DM Revival - MANAGEMENT HELP NEEDED

[Ænima]

I need to find some sort of image editor that can add fake randomized "snow" over an image to give it some life as opposed to just being static.

Make the "static" layer be its own animated texture.

Then just place it in the map, 1 unit in front of each picture, and make it translucent. That way you don't have to edit every single picture.

[Doomkid]

Great idea - Thanks Aenima. I'm thinking that will look a lot better than if I edited each patch anyway.

EDIT: mrthejoshmon over at DW has made a great suggestion, each mapper can pick/make a 64x64 wall patch icon for use in the credits map. Unless anyone fully hates this idea, I think it's a great bit of fun and plan on using it

I'm curious to see what each mapper will pick!

[Guardsoul]

Well, this is the icon that I used when the Core Team was developing the ZDCMP2 for the credits.



Its a 100x100 image that only needs a scale (unless you preffer another image)

[katZune]

i'm going to use the gear of Gow 3, letme edit it ok =P

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my one, i'm tooooooooooooo lazy to edit it more heh



128x128

if you want to edit it more here is the original

http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/katZu ... 3.jpg.html

[Doomkid]

Great icon picks, guys. It doesn't have to be exactly 64x64, just anything under 128x128. What I think we'll have is a list of all mappers up on a sort of placard, and then our pictures around the map as if we've "postered" them around ourselves. I'll get to work on this map now!

[Doomkid]

Don't forget to credit artists for pictures if you do this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apocmessiahwar1.png

Great point Decay, I'm glad you mentioned it.

[Ogre]

Wow, I almost forgot about all of this.

Anyways, you can use my Drew Pickles fish icon in the credits.

[Lollipop]

I havent bothered reading all the content written on 10 pages, but though Im not really a fan of DM myself, I support the idea of keeping the gamemode alive. Best of luck.

[mr fiat]

also i finished my map, il send it in pm. also feel free to alter it if you have to

on a side note i made the map in boom format so it should work just fine in most sourceports.

[agaures]

91 X 100
Close enough

[mr fiat]

91 X 100
Close enough

wrong thread?

[Guardsoul]

91 X 100
Close enough

wrong thread?

Its just the avatar he wants in the credits map

[Doomkid]

DMR is still alive and kicking! I've been working on a new Beta featuring plenty of little imrovements - Lots of progress once again. (Why does this kind of stuff have to be so tedious and time consuming?!)

-Credits map built! I went the simple "Names scrolling in lights" route, no picking of favorites or little icons or anything, although it's a bit of a shame not to use the awesome icons such as the one Agaures posted. I think this works best for everyone, though.

-Texture issues begone! Aside from the VERY rare stray flat, every texture issue is resolved and all maps are totally cross compatable. It took plenty of time, but this is a great step!

-Details added. Map 16 (Deathmatch Prison) was very bare, and has had a lot of love shown to it. I think it's looking pretty slick. Map 24 (Splatter House) is an awesome map but it suffers from some serious textures issues. A few other maps could stand a bit more detail too. Joepallai, do you plan on working further on this map? Just let me know whenever :)

-Some MIDI's changed. Some repetitive MIDI's were swapped and other requests have been met. If you want me to change your song, just send the new file my way and I'll put it right in.

Long short, here's where we stand: Another run through of beta testing: Looking for any remaining glitches, and detailing the very few remaining sparse areas. Any texture alignments should be pointed out too - We want the maps to have that nice 'finished' look to them.

mr_fiat, although the map voting and everything has finished, I think there's some room to squeeze another secret map in. I need to check it out further, but I doubt anyone will oppose a nice little addition.

Dusk is also working on a map that looks quite sexy which can be seen earlier in the thread. I'm hoping to hear back from him about that soon - I want to give it a blast!

I think it's safe to put soft a release date on this - So let's set it to July 4th! Everyone squeeze those final changes in now, and let me know if you plan on doing any further work to your maps! Screenshots and the latest DMR wad coming very very soon!

