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@Dimon12321 actually the hidden switch in the start area are things I would like to see more of, that you can access an area long before you're meant to be there - as a bonus. An other map I made is playable backwards, that is also something I would like to see more of. The barrels around the archvile is there to modulate its health, it is still as much of threat. i've lowered the bars around it a step to make it easier to hit the barrels.

 

I managed to remake my original plan for the cyberdemon, it is not lonely anymore and probably much more fun to fight.

 

I made a multiplayer area out of the last area and added more monsters, weaponds in the multiplayer setting and made the teleporter out disappear into the ceiling and bars rising to prevent egress when this mode is played, I didn't add player 2 - 4 however. This map is not really designed for that, I believe, and i can't find if it was a requirement.

 

I implemented all of your suggestions.

nh_rr2_wadV2.zipFetching info...

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  On 6/9/2020 at 8:48 PM, NeedHealth said:

I managed to remake my original plan for the cyberdemon, it is not lonely anymore and probably much more fun to fight.

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Damn, another arch-vile bastard. And now telefraging is no more =( Ah, whatever.

And what does "NH" stand for?

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Suddenly the custom animated switches stopped working and I can not figure out why. All I  did was removing a sudden dehacked lump in slade when I opened my map in it. Even when I now redownload rudy2v10 and copy the custom dehacked lump to my map ( as i originally found it) the custom switches arent animated...

 

An updated version of my map is ready in the coming days.

 

e1 - yeah, the custom animated switches are dead in the water for me. I even made a test map with a rowdy rudy custom switch and it dosent't animate any more.

 

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Damn, it's ANIMDEFS not being a vanilla compatible thing.. I didn't even acknowledge/realize that at first. I'll need to rework the texture pack to reflect this - my apologies..

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Wasn't sure if something was going on with the two @TravyB maps and the incompatibility with vanilla and so, having offered to help, I decided to go about fixing the issues. I got through MAP08, and will be looking at MAP12 shortly.

 

Here's the map file (separate from the main set, in MAP08 slot), and in spoilers I explain some of the stuff I changed:

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TravyB should take the map for a spin and see if he accepts the changes.

 

 

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Thank you so much for doing this, Aurelius! Also this is where I sheepishly admit this is the first time I’ve definitively learned what causes those tutti-fruitti steps.. I knew that making a 128px tall version of the texture would fix it, now I finally know why..

 

I’ve got the Boom-only texture stuff removed in the upcoming build too, should only be a couple days off now.

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  On 6/27/2020 at 11:26 AM, Aurelius said:

Wasn't sure if something was going on with the two @TravyB maps and the incompatibility with vanilla and so, having offered to help, I decided to go about fixing the issues. I got through MAP08, and will be looking at MAP12 shortly.

 

Here's the map file (separate from the main set, in MAP08 slot), and in spoilers I explain some of the stuff I changed:

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TravyB should take the map for a spin and see if he accepts the changes.

 

 

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Thank you so much, this works wonderfully. I really appreciate it, Aurelius. I wasn't even aware the step thing was a thing.

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@Doomkid Just a reminder. Did ye remove those .png versions of flats ABDROK2, ABDROK3, CAMO_CN1 and SLAD_GR1. They were double defined in the wad and causing visual issues. They don't need to be converted or anything, that was already done. The .png's just need to be deleted.

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@TravyB No problem man, glad to help.

 

Also, I finished with your MAP12, here's the link.

 

Changes I made here:

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Hope this works for you as well :) Ran through it in Chocorenderlimits and it should work fine.

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  On 6/28/2020 at 6:32 PM, Aurelius said:

@TravyB No problem man, glad to help.

 

Also, I finished with your MAP12, here's the link.

 

Changes I made here:

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Hope this works for you as well :) Ran through it in Chocorenderlimits and it should work fine.

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Im glad you were able to make sense of that Frankenstein of a marble room lol 

 

Thanks again, mate. 

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  On 6/28/2020 at 6:36 PM, TravyB said:

Im glad you were able to make sense of that Frankenstein of a marble room lol 

 

Thanks again, mate. 

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No problem, I've messed around with similar setups in the past :P

I just realized I only converted the thing, but there was nothing worth down there to press that switch, so I went an added a few pickups. The previous link still works, just updated the file.

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I'm still not 100% on how it works, something about changing the "unknown" properties in DeHackEd of the weapon, which somehow relate to its X and Y positions on the screen.. but I love the feature and will be happy to include it soon as I work it out.

