Progress Thread - March 2007 [Archive]

PumpkinSmasher

March 2nd, 2007, 09:56 AM

Just to make sure things stay up to date, here's another thread. Keep this thread for progress reporting only, keep other discussion in other threads. Please reply to this thread so we know you are still working on your maps.

We have 9 completed maps, so lets work hard at getting the rest of the maps completed.

A * is next to maps which I have a copy of.

MAP01 The Hive//Dutch Devil completed *
MAP02 untitled//Macro11_1 *
MAP03 Voiced Silence//Danimetal completed *
MAP04 Infestations//Mr.Rocket completed *
MAP05 Wasted!//Falci completed *
MAP06 AMADEUS//Jetflock completed *
MAP07 untitled//LoganMTM 99%
MAP08 Shoot Down//LoganMTM completed *
MAP09 Pistons//ace *
MAP10 untitled//NetNomad 30%
MAP11 Painkiller//Dutch Devil completed *
MAP12 Something Died//Exl completed *
MAP13 Straniero Complex//General Greivous 90%
MAP14 untitled//Macro11_1
MAP15 Down the Drain//Osiris's_Legacy 34%
MAP16 Conglom Map//Various 80%*
MAP17 Alien Tech//Jetflock completed *
MAP18 Ominous Core//Doom_Dude 85%*
MAP19
MAP20 Oppress The Demons//Nuxius
MAP21 Second Attention//Danimetal *
MAP22 Path To Gory//Fatal
MAP23 Hope's Last Sanctuary//General Greivous 90%
MAP24 untitled//CrazedImp
MAP25 radracer//Jetflock *
MAP26 Hell Awaits//Dutch Devil 5%
MAP27 Arch Vile Temple//LoganMTM completed *
MAP28 untitled//g6672D
MAP29 Rusted Turmoil//DooMAD completed *
MAP30 untitled//Logan MTM 90%
MAP31 Todeskopf//Steve88
MAP32 untitled//Raptor Jesus

Possible BACK-UP Mappers:
Dutch Devil
exl
Pumpkin_Smasher

Dutch Devil

March 2nd, 2007, 10:49 AM

Map11 99%, map19 5%, map01 100%, I will send you map11 asap maybe this weekend allready.

Map 19 is called "Hell Awaits" btw.

Logan MTM

March 2nd, 2007, 11:02 AM

Map07 99%, Map30 90%.

The Map07 still haven't a name by now but the Map30 is called "Icon of Caos"!

Danimetal

March 2nd, 2007, 11:48 AM

Still at 95 or something percent as I haven´t touched the map as of lately. I have this feeling that I could complete it in a couple of days but that particular couple of days keeps on being elusive to me.

ace

March 2nd, 2007, 12:24 PM

Still 99%. Now that my 13-Years letter is done I'm going to focus on finishing what I started last month with tweaking the gameplay, and then I'll send it on ahead. I can assure you right now, however, if that map isn't at 100% for the April progress thread, I must either have been severely disabled or killed at some point this month. I'm not THAT lazy. :p

PumpkinSmasher

March 2nd, 2007, 02:13 PM

haha..you're fine ace. You are still light years ahead of some of the others.

Osiris's_Legacy

March 2nd, 2007, 03:59 PM

Map15 34% complete.

DooMAD

March 3rd, 2007, 07:20 AM

Still 95%. I've been lazy again.

Dutch Devil

March 3rd, 2007, 08:07 AM

Can I see Exl his map perhaps so I can redesign my exit?

PumpkinSmasher

March 3rd, 2007, 08:56 AM

I'll send you a PM with it here in a couple minutes Dutch.

What do yall think about trying to get this released sometime over the summer?

Osiris's Legacy: have you done the end of your map yet? I would like to see it when you have it ready, so I can add connectivity to the conglom map.

Once again, Nuxius and AlysiumX haven't been around in a while, if anyone has any back-up maps they would like to contribute, we may be able to plug them into their slots if they don't return.

