[Forge]

Edited by: Mblackwell

Ion Fury mapping information is very WIP. Documentation and some samples are available from the following website:
https://furymap.lerppu.net/

Please feel free to ask questions here or on Discord (either community or 3D Realms). Oasiz helped with most of the effects work as I programmed them, and therefore was a big aid to all of the mappers and came up with some strategies to accomplish all sorts of things (seemingly unlimited it can feel like) with the effectors that were cooked up.

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Original Post
Can we get a proper sub forum please?
Instead of re-posting a link to this every time the page flips.

DavoX, on 16 August 2019 - 09:31 PM, said:

Editor is here:

http://voidpoint.com...tor_20190815.7z

LeoD, on 18 August 2019 - 06:31 AM, said:

Yes. Get Voidpoint's "Ion Fury Level Editor" from here. It's actually the same Mapster32 executable as in the corresponding synthesis build. But you need the accompanying files to work with IF maps.

(link has a wallpaper too)

oasiz, on 17 August 2019 - 12:56 AM, said:

Slightly outdated but I will work on the documentation now.

[Forge]

Fox, on 18 August 2019 - 10:27 AM, said:

Spoiler

0: Normal

1-12 Remap whole spectrum without fullbrights

1: Grayscale
2: Tan
3: Brown
4: Desaturated Green
5: Green
6: Desaturated Blue
7: Blue
8: Purple
9: Red
10: Orange-brown
11: Yellow
12: Orange-yellow

13-17 Remaps blue range and fullbrights
(For light textures, but can be used for remapping blue color if you like the results)

13: Gray
14: Yellow/orange
15: Red
16: Green
17: Blue

18-29 Remaps blue range (Actors and textures)

18: Grayscale
19: Tan
20: Brown
21: Desaturated Green
22: Green
23: Desaturated Blue
24: Blue
25: Purple
26: Red
27: Orange-brown
28: Yellow
29: Orange-yellow

30-41 Remaps blue both ranges - Saturated blue into a color and the desat blue into a desaturated variant (Actors and textures)

30: Grayscale / Grayscale
31: Tan / Grayscale
32: Brown / Tan
33: Desaturated Green / Grayscale
34: Green / Desaturated Green
35: Desaturated Blue / Grayscale
36: Blue / Desaturated Blue
37: Purple / Desaturated Blue
38: Red / Brown
39: Orange-brown / Brown
40: Yellow / Tan
41: Orange-yellow / Brown

42-53 Remap whole spectrum without fullbrights (Sprites inherit the sector floor palette)

42: Grayscale
43: Tan
44: Brown
45: Desaturated Green
46: Green
47: Desaturated Blue
48: Blue
49: Purple
50: Red
51: Orange-brown
52: Yellow
53: Orange-yellow

54-59 Disable fullbrights, light remaps without fullbrights

54: Disable fullbrights (They're converted to closest normal colors)

55: Fullbrights are standard blue color
56: Blue range is gray and fullbrights are standard gray
57: Blue range is green and fullbrights are standard green
58: Blue range is orange-yellow and fullbrights are standard orange-yellow
59: Blue range is red and fullbrights are standard red

60-61 Low saturation

60: Low saturation with fullbrights intact
61: Low saturation with fullbrights desaturated and non fullbright

62: Boosted contrast

63: Inverted colors

64-75 Inverted + Color remaps

64: Inverted + remapped to gray
65: Inverted + remapped to tan
66: Inverted + remapped to brown
67: Inverted + remapped to pale green
68: Inverted + remapped to green
69: Inverted + remapped to pale blue
70: Inverted + remapped to blue
71: Inverted + remapped to purple
72: Inverted + remapped to red
73: Inverted + remapped to yellow/orange/red
74: Inverted + remapped to yellow
75: Inverted + remapped to yellow/brown

76-77 Pitch black

76: Pitch black but no change on fullbrights
77: Completely pitch black

78-90 Remap blue to metallic colors (primarily for vehicles)

78: Black
79: Silver
80: White
81: Tan
82: Brown
83: Desaturated Green
84: Green
85: Desaturated Blue
86: Blue
87: Purple
88: Red
89: Yellow
90: Gold

91-103 Remap blue and saturated blue to metallic colors (primarily for vehicles)

91: Black / Desaturated Blue
92: Silver / Desaturated Blue
93: White / Desaturated Blue
94: Tan / Grayscale
95: Brown / Tan
96: Desaturated Green / Grayscale
97: Green / Desaturated Green
98: Desaturated Blue / Gray
99: Blue / Desaturated Blue
100: Purple / Desaturated Blue
101: Red / Brown
102: Yellow / Tan
103: Gold / Tan

104-105 Orange tinting (rusty or burner appearance) with high contrast

104: Orange tinting with high contrast
105: Orange tinting with high contrast (disable fullbrights)

