If anyone wants the SM40 .maps (maybe to add them to the speedmapping archive) you can get them here:
rpg.spawnpoint.org/files/mirrors/sm40_q1.zip

And if anyone wants the SM40 contest results (maybe to add them to the speedmapping archive) you can get them here:
rpg.spawnpoint.org/files/mirrors/sm40contest.zip 

http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/files/mirrors/sm40_q1.zip
http://rpg.spawnpoint.org/files/mirrors/sm40contest.zip 

so, who wan sm94 ?) 

...way better than sm94!!! Speed's totally rocks, even though I can't seem to finish it (what should happen after the vores on the upper floor? I get stuck in a room where you drop after the last vore... nothing happens). Moz and Tron seem to have picked my idea (or do they?)of making a map follow the other, doubling the pleasure...
Voodoo's just the short little sweetie at the end of the meal... LOved the texes.
Thanks, too good for a monday night... 

what map do you guys usually put into trigger_changelevel? 

I like to either put the name of a map someone else is going to work on (ie sm94_bam) or a map that's already been made that everyone should have (ie e1m1rmx) or start (ie start) or end (ie end). 

Donde esta? 

At the speedq1 site, moderators haven't confirmed the news yet tho. 

Ok, this iss approximately how I remember, I might be wrong on many points:

zwiffle's was nice and clean and polished, except too little ammo, some a bit hard jumps, and that hidden windpush was harder to find than necessary, I kept jumping there and falling behind the push. I liked the idea and layout of the whole thing.

headthump's map was awful frameratewise but otherwise quite hectic. The ogres very high on platforms just suck when you have the super shotgun, likewise fiends in a pit - you just keep standing and shooting with the button floored - it takes quite long. :( I ended up taking shortcuts / avoiding fights by jumping to funny places from the slopes and not killing the end enemies or the shambler. Had no ammo or health anyway. Funny shapes, some small texturing errors. There was a bug at the silver door, it was very hard to get up from the stairs there. And in other stairs too, you had to jump.

rpg's map was a bit more polished but the stairs-enemy-stairs thing was gameplay wise a bit boring. Oh, there's a vore - well I can shoot him and then go back behing the corner. rinse and repeat. Everybody's placing vores like this! Why??

Tron's map was nice. About time mappers gave the freaking rocket launchers to the player!
I liked this one the best.

I wonder how much time went into these - some maps were so big and still quite detailed. Quite skilled guys you are.

And btw, I hope making the map float in void is not becoming too much of a fashion! 

The thing: "The Room" - (ripped from Silent Hill 4 :D )
The Other Thing: #speedq1, gamesnet
The Last Thing: Saturday, June 18th, 2005, at 3:00 pm Central time
Another Thing: Be there and be square. 

or anything from that series, what is the tie in with 'the room' theme? 

The full title of Silent Hill 4 is

"Silent Hill 4: The Room"

I got the idea from that. That's all. :) 

that may be fun. I'll google the heck out of it from here and see if it spawns a few ideas.

I hope the entire game wasn't one room, those things can cost some serious money! 

...looks like the kingpin textures would be useful for this session. 

Box Rooms here we come! 

Seems to be a very nice idea for a speedmap, ultra open ended. I even have an idea for one now, i just have to find the time do make it ( definetly an out of session one if it works out ). 

I found this in my info search . .

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/silent_hill_4_plot_a.txt

much more interesting than box maps (ninety degree angles - ugh!)

I'll spend tomorrow avoiding getting any real work accomplished and just scribble maps in my notebook. 

were you able to get a speed map session this week-end?

I had a motherboard meltdown of my machine devoted to Quake :(, so no contribution this week, 

They haven't posted news yet, so blame Von and/or metl, inattentive bastids. 

SM97 - "Nowhere to hide" with a subtheme "We Miss You CZG"
Time: 3:00 pm Central, Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Where: #speedq1, quakenet
Woot! A few more weeks until Speedmapping day or something. 

CZG is still here, which I'm grateful for, but why the 'we miss you?'

(I'm continuing my tradition of asking naive questions after a speedmap theme announcement ;))

anyways, I hope to have enough of my Quake stuff downloaded and rebuilt to map this weekend. However, I'm downgraded to a PII 433 with an ati Rage Pro board, all of 4 MG of memory. Woot-hoo. Life is freakin' sweet, baby! 

You definitely need a theme and a sub-theme for a speedmapping session. Particularly when both of them are pretty incomprehensible! 

has been brought to you by the number F. 

Is that a sponsorship thing or yet another theme to it? 

CZG quit coming to #tf, that's why the "We Miss You"

Next week the subtheme will be "Shut up, Headthump!" :D

PS: That's a joke at SM32, which was a chainmap called "Shut up, RPG!", just in case you were going to ask :P