How long have you been wad editing?

[Agent Spork]

I started editing... uh.. a few months ago!

[Exl]

Let's see now, no internet access without a 386, so that would make about...

/me thinks really hard, until me hears something pop

...2 and a half years by now, on and off.

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Doom is only as much fun as you make it.

[CheapAlert]

Doom mapping for 8 years

Quake mapping for 6 years

I'm bored out fo my mind when I map, i ain't releasing the mass of maps i've made

[Doom_Dude]

I started mapping for Doom II in may 1999..

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The only good Vile is a dead Vile! (archvile that is...)

[Kaiser]

since 1999 in april

[Planky]

3 weeks

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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

[Mr. Chris]

I think since late 1996. It's been over a year since I touched my favorite editor DCK, since I cannot run it in Windows 2000! http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm23.gif http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm23.gif

[Planky]

Posted same time!

havent done that for awhile

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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

[Aliotroph?]

Hmmm, been mapping since the end of 1996, so that makes about 6 years now.

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[Ninja_of_DooM]

3 weeks or maybe 4. I'm not sure.

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Member of the NewDooM megawad team. Map 14: Abandoned Nukage Plant.
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Click here for flash.
Patrick Moore playing his xylophone. (http://www.b3ta.co.uk/patrickmoore)
The animated series of DooM.
DooM E1M1 in flash (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=58822&date=1034136000)

[Ace]

About the same as Ninja here, I think http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

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....summoned the ghosts of the suitors, and in his hand he held the fair golden wand with which he seals men's eyes in sleep or wakes them just as he pleases; with this he roused the ghosts and led them, while they followed whining and gibbering behind him.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Heh. Must the time of year for new mappers to appear. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm2.gif

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Member of the NewDooM megawad team. Map 14: Abandoned Nukage Plant.
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Click here for flash.
Patrick Moore playing his xylophone. (http://www.b3ta.co.uk/patrickmoore)
The animated series of DooM.
DooM E1M1 in flash (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=58822&date=1034136000)

[Ace]

We must be the fresh blood http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm4.gif

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[Brad_tilf]

about 5 years here (haven't made a new one in over a year tho)

[X-DOOM]

since 1998
when i got Doom and Doom 2 on my birthday in march, it was the day i got my 18 years old !

well... this will be about 5 years (soon).

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Creator of -=ZD3K=-
The game is now dedicated in memory of my dog Lily (http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom/indxen.php?p=lily&lang=en)
Born at april 12 1992 and died at october 3 2002. I will never forgot you.
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom/imgs/smillies/UTFlagSmilles.gif I will teach you some move during the Deathmatch. - Are you the choosen one?

[DarkWolf]

'96

Most of '96 was learning though.

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-DarkWolf
Scientia et mors
http://www.boomspeed.com/darkwolf/bozels.gif

[Grunt]

At least seven years, but no releases at all, seeing as most of my work's been lost. > http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/frown.gif

Ah well, at least DStein will make up for everything I've missed.

Don't forget Elemental, either. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif



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~Grunt, creator of DooMenstein! Coming soon to a monitor near you!

[God-l-Send-l-Death]

About....year and a half....I was n the verge on releasing a tribute to Ultimate Doom, but it went to Hell thanks to some crap that happened to my previous pc http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm14.gif Oh well...

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I stalk, close in from above
Silent wings will test your faith
Death will never hear me pass
Pray for sin a shattered faith
Down on your knees, you're screaming out to die...

[Rellik_jmd]

LOL, I've got maps dating back to '96. I was just going through them to pick one to make my community wad out of so I played them all. Good GOD some of them are just HORRIBLE! Just unbelievably bad. I was going through them thinking "I thought that was a good idea? I musta been sniffing glue or magic markers or something..."

Heh, thankfully I've gotten atleast a little better in all this time.

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Webmaster The DOOM Editing Resource (http://www.teamdeim.com/der/)

Team Deim.com is TEMPORARILY down. It will be back, maybe in a week or two, but it will be back! DOOM Editing Resource temporary site. (http://www.telusplanet.net/public/daewoo/der/)

[Mr. Chris]

Wait...more like early '97. My serious levels were the middle or end of 1997

Look on the FTP for emails like shambler66@aol.com and chrisdrgn@hotmail.com. Those are my old, nonfunctional email addresses when I uploaded to there

[Aliotroph?]

I remember my first attempt at a serious (or so I thought) level. It was a bunch of connected rooms that basically amounted to a test map. It was sad and had some weird sidedef errors for quite a while. Some of the ideas I had are still applied to the map I'm making, although in a much more refined sense.

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[X-DOOM]

hehe i also remember my first map!

i made 1 and only 1 room o the map with the Stat location and a cyberdemon.

