Latest Update Is Near

[Doom_Dude]

I just looked through the last couple topics and figured out roughly who is doing what... I got the news typed up in Dreamweaver and all I got to do is fix the Levels page and get a few screenshots up. Where can I get the maps that are newly completed? I have Exl's and Pumpkinsmasher's zips that they put up just recently and I can make my own screenshots. I might get to finish this tonight but I need to go search for news for the three sites and work on that before the day is done. If anybody has any news to add to this stuff:

Paul Corfiatis joined the team to work on map06 and his map is finished.
iori named his map The Ignorant which he says is about 30% done.
Exl finished Xenturion (map08)
DoomedAce is working on map29 which he is calling Crack of Doom.
Pumpkinsmasher is working on the last details of Map21: 13th Cross.
Frades is 99% finished of Shotfun (map04 )

[PumpkinSmasher]

sparky said he was gonna host them, so i guess you should talk to him and see what all he has.

[Doom_Dude]

Im sure he'll show up here sometime soon. :p

I need Pauls map for screenies. If I don't get that soon I'm going to bed and I'll do the update in the morning.

[Sparky]

map21, map08 and map06 are on my web space

i thought i sent you screenies DD
if not, here they are again
http://sparky.suhost.com/screens.zip

[Doom_Dude]

All I need is map06.... send me the link to your webspace as I can't find it. Anyhow I got the screens now I can update. :p

[edit] These screens are of Paul's map right? Also what is he calling it?

[edit edit] UPDATE IS DONE! If there is anything I need to add / change please let me know. I'll news this on the main page in a few. :D

[PumpkinSmasher]

hey you updated it, though i have to say i was right when i said you wouldn't have it done by Sunday.

[Doom_Dude]

Only because I was working Sat and Sunday and I didn't have the screenshots last night or I could've updated then. .

[Sparky]

i emailed paul to see if he had a title yet
also there are 16 maps done instead of 15 :P
15 is what it says in the news

[Doom_Dude]

Well how about going to the Maps Names topic and finding which one I'm missing that is complete because I dunno what the 16th one is.

[Exl]

Hey, and update! :)

BTW, I counted 17 maps (if you included PumpkinSmasher's "still tweaking" map).

[Doom_Dude]

Yeah that one I know about but what is the 16th map? *bug*

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Did you update the screens DD? Or did you lose the ones I sent? I've got some here if you need them.

[Doom_Dude]

I have them here someplace... Ummm if the ones on the site have nothing to do with your map then we can change them otherwise I don't think it's needed. As long as we have 3 shots of everybodys map then thats all we really need.

[PumpkinSmasher]

Well if there are 16, then we are halfway done, thats pretty good. There are some people on the levels page that I've never heard of, I was just wondering if yall have heard from them to make sure they are doing their maps.

[Sparky]

ok here is a list of the finished maps that i have

Map01
Map02
Map05
Map06
Map08
Map12
Map13
Map14
Map18
Map20
Map21
Map22
Map23
Map28
Map30
Map31

Total: 16

also The name of pauls map is Le Bellingor

[PumpkinSmasher]

hmmm Ninja said he counted one more map. What do yall think of the name "Bellum Crucis" for my map.

[Doom_Dude]

Sounds ok. Think I like 13th Cross better.

Wait you said 31..... Kaiser's map isn't finished.

[PumpkinSmasher]

I counted 17 on the levels page.
01
02
04
05
06
08
12
13
14
18
20
21
22
23
28
30
32

But then me and Doom_Goat are still tweaking our maps, so that would be 15.

[Sparky]

opps i meant map32 :P
17 maps may be finished, but i only have have 16

[Doom_Dude]

I think I need a beer. So what one am I missing? /me confused by these 'done but still working on' maps.

[edit] Ok I went ahead and recounted them on the Levels page and we do have 17 if you count the one Doom_Goat is still tweaking.

[PumpkinSmasher]

Yea it looks like Doom_Dude just can't count!

[Doom_Dude]

Whatever. Its still only 15 maps that are finished since you and D_G are still working on yours. If your working on it, how can it be finished?