106-110 Remap blue to fullbrights

106: Fullbright blue
107: Fullbright gray
108: Fullbright green
109: Fullbright yellow/orange
110: Fullbright red

111-115 Remap whole spectrum to fullbrights

111: Fullbright blue [REMOVED]
112: Fullbright gray [REMOVED]
113: Fullbright green [REMOVED]
114: Fullbright yellow/orange [REMOVED]
115: Fullbright red [REMOVED]

116: Remap whole spectrum to the closest fullbright [REMOVED]

117: Remap fullbrights to pitch black

118-124 Shade tables

118: Fade to white ("screen"), opposite of regular fade to black ("multiply")
119: Fade to black boosted contrast ("color burn") without fullbrights
120: Fade to black boosted contrast ("color burn")
121: Fade to white boosted contrast ("color dodge")
122: Fade to black using substractive blend ("linear burn) without fullbrights
123: Fade to black using substractive blend ("linear burn)
124: Fade to white using additive blend ("linear dodge")

125-126 Orange tinting (rusty or burner appearance)

125: Orange tinting
126: Orange tinting (disable fullbrights)

1-12 Remap whole spectrum but preserve saturation

127: Tan
128: Brown
129: Desaturated Green
130: Green
131: Desaturated Blue
132: Blue
133: Purple
134: Red
135: Orange-brown
136: Yellow
137: Orange-yellow

138-139 All white

138: All white but no change on fullbrights
139: Completely all white

140: remap blue and fullbright blue to pitch black and desaturated blue to dark gray

141: desaturate blue, desaturated blue, green and desaturated green

142-152: color overlay

142: Tan
143: Brown
144: Desaturated Green
145: Green
146: Desaturated Blue
147: Blue
148: Purple
149: Red
150: Orange-brown
151: Yellow
152: Orange-yellow

153-164 Remap saturated brown, brown, blue and green ranges (primarily for zombies)

Definitely useful for mapping

[Marya]

Forge, on 18 August 2019 - 11:45 AM, said:

Definitely useful for mapping

already on mapping i see, Good luck and Have fun guys.

[MC84]

I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but I'm pretty excited to be able to play with the added functionality of the IF editor - is it likely that the new effects/sector effectors will be usable at some point with the standard duke palette and tiles? I've probably created over a thousand textures that conform to the duke3d palette and so I'd prefer to keep using the duke3d version of mapster...

[oasiz]

New effectors will be more or less challenging/hard to port over to duke. Only really the editing scripts can be ported over without much trouble.

[Radar]

I know this is most likely a long ways off, but I'm gonna make sure I'm ready for when multiplayer comes out. This is a widely known dukematch map. Y'all ain't my friend if you don't know what this is.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

very nice

[Micky C]

Do you mind editing that post to remove the quoted image from one post above?



I hope some of the documentation will be on blending. This smooth shadow sprite is remarkable.

[Sixty Four]

Nice, having a look at the editor here. Hmm interesting.

[MC84]

oasiz, on 19 August 2019 - 01:13 PM, said:

New effectors will be more or less challenging/hard to port over to duke. Only really the editing scripts can be ported over without much trouble.

Ok no worries, thanks for clearing that up

[Striker]

Radar, on 19 August 2019 - 07:03 PM, said:

I know this is most likely a long ways off, but I'm gonna make sure I'm ready for when multiplayer comes out. This is a widely known dukematch map. Y'all ain't my friend if you don't know what this is.

iodanzig?

[MetHy]

Micky C, on 19 August 2019 - 07:33 PM, said:

I hope some of the documentation will be on blending.

Blend modes:
0: Alpha 33% (normal)
1: 32 Alpha in Steps of 1/64
129: Screen
130: Multiply
255: Additive

To edit sprites blend (qwerty keyboard layout): alt+q or F8
For maskwall: alt+m or F8.

For maskwalls you have to enter the value as negative (-130 instead of 130, for instance); and also maskwalls don't have "blend" so "extra" was hijacked for it, as a result maskwalls will not appear in their blend mode in mapster32, only in game.
Since you have no visual feedback when enditing maskwalls' blends in the editor, if you don't want to waste time launching the game over and over just so you can edit the maskwall and see what it looks like, the trick is to use a temp sprite of the same picnum to get the visual right in the editor and then apply that to your maskwall when satisfied.

Make sure to try combining blend modes with different PALs, or even picnums. Some miracles can happen.

Edit:

Radar, on 19 August 2019 - 07:03 PM, said:

I know this is most likely a long ways off, but I'm gonna make sure I'm ready for when multiplayer comes out. This is a widely known dukematch map. Y'all ain't my friend if you don't know what this is.

https://i.imgur.com/MbukWCR.png

I don't remember the name of the map, but I vividly remember enjoying this map a lot with friends

Spoiler

in Half Life.

Hope you'll finish it!
Or maybe I got the wrong map here

[Radar]

Striker, on 20 August 2019 - 12:17 AM, said:

iodanzig?

