[Ultimate Doom Community Project] Solar Struggle - Making maps where names are pre-selected (Development thread) [Looking for artists] [WE HAVE ALL THE MAPS]

[pcorf]

I love the concept. Good luck with this project.

[Captain Toenail]

I'm always up for a community project. Sign me up for E3M5: Helium Refinery

[ViolentBeetle]

Oh yes, I forgot to mention. texture pack also has WFALL texture (Code for it always existed, but texture was missing until final doom) and DBRAIN is replaced with proper lava fall (Since there won't be Icon of Sin) - it might be useful for your efforts.

[Pegleg]

Put me down for E1M6.

I'm sorry, but I've changed my mind. Move my reservation to E3M6, please.

Edited October 2, 2021 by Pegleg

[maxresdefault]

I'll have E1M2.

[Walter confetti]

What a interesting concept!

[ViolentBeetle]

Oh, another amendment I'll add to the opening post, try making your map co-op friendly. As much as possible avoid things like doors that close behind you and can't be re-opened by another people who might want to get in.

[BluePineapple72]

E3M4 please! Love me some palsma!

[Shawny]

@Pegleg Thank you, much appreciated.
Claiming E1M6.

[SMG_Man]

would like to sign up for E4M6 if that's cool

[xdude_gamer]

If you need any metal, I might be able to make a few MIDIs for the project :)

[ViolentBeetle]

Just now, xdude_gamer said:

If you need any metal, I might be able to make a few MIDIs for the project :)

I'm not familiar with your work, but custom midis are always great. Too early to think of it right now, though. Perhaps when submissions start coming, you'll be interested to make something for them?

[xdude_gamer]

Just now, ViolentBeetle said:

I'm not familiar with your work, but custom midis are always great. Too early to think of it right now, though. Perhaps when submissions start coming, you'll be interested to make something for them?

Sure! I'm kinda amateur right now, made a few MIDIs for a deathmatch project. It would be a little better to see the levels before I make music though, so I'll follow the submissions and come up with ideas. Good luck on the project! :)

[CBM]

cool project and already populated with some very good mappers!

I look forward to see how it turns out.

 

 

[ViolentBeetle]

Seems like description of episode 4 wasn't entirely clear.

You aren't supposed to walk on sky. The theme is about platforms floating in the sky, away from solid ground, so something solid must be present in where you are meant to be walking, but when you look outside the map, through a window, or fence, you see sky below and no solid ground.

[DFF]

I'm assuming for now mappers can only claim one slot? I like the premise enough I could see myself doing a 2nd but I also get letting as many participate in the begining.

[ViolentBeetle]

Just now, DFF said:

I'm assuming for now mappers can only claim one slot? I like the premise enough I could see myself doing a 2nd but I also get letting as many participate in the begining.

Yeah, there will be moratorium on claiming second map, if there's no new claims, and/or people would give up their slots, those who already turned one map over would be able to claim again.

[Hitboi]

5 hours ago, ViolentBeetle said:

which will be used to create custom intermission screens.

Are you talking about Doom 1 styled intermission screens or intermission screens for each level?

[ViolentBeetle]

Yeah, hopefully. There's a limit on what can be done with original, so probably something more static and abstract, but UMAPINFO lets you assign intermissions for each level.

[Pixel Fiend]

Go, guys! Be imaginative and it will be as awesome as Literalism.

[RHhe82]

A couple of additional question sprang to mind: The playing area is around 2048-4096 pixels wide -- but can there be scenery areas players can't access (that serve only as decoration, lunar landscapes and such) that span over the set limit?

 

Second: we really make it for Ultimate Doom WAD file, so absolutely no super shotguns, no endless streams of revenants, no archviles, nothing but good old Ultimate Doom stuff, just with additional textures? (This is my interpretation anyway, but I'm sure there will be at least one person who will make the mistake :P).

[MemeMind]

Im a bit late but ill take e3m7.

Train map sounds interesting.

 

 

[ViolentBeetle]

9 minutes ago, RHhe82 said:

A couple of additional question sprang to mind: The playing area is around 2048-4096 pixels wide -- but can there be scenery areas players can't access (that serve only as decoration, lunar landscapes and such) that span over the set limit?

 

Second: we really make it for Ultimate Doom WAD file, so absolutely no super shotguns, no endless streams of revenants, no archviles, nothing but good old Ultimate Doom stuff, just with additional textures? (This is my interpretation anyway, but I'm sure there will be at least one person who will make the mistake :P).

You can place scenery, just don't overdo it.

