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Zwiffle has not soiled his reputation with this map.
You know soiled... cos it's a garden. Anyway. Ah, this is gravel, okay? Gravel. This is uuh... that's more gravel. Okay, oh, this is a shell. That.. to me, this is just me talking. It looks like a helmet for a mouse. Now, that sounds crazy, right? But, if you ask the mice about it they don't say nuttin'. textures and theme, but lighting was very digital and gameflow a bit tedious (only one route and the underwater passage wasn't very obvious). Enough ammo to do the trick, but I still exited really low on health.
...I, for one, found gameplay and flow amusing with a little bit o' backtracking (so to speak, to get the YA). Maybe I agree with Aguirre about lightning and I just didn't like the way you texed the yellow key door... Anyway, no one can complain much about nothing since you're the only one carrying the banner of speedmapping, supplying weekly doses of new scenery to us ol' Q freaks. Keep 'em coming I say. And thanks.
What do you mean by lighting being digital?
I can't really defend the tedious gameplay comment, I tried to make it a bit more circular with some secrets (anyone find the lightning gun + ammo cells?), but I agree the underwater passage was a bit tucked away. I meant in an on/off sort of way, or too high-contrast. You have strong sunlight directly from zenith next to pitch-black (no minlight level) areas. With sunlight at a lower angle and utilizing outdoor/indoor minlight, brushwork becomes less flat and more 3D.
Tedious was perhaps a too strong word, but I felt limited in movement as there was only one way through it. I found the LG and it was pretty much essential for me to pass the first shambler The passage would just need some bubbles to indicate its presence, otherwise it was fine. I also want to say thanks for keeping up the SM tradition, hopefully more mappers can contribute further on. I find this to be a useful rule of thumb, the more complex the geometry the more stark you can get away with making your shadows when enhancing its 3-Dimensionality, and counterwise, the simpler the geometry the more you may want to soften the shadows to achieve the illusion of depth.
Of course, it isn't a matter of right and wrong. Schools of art approach shadowing differently. The Spanish Masters used highly contrasting shadows to give a stark feel to their work and the Dutch Masters used soft, 'foggy' shadowing for the affected mood of their art. So....there's 3 or more spawn down there, you can't see jack shit because of the water, and they're all bouncing about furiously trying to get up to you. So the only way to do it is stand on the edge, randomly shooting down. And then, they explode in your face.
No, sorry, it simply doesn't work. ...jump in the water, shoot the fishes, wake the spawns, shoot the first one, it'll take off the 2nd exploding inside the tunnel... done. No health lost in the process. ;))
This week I thought it'd be fun to speedmap in the same style of one of my favorite DM maps: Black Coffee by Drannerz. Not my favorite because of gameplay or anything, just mood, style, layout and architecture. So...
Theme: Black Coffee (SP or DM) When: Saturday, November 20th, 2004, 3:00 PM Central Where: gamesurge.irc.net, #speedq1 If you even attempt this most daring of challenges, then brownie points for you. If you attempt AND complete it, then send it on over to zerglingxx@ameritech.net or zerglingxx@operamail.com so I can strap everything up in one nice package. If you plan on participating but not on Saturday, let me know beforehand so I don't go ahead and release my map by its lonesome. It hates being alone. :( I should have the In Q1 format.
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/DRANZDM6.zip Two maps, one by me, one by FMB superstar Mike Woodham who made an AWESOME map. Couple really great moments in there. PLAY NOW YOU MONKEY PEOPLE.
http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm91_pack.zip maybe it's about time to submit a news story about the last few weeks or so of speedmap packs to let everyone know that it's still going and show off the stuff. Would be good to get all the links to the last few weeks of packs together.
sm91_zwiffle was a bit "fighting optional". Still pretty cool, though it probably suffered from being compared to sm91_fmb, which was just absurdly good for a speedmap :)
Copy of original ReadMe file...
Prefabs of arches taken from Dranzdm6 Wad from Dranzdm6 Prefab build: 15 minutes Other walls: 75 minutes Lighting: 60 minutes Monsters: 30 minutes Buttons etc: 35 minutes Compiles: 20 minutes Playtesting: 30 minutes It's no good, I cannot do anything in 100 minutes. I've now got a headache and a HOM effect that I have no time to deal with.
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