[Mister Sinister]

3/5 finished.



19 hours on the timer. This one was very frustrating to make yet it seems to be pretty fun to play.
(well, we'll see about that soon enough)

[Sanek]

LORCH3 WILL BE FINISHED BY 3RD MAPPER

Well, after almost 2 years after "bad release" of the notorious LORCH3 map, I decided to at least finish it, in some form. It will be finished not by me or ck3D (who also contribute to this project), but by another mapper, who's name I don't reveal until map will really be ready for release.

[brullov]

Sanek, on 28 April 2015 - 02:26 AM, said:

LORCH3 WILL BE FINISHED BY 3RD MAPPER

Well, after almost 2 years after "bad release" of the notorious LORCH3 map, I decided to at least finish it, in some form. It will be finished not by me or ck3D (who also contribute to this project), but by another mapper, who's name I don't reveal until map will really be ready for release.

Sorry, at night I saw not "3rd", but "3dr". Anyway it would be great if 3dr mapper finished it.

[Lunick]

MetHy?

[MetHy]

Yes?

wat

[Inspector Lagomorf]

Artem Nevinchany, on 28 April 2015 - 12:37 PM, said:

Sorry, at night I saw not "3rd", but "3dr". Anyway it would be great if 3dr mapper finished it.

Yeah, like PITCHFORD.
I think MetHy would be a good mapper for this, though.

[MetHy]

I'm sorry but it's not me. I haven't opened Mapster since I was working on my SW map which I think was last summer.

[oasiz]

Stupid build ideas #897123


Stock FX aside from TROR which was used for visual stuff
Could've looked so much better but I just wanted to try to replicate some fake spritescaler stuff in build mainly.

EDIT: Takes a while to start since it "sets up stuff" due to dirty hacks, might also require full screen since the draw distance goes pretty far away.

[Jinroh]

oasiz, on 29 April 2015 - 12:55 PM, said:

Stupid build ideas #897123


Stock FX aside from TROR which was used for visual stuff
Could've looked so much better but I just wanted to try to replicate some fake spritescaler stuff in build mainly.

EDIT: Takes a while to start since it "sets up stuff" due to dirty hacks, might also require full screen since the draw distance goes pretty far away.

Neat would be very cool to see Duke with his Jetpack space harriering it up. It's almost as if Sega was still with us today! Would be cool to get that segmented dragony boss from Exhumed and throw him in there as a throw back to the dragon in Space Harrier.

[oasiz]

A lot could be done with custom code and some art. Duke art isn't really meant for perspective fake stuff unlike outrun/harrier/afterburner etc..
This trick could be done without TROR but you'd need to stand on a platform to make it work better.
Adding more timed enemy spawns and timed pickups would have added in a bit.

Anyway, to those who might be curious, it's 3 areas (A B C). A area has a bunch of sprites (over 2.5k) stacked VERY thinly together since they will spread across
when they reach area B. A has a slow conveyor belt that moves them towards B where they speed up to 4k~ unit conveyor and spread nicely. This continues until they reach area C which is just an area where the used sprites go. Combined with some maskwall for some performance gains, separates A/B/C from each other.

Really simple trick and similar to what most train levels use already but this time with 100% sprite based geometry and SE turret thrown in just because.
Compared to usual train rides, this trick would give quite a bit of variation for a more "on-rails" ride that could last up to multiple minutes (meteorites in space?).

[Mister Sinister]

4/5 finished.



19 hours on the clock. This was very intense mapping.

[Gambini]

That colors combo never gets old. Great work!

[Hendricks266]

[brullov]

Played Death Drive and here we go. New map today or tomorrow.

[oasiz]

You can also ignore the height dropping itself and just use this to slow down subway sectors.
Technically dropfloor just keeps deducting speed(extra?) until it reaches zero and then lowers/raises floor to set Z point.

Could do all sorts of weird stuff like forklifts that roam around and spawn smoke sprites when exploded & slow down.
This is just a quick & dirty proof of concept.

While you might think "wow! This works for cool slowdowns" it won't. It needs ST to function which eliminates a lot of the potential effect roster. :/

[Micky C]

That's awesome, especially that it stops firing.

I take it you're going to make a post about it in your thread?