Iodanzig was the first, and much less common, version.

This is iod2.

MetHy, on 20 August 2019 - 12:19 AM, said:

I don't remember the name of the map, but I vividly remember enjoying this map a lot with friends

Spoiler

in Half Life.

Hope you'll finish it!
Or maybe I got the wrong map here

This is a Duke map that I'm converting to IF style texturing and geometry, but it could have been based on a Half Life map. Were you playing a vanilla HL map, or a user map? If it was a user map, the Duke version probably came first.

[oasiz]

For blends, I highly recommend trying this: take a dark glass sprite, use a PAL over 64 (inverse) this makes it bright, then use blend 130 (ALT Q) and make it transparent
This works even in classic and can give you the strong tinted glass look that we use in many places.
Keep in mind that MASKWALL will always be without any blend previews, you have to check it ingame!

130 = anything that is white turns to transparent, highly recommended to check with anything that has a B&W gradient
129/255 = Use with anything that is WHITE, opposite of 130.

[oasiz]

Marya, on 20 August 2019 - 11:20 AM, said:

If you liked the game then please respect and keep this OT stuff out.
This is a thread about mapping for the game and I'd rather focus on trying to write a guide for mapping than moderate :/

EDIT: https://furymap.lerppu.net/
Slowly adding stuff here, you can glance at the palette swaps at least in a bit more visual way.

If people have any questions meanwhile, please let me know and I will gladly answer!

[Forge]

Cover blending next please, if it's convenient. That seems pretty interesting

[Hank]

... and maybe the added (extended) SE and ST sets.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

yeah I've been playing around with it too
so much new shit to learn

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

update I add a few more touches to this map. I might add something to spawn more "balls" but I'm probably going to move on to a more serous map

[MetHy]

Truck Stop Santa Claus, on 20 August 2019 - 08:06 PM, said:

I might add something to spawn more "balls" but I'm probably going to move on to a more serous map

Try having a switch, or something, linked to a R2 or a SP+ that spawns the severe'd head or the skull's picnum. You can set it so the player can use it as many times as they'd like.

For extra fun, use a MFX+ with the same channel that triggers the "whistle" sound.

[oasiz]

Protip with respawns, you can point at any R2 compatible object and press CTRL ALT SHIFT Q to transform between a sprite and respawn (you can also upgrade legacy ones).
R2 allows you to pass pretty much every tag in the game (patrols, squad tags, etc..) and can be remote triggered.

[oasiz]

https://furymap.lerp...rences/blending

Updated with some of the blending examples.
I will add a screenshot or two near the from our maps to showcase the before/after perhaps.

[Micky C]

Interesting. What’s the practical difference between screen and additive, and in what circumstances would you use one over the other?

I found surprisingly little information on such a comparison from google.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

oasiz, on 21 August 2019 - 10:35 AM, said:

Protip with respawns, you can point at any R2 compatible object and press CTRL ALT SHIFT Q to transform between a sprite and respawn (you can also upgrade legacy ones).
R2 allows you to pass pretty much every tag in the game (patrols, squad tags, etc..) and can be remote triggered.

I tried that but got some weird results
Tiny little heads, that slowly fly up into space

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

New map
this one is going to have lots of zombies

[DisgustedGrunt]

Comment moved to the Ion Fury topic.

[Forge]

Thank you for making that, but I have the same question as

Micky C, on 21 August 2019 - 03:41 PM, said:

Interesting. What’s the practical difference between screen and additive, and in what circumstances would you use one over the other?

I found surprisingly little information on such a comparison from google.

^this
they're basically the same description and the same example pictures. I'm not understanding the differnce unless there's a specific application where one would be used over the other - like in addition to a pal or other modifier

[Jblade]

screen makes whites more translucent, additive makes blacks more translucent, that's the very tl;dr version I think.

[Micky C]

Screen also makes black more translucent. You're thinking of multiply.

Screen and additive have the exact same description copied and pasted. Additive even says it's the inverse of multiply, which isn't correct (that's screen). My untrained eye is unable to see any difference in the images either.

[MetHy]

I genuinely don't think we've used blend 255 (additive) in any maps, at least I haven't, although it's probably used for some gameplay stuff.

In short, on the mapping side, 129 (screen) was mostly used for gradients, lights or similar effect (the "fog" effect on the walls in z1a4; or used in combination with paletted sectors like coloured lights or nukage); and 130 (multiply) for sprite shadows and to make tainted windows.

A nice little tip Oasiz shared to me once is using Alpha blend 1 to make sprites 100% invisible. For instance if you look at the broken glass for the vat at the end of the train level (z4a1), the broken glass is a maskwall, so proper collision was impossible; so I faked it using sprites with a glass property, sprites of difference sizes and given blend alpha 1 to make them invisible. As a result, it looks like only the "glass" part of the maskwall can be shot.