[Doomkid]

Another new DMR beta is ready, fresh out of the editor!

DOWNLOAD VERSION 0.9B:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/59yfb ... MR_v9b.zip

A lot of updates, enough to set a release date at July 4th!

Keep it up, fellas!

[katZune]

Oh man, when i play this, i have a feel... you know, those old days. hey doom kid, if you need any help in a future project you can PM me :) oh and i'll fix fews bugs in my map, i'll edit this and upload it

[katZune]

sorry for doublepost but this is important ok here is my map: http://www.mediafire.com/download/qne7p ... 25newv.wad

just noticed a bug (?), in zandronum, the lava in my map only does 10 damage per second but in zdaemon and odamex, it does 20 damage per second.
so actually to get the megasphere (bah is not a secret anymore D: but anyway lol) is easiest in zandronum, i don't know if its maybe a compatibility option or what but you guys should check that...

note: the map is made for have the option jump to off, and the damaged is set via generalized options (20 damage per second), boom format

[Doomkid]

Is there any chance that Oda and Zdaemon were on Nightmare but Zanny wasn't? That's so odd. But yes, in future projects I'd certainly like to have you on board!

[katZune]

its weird, when i play directly the wad, i get the bug, but when i test it with doombuilder, it work properly, i dont know exactly what could be but i think there is no problem, maybe could be easiest on zan but is ok

[Doomkid]

I've made this somewhat slower, changed up version of HITFLOOR.mid with a bit of a trancey vibe. I'm curious if you guys like it or not: http://www.mediafire.com/download/oh9pp ... _remix.mid

I made this for DMR, but you may also use it if you want to, Just make sure you note that "Doomkid made this remix" somewhere :) I posted it over at Doomworld as well but I'm shamelessly whoring it in this thread too.

[Doomkid]

Hey everyone, I'm going to be out of town from the 26th until July 1st, which may cause delays in this whole tune-up process. However, I feel extending the release date further may be a good idea at this point, although I don't want this to go on forever like some other community projects have. Here's why I think it's a good idea to keep working more on these maps [Note: We will only go through this process if a significant amount of DMR mappers agree. Otherwise, we will make the few finalzing changes and continue forward with a July 4 release. It's up to the mappers!]

Wincarthym said:
I mean, by your logic you should put monsters in these maps too to be truely authentic. Trying not to come off as rude, but trust me, these changes are for the better.

Definitely a fair point, some of these maps are a few minor changes from being much smoother by modern DM standards. If enough of the other mappers think it's worthwhile, I may postpone the release date to really polish up some of these maps, and make even further cutbacks to some other maps that are a bit too basic (I mean really, I spent about 30 minutes tops on 'Donut', it won't be any great loss for it to be cut.)

A wise Doomer once said that a longer development process for a better mapset is always worth it - the further into this project we get, the more I think I agree. Time will tell!

TheMionicDonut said:
There ARE monsters in some of the maps...

I would say this is probably the least of the problems we have with a few of these maps, but this is the kind of thing I'm going to go through and clear out entirely. The more I entertain the idea of truly getting these maps in tip-top shape, the better it seems. It would be a shame for all of this effort to go to waste on maps that aren't well recieved by the few consistent DMers we have left.

doomguy93 said:
To Doomkid92: Wincarthym and I both agreed that map 02 (shootout) from my Combat Doom.wad would be more appropriate for DMR. It was a decision between map 02 & map 06 and he recommended map 02. Would you mind removing spaceport and substituting shootout in its place?

I apologize if this may be an inconvenience to you.

Certainly not! I think this sounds like a great decision.

I'm pretty excited to start on this "true" revision process, though again, this is only if most others are on board. I'm hoping the rest of you will agree that perhaps it's finally time to try and get Tango in on this project - that man knows a sexy Doom map! :)

Looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.