Trigger music?

[MadGypsy]

It might not even be a leak as in unconnected brushes. It might be a leak as in some crap sitting off in space that you accidentally dropped there. I had a leak once that was a light sitting like 1000 units from my actual map.

Things like that can happen for the dumbest reasons. Like you drop your keyboard and it ironically presses the exact keyboard shortcut to do something you don't want Or you go to pee and your 5 year old sister/brother/niece/nephew decide to "help" you with your map while you are gone. Then they hear you coming back and decide to acknowledge that you told them never to touch your computer before you can come in the room and catch them. It takes forever for you to realize there are 30 shamblers that are not even on the grid...lol. That never happened to me, but I can see it.

[DimensionalWitch]

Haha! I pictured everything you just said perfectly.

I actually figured out the problem. I had copied some brushes for a cave wall and instead of rotating them I pulled them in the opposite direction and it caused the solid brush to become just a texture. The player can't walk through them but the engine wouldn't draw them for some reason. Oddly I knew about this problem, it had just escaped me for some reason, I hadn't realized I'd done it =P

Sure is different than those flat levels I made for Wolf3D haha.

[MadGypsy]

PUZZLE

What's wrong with this picture?



I know what you are thinking "Damn, Gypsy is incredibly subtle." Yes I am . Now go accept my friend invite or die...err I mean please

[DimensionalWitch]

Ha! Sorry about that =P I had two friends requests apparently... took me a bit to figure out where to find them.

Anyhow, now that I've got that problem fixed I plan on working on finishing up the level. Its fairly straight forward mainly because its the first map out of what I plan to be 15 or there abouts (16 including start) and I want to gradually increase complexity.

Most Quake map packs I've played save for a few seem to be very heavy on combat. I did a lot of this in Wolf3D because... it's pretty much all you can do.

I was thinking of something slower, restricted on ammo and health and each encounter with a monster meaning something. More about surviving rather than just blasting everything in sight. I kind of want to convey something different. Surivivng traps in the level, keep a keen eye for hidden items like ammo and health rather just having them out in the open. A bit more platforming than that of ID's Quake.

Does this sound stupid to any of you? If so, please let me know! Ha!

I know it sounds a bit more like Hexen II. Speaking of, I tried the HexenTwo texture wad for quake and the skies didn't animate and water didn't animate and it was solid like a wall/ceiling/floor brush. So I went back to stock textures. Any idea why that was the case?

Thanks!

[MadGypsy]

Does this sound stupid to any of you?

Nope, sounds great that you arent making Quake 1 ver 268347686924697426294

Stick with your ideas and ignore all the people that are going to tell you otherwise.

ASIDE: Did you accept my invitation first? If not, why? Obviously this other person doesn't care as much as I do. Where is their post publicly threatening to kill you if you don't accept their invite? My whole goal was to be your first friend and here you may already be crushing all of my dreams. Please respond expediently as I never know when I will have to leave the country due to those that didn't accept my invite.

I know what you are thinking "This mother fucker is crazy!" I concur, but it's incredibly funny if you get it. It's a shame you have to read it. I'm an excellent actor. Would you believe that my birth was my first great performance? I played a screaming newborn effortlessly. Then I had coffee and a cigarette, while I considered how I could have improved my entrance.

PS> I am drug free, this is a fact. I dont even take the drugs that I'm probably supposed to.

[DimensionalWitch]

Yes, I actually accepted yours first =P I clicked the checkbox first anyway xD If that makes you feel any better. And no, you aren't crazy. You're very entertaining xD Awesome humor!

[MadGypsy]

And no, you aren't crazy. You're very entertaining

You do get it!!!! I just play the "crazy" card cause no one believes me when I say that I am perfectly sane. I had a psychologist for a short amount of time when I quit drinking a decade ago. She said I suffer from this rare disease called individuality and independent thought. She also said she wouldn't give me drugs even if I begged for them. Which was fine, cause I don't want to be a zombie. Imagine if this was Gypsy

"Hi, so you guys play games and stuff. That's nice. I might join you sometime. I have played Quake before, but these days it's hard to focus cause I'm on meds. I'll be back sometime."

:::yaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn::::

I like being a bomb with a recurring explosion, determined in my devotion
sweat art like it's always a million degrees, til I've poured out an ocean
break bread with my brothers over contemplation and theory
I'd take lead for my brothers in this nation that's weary
I've flipped more pages than an editor in a news aggregate
spit so intelligent the industry won't have it yet
my ministry is too heavy for a soap box so I bring it to stages
you might rip me a new one but you wont rip me like pages

psssh, IDFK LOL! I wrote the first line before the comma and it just turned into all of that. I don't even listen to rap so I think it's pretty funny that I just wrote an 8 line freestyle

[DimensionalWitch]

I don't listen to a lot of rap, but, I'd say that's pretty good. Better than a lot of the shite out there nowadays =P

[MadGypsy]

I listen to jazz and death metal primarily, but I also love blues, funk, reggae, klezmer, surf rock, rock-a-billy, punk, classical, alternative, 80's pop, swing & disco

If I was going to listen to rap it would be old (Beastie Boys, LL CooL J, NWA) something like that

edit:

I got more jazz than rebirth featuring coltraine
this country gives me the blues cause it's rockin like a hurricane

hmmm maybe I should be a famous rapper. I got this word play shit down

[DimensionalWitch]

just a small update to say i've started remaking a start map. i'm experimenting with hexen II textures. oddly water is a stiff brush with no animation same as the sky. I've also decided to be a weirdo and add a few secrets into the start map. just to set the tone for what these levels will be like, if i get them right.

not overly OMG EYECANDY complex but hopefully puzzling. might not be great for more than one play through but who knows =P