[oasiz]

Yeah, I'll make a post in buildporno. I have a few other use cases in my mind that I want to mess around with and release an example map with more use cases.
I have no idea why the shooting stops but my theory is that it charges shots based on the locators it enters. Since things slow down, it never gets to shoot. Maybe some coder can answer that question more proper.
Could be that speed value gets used for RNG seeding as well, when it enters zero, it will just multiply by zero.

[Sanek]

Is Mike Von Skeleton still here? I heard he's a good mapper, but what maps does he made?

[Micky C]

He doesn't map anymore.

[DavoX]

Sanek, on 04 May 2015 - 12:07 PM, said:

Is Mike Von Skeleton still here? I heard he's a good mapper, but what maps does he made?

Check it out yourself... also skellington , not skeleton lol.

http://www.vonskelli...m/levelsOld.htm


To me one of the best in terms of architecture. But yeah, he doesn't seem to map for anything anymore. It's like he vanished. Hopefully nothing happened to him.

[Paul B]

DavoX, on 05 May 2015 - 07:44 AM, said:

Check it out yourself... also skellington , not skeleton lol.

http://www.vonskelli...m/levelsOld.htm


To me one of the best in terms of architecture. But yeah, he doesn't seem to map for anything anymore. It's like he vanished. Hopefully nothing happened to him.

That's unbelievable work. Hard to believe those screenshots are from the Mapster engine. Unreal!

I dug up some information on this guy and his other website. I managed to track him down to his active e-mail address. I'll reach out to him and see what he's up to.

[Jinroh]

Paul B, on 05 May 2015 - 08:17 AM, said:

Unreal!

I see what you did there.

Yeah those are phenomenal, especially City Crackdown, those ceilings and arches are gorgeous.

[Micky C]

The stuff in the photos under the Grins of Divinity heading has been used in the final mission of the AMC TC. We'll probably end up using bits of City Crackdown Fragments as

I've reached out to him at certain times. He's still alive and doing ok, obviously he's not involved with the Duke community anymore. He's happy for people to make use of this stuff though. A few years back I added gameplay and polymer lights to one of the more standard and complete maps from City Crackdown Fragments. http://forums.duke4....post__p__110905 Perhaps the custom textures should be replaced so that it could be easier to play for everyone, and have it uploaded to some review sites.

[DavoX]

Good to know he's ok. I'll try your polymer version when I get home. How could I've missed it?

[Paul B]

I've heard back from Mike Von Skeleton and I thought i'd share his reply, he said:

"I recieved a mail from Davox the other day as well. And like I told him I am still alive and kicking although not active with Duke-related things. I started working as a level designer professionally 8 years ago and don't do so much gaming related on my free time since then - but busy with other projects... Although i am sometimes tempted to map for Duke again but i just dont have the time. Thanks again!"


- So there you have it, he is doing well and busy with life as we all know what that's like. I'm glad to hear he's doing well.

[gibfrag]

I've been a fan of Duke since I can remember, and a member of the community for a little over 5 years now, but have released nothing other than some sprite edits. So... Within the year, I plan on finishing an episode for Duke, It'll be formatted like the shareware episode (4 regular levels, a boss level, a secret level, and 2 deathmatch levels). It will be very vanilla like (in fact it may even work on the original DOS game) in terms of level design, and it'll have it's own story, midi tracks, etc. but the graphics and sounds will most likely remain untouched (except for maybe some costume textures that work with the storyline).

More information will be available soon.

[David B.]

I'm still working on & off on a mod project and it's taking shape slowly...

Also I decided to improvise myself as a 3d modeler and I'm beginning with every objects needed, shaded of course.
A picture being better than too much lines... so let's show the first results (here are two of them, implemented in a city scene).

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[Gambini]

I like that it blends with the scheme. I think it´s very important that models dont stand out as part of other wolrd and instead blend with the environment, like yours. For a few seconds I thought it was crazy spritework.

[OpenMaw]

[Dave_Billing]

Just released the polymer optimized edition of my 5 map episode, Duke Nukem 3D: Operation Blitzkrieg. I created my own website, which I just uploaded today, so I can finally make it publicly available!

http://www.fatangus.nz/Maps.html


The original vanilla edition is there also, if you so wish to download it instead.