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I've been meaning to write a tutorial in the Editing section for how to do that fast weapon switching, it's pretty straightforward once you understand roughly how it works. you'll just need 2 extra frames per weapon. if you gimmie a few days I can try to post something in either the Editing forum, or if I don't feel like doing a proper tutorial, just post some info here on it for ye Doomkid

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Hi, I fixed 2 minor visual bugs I found related to the horizon effect and added linedef actions for (G)ZDoom-based ports, hopefully there's still time to get this in before you upload the next build lol (Link)

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sorry for the delay in writing this up @Doomkid, but here's a brief explanation of the fast weapon switching technique as I understand it:

 

to start, let's just briefly talk about what A_Lower and A_Raise do by default. here's my understanding:

  • A_Raise: take the weapon from its last position (completely off screen presumably or by default I guess?), and raise its sprite up at some predefined pixel per tic ratio. when the weapon sprite is fully in view according to its sprite offsets, then we're done, and move to Ready states
  • A_Lower: take the weapon from its last position (fully in view from the Ready state presumably), and lower its sprite down at some predefined pixel per tic ratio. when the weapon sprite is fully out of view, then we're done, and can switch weapons

so the principle behind this technique for fast weapon switching is this: what if we can, before calling either A_Raise or A_Lower, preposition the weapon sprite to ~halfway where it needs to go for the purpose of A_Raise/A_Lower? so let's say as an example that for a weapon to A_Raise, it goes from point 0 (offscreen) to point 100 (fully on screen). in vanilla, this is how the frames go:

 

  1. Raise state:
    1. A_Raise, going from point 0 to point 100 (then implicitly go to Ready state)

with the fast weapon switching technique, we instead do this:

  1. Raise state:
    1. NO ACTION, but set weapon sprite at point 50
    2. A_Raise, going from point 50 to point 100 (then implicitly go to Ready state)

 

same sort of thing with A_Lower. before going into the A_Raise or A_Lower loop frame, we slot in an addition frame of duration 1 and use the extra parameters to manually adjust its sprite offset, then call A_Raise/A_Lower to do the rest of the work from that shortcut point. so here's the shotgun's Raise frames (highlighted) in vanilla:

 

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and here are the two Raise frames with fast weapons (there are extra other frames because this is a smoothly animated shotgun):

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I admit I haven't done a ton of testing with different values for the preposition frames; iirc I basically stole the numbers from D4V. you can use different numbers to make the switch speed faster or slower, but these are the numbers I'm using. so in summary, to implement fast weapon switching, here's what you would do:

 

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there are still some things about this technique that I don't quite understand and haven't bothered to experiment with. why do we need the x offset of the extra frames to be 1? why not 0? and somehow we can change the weapon speed by changing the offsets on Raise and Lower, but I haven't bothered messing with that. you could, for example, change offsets on a per-weapon basis so that eg the BFG takes longer to raise. but if you just want universal fast weapon switching, using the numbers I use will do you just fine!

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Thank you so damn much for the info, @Tango - I only just saw saw your post, but it's exactly what I needed!

 

  On 7/23/2020 at 4:10 PM, Dimon12321 said:

How are things going with a new build?

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Funny that you'd ask, I just happen to be working on it at the moment :)

 

Also, @Aurelius, about your fix for map12, some of the lumps like SEGS and SSECTORS and stuff seem to be 0 bytes in your version, and I'd have to assume that's what's causing the vanilla EXE to crash on that map. Do you possibly have a version where those lumps aren't 0 bytes? I can see the map just fine in Slade, but it just crashes in-game.

 

@NeedHealth, your map is very good - looks really nice and has great gameplay, but there are some unknown actions that prevents it from being played in vanilla or chocolate - could you possibly get them switched over to the nearest possible vanilla counterpart at some point?

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  On 7/23/2020 at 4:14 PM, Doomkid said:

Also, @Aurelius, about your fix for map12, some of the lumps like SEGS and SSECTORS and stuff seem to be 0 bytes in your version, and I'd have to assume that's what's causing the vanilla EXE to crash on that map. Do you possibly have a version where those lumps aren't 0 bytes? I can see the map just fine in Slade, but it just crashes in-game.

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I could've sworn I tested it with Choco, but yeah it's probably accidental extended nodes. I can check it out tomorrow when I get home. You can also use a different nodebuilder and see if that helps.

