. I tend to put my all into everything until there's nothing left and then I chill until I refill. Burning out from mapping is not good nor bad. It's just part of the process for some mappers. Idk, it fits my MO.

Maybe I shouldn't say megawad. 32 maps is not for anyone, but I think 16 it so maps would be a fair number. That way you're actually mapping. 

Either way is fine. Maybe make as many maps until you feel like you've got your style down. I feel like the first maps are just practice.

Burnout and refuel and use your time wisely. Go hard and push yourself until failure. That's how I recommend learning. Don't keep mapping if you're burned out.

When are you burned out. You'll know because you'll start sacrificing quality just to get it done. It usually happens to me quiet often. 

Of course it all depends on the scope to. 32 two hour slaughter maps is way different than 32 which UV Max maps. 

Thank you all for your awesome help. I think i'm going to release map04 as map01 of my new wad, just as a teaser to see if the playstyle is what people are interested in. i've recieved good feedback from my private testers so far.

@Phade102I see what you mean :D

Sometimes, planning a single area of the map as a whole can take you more time to complete for several reasons...

This is one of the first major areas of the map. So I need to make sure it flows properly. I think Its working so far.

It'll get faster as you keep making maps. I will make the suggestion to leave as much Detail out as possable until the map is balanced, flow is down and combat scenarios are good to go, at least within the immediate area that you're working on. Just my two cents.

Underhalls is very comfy map, really.

Very nice!

One more thought, since I see this thing shaping up: What if you were to put the mancubus at the "corner" of the path rather than at that end? This would remove the player's ability to hide from it, and it would also force the player into a more precarious dodging scenario, since they might have to step off the path into the blood to avoid fireballs.

Just a thought.

There's always room for masterminds.

Looks okay, although I think 'making the walls more interesting' (less square, less monotextured, perhaps broken up by some sort of vertical beam pattern) is also a valid alternative to putting lots of stuff in the blood itself. I posted some months ago (in a thread you started) about how some of the most complex stuff visually has relatively simple floors.

@42PercentHealth Thats a very good suggestion, forcing the player to tackle the mancubus like that.

@rdwpa I will be adding a bit of Scenery behind the 'walls' to make it look nicer. this is honestly just the first pass over, i'm focusing on the playable area first then adding the detail later. The room right now looks really ugly, but I'll take an in game screenshot too because that isn't the sky either, its the red hell sky which really makes it look nicer. I'm going to be putting some hellish cliff textures to make it look as though the player is going through a more hellish landscape. But I definitely agree with what you're saying, and I Know that when it comes to playing a map, the floor is the last thing people are going to look at.

Also another note is that mapping for Boom is...much more challenging.

Atleast prboom+ ignore visplane limits and let use voodoo doll magic on scrolling floors or make invisible stuff easier. 

This is meant to be just a simple map, nothing too complex, but still fun I hope!

So like, just add cc4-tex as a resource in doom builder for my build? I mean, that WOULD make things easier...

Yes, and make sure that you remove all copies of the cc4 textures from the wadfile itself.

Oh yes I'd do that, I have them set up so its easy to just select htem all and get rid of them. Will that also fix the issue of the damn switches not working? for some reason none of the cc4 tex switches are showing up.

Guilty by association? I have no clue...

I have no idea what's going on, and what the deal about Chelesa Manning is, let alone what you tweeted, or who deems you a traitor for what reason and how your relationship with that respective group/person is like. So... Yeah... If you want for people to understand your situation, make it understandable, is what I'm saying...

well thats just it, NIH. I dont understand it either. I was trying to contact her to ask her some questions (Though I doubted I'd get a response) relating to transgender stuff, and I had like, five people reply to the tweet calling me a traitor for trying to speak to her. Its like the amish when someone is shunned, its just so weird.