Always wanted to be a part of a jam and I will make the deadline.
Definitely a new experience to do this much mapping at this rate with life never slowing down but I will finish!

Count Bloughsburgh in! 

Sounds like a title. 

If I can't reach all of my goals I simple just lower my goals so I can make at least decent map. For example I have no time to make higher floor at all, even though I will leave the elevator - I just fill with couple boxes and set some dramatic red flickering lights there.

But anyway, I'm in ~ count NewHouse in!

BTW I haven't done start map ever, is it easy to do? I really wouldn't like to spend much time on that. 

I haven't done much work on my map this past week. 

Hmm,

Now I want to go play Castlevania. 

Remember, only on your break* 

Feeling bad I never had anything to show so here is one picture from in game. Lighting is off from the screenshot and ignore the trigger brush that isn't set as a trigger yet!

http://www.quaketastic.com/files/Jam7/mjb_jam7pic.jpg

Brushwork - 90%
Lighting - 80%
Entities - 10%
Logic/Gameplay - 40% 

Maybe it won't be 100% what I wanted, but still I'll have something ;)

Deadline is 18th 23:59? or 0:00? and what time zone? 

I live in Finland, and for me it's now monday 1:13AM when is my deadline? At least I want to keep my sleeping rhythm normal. 

Don't worry lighting is imo just about 1/3 of the map or even less - other than that it looks really nice old-school styled map. I personally almost feel bad about how I'm mapping my map, I constantly try to hold back and focus on "abstract level design".

I started working on Control Room and Entrance. But I will show it yet, it wouldn't be surprise then ~ If I show everything about my map ;P 

Midnight Pacific Time. Which I think is the next day for most people out there. Granted, if you're a little late, it's not a huge deal. 

I will not show it yet* 

My map won't be released on time, I've had an interstate trip and three weeks of sickness to deal with.

It's getting there, but slowly. I'll release it as a mapjam-addendum later. 

Are you talking about DLCs now ; ) 

It's a gold subscriber special, I'm going to mail it out on floppies. It will have a loader and be ace'd across multiple volumes. 

 

I wonder just how many Australians there are here for the local shipping? 

Does Quoth support trigger states?

Example:

Go through one area where a trigger_once is passed but it is currently "turned off". After you do some things, coming back to this area the trigger is now "on".

I know there are some hacks to get something like this to work but just wondering if Quoth already supported. 

Check out this and other logic entities: info_logic_inopen ,with this and trigger_multiple you could block trigger from firing events. I use this logic elements to make multi-condition doors :) 

How to play custom/default sounds?

If I use func_train how do I play "Machine" sound which is common for basic base doors? In func_door it is sounds 2: Machine. Do I just type it, but there is no custom option in func_train.. 

From what I am aware only has that rackety sound. You might want to use a horizontal func_door or something. You could try to play with the sound point entities as well. 

I haven't updated the FGD yet, since I don't fully understand the process myself, but func_train has keys named 'noise' and 'noise1' that you can use to play custom sounds. The documentation here is out of date, I think, since as far as I can tell 'noise' is the stop sound and 'noise1' is the start sound, with no clear way to play a separate sound effect for movement (or a way to stop a looping start sound when the train stops, which I thought might have been a nice workaround).

Right now I'm using a play_sound_triggered, set to the sound effect I want, and with a 'target' of my train so the effect plays from that entity's origin. I've also set attenuation ('speed') to -1 to play at full volume everywhere, since although the sound effect is only positioned at the train's starting origin, and doesn't otherwise move with the object.

If I had a better understanding of this I'd updated my FGD with the extra fields, but for the time being you can just disable SmartEdit in Jack and add noise and noise1 yourself, if you want them.

On the subject of my own map, between last week's distractions, this week's heatwave, and a general lack of ideas, I've gotten basically nothing done. I'm working on something now, but I wouldn't hold out much hope for it being done in time. I did Retro Jam 4 in 4 days, though, so fingers crossed. 

Unfortunately I use Trenchbroom and I mostly try to figure out keys from docs etc. Sounds a bit tedious to play around different sounds.. I already made something wierd combining trigger, doors, and func_train.. it's messy and I'm not proud about it - but it seems I don't have much time to work around this. But definitely for the more polished version I'm going to use some of that knowledge. 

How to make button which requires silver key and it trigger func_train? 

Well first thing that comes to mind is just make that button a door. I think only doors can have the SILVER KEY REQUIRED key so if you want the actual key in the inventory to be used you'd have to go that route. Could be wrong, that's just what I know.