[PumpkinSmasher]

Well the update loos good DD. I'm glad that we are halfway done(well close enough). I hope this project gets finished soon. You need to start ragging people to finish their maps and give us some updates.

[Doom_Dude]

Yeah thats what I was thinking. :D

[Sparky]

how is there only 15 maps done if i have 16?

[Doom_Dude]

Well since I can't count then you figure it out. :p

[Exl]

I say we still need half a megawad. Screw counting.

[PumpkinSmasher]

I think we shouldn't keep a list, and just take whoever can get a map in the quickest. Then we can get this finished and start NDCP2.

[Doom_Dude]

Im not gonna be doing any NDCP2...... *eek*

*hides in the bushes*

[DooMAD]

....Then we can get this finished and start NDCP2.

Don't you mean NDLW (http://forums.newdoom.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20797)? :p

[PumpkinSmasher]

O yea I forgot about that. Didn't it used to be a sticky in here?

[Sparky]

hehe
ndcp2? yea right :)

[Doom_Dude]

O yea I forgot about that. Didn't it used to be a sticky in here?

Yeah but it kinda went dead so it got unstuck. Heh

[Exl]

NDCP2? NDLW? omgwtfbbq

[iori]

Speaking of BBQ's Exl, im gonna have one, because apart from tweaking/adding difficulty settings, my maps DONE! HUZZAH!

http://members.shaw.ca/jprimmett/doom/ndcp11_top.jpg

[Exl]

Now hand over the file! We have our rights!

[iori]

NO RIGHTS FOR YOU! NONE! 1 YEAR!

[Exl]

*bawl*

[iori]

Come see the file at #legacy. Thats where I let Frades test it. Or are you too good for us? Rotten sod.

Its still kinda buggy, so I wont release it here until its polished.

Oh, and Doom_Dude, there was an error in your news. I had said that my map was 30% from completion, not 30% into it. But now its 99% done, so we're all happy :)

[Sparky]

coolness iori :D

[Doom_Dude]

Oh, and Doom_Dude, there was an error in your news. I had said that my map was 30% from completion, not 30% into it. But now its 99% done, so we're all happy :)

Coolness. 99% is good.. :D

[Sparky]

paul, wants to do another map
if i promised anyone the next map slot
please speak up, i forgot :p
next one goes to him if i dont hear from anyone

[Doom_Dude]

I think you promised Fatal the next.

[FATAL]

Yea, I think that's me.
Any info about the slot by the way?

Not that I would want anyone to drop out of the project *rolleyes*

[Sparky]

ok. cool fatal gets the next then
no info ;p just map !!

[DoomedAce]

Howdy all you Doom punks! The Ace is back *smirk*. Well... For the moment at least...

Unfortunately, progress on the map since the last update is 0.0%. Haven't touched neither Doom, nor my PC, nor ANY PC in over two months. Just been busy with other things that needed... to be taken care of, heh-heh.. :p

I'll try to resume work on my map (Yes, I said TRY. I need to pick up mapping all over again). I don't think I'll be on the forums all that much, but at least you know I'm still in the project and - trying to be - working on my map.

Later.. :)

[Doom_Dude]

Hi DoomedAce, what % do you have done?

[DoomedAce]

I think it's about at 40% now.

[PumpkinSmasher]

anyone wanna test out my map its almost done.

[Doom_Dude]

Hey PumpkinSmasher, the last time I played your map there was some unalignments on crates.... hope you fixed that. Send me the map and I'll check it out. I'm in that kinda Doom mood. ;)

[PumpkinSmasher]

i PM'd you the d/l, so get back to me when you can.

[Doom_Dude]

Okay PumpkinSmasher I played your map. I did a run-through without monsters and I'll do the monster thing tomorrow. Anyhow there's a few odds and ends you can do to the texturing to make it look better.

1) Some of the floor textures under the doors or adjacent to don't match the surrounding flats. I think it would look better if they matched.

