Next Saturday is the Speedchainmap. Here's exactly how things will happen.

Time limit is 3 hours. In this time, you are to create some connected rooms which I'll stick together with others. It'd be best if you have a single 'setpiece', and a few rooms leading and leaving it. Place some important monsters, or any neat gameplay ideas you may have for your area. Weapons, items, and balencing of monsters will be my job after getting things together. It'll be preferable if you use worldcraft or radiant and send me the map in .map format.

The texture set will be rubicon by metlslime. Please use this .wad
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm82_wad.zip
If you've never seen/used the set before, it'd be a good idea to look at the original map metlslime used it for, or Vondur's awesome Zed for some inspiration/ideas.
http://www.celephais.net/levels.shtml
http://vondur.net/maps/zed.html

You may notice in the wad I've decided to use Zed's sky, and get rid of metl's original rocks and replace them with a ground texture and cliff. I'd like for this map to be a bit darker than rubicon, and think we should use some arcane monsters alongside the grunts and enforcers. Let's try and think of it as a military installation out in the elderworld or something like that.

any questions? 

So what wad are we gonna use for the chainmap? I don't think I have rubicon, so I'd need to get it. Also Scampie could you send me all the parts you get too when the session is done? 

posting the EXACT SAME TIME as me scampie. 

all the parts will be included with the released .bsp. I don't fancy racing with people to put together this map. 

http://www.vondur.net and Zed page is at http://www.vondur.net/maps/zed.html 

that the links worked, now they don't ... 

do I have be on IRC for this event? I don't have any IRC client installed ATM. 

DO NOT INSTALL IRC. YOU WILL LOSE ALL HOPE.

And no you don't have to be on IRC. scampie accepts map submissions via e-mail. 

just make something beforehand, email it to me, and I'll try and stick it into the map.

which is something I forgot to mention. I'll try to use all map sections I get, but like in the past, it's not always possible to use everyone's work. you still get credit in the readme though! 

do we leave our map open so you can connect at those parts or do you just demolish parts of the map and then connect wherever you see fit? 

don't think of it like making a map. you're just building some interconnected rooms. I hope to not need to do much demolishing, just some fixes and pieces to join things together nicely. so basically, yes, leave things open. 

if i just made a bunch of non connected room? just seperate areas... would you want that in the same .map file, or seperate .maps? 

I might be ineterested in participating... What textures sets are planned to be used for the next one? 

See #513!! 

i guess so, but it may make it more difficult to mix them in. seperate .maps would be best if you go this route.

Jago: yeah! learn to read! rubicon! this is the .wad that must be used.
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm82_wad.zip 

This sounds cool. What texture set are you using? 

anyone 1 post before this and after asking what texture set we're using will be banned! 

Seems speedmapping is pretty buzzing at the moment...

What's this week's theme again?? 

BANNED! 

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Theres a terrible lack of crate textures in sm82.wad. What am I supposed to do- create original room designs without filling up space with crates? Preposterous! 

becuase the rubicon crates sucked :P

So does the rest of the set, actually (except maybe the slime texture,) but i don't think i can talk scampie out of using it on those grounds. 

yeah i meant idbase crates, of course :)

ive always liked the set, but i wish it had more to offer. most of them are hard to modify because of odd riveting. and by 'modify' i mean 'copy/paste into new dimensions'. it sorta lends itself to being blocky (hi vondur). 

map with the textures! not against them!

and let me just officially annouce that idbase crates are kosher for this event. 

The Rubicon crates aren't very good. What crates should I use for SM82?