Dutch Devil

March 3rd, 2007, 10:26 AM

Summer would be fine for me I only have some minor stuff to do on map11 and one map to make I got some nice drawings allready so I expect progress to be quick on that one.

Thanks for the map I will make my exit different, about that back-up map I have something else in progress I could post a few screens later.

PumpkinSmasher

March 3rd, 2007, 10:32 AM

I don't really want to set a hard release date, but sometime over the summer may be nice, or at least get it into testing phase by then. I mean I don't want anyone to have to rush to get their map done. Say we release it at the end of the summer thats still about 5 months away. And we have a lot of maps with 25% or less left to get done.

I may work on a smallish map to possibly fit in as a backup map as well. Hopefully we won't need them.

DooMAD

March 3rd, 2007, 05:21 PM

I'm going to do a bit more playtesting before I say for certain that I'm done, but I've finished fixing all those small visual annoyances in my map. I'll say it's 99% complete for now, just in case I find anything wrong. I might also tweak the coop gameplay a bit more, which I hope is something other maps are including.

The only problem is, with the deathmatch area included, it weighs in at 33k segs, which is 1k too many for some ports. If it's an issue I'll just nuke the DM area and use part of the SP area instead.

PumpkinSmasher

March 6th, 2007, 09:57 AM

Has anyone been able to get in touch with Nuxius or AlysiumX lately?

Doom_Dude

March 6th, 2007, 10:58 AM

I'm still at 85% with map18...

Dutch Devil

March 6th, 2007, 04:10 PM

Almost done with map11 I keep finding small things that could be improved, tested in Zdoom ZdoomGL and Gzdoom so far still need to test it in some other ports.

[edit]Just found an huge bug while playing with prboom I had an untagged S1 yellow door which started acting weird when I tried opening the door.

Nice intermission midi it sounds like Seinfeld am I right here :p

General Greivous

March 7th, 2007, 05:38 AM

Working on my maps today ;)

General Greivous

March 7th, 2007, 06:21 AM

Progress update for Map 13: Straniero Complex - 90% done

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9990/ndcp13ajo3.gif

PumpkinSmasher

March 7th, 2007, 08:31 AM

Looks great GG

Dutch Devil

March 7th, 2007, 01:55 PM

Holy shit that looks very nice I really like it.

Dutch Devil

March 8th, 2007, 02:51 PM

Ok map11 is 100% done I will send you my map in an minute PS I don't think there are any more bugs hiding somewhere in my map :p

PumpkinSmasher

March 8th, 2007, 03:13 PM

got your map...list updated

Dutch Devil

March 8th, 2007, 05:37 PM

Ok made some progress on my starting room its not quite done yet but it took a few hours to get this room like I wanted to.
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1773/doom0000tn9.th.png (http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doom0000tn9.png)
Its an bit of an copy and paste jobby but thats ok right for an starting room :p the teleporter will take you to an large rocky area surrounded by an lake of lava I still have to create that so its still in my mind and some bits are drawn on paper.

Logan MTM

March 8th, 2007, 06:23 PM

I hate you Dutch! ¬¬'

:D

PumpkinSmasher

March 8th, 2007, 06:33 PM

I love you Dutch! ¬¬'

:D

MR_ROCKET

March 8th, 2007, 06:58 PM

ZaaaP* ouch the static !

:D

Logan MTM

March 8th, 2007, 06:59 PM

Well, i hope that sounds like a joke! *confused*

MR_ROCKET

March 8th, 2007, 07:00 PM

It does Logan don't worry ;)

PumpkinSmasher

March 8th, 2007, 07:37 PM

joke? Whats a joke?

jetflock

March 9th, 2007, 06:04 AM

General Greivous

March 9th, 2007, 06:23 AM

so, pumpkin, i have the final copies of my maps. toying around with some other resources, so as soon as i get some more blank cd's, my map will be in.
on another note: did i ever mention that the newdoom community beats the hell out of doomworld?

