Lavapitt Temple (DM wad)

[Doom_Dude]

After 2 days of editing I came up with this beastie! I made 7 newish wall textures and 10 flats plus edited 2 sprites from doom...the burning barrel and the tall red torch. I hope its satisfactory and I have a plan for anouther Deathmatch wad in my brain cell.

DOWNLOAD LAVAPITT TEMPLE HERE IF YA WANT IT! (ftp://megawad@server1.thefourwinds.net/maps/lavapitt.zip)

Heres a screenie.... Also check out the featured screenshot on the newdoom main page.
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/themegawad/dm_screens/dm002.JPG

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[Stphrz]

Cool. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm35.gif The new graphics are pretty good too! Some of that bit of "sparkle" effect (most noticable on the grid like floor flat in the bright open areas) could be reduced if you smoothed some the small areas of high detail/contrast in the graphic. Maybe by running it through a slight blur filter or something. You won't notice this if you run it in gl mode as everything gets smoothed over anyway.

The level is nice. Good layout. Lotsa space to run about like a maniac spraying lead everywhere http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif Just how I like 'em.

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[Doom_Dude]

Thanx for the comments / review Stphrz. Might try your texture trick later. Is that theory or practice? http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif

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[Stphrz]

Practice. Small areas (ie detail lines a pixel or two wide) of high contrast don't work well in Doom because of the way the software renderer works by removing rows and columns of pixels to scale the graphic with distance. At one point the detail can be seen, the next it's gone.

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[Doom_Dude]

Yeah I noticed that loss of detail thinghy before but wasn't sure what to do about it. Ok thanx Stphrz will keep that in mind for next map or whatever. I seem to be in an editing frenzy.

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[Aliotroph?]

Stupid software always screws up out maps, except for one of my levels which was screwy in GL.

Love that level D_D. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm35.gif

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[mystic]

Classy. I love the textures too.

Stefirz, thanks for giving us that wee tip, thats been bothering me for a long time now.

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[Big_al]

Will check it out when I get home from work tonight. Although the screengrabs look good.

Just had a look, very good indeed, show that you don't need fancy Legacy effects to make a good looking level.
Too dam good, means I'm going to have to try hard with my next level, grrr http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/biggrin.gif

I never saw any "sparkles", maybe its your graphics card.

[Stphrz]

As I said, you probably won't see it in gl mode. Try running it in software and you'll see how the thin bright lines along the edges of the floor flat kinda flash in and out of existance as you move. It's not a big deal, just something I noticed :)

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif">quote:</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif" size="2">Too dam good, means I'm going to have to try hard with my next level, grrr </font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>yeah, Doom_Dude is real good at making super nice looking ruin/temple type levels. I just had another look at it. The new wood textures are really good. Better than the Doom2 ones. He should redo Templecore using the new textures.

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[Doom_Dude]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif">quote:</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif" size="2">Just had a look, very good indeed, show that you don't need fancy Legacy effects to make a good looking level.
Too dam good, means I'm going to have to try hard with my next level, grrr.</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

Hey Thanks Big_al. That was my intention...to make a map that looks good without going for the fancy room over room 'HYPE' and such, but thats just me. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif


<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif">quote:</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica, serif" size="2">yeah, Doom_Dude is real good at making super nice looking ruin/temple type levels. I just had another look at it. The new wood textures are really good. Better than the Doom2 ones. He should redo Templecore using the new textures.</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks Stphrz! I have 2 projects on the go...Vilecore2.0 and Deathcore. Lavapitt will be map04 in Deathcore along with my other 2 dm maps plus some others including the Demonic Outpost from Vilecore. Anyhow I will change / tweak the textures in Templecore for that project.

Oh and anouther thing about those 'sparkles'. I find that the bright highlight on the edge of the tile helps make those 'sparkles' in software mode. I will run the darkening tool in Wally over that and try probably do a blending to help fix it.

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[Looney]

Another fine level from Doom_Dude! Excelant work, love that stone wall texture. Now get back to work on Vilecore http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm4.gif

[mystic]

Damn, I cant download anything, I had a thing called Netants for downloading but when I re-installed windows it screws up every time.

Could you please email this wad to me while I try to find my Netants install CD.

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also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

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[Doom_Dude]

No problemo Mystic. Email on it's way to ya with me Lava Wadd. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif

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[DooMAD]

I had a quick run through it in SP, very nice. Haven't tried it in DM yet though.

[mystic]

Smucking fart. I put this little wad in the same class as the Gothicdm and fetaldm7 deathmatch levels, coming from me thats as high as praise gets. A perfect little deathmatcher, I love it

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' and 'Mystic' series of Doom wads.
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

MYSTICMEG IS CUMMING SOON
http://www.murray6.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/liam/6.gif
http://www.gtroad.net

[Big_al]

Played Mystic on this in a deathmatch tonight, plays great.
As usual it was a close run thing with only a couple of frags in it.

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[mystic]

Thats Big Al being modest for a change, I got well and truly hammered. I could never get the super shotgun. It will be a different story next time when I know where everything is. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm4.gif

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Creator of 'The Mummy Phuquers' and 'Mystic' series of Doom wads.
also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

MYSTICMEG IS CUMMING SOON
http://www.murray6.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/liam/6.gif
http://www.gtroad.net

[Rellik_jmd]

Nice stuff DUDE. Really good use / choice of textures.

http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

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- Mystic

[Doom_Dude]

I can't help but bump this jobby.

Thanx for all the awesome feedback on the map guys. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/biggrin.gif

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