2) The first secret door with the Brownhug texture on it has the front texture unpegged. When the door goes up the texture doesn't move with the door which looks weird. Take the unpeg off and offset it by 72 to align it with the surrounding walls.

3) First big green techdoor. The front is unaligned. Methinks Doom Builder moved it when you were using the auto-align textures feature. :p

4) At the same big green door. There are 2 narrow walls in the doorway facing each other that need aligning. Set the lower unpeg on these to On. Same with the walls in the door next to the bigdoor. Lower unpeg them for quick aligning.

5) There's two little alcoves near the yellow key that have the yellow light textures in them. Above each of these you should unpeg above. Same goes for the two raised parts that are on either side of the room that you can drop down onto from where you get the yellow key. The back walls can be aligned by unpegging above.

6) The tall brown crate just below the yellow key area you can look down upon and the top is unaligned.

6a) Sides of doorway at the bluekey door...unpeg below (same deal as #4)

7) Past the yellow key door, hang a left and the end wall between the candlabras looks bad. The left side has an offset of 16. Change it to 0.

8) The next brown door has some monitor texture above it and methinks some other texture should go there like maybe compspan.

9) The area with the green striped techwalls. When you hit the switch the walls raise but the walls facing the player have the upper unpegged setting set to on. The textures don't scroll when the walls raise. Take the setting off them as it's uneeded.

10) The next area is a dark comp-maze and the entry has a ceiling height of 112 so the walls there look like they have parts stuck in the floor. Use the compspan texture on those walls. Compspan works great on any wall in a comp room that is a off-size. There are some other little walls here and there that could use compspan. I think you'll find that breaking up the walls between compspan and the other comp textures will look better.

Okay now for the good news. ;) That area near the end of the map that contains the brown rusty wall textures with the big rivets, red wall lights and circles in the ceiling looks really COOL! Thats a really nice looking room methinks. I also like your gouping of crates near the entry and the room with the Plasm Gun looks good too with the crusher and the flashing lights. The room with the yellow key has good design. Nice map PumpkinSmasher and with a few xtra tweaks it'll be even better. :D

[PumpkinSmasher]

I'll fix those this afternoon.

[Doom_Dude]

Sounds good. *shades*

[Ninja_of_DooM]

Still haven't finished my new Legacy So map so I haven't been able to work on JB and modify it. I'm incapable of working on 2 maps at once. It's why JB isn't so good.

[Doom_Dude]

What kinda Legacy map are you doing Ninja?

[PumpkinSmasher]

Okay I've read over your list Doom_Dude and tried to fix everything as best as I could.Okay heres the progress:

1)I fixed all the flats under and above doors and the surrounding.
2)I unchecked the unpegged flag for the brown secret door.
3)Hmmm...this was a strange problem. The only way i found to fix it was to actually move the door over 4 units.
4)Fixed those unalignments.
5)Fixed those unalignments as well.
6)Got rid of that crate.
6a)Unpegged that.
7)changed that alignment
8)Consider it COMPSPAN'd
9)The Unpegged Flag has been unchecked.
10)Did some COMPSPANism here. I'll look for some other places that may use that.

And thanks for telling me about the areas you liked. If oyu have any other ideas or suggestions please let me know. Other than that I'm jsut about finished.

[Doom_Dude]

Sounds good Pumpkinsmasher. I just remembered. You have a switch in the dark comp-maze area and when you hit the switch a door in the wall near the switch opens. The doortracks could use unpegging as I noticed they move with the door. Beyond the door is a teleport that takes you to a damaging sector thats very dark. By the way is there anything in that room or is it just a trap?

[PumpkinSmasher]

its just a trap, you supposed to go to the other telporter back to the main room. I'll fix that real quick like. I'm also gonna make it so that if you run around enough you can get out of the trap.

[Doom_Dude]

Okee dokee. I figured it was just a trap. ;)

[PumpkinSmasher]

hehe, itll get a lot of people. I'm do a bit with weapon and ammo placement, and then send it up. It seems a little low, but if you find all the secrets you should be fine.

[Doom_Dude]

Sounds good Mr Smasher. ;)