There used to be quite a rivalry so no one ever brings that up anymore, but I agree with you nonetheless ;)

PumpkinSmasher

March 9th, 2007, 07:00 AM

Sounds good Jetflock.

And please don't bring that up. It always leads to arguments.

jetflock

March 9th, 2007, 07:27 AM

Sounds good Jetflock.

And please don't bring that up. It always leads to arguments.
lol.+ more characters.

Dutch Devil

March 9th, 2007, 04:11 PM

ZaaaP* ouch the static !
Static is not good?? what does it mean I'm still looking for evil sounding midi's I'm quite picky when choosing music found one midi from doom64 but it sounds messed up when playing ingame.

General Greivous

March 9th, 2007, 04:18 PM

Static is not good?? what does it mean I'm still looking for evil sounding midi's I'm quite picky when choosing music found one midi from doom64 but it sounds messed up when playing ingame.

I'm having the same issue choosing a good midi. Map 13 is supposed to be an alien base, so all the typical Doom midis don't work well. I think I've been spoiled by the mp3 support in various ports *crazy*

Dutch Devil

March 9th, 2007, 04:28 PM

Yeah got the same thing I thought found an good one the other day and wanted to use it for my map11 until I found out it was in mp3 format..bugger it sounded too good to be an midi I should have known :p

Ah well back to my map19 the starting room has changed an bit a few different textures and got rid of the pointy corners in the ceiling still not happy with it so I keep shaving on it.

g6672D

March 10th, 2007, 03:48 AM

As my PC has been crashing in any hard-drive based O/S, I'm only able to use my Linux Live CD. Therefore, until I can replace it, my mapping is at a standstill.

But at least I backed it up this time. So I didn't lose my work. :) Not like last time...

Dutch Devil

March 10th, 2007, 11:10 AM

Another screen all the marble/gstone still needs to be replaced with black marble/gstone.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9233/doom0002ib7.th.png (http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doom0002ib7.png)

General Greivous

March 10th, 2007, 11:29 AM

Looking great Dutch :)

Just as a note, I hadn't taken the time to play any one else's maps until I got the pre-merge last night. I enjoyed every one of those maps, and everyone is doing a great job.

Also, awesome idea on putting all our names in the final map :)

Logan MTM

March 11th, 2007, 01:49 AM

...still needs to be replaced with black marble/gstone.
Do you need of some like this?
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/5730/wall482bg4.png (http://imageshack.us)
More black than that could make the texture just BLACK! *confused*

Dutch Devil

March 11th, 2007, 07:21 AM

Oh yes yes thats what I'm looking for nice job look great nice and dark and evil :p

[edit]Ive been working on an small cave area today and yesterday making caves is not really my strong point so I tried my best to make it look like one.
http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/1893/doom0003uu7.th.png (http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doom0003uu7.png)
Dark shot sorry this is the only area which is going to be pretty dark after this cave there is an huge outside area with an evil stronghold in the distance.I'm planning to use only pure hellish monster so no monsters with cybernetic parts on them.

Logan MTM

March 11th, 2007, 12:00 PM

Well, can i do the other textures then?
Marbles and GStones right?

Dutch Devil

March 11th, 2007, 12:18 PM

Yeah sure cool thanks alot man, yup only need black ones the red ones I can get elsewhere.

General Greivous

March 11th, 2007, 05:29 PM

Redesigned my entry way to be of relation to Exl's exit.

Anyone heard from CrazedImp? Is he still doing Map14? The exit is going to be a teleport exit so whatever happens to keep consistency all the beginning needs is the player starting on or around a room with a teleporter.

PumpkinSmasher

March 11th, 2007, 05:41 PM

I don't have CrazedImp's map, you could try sending him a PM if you want to see his map.