 

And on the second, yes, this is correct. Only doom 1 monsters and guns.

 

Additonally: There seems to be an issue with switches I didn't anticipate. I'll have to go and see what's up with that tomorrow. For now, be careful.

I might need to combine a couple of switches into one texture to solve it.

Edited October 2, 2021 by ViolentBeetle

[ViolentBeetle]

It turned out switches introduced in Doom 2 do not change properly in Ultimate Doom. I didn't anticipate it, considering animations work fine on both PrBoom and Crispy, but live and learn. Tomorrow I will make an update to texture pack that merges D2 switches with something from D1.

[Engired]

Can I do E4M7?

[CBM]

I think I would like to try my hand at E4M8

 

Episode 4
M8: Impact Site

 

so it will be in a crater on a planet, with a city inside... it will likely not be a floating city per say but I will include a spider master mind and I will try to avoid too much overdetailing

 

dont expect any boom tricks, mainly because I don't know any boom tricks

 

I have little time but since this has no official time limit, then I can just slowly work on the map when time allows it

Edited October 2, 2021 by CBM

[ViolentBeetle]

6 minutes ago, CBM said:

I think I would like to try my hand at E4M8

 

Episode 4
M8: Impact Site

 

so it will be in a crater on a planet, with a city inside... it will likely not be a floating city per say but I will include a spider master mind and I will try to avoid too much overdetailing

 

dont expect any boom tricks, mainly because I don't know any boom tricks

 

I have little time but since this has no official time limit, then I can just slowly work on the map when time allows it

You have already jumped off the city in the last level. So it doesn't need to be depicted. Still, you can have some buildings if you want to.

Also we are doing limit-removing, not Boom, anyway.

 

In either case, it's your.

[CBM]

15 minutes ago, ViolentBeetle said:

You have already jumped off the city in the last level. So it doesn't need to be depicted. Still, you can have some buildings if you want to.

Also we are doing limit-removing, not Boom, anyway.

 

In either case, it's your.

questions...

 

so just regular old doom map format then

( or as UDoomBuilder calls it... doom: doom 2 (doom format) )?

 

"Aesthetic of the episode - floating city, lots open space, not just with sky ceiling, but also sky floor and open space to a horizon. Corruption on medium level, otherwise city/techbase design. Lots of environmental hazards, crushers and damaging floors."

 

so a crater, with some buildings perhaps

 

and a sky floor in patches? like f_sky1? also a sky ceiling, f_sky1?

 

what is meant by "Corruption on medium level" ?

 

this crater, is it the result of a missile impact or is it created centuries ago by a large meteor colliding with the planet? (assuming its a meteor)

 

humble beginning:

 

so I need to add buildings, caves, "curruption?", hazards

Edited October 2, 2021 by CBM

[ViolentBeetle]

9 minutes ago, CBM said:

questions...

 

so just regular old doom map format then

( or as UDoomBuilder calls it... doom: doom 2 (doom format) )?

 

"Aesthetic of the episode - floating city, lots open space, not just with sky ceiling, but also sky floor and open space to a horizon. Corruption on medium level, otherwise city/techbase design. Lots of environmental hazards, crushers and damaging floors."

 

so a crater, with some buildings perhaps

 

and a sky floor in patches? like f_sky1? also a sky ceiling, f_sky1?

what is meant by "Corruption on medium level" ?

 

this crater, is it the result of a missile impact or is it created centuries ago by a large meteor colliding with the planet?

Doom: Doom format, actually. Not Doom 2.

 

The aesthetic doesn't really applied to E4M8 because you are already on the ground. Floating city are the other maps. The way I see it is that crater was left behind by a satanic asteroid, but you can imagine a different scenario.

 

Corruption on medium level - there can be multiple places with demonic design among the mundane ones. It's also less relevant for E4M8 because crater is probably mostly rock.

[CBM]

18 minutes ago, ViolentBeetle said:

Doom: Doom format, actually. Not Doom 2.

 

The aesthetic doesn't really applied to E4M8 because you are already on the ground. Floating city are the other maps. The way I see it is that crater was left behind by a satanic asteroid, but you can imagine a different scenario.

 

Corruption on medium level - there can be multiple places with demonic design among the mundane ones. It's also less relevant for E4M8 because crater is probably mostly rock.

ok

( using "doom: doom (doom format)" in ultimate doom builder)

 

I have discovered something odd though when testing... in the editor the 4 crater images looks ok, but ingame they have some very distinct lines all around them?

 

Edited October 2, 2021 by CBM