[PsychoGoatee]

Here's my second map, a groovy street map to get back at those alien bastards in. Many hours were spent, fun was had, another Duke map let loose onto the internet. Enjoy!








(just added a playthrough vid)

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[Mark]

Is the famous Blue Dumpster in this map?

[PsychoGoatee]

Mark., on 30 October 2015 - 01:57 PM, said:

Is the famous Blue Dumpster in this map?

By popular demand, you get not one but two blue dumpsters, right off the bat.

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[blizzart]

PsychoGoatee, on 30 October 2015 - 02:04 PM, said:

By popular demand, you get not one but two blue dumpsters, right off the bat.

I´ve just played it. Nice to see how your mapping skills improved in this short time.

A decent map which lacks of proper shading and scaling but it was fun to play. Keep on with it.

[Sixty Four]

Hope to try this dood as soon as I get a moment, looks better then your first for sure. Congrats on releasing another one man

[Kyanos]

I beat it in 50 seconds.

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I used the red key slot to hop the fence

Fun map, keep at it.

[PsychoGoatee]

Drek, on 30 October 2015 - 07:25 PM, said:

I beat it in 50 seconds.

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I used the red key slot to hop the fence

Fun map, keep at it.

Speedrunning tricks already, you're the official champ of this level. Surviving running past all those enemies without dying is fairly impressive. And you wouldn't have gathered much ammo and guns in 50 seconds. Though I guess a good amount of those enemies aren't spawned that way now that I think about.

[FistMarine]

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[LeoD]

blizzart, on 30 October 2015 - 04:32 PM, said:

I´ve just played it. Nice to see how your mapping skills improved in this short time.
A decent map which lacks of proper shading and scaling but it was fun to play. Keep on with it.

+1

[FistMarine]

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[The Mechanic]

Grooovy I had some fun with this map,well done.

There were a few bugs:

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As has been mentioned, you can climb the wall by jumping onto the red switch. Eduke and ye olde Duke3D both force switch sprites to blocking regardless of what you set in mapster, for no good reason (and very annoying). Anyhow, make the wall to the side of the switch blocking?
The duck in the shop behaves funny when shot (it is a switch and I thought it might lead to a secret).
Two of the secrets didn't register - both the 100% health and amour I picked up without having to enter the sector.
Lots of text went partially missing - but that is an Eduke bug when walls arent at 0, 90, 180 or 270 degrees.

Pretty minor stuff and didn't spoil the fun. Plenty of ass to kick and some well placed enemies - and yes I did get caught by suprise by ...

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... romping into yet another bathroom purely to smash up another bog, like you do, only to find a sneaky newbeast.

Just needs some shading - simply darkening opposite walls can make a room look more 3D, maybe dark allyways. But clear improvement over map one so I now have very high expectations for map #3

TTFN,
Jon

[PsychoGoatee]

The Mechanic, on 13 November 2015 - 10:03 AM, said:

Grooovy I had some fun with this map,well done.
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Just needs some shading - simply darkening opposite walls can make a room look more 3D, maybe dark allyways. But clear improvement over map one so I now have very high expectations for map #3

TTFN,
Jon

Glad you dug the map! I did do that shading technique, maybe it's easier or less easy to see depending on brightness settings used, but generally I darken the opposite walls by something like four or five. From the secrets registering thing I'm guessing you took a look at the map in mapster, so you'd be able to tell I did do the shading. And you might notice for example that the tunnel is notably darker? And the alley at the beginning is a bit darker than the main street, etc. Also, do you play in software mode? My favorite mode is polymost, and I find the letter sprites behave well in polymost, I did notice the disappearing thing when trying in other renderer though. I guess I could say the preferred renderer for my maps is Polymost, but I figure people will just play with what they like.

FistMarine, on 13 November 2015 - 09:08 AM, said:

So finally played it and enjoyed much more than the previous map. Took me 21 minutes on CGS, found 3 secrets and of course I survived without dying.

Thanks!

[The Mechanic]

PsychoGoatee, on 13 November 2015 - 11:02 AM, said:

Glad you dug the map! I did do that shading technique, maybe it's easier or less easy to see depending on brightness settings used, but generally I darken the opposite walls by something like four or five. From the secrets registering thing I'm guessing you took a look at the map in mapster, so you'd be able to tell I did do the shading. And you might notice for example that the tunnel is notably darker? And the alley at the beginning is a bit darker than the main street, etc. Also, do you play in software mode? My favorite mode is polymost, and I find the letter sprites behave well in polymost, I did notice the disappearing thing when trying in other renderer though. I guess I could say the preferred renderer for my maps is Polymost, but I figure people will just play with what they like.

Just replayed it on t'other machine and reset the colour correction (I did have the wick turned up - why did some people make such dark maps?) - can now see some shading. Needs more, I think it gets lost in the distance shading that duke naturally adds to walls. You just can't please some people.

I play using software mode - nothing else works on my Win7 machine. Just tried it on Win8 machine but like always the only difference I see between polymost and s/w modes are a slowdown and in the case of TROR maps horrendous HOM'ing.

PsychoGoatee, on 13 November 2015 - 11:02 AM, said:

From the secrets registering thing I'm guessing you took a look at the map in mapster

Shame on you, accusing me of cheating I just guessed and replayed. Thing is, I've been there, did the same thing, got the tee-shirt.

As for disappearing letters, ISTR this is something that has gone wrong in Eduke, not your fault and in fact can lead to some quite comical re-wording

TTFN,
Jon

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[DotK3D]

Hello and thanks for the release.

I agree this map is way better than the first one. Plenty of life and ammo and I appreciated the last fight, lots of place to move around, perhaps an atomic health could have been nice, just to be a bit more safer. I have missed a secret, and found one because I was checking the map on mapster to find this god damn keycard.

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I had understand the jump on the bed tips but I haven't jumped on all beds, It don't happen often to me while playing user maps but I was a bit lazy this time, sorry ^^.

The gameplay is nice, with some good ideas. The level design is pretty straightforward, but it's not a problem.

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The pillars in the streets, nice. And of course, the blue dumpster... I want one in my room now ^^.

I like the way you handle secrets (with treasure chest and girls to welcome you ^^). One thing strike me is that you seem to not like "squared zones". The rooms in the motel looks weird because they have all different shapes and size and streets are quite sinuous. Sometimes I don't feel that I am a city but more in a canyon, as I said for the previous map. But not really a problem, it's just I don't have the habit of it, and if it is the way you like it, again no problem . I appreciated the jokes and reference to your previous level

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My name's duke nukem room, "the wolf of groovy street", even if I haven't see "the wolf of wall street" ^^

Oh last but not least, nice music.

A few remarks :
- A few misaligned floor textures (the top of the shop counter, the blue wall, top on TVs...) but nothing really disturbing.
- On the dumpsters and the blue wall, the change of palette make duke's hands and sprites appear blue, I don't know if you want this to happen.
- Some sprites float over the flloor (doughnuts, glasses...) and some flats ones are not stick on there walls, and sometimes you can climb on it.
- Some doorway looks oversized and some room are a bit empty in my opinion.
- The transition between floors in the elevator is not smooth.
- As mention before you can go on the blue wall by climbing on the key card slots and some letters had disappeared, perhaps you can add a custom texture to overcome this problem as I understand it's a game bug.
- No more exploding wall leaving square holes ?! Just joking ^^.

So keep it up, I hope you'll release a new map .

Bye,
DotK3d