Also as there are a couple people who haven't posted in a while, if you would like to do a backup map let me know in here, I want to take note of who is interested in making a back-up map as I have no-list of who has expressed interest in the past.

Logan MTM

March 11th, 2007, 09:35 PM

Damn!
These textures looks fine at the moment they are loaded into the Wad! *confused*
Just a moment Dutch. I'll send these textures to you soon!

Dutch Devil

March 12th, 2007, 11:56 AM

Ok Logan will check my email @PS allready got an back up map in progress but first I will work on map19.

I hate flu ugh won't do much mapping until I feel better ive slept most of the day, anybody has an new nose for me mine is full atm :p

PumpkinSmasher

March 12th, 2007, 01:14 PM

Alright Dutch. I just wanted to know who all had a map that could possibly be used. I can't guarantee it will make it into the project, so definitely focus on map19.

Dutch Devil

March 12th, 2007, 02:13 PM

No problem I leave that back up map alone for now of course map19 needs my full attention and thats what its going to get.

Its no problem if it doesn't get into this project I will find some other use for it if its not needed :)

General Greivous

March 12th, 2007, 02:26 PM

I have a few unreleased maps that're Boom compatible that could be used in emergency. I have two hell maps that I can think of.

Dutch Devil

March 12th, 2007, 03:19 PM

Couldn't resist to do a little mapping today this is the exit out of that dark cavern area.
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/6534/doom0000sv6.th.png (http://img111.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doom0000sv6.png)
The name "The Shores Of Hell" sounds good to me also but I think I will stick to my current name.
Too bad I can't use this sky for my map :(

DooMAD

March 12th, 2007, 04:00 PM

Too bad I can't use this sky for my map :(
It certainly suits the map.

There's always a chance you might be able to switch slots if someone in the 21-30 group of slots doesn't finish in time or disappears completely. And even if all the maps are finished, it might be deemed appropriate to juggle the order a bit for the sake of theming of difficulty.

PumpkinSmasher

March 12th, 2007, 05:46 PM

Well, since AlysiumX has seemingly disappeared you may be able to take slot 24.

CrazedImp

March 12th, 2007, 08:12 PM

Don't you mean slot26? It seems he has his name on that one, slot24 is mine. ;)

And yes, I am still working on mine, I just want to fix things up a bit more before I post some screenshots (namely, adding some monsters so it looks alive).

PumpkinSmasher

March 12th, 2007, 08:26 PM

eh...my mistake

Logan MTM

March 12th, 2007, 11:37 PM

What?
Free slots? Where?!?!

FATAL

March 13th, 2007, 08:23 AM

AlysiumX is missing in action, even on messenger programs. I hope he hasn't left completely, such a nice chap he was!

PumpkinSmasher

March 13th, 2007, 09:06 AM

nuxius is MIA too.

Dutch Devil

March 13th, 2007, 09:48 AM

I think I will wait an while I don't want to steal his slot just yet he might be back again.

I'm using this midi for map19 opinions please I quite like it myself.
http://tango.dmclub.org/dd/files/devil.zip

Shotmap of map19:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/3264/dickheadoc5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The squary bits are invisible on the automap of course, the area on the left is the starting room.

Macro11_1

March 13th, 2007, 04:15 PM

AlysiumX is missing in action, even on messenger programs. I hope he hasn't left completely, such a nice chap he was!

Last time I talked to him on msn he was just getting in to Warcraft 3...

yeah... dosent look good.

General Greivous

March 13th, 2007, 05:12 PM

Last time I talked to him on msn he was just getting in to Warcraft 3...

yeah... dosent look good.

I can personally testify that one who wishes to maintain any sort of productivity should avoid any and all Blizzard Entertainment games. *what*

Macro11_1

March 14th, 2007, 01:02 AM

Map Progress has Stagnated for a bit for me... ill post a new report when I actually get some thing more done *wacky*

Reason for the slowness is because I took up a map I didnt expect to have to take for another Community map pack. So Now I have 3 maps. sorry... Im working on them all at the same time tho :)

I will probably have progress by tomorrow.

