Zandronum

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The city map is a fairly large map that my friend CaptJ3 and I have been working on for about 6 months. The map is composed of 17008 linedefs, 32253 sidedefs, 4457 sectors and features about 300 new textures. The map is compatible with Zandronum and GZDoom.

What is the purpose of this city map?
I figured that there are alot of city based maps in Doom, but there aren't really that many that let you go almost everywhere. This map allows you to go almost anywhere you see, no invisible walls or anything of the sorts. This means that you can hop on roofs and stuff. I'm also planning to add interiors to more of the buildings.

When will this be released?
It'll be released RIGHT NOW. Please report any issues to this thread, that'll be very helpful. Run this in OpenGL mode, it's developed for it.

Spoiler: Download the prototype (Open)

Prototype A1

Spoiler: Credits (Open)

Valve: Textures
Skulltag Team: Textures
CGTextures: Textures
CGSkies: Skybox
3D Realms: Textures
MisterT: Images for textures
Zeberpal: Inspiration
Rockstar Games: Inspiration
CaptJ3: Mapping, textures
abbuw: Mapping, textures

I'm blown away. But with mappers like you and my homeboy CaptJ3 I expect nothing less! Great job guys.

With the very little contribution i did, i'm so proud to somehow have my name there. Abbuw is not only a great mapper/texturer but also a great helper and a great friend!
I hope i'll continue to help in the near future and finally play this when it's officially released.
nuff said, 10/10! *applauses*

Thanks, guys!

CaptJ3 added this giant hotel to the map, and here it is with some modifications.

Spoiler: Hotel (Open)

As you can see, it's pretty huge...





It's so huge that it towers over buildings that are on the other side of the map!

That's a nice looking hotel. The textures are well used and the architecture is symmetrical to that of a real urban hospital. I can't wait to see this map finished.

Would be neat to have superpowers and zip through the map with. Kinda like Prototype with the super jumping and such.

Looks awesome!

Looks like a Battlefield sized kind of map. Would be interesting to see TDMs with the military based mods be played on it or even Hideous Destructor if that ever gets to zandy.

or the bfv7.pk3 (it is actually called battlefield IIRC), which I would definitely play!

This is very interesting and I hope it will get the recognition it deserves :)

My jaw just dropped, I can't get it back up simply amazing, I love the way everything is so detailed.

this is good ;)

Thanks for the positive feedback, everyone! I do appreciate it. A smaller update.

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To be honest, the map looks pretty bland and looks like it could get boring very easily.
I'd suggest adding some more detail, especially outside.

Nice city screenshots abbuw, I could see people making content mods for this.

CoffeeScripter wrote: To be honest, the map looks pretty bland and looks like it could get boring very easily.
I'd suggest adding some more detail, especially outside.

More details, such as power lines and streetlights will be added when the layout of the city is complete, that way, if I have to make a large change, nothing gets in the way.

If I add to much detail, it will surely lag the map. Honestly, I am actually trying to limit the sector count of this map.

Capt.J3 wrote: If I add to much detail, it will surely lag the map. Honestly, I am actually trying to limit the sector count of this map.

I find that you can include around 4000 to 5000 sectors in the map before you can experience any significant issue's with the game's performance, so you should be all right for now with adding some detail.

Dr.Robotnik wrote: I find that you can include around 4000 to 5000 sectors in the map before you can experience any significant issue's with the game's performance, so you should be all right for now with adding some detail.

That is true, but having too many visplanes really lags. There are about 2000 visplanes out in the open, I'm trying to cut down on the amount of them rendered by including structures composed of 1 sided lines.

Dr.Robotnik wrote:

Capt.J3 wrote: If I add to much detail, it will surely lag the map. Honestly, I am actually trying to limit the sector count of this map.

I find that you can include around 4000 to 5000 sectors in the map before you can experience any significant issue's with the game's performance, so you should be all right for now with adding some detail.

With my type of detailing and a map this large, I can easily get past 4000. I need to watch-out.

abbuw wrote:

Dr.Robotnik wrote: I find that you can include around 4000 to 5000 sectors in the map before you can experience any significant issue's with the game's performance, so you should be all right for now with adding some detail.

That is true, but having too many visplanes really lags. There are about 2000 visplanes out in the open, I'm trying to cut down on the amount of them rendered by including structures composed of 1 sided lines.

Good idea.


And yeah it's not just total sector count, it's how many are visible at any given time. My old rig couldn't handle the desert level in Epic2 when it first came out. :p

Added a cliffside to the park area.

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