StarSpun5000

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Imagine at the end of your 5 hour plus playthrough of a brutal doom map, some inexplicable bug occurs that prevents you from being able to beat the map, well that's what happened to me.(Just to preface, I played in DSDA-Doom) Normally at the end of Holy Hell you go through a teleporter which sends you through a teleport sequence that leads you directly to the end of map, but for me those teleporters didn't work, and I have no idea why. At first I thought that monsters must have passed through one time teleports and caused them to disable and indeed they are one time only, except for the fact that the lines are also monster blocking, making this explanation impossible. What confuses me even more is that when I start the map from the beginning, the teleport lines are green on the automap (showing that they are teleporters) but when I reload my save from near the end of the map, the lines are not green, meaning that something must have used them at some point between the start and end. So that begs the question, what could've possibly broken these teleporters?

Specifically in an attempt to minimize sectors in a map. I know that joining sectors can be used for bars that open or close or for getting sound into monster closets, but what about just joining sectors that happen to be identical for no other purpose than to minimize sector count? Is it more efficient space-wise or is it just a waste of time?

I just realized that my map also probably has excess textures and indeed it does. here's a version with the excess removed. HP V3.zip

Did some bug fixing and implemented changes for lower difficulty's, I'm pretty happy with this! Title: Hell's Paradise Format: Boom Tested with DSDA-Doom Difficulty: Yes Co-op/Deathmatch: no Music: Into a sandy city by Peter Lawrence Texture packs used: Patched up textures by Gothic and the useful flats texture pack by Nick Baker File: HP V2.zip

OMG I finally have something to release! Yippee! I totally didn't have to rush through enemy placement at the last minute! LOL. But in all seriousness, while this is a playable version of the map, it still needs a few balancing tweaks, but it's now playable and I desperately need feedback. Hope you enjoy "Hell's Paradise". Title: Hell's Paradise Format: Boom Tested with DSDA-Doom Difficulty: Not yet implemented Co-op/Deathmatch: no Music: Into a sandy city by Peter Lawrence HP V1.zip

Am I going to have a finished map by the end of this? No, but that's okay. I'm still very happy with what I do have! I plan on calling this red lava cavern level, phlogisticated.

An issue I've been having recently with ultimate doom builder involves the 3D edit mode. Normally when you shift+left click a wall it should select all the adjacent walls with the same texture, but sometimes it doesn't work at complete random. Also when you shift+left click a selected wall it should deselect all selected walls and floors, but now that doesn't happen anymore. It's really starting to get in the way of my mapping. What's going on here?

Here's what I have of my map so far. My plan was to create a red lava cave map mainly using otex in boom format. I'm really happy with what I have so far. (Those first two pictures are the ambush I started with, significantly more detailed then when I began tho) I havent implemented the sky yet, I plan to do that at the end.

okay admittedly, I kinda forgot about this project for a bit. I do have a completed map that just needs some tweaking and monsters. Ever since my first post I've added a huge hell Island that the player teleports to to get the blue skull key. This is probably thge most work I've ever put into a single doom map and I'm quite happy with the results so far! (Huh how funny, two pirate ships in two separate maps, what a coincidence!)

Oh man I really want to participate this year, but I would like to make a small request. Very close to the end of September, I had an idea for an ambush that I HAD to create in doom builder before I forgot it. I would've written it down and saved it for Nanowadmo, but I admittedly forgot that Nanowadmo was going to happen. All I have so far is this one small battle and that's really it. Would it be okay if I used that as a starting point in my Nanowadmo project? If not then that's okay, I'd be willing to start on a new thing, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to ask!

Slow, normal, fast and turbo. My question is how fast are each of these four speeds respectively?

The doom communities musical output has inspired me to give music composition a start. But I dont know a lick of music theory or any of that sort. Does anyone know any good resources for learning musical composition?

Just about an hour earlier I was using UDB (Ultimate Doom Builder) when the screen was suddenly filled with a dark shade of green, "eh no biggie" I thought, "this has happened before and nothing bad ever happened". I decided to turn off my computer and turn it back on again. Now the sound won't play out of my monitor's speakers (I'm using a TV as monitor BTW) I can't open any files in UDB without encountering an error that halts me in my path, and now all the games on my computer have begun to run unplayably slow, and probably some other problems that I haven't noticed yet. I've tried shutting down and restarting and neither has worked, and as a computer pleb I don't know any other avenues that might help me fix this bizarre issue, so I now turn to you. Does anybody know what the Hell might've happened and, more importantly, how to fix it?

Well that was a simple fix. I Uninstalled and reinstalled the video and sound drivers and things are fine now. Thanks! Probably wasn't UDB but what I do find odd is that this isn't the first time it has green screened on me like this, but it is the first time where it had any effect on my computer.

Hey Baby, you come here often?

I'm curious to know the process by which you create your music, do you start with a melody in your head and plan everything out, or do you just make stuff up as you go along? And another question, do you believe that knowing how to play an instrument is necessary knowledge in musical composition or is that more of just a helpful tool rather than a necessity?

Can't believe I managed to miss the big launch. So cool to see this wad out. I think we all know that Map 8 is clearly the best map in the set by far. In all seriousness tho I had a lot of fun working on this and I'm so glad I got to be a part of it!

I've had this half finished tropical island themed level sitting on my hard-drive for way to long and it's been begging to be finished, here's what I have so far.

I've always wanted to learn how to play an instrument, and I feel a piano would be a good fit. Does anybody know some good starter pianos that aren't too expensive and some good places to learn online?

It's been nearly a year and still no one has claimed the Map06 slot. It almost feels like it's calling to me. I've never actually tried to compose a song myself, but I've always had in interest in possibly giving it a shot. I should just go through with it, the universe is giving me this opportunity and by god I'm gonna take it. So count me in, if anyone has any tips for me as to where to begin, I'm all ears!

So I was just playing through the 90's WAD Hell to Pay with ZDoom and I encountered this bizarre glitch(?) When I got to the end of Map28 I noticed that I had missed three enemies out of 99, so I decided to use IDDT to find them, but no matter how hard I looked, those three enemies simply weren't there. I decided to count the monsters in an editor when I noticed something strange, the editor had told me there were 96 total enemies tagged with UV. I checked in DSDA-Doom and found that the kill count there was correct, 93 (There were three lost souls which don't count in DSDA but do count in ZDoom, so the total is 96) So this begs the question, why does ZDoom seem to add three nonexistent monsters in the level? Is this actually a glitch, or am I just missing something?

For a while now I've been compiling various songs and midis from the doom community into a massive playlist to listen to while mapping. I thought it would be fun to make this playlist public for people to listen to so here it is! Music to map to It's filled with tons of songs from many sources, whole midi pack soundtracks and some classics from the nineties, I hope everyone enjoys!

Ah A more laid back community project? Well count me in!

This map is quite unlike any experience I've ever had in the doom engine ever.