FATAL

March 14th, 2007, 09:01 AM

Last time I talked to him on msn he was just getting in to Warcraft 3...

yeah... dosent look good.
Hey, when was the last time you talked with him?

The last time I was able to contact him was on 2nd of January.

Macro11_1

March 14th, 2007, 09:10 AM

Well, its been since the end of January FATAL.

This is how I remember it:
Macro "Hey X, Wana play starcraft?"
X "No, Me got WoW"
Macro "Wana Play some DooM in a bit then?"
X "No, Me got WoW"
Macro "... Allright... oh well.. Hey my NDCP2 map is comming along well... Heres some Screenshots <link>"
X "No, Me got WoW"
Macro "Well... Uhh... ok then.. I guess Ill talk to you later"
X "No, Me got WoW... oh and I work alot this week"

My guess is some personal shit happened, or something. I dont know... you know, I think I should try emailing the guy -_-'....

FATAL

March 14th, 2007, 09:15 AM

I think I'll do just that.

General Greivous

March 14th, 2007, 09:55 AM

Exl

March 14th, 2007, 10:34 AM

Take it from me, never ever touch that game if you value your productivity and freedom. Dead serious.

Dutch Devil

March 14th, 2007, 11:59 AM

Send him an email message every five minutes or so :p damn traitor leave doom for some crap game :p

DooMAD

March 14th, 2007, 04:03 PM

Whee, provisional 100% completion rating for map29. Hopefully it's done, but I'll post it here so people can look for bugs and errors:

http://www.teamhellspawn.com/rustedturmoil.zip

NetNomad

March 14th, 2007, 04:10 PM

So X has been lost to WoW, then? Well goddamn. I thought he was a bit smarter than that. <_>

Really, if you're going to play an online game, play one with a small, decent community and one which won't take over your whole life. Doom and PSO (http://nomadpso.awardspace.com/) are the only online games I ever play, both of which have long ago lost "fad" status. It makes a huge difference, trust me.

As for my map, still around 30%, though I managed to do the transition from map09.

Dutch Devil

March 15th, 2007, 08:42 AM

New shot still needs more rocky stepstones the lava does 20% damage and it needs to be bigger, how do I make the AD_LAVA texture to scroll down I took an peek at DooMAD his map29 but my scrolling is all weird and messed up I don't know how to fix that :(

One texture flows down nicely but the ones next to it are scrolling in all kind of directions, uhm total progress is 25%.
http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4382/doom0001xf6.th.png (http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=doom0001xf6.png)

Hey Logan any luck with the textures yet I can't wait to put them in :) ok back to work SIR YES SIR!!!

Logan MTM

March 15th, 2007, 11:58 PM

Once again, nice shot! :)
Sorry Dutch!
I don't know if they are good! If not, let me know and i could try something different!

> THERE IS! < (http://rapidshare.com/files/21270159/Dutch_s_Map_Textures.zip.html)

jetflock

March 16th, 2007, 01:41 AM

If there truly are backup mappers that want another slot, let me take away map17. the more i play/edit/look at it, the more i hate it. IF this throws a wrench into things, no problem, I will polish it up as I have and am doing and submit it. Anyone wants the spot though, its happily all yours. :)

PumpkinSmasher

March 16th, 2007, 06:20 AM

Jet: I'll leave the list the way it is for now. When it come time to put the wad together, if we have extra maps I'll talk to you about it.

Dutch Devil

March 16th, 2007, 06:58 AM

Oh really nice but they might be an bit too dark I think I will try them and see how they appear ingame.