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No need to worry, you are totally right. Opening the map and rebuilding nodes is all it needed!

 

- Old build below, disregard -

 

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Let me know any thoughts you guys have, as always!

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1. Intermission theme is terrible. Just breaks the spirit while you're reading the text.

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  On 7/23/2020 at 5:53 PM, Doomkid said:

MikeyScoots' map will be added nearer to the end, since it will need to be a secret that can only be accessed in ZDoom based ports.)

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A small remark =)

  On 6/8/2020 at 12:24 PM, Doomkid said:

That's a good point, perhaps I should make it a Boom-compat deal since PrBoom+ would run Mikey's map just fine from what I can tell. I was going to have a secret exit in one of the earlier maps and use MAPINFO to define it, which is why I was thinking ZDoom-compat, but I suppose a "Boom and up" secret exit that exits from map15 would be totally acceptable as well.

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3. What's the main point of map rotation? If I remember correctly, you were saying somewhere that:

1) All the maps should be divided into 3 episodes where each set of maps should have the same skybox and/or texture setting (terrain)

2) Powerful weapons should be removed from early maps

 

The last one requires a specific approach. First of all, you guys should do the prioritization first. It won't be a good point just to replace more powerful weapons and their ammo with weaker ones. It depends on a certain design. Some maps give them to you in advance so you'll be ready for the further maps, while the other ones - to fight a big crowd you're about to face. Also, some secrets will become useless. I think it's better to give less ammo if you think a player gets a powerful gun too early.

 

What about beating each map from a pistol start? How much is it important? That's my next goal in testing a newly made build. 

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  On 7/23/2020 at 5:53 PM, Doomkid said:

the chaingun seizure-strobe effect was removed

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Oh, that's fine now.

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old outdated info

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  On 7/23/2020 at 7:00 PM, Doomkid said:

Also, do commonly used versions of PrBoom+ support Mapinfo? Just wondering if the secret map will have to be accessed from map15, or if it can be done from any map.

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No, only the latest one (2.5.1.7 UMapInfo). Basically, I have nothing against using it. Will have to split D2ALL TAS movie into 2 separate demos, because the latest Doom replay editor isn't compatible with Mapinfo.

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@Doomkid Doing a run through my map in the latest build, I noticed that it had some nodebuilder issues:

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So I went to see the map I sent you and it does not exhibit the same issues. I wonder if you ran it through a nodebuilder after incorporating it into the set and it might've done some screwy? I think this should be fixable by just replacing the map with the latest submission.

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  On 7/23/2020 at 7:00 PM, Doomkid said:

Also, do commonly used versions of PrBoom+ support Mapinfo? Just wondering if the secret map will have to be accessed from map15, or if it can be done from any map.

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2.5.1.7 is not commonly used yet, but imo you should go for it. The more people using Umapinfo, the better for it to grow.

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  On 7/24/2020 at 4:52 PM, Aurelius said:

@Doomkid Doing a run through my map in the latest build, I noticed that it had some nodebuilder issues:

DOOM0021.jpg.d0e1f7e3f4ec9f6a591d0f9a12ef9ba4.jpg

 

So I went to see the map I sent you and it does not exhibit the same issues. I wonder if you ran it through a nodebuilder after incorporating it into the set and it might've done some screwy? I think this should be fixable by just replacing the map with the latest submission.

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How bizarre.. I had to go through the set and do a mass replacement of all lines using the XXXFALL1 texture with BLODGR1 since it was just a non-animated placeholder before I realised how easy deleting superfluous textures is. Would you mind just replacing those textures in your map then sending it to me again, since GZDB’s default node builder seems to screw it so badly?

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  On 7/25/2020 at 3:20 AM, Doomkid said:

How bizarre.. I had to go through the set and do a mass replacement of all lines using the XXXFALL1 texture with BLODGR1 since it was just a non-animated placeholder before I realised how easy deleting superfluous textures is. Would you mind just replacing those textures in your map then sending it to me again, since GZDB’s default node builder seems to screw it so badly?

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I copied my map over to the newest build to see what textures needed changing, but apparently everything works fine as is. No texture issues, and from the animated texes I'm using the WFALL1, DBRAIN1 and BLODGR1 and those apparently weren't affected by the mass replacement.

This is the same file I sent earlier, you can just copy paste it in Slade, rename map marker lump from MAP01 to MAP15 and it should work nicely. 

 

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