The sector was to small... so i lost the match against the cybie...

then now, i'm making the biggest mod never done for Doom !!!! since almost 5 years of work too.

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Creator of -=ZD3K=-
The game is now dedicated in memory of my dog Lily (http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom/indxen.php?p=lily&lang=en)
Born at april 12 1992 and died at october 3 2002. I will never forgot you.
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom
http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/x-doom/imgs/smillies/UTFlagSmilles.gif I will teach you some move during the Deathmatch. - Are you the choosen one?

[Aliotroph?]

Well, my VERY first map was a single sector, or maybe two, with nothing but a player start. Actually, it was two. I was following a DEU tutorial with my brother.

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[mystic]

Like Rellik, at least since 96 and yes I have loads of really crap wads I hope never see the light of day.

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"One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday."
yahoo ID mysticandy13, MSN mysticandy@blueyonder.co.uk

[Ninja_of_DooM]

I'm gonna make maps until I die.LOL. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm2.gif

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Member of the NewDooM megawad team. Map 14: Abandoned Nukage Plant.
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Click here for flash.
Patrick Moore playing his xylophone. (http://www.b3ta.co.uk/patrickmoore)
The animated series of DooM.
DooM E1M1 in flash (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=58822&date=1034136000)

[DarkWolf]

All my first maps are gone, never to be found. Lost them in a hard drive failure.

My first "working" map wasn't that bad, except the monsters everywhere syndrome. But I only gave that map to a friend, which I'm sure has deleted it since then.

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-DarkWolf
Scientia et mors
http://www.boomspeed.com/darkwolf/bozels.gif

[ReX]

I started in May of 1999, and by August I had released a 3-level set. Since then I've released quite a few, and I've completed a half dozen more that I'm going to unleash soon. Real soon. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm9.gif

[DooMAD]

I started in late 1999 when I got my puter. I still have most of my noobie maps, though for what reason I'm not sure. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm3.gif

[Ninja_of_DooM]

I've done a whole load of beginner maps and 2 working ones which were going into the community project. Now only one's going cos the first one won't ever see the light of day. It was soooooo bad. The second is according to sparky and epsi, really good.

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Member of the NewDooM megawad team. Map 14: Abandoned Nukage Plant.
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Click here for flash.
Patrick Moore playing his xylophone. (http://www.b3ta.co.uk/patrickmoore)
The animated series of DooM.
DooM E1M1 in flash (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=58822&date=1034136000)

[Grunt]

<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">I was following a DEU tutorial with my brother.</font><hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>

I got my start with that tutorial... it'd do well to have a revision of that for use with more modern editors so we don't see some of the released schlock we see so much with new mappers. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/wink.gif

[EDIT: We all have schlock maps, it's whether we release 'em that counts...]

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~Grunt, creator of DooMenstein! Coming soon to a monitor near you!
Proud Member of the NewDoom Community Megawad - Map23 - Elemental

[DarkWolf]

I think mappers learn quickly these days compared to the old. It took me a good while before I made a working map in DEU (I used it in the peroid where I didn't have Doom II). But it seems like someone who started more recently can grasp it quicker. Is it the editors? The fact that they're coming from editing games like Quake? Or better tutorials?

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-DarkWolf
http://www.boomspeed.com/darkwolf/windeuchick.gif

[Sphagne]

Late 1994, here. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm29.gif

Most of my good maps where designed in 1996 and 1997.

[Ace]

<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">But it seems like someone who started more recently can grasp it quicker. Is it the editors? The fact that they're coming from editing games like Quake? Or better tutorials?
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All the above I guess, theres a lot of great mappers around and there seems to be more ideas shared across the board.

Funny though I used to play a lot of wads from the archives for a quick fix and thought afterwards "hey thats not bad" , but sure enough when you start mapping yourself you tend to look twice and realise a fair percentage have flaws, e.g. I`ve played so many wads with massive bland arenas or office scenerios filled with anything and everything and never thought twice http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smile.gif

I guess when you get hooked into editing you tend to look in a different light, any of you guys feel the same?

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[Aliotroph?]

Yeah, I see every misaligned texture in every game. Heh, I even see them in real life. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm3.gif

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[Archvile46]

Since January 2002. I've only finished three levels to date but I've got quite a few more coming with things like Freedoom, CC, and the Newdoom wad.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

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WOW!!!That long? that's quite something. http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/smilies/cwm35.gif

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Member of the NewDooM megawad team. Map 14: Abandoned Nukage Plant.
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Click here for flash.
Patrick Moore playing his xylophone. (http://www.b3ta.co.uk/patrickmoore)
The animated series of DooM.
DooM E1M1 in flash (http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/content.php?id=58822&date=1034136000)