DooMAD

March 16th, 2007, 11:10 AM

how do I make the AD_LAVA texture to scroll down I took an peek at DooMAD his map29 but my scrolling is all weird and messed up I don't know how to fix that :(

One texture flows down nicely but the ones next to it are scrolling in all kind of directions
Double check that the X offset for the texture is 0 and that the Y offset is -1, or maybe -2 if you want it a bit faster. If it's not that, then I'm not sure what the problem could be.

Dutch Devil

March 17th, 2007, 07:56 AM

I did that ive set them all to -1 but it still wouldn't work why isn't there an simple scroll down action, but I will fiddle around with it some more it has to work.

If all else fails I will try to find me some lavafall textures.

[edit]Mapshot it has grown alot.
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/2265/map19ig7.th.jpg (http://img266.imageshack.us/my.php?image=map19ig7.jpg)

g6672D

March 18th, 2007, 05:20 PM

Imagine running Vista Ultimate on 512 RAM, 1.25MHz CPU and GeForce4 MX? That's what I'm doing right now. :D It's not TERRIBLY slow but certainly not recommended.

But, once I verify it is stable, I'm back into the mapping! :)

Dutch Devil

March 19th, 2007, 04:12 AM

Ok ive added my textures today and replaced the DBRAIN1-4 with lavafall textures I don't think anybody is using those the WFALL textures were allready in the recource wad so I couldn't use that for my lavafall textures.

FATAL

March 19th, 2007, 05:56 AM

PumpkinSmasher

March 20th, 2007, 07:05 PM

Well I've started a back-up map. I've got 65 sectors so far, so still a ways to go, but i'm trying.

jetflock

March 20th, 2007, 09:48 PM

"coughcoughcoughtakemap17Mr.Pumpkincoughcouchcough"....
oh, excuse me, smoked yo many ciggs today.

General Greivous

March 20th, 2007, 09:51 PM

My maps are hanging at the same completion atm. Most of what I have left is gameplay aspects, such as re-doing linedef types & triggers, and that sort of thing.

PumpkinSmasher

March 22nd, 2007, 07:09 AM

Sounds good Greivous.

Jetflock:....hmmm maybe. For now it is still a backup map since I still don't think we have enough maps.

Macro11_1

March 22nd, 2007, 12:58 PM

Hey, Quick question, cant boom do more than 32 maps?

:( no change on my maps, sorry guys!

MR_ROCKET

March 22nd, 2007, 08:21 PM

Haven't had to find out :D
Here's it's features: http://prboom.sourceforge.net/about.html#features
But for more compatibility reasons I think we'r mostly sticking with the boom specific stuff, minus the MBF's.

PumpkinSmasher

March 23rd, 2007, 07:54 AM

AlysiumX PM'd me saying he was not going to finish his map. So map26 is now available.

Macro: I think it could handle map33, but no map would exit to it. The only way to get there would be through selecting the level manually.

Also General_Greivous is Viewing User Control Panel everytime he is here. He should visit IRC more often.

General Greivous

March 23rd, 2007, 08:51 AM

Lies. All lies!

DooMAD

March 23rd, 2007, 10:33 AM

AlysiumX PM'd me saying he was not going to finish his map. So map26 is now available.
In that case, assuming everyone agrees, I'd suggest moving Dutch Devil's Hell Awaits map from slot 19 to map26. It looks really good with the hell sky.

PumpkinSmasher

March 23rd, 2007, 10:40 AM

I'll wait for Dutch to confirm, but you may be right

Dutch Devil

March 23rd, 2007, 03:23 PM

I would like to have slot26 please my map just doesn't look right with the gray sky.

PumpkinSmasher

March 23rd, 2007, 06:47 PM

Got that changed Dutch.

IRC is teh fun.

Macro11_1

March 30th, 2007, 01:02 AM

I know I know, I should be working on these maps... but I havn't been. I don't think Ill have ANY progress to report before the end of the month :( But I will really soon... hopefully :(... I'm just kind of taking a break from mapping on these two maps, don't wanna get burnt out. Anywho, so yeah same % as last progress thread.

Sorry ... :(