Za_World

Guys, I edited the post and upload a map. The level is a replacement of Dead Simple based on Thrash Wall's epominous album. It's set in a metal festival in hell, where a lot of zombies roam the central area between 4 stages. On the stages, there are four bands of demons raining down hellfire on the zombies. Kill them all and then face their angry roadies.

Very good, I'll keep one map slot for your submission. I have created a Discord server to keep in touch and share our progress, I suggest you to join it, the link is in the post.

DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE IS THE SHIT! If you don't do it, I swear I'm gonna do it

Yeah, 2 minutes of BFG blasting 80.000 cyberdemons and 15 Icons of Sin lmao

Good! In case let me know on what album you are basing your map on so other mappers don't do the same thing

Your Heaven and Hell idea is exactly like I imagined a map of this project to be, but I think that basing a map on a whole album instead of a song could grant the mapper a lot more freedom. For example, talking about the hypotetical Ride The Lightning map, it could be a level set in an icy, claustrophobic and full of traps cave; the player's goal is to find a way out (Trapped Under Ice). Every now and then during the level, the player may take a glimps out of the caves and discover that the whole map is set in a mysteriously frozen Egyptian settings, under a dark blue sky (reference to both the album cover and Creeping Death). The music for this level could be based on Fade to Black or Call Of Ktulu. To me, being able to use a lot of tracks as inspiration can really make for a more interesting level. Obviously, this doesn't mean that you have to make a level based on multiple songs. Talking about your Mapping skills, don't worry. If you'd like to partecipate feel free to contribute.

Everyone is free to choose his own albums as long as they are Metal. However, since the secret map slots are for non metal albums and we obviously don't have any maps yet, your King Crimson map could be MAP31 or MAP32.

Guys, I apologise for the missing infos. I didn't read the guide and I assumed things worked differently. I've updated the post to include everything.

I'd prefer midi, it fits the game better imho

Thank you for the advice; as I said before, I'll post something here as soon as I have it ready.

I'm working on right now in the Dead Simple replacement i talked about in the post, I'll upload it here as soon as it is complete. If you want to see my other works you can always check the links I provided.

Hello everyone, my name is Za_World and I am searching for mappers, music composers and texture artists to start a community project simply called "METAL". The core idea behind METAL is the following: each one of the 32 levels of the megawad is based on one metal album, and the music of that level is heavily inspired by its songs. A quick example: The level based on THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE by Death will be a hell level, where a mountain with a wide open will play a central role in the map geography. It will be a complex level, with many odd enemy combinations and a lot of difficult fights. On the other hand, the level based on M-16 by Sodom will be a fast and straightforward jungle level, with hordes of hitscanners and a ton of "flame based" enemies, like Lost Souls, Arch Viles and Mancubi. A Dead Simple replacement could be based on Thrash Wall's epominous album, a short and aggressive map where the players fights Mancubi and Arachnotrons in a metal festival, with the fat bastards on the stage shooting projectiles against hordes of headbanging hitscanners. If you want to try this map, the .rar file is downloadable here. You get the idea. SUBMISSION RULES: -The target IWAD is Doom2. -We are mapping in Doom in Hexen format. -Custom textures are allowed as long as they serve the map theme (example: for a Ride The Lightning map you may want to use a custom night skybox). -If you are able to make a midi track based on the album you choose, do it. -There is no deadline, you can submit as long as there are map slots available, just let me know that you're working on a level. -I don't want to sound like a metal elitist but the project is called Metal and you should work on maps based on the metal genre. I don't want to discuss wether Ghost is metal or not, but remember that only secret levels may be based on non metal albums. -You have to write a small text where you describe the map and explain what part of the albums you used as inspiration. -You can send your maps or music or textures or everything on the METAL discord server: https://discord.gg/CBvZB9Cb If you are interested in the project, feel free to contact me on this profile or write a comment under this post. If you want to know more about me as a Doom mapper and composer, I'll leave here some links to my YT channel and to the ModDB page of TimeDestroyed, the Megawad that I am actually working on. I will also post here an example of a map for the project based on THRASH WALL. Thanks in advance to everyone, I am really looking forward to work with you and bring this idea to life. About me: -YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvV9n-IqY-I8WXNK7taWQ9A -TimeDestroyed on ModDB: https://www.moddb.com/mods/time-destroyed MAP07.rar

Is there a way to import monsters and textures from other Doom engine games in my Doom 2 megawad? I use Doom Builder 2 (Doom in Hexen mode) for the mapping and Slade3 for the wad management, and I'd like to use some enemies (and textures) from Heretic, Hexen and Freedoom as monsters in the secret levels. I am testing the maps in the latest versions of zDoom, gzDoom and Zandronum.

Thank you very much, it worked!

Hello everyone. As you can see from the image, I am trying to make a certain sector lower when the player crosses the trigger, and I want him to raise that sector again from a different point in the map, a switch located in a nearby room. The problem is, when I get to the switch that should raise that sector, it does not work. I'm uploading a video in the .rar file, so you can see in game how it does (not) work. I am using DoomBuilder2 (Doom in Hexen format) with Doom2 as the resource wad and I am using zDoom, gzDoom and Zandronum to test the map. EDIT: in the third image it says that the action starts when the player walks over. I changed it with "player uses" but it still does not work. Video.rar