Slagheap

Confirmed: the existence of Slagheap. A variant of Toxicity, this map
is set in a steel mill. It will either replace Toxicity completely, or
will be released alongside it.

I'm still awaiting permission from Monolith to use sounds ripped from
Blood 1, and I'm still tweaking it here and there, but it should be
released soon.

Stay tuned...

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

Damn, I bet you wont stick to this map too! Look I already saw you starting about 4 or more map threads in the time I've been here. My suggestion to you is to stick to one map and finish it!

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Elon Yariv

Looks nice, especially the first shot. I like the trick to make the molten metal look hot. :smile:
Second shot looks not so impressive though, mainly that it's too long, could use something to break it up like some sort of machine. However, I think it's better to avoid too long hallways at all, for gameplay sake.

Could use some more height difference in floors and ceilings, those look quite boring in the end. You don't have to overdo it, just a few steps and platform height differences and such should do. Maybe spicing up some walls with a few pillars to break up the 90-degree look of it.

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Image #1: nice big box with stuff inside. Break up the walls a bit. The repetitive nature of the texture only enhances the boxy feel.

Image #2: Great looking hall walls. Boring ceiling and floor. Put as much effort into them too.

Image #3: Boring ceiling and floor again.

Try hard to break these items up into chunks of irregular shapes and sizes.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

This is the first map where I've used textures I made myself on a large
scale so they're bound to suck, but thanks for the input :razz:

The program I'm using is called Fireworks. made by Macromedia. It's
like PSP and Photoshop combined or something, and you can make
animations in it. I need to get ahold of Version 7 or 8 because I'm
stuck with 4.

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I'm allergic to tequila, it makes me break out in felonies.

Fireworks isn't a image edeting program its more a create a fast easy webpage program.

You need to get ahold of either PSP, Photoshop or The GIMP as they are made for creating images like textures.

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I still cant get my textures to zip up with my maps when I send them, so people get that really cool purple black checkerd texture that they love so much. =)

MoneyShot said:
I still cant get my textures to zip up with my maps when I send them, so people get that really cool purple black checkerd texture that they love so much. =)

Whats wrong with wadincluding them MS?

I haven't zipped a texture in years. No reason to anymore, at least not for walls and such.

could be wrong, I dunno.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Image 1- Nice toxic tanks and crane. All these little things in the middle are really nice but you seem to take no attention to the outer parts of that room. The walls are really bland and boring. To improve them you can:

• Add more floors to that room, one in the middle of that wall. Like in this pic. You can close that floor but I advice you to make that floor's cilling lower then to entire room's cilling.
• Instead of the regular 90 angles corner with the walls and floor or cilling you can make it a round corner or a 45 angled corner. Both solutions will look good
• Add decals(like cracks, slime and bullte holes) to break repeatetive faces

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Elon Yariv

Nothing I guess Orph, but how do I do that?

In the expert compiling mode you add to the CSG a '-wadinclude' parameter.(after a space and with out the quotes)

This way you wont need to place the contentss in more then one folder(unless you use costum sounds/models too) they are included in the map. They wont rewrite any other wad with that name too.

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Elon Yariv

Ahh sweet.. thanks. So for custom sounds or models, would you have another -something parameter? Or are they included by default?

textures still need to be a factor of 16 I am guessing.

Thanks so much for the imput.. Sorry for derailing this map thread to get the info though.. slagheap has potential...

Nope you have to place them in the models folder. Only wads can be included.

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Elon Yariv

Maps looks really good

i cant say the same about gameplay the map is to closed most trails lead to a deadend there needs to be much more "flow" some area are connected via vents this will slow down gameplay alot i suggest you take another look at gameplay