See #1253.
For E3M6 I've also rearranged the SP_DUDEs on those two columns in the hopes that the only instantly obviously repeating one is the one that should be non-humanoid.
Also addressed #996 for E3M6.
E1M1
- All the monsters in the trench are now +ambush, so they don't move until you're down there. On easy the zombieman even faces away from the start.
- More monster blockers added to prevent invisi-blocks jumping into the starting room trench or down from the cliffs in the outdoor area.
E2M7
- Armour bonuses still floating on sector 599. They now adorn the side pillars instead.
- The minigun is comically easy to miss - pretty much every passage into that area is designed for you to look the other way or overshoot it jumping in there, and you might go through the next 80% of the map before having any reason to go back into that part of the room. Its platform has been moved to the lower area, with the upper platform being ostensibly a shotgun but the shotgun guy now standing there took it.
E3M4
- Stealth worm 16 stuck on overlapping ledge.
- Changed the St. Pete's cross into a sealed-off fireblu portal.
- Extended the stairs up from that long bridge so that it's more obvious from a distance at low resolution that those are legit stairs up and you're actually expected to backtrack that way.
- Redecorated the exit room.
E3M5
- Jump down into painlord courtyard in the west would be invisi-blocked by said painlords. Monster blocking line added to keep the way down clear. Moved the tree out of the way too, for good measure.
- Addressed #996.
E3M9
- Fixed numerous tutti-frutti textures and unstraightened some unintentional fake-contrasts in some organic areas.
E4M2
- Got rid of the flat bleed trick in that slime tunnel. It's just a big steady spotlight now - and it doesn't mitigate any nukage damage.
- The secret exit room multiplayer contingency entrance is now opened immediately after the trap-bars are triggered. The trap-bars themselves are no longer crushing, preventing a possible immobilization softlock.
- Said multi-contingency entrance area is remodeled to make it clear it has been jump-proofed.
- Aligned hex textures in secret exit room.
E4M9
- Flagged line 1765 as monster blocking. It's possible for a monster, while that platform is descending, to step right onto that window ledge and get stuck there as the platform continues its movement.
- Added glass to the sides of sector 230 to prevent the player from falling in under certain circumstances.
Map02
- Changed the multi-wallpart elevator so that the middle is the "rungs" that the side "pulleys" are lifting up the platform against.
Map04
- Numerous cosmetic fixes to the starting area.
Map05
- A couple lines on the edge of the stream used the surrounding brown rock instead of the zimmer brown.
- Made the helipad symmetrical and made it look more weathered, including adding a small tree where there would once have been a light.
Map11
- The walk line to open the yellow door switch is now south of the minigun, so those who "know" how it works (without knowing the exact location of the line) don't have to go all the way up to the door to intentionally trigger it.
- Removed some hard-only monsters from the eastern branch, removing some matribites and octaminators and replacing one of the former with a formerly easy-only trilobite and one of the latter with a stealth worm.
- The dock area is now opened up by the same switch that lowers the two platforms, which are now lowered permanently.
- The red skull shootable switches are now located so high up that it's impossible to gamble on a stray SSG shot hitting them from below.
- Addressed #996 in some small gaps in the final arena.
Map23
- Moved all health bonuses around the broken teleporter to look less like mushrooms.
Map26
- Blue skull door trim was misaligned, obscuring the shape of the horns.
- Zombieman 130 stuck inside a monster blocking line.
- Moved all health bonuses around the starting area corpse to look less like mushrooms.
Map29
- Addressed #996.
Map32
- Added a way to climb out of the lava pit.
* levels: fix e1m2 tutti frutti around exit door.
Also took the liberty of fixing a longtime pet peeve I had about the really bright grey-white of the exit room steps clashing with the rest of the room for no apparent reason. (It looks less bad with Korp's new greys but we're not adding those yet...)
* levels: fix floating candle on map22.
It's fine until you actually use the secret, at which point it snaps to the top of the lowering platform.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Mostly for objects "floating" with a tiny bit of their hitbox rounded to be overlapping a higher adjacent floor.
E1M8
Inside the pillars containing the painlords there are two that spawn gore (and a dead player) in lieu of painlords only on easy. These have now been edited so that in each pillar the gore appears whenever the painlord does not. (The player has also been changed to a gore actor.)
Map03
Floaties by the first door switch.
Map23
Central room with the barrels and combat slugs has several gore decorations that do not appear on hard, but do not block movement nor represent any living monsters that might appear there in hard. Flagged to appear in all skill levels (and also not be flagged ambush).
Map25
1-pixel vertical misalignment on line 44.
Map28
Floaty medikit(s?) near (-955,-435), moved away from the double teleport pad.
Fixed the textures on that door now that the SLOPPY textures have been updated
Moved stuff around the starting skull switch so you start with a screen full of skull again.
Map29
Floaty shellbox 444.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Mostly to address #1043.
Map09
- Moved the crates in front of the eastern teleport door to keep the player from potentially falling into the gap between the big crate and the main crate rack and softlocking. The small step-crates are now also properly aligned with the flat they use.
Map14
- The entire lower floor of the big octagon room has been lowered to -56 from -48. This restores access to the alcove in front of the minigun secret, and also better aligns with the textures of several surrounding walls.
- Merged the sectors of the yellow key cage teleporter pad so the lights would sync.
Map15
- A room will lower two teleporters when you step in and two worms will warp in through those teleporters in hard, one in medium, none in easy. It looks bugged where the worms don't appear and absolutely nothing shows up, so pickups are revealed instead when they don't.
Map18
- Added one more step crate to let the player directly access the necromancer soul sphere (and the health bonus tucked away in the corner) without retracing their route back to the upper ledge.
Map25
- Got rid of that starting elevator once and for all. The only purpose in forcing that starting gunshot was to make that first room marginally more awful to pistol-start. Moved the shotgun and shells to the "outside" platforms to make up for it.
- Widened the side windows facing the yellow key so the trilobites have room to move.
- Shrunk down the exit line to make it completely impossible to trigger it while the painlord/necromancer standing there is alive.
- Added more monster blockers to the RL warp-in ambush closet, as the worms would still sometimes warp in both on the same side. I've also made the destination sectors larger as that simplifies the underlying geometry a bit.
- Flagged everything in the deathmatch arena multi-only.
- Thing 445 (last monster before SSG in hard mode) is now a pain lord instead of an octaminator.
* levels: more minor fixes.
Map13
Exit teleport pad lines now block monsters.
Map18
End soulsphere secret is now tagged as secret.
Map19
The straferun armour trench setup could not possibly work without having the worms below block your movement sometimes. The trench is now fenced off and the platform accessible by bridge; the pinkies are now spectres outside of easy and hard gives you two more of them; they can only harm you by teleporting.
* levels: readjust map28 skull.
The vertical offset would no longer be needed after #1047; however the tiling is a bit off if we need to offset this horizontally due to the additional trim, so a new linedef was added.
* levels: map26 minor fixes.
The secret blue lift switch error message would indicate it's a "door" which despite being correct from an engine point of view doesn't reflect its actual function.
The red armour secret is now player-shoot only, and the wall breach effect is instant.
* levels: fix high jump platform texture alignment.
* levels: various fixes.
E1M2
Fixed some missing and misaligned textures around the secret lowering computer block.
E2M5
The red key bars could both be squeezed through and jumped around on a jump-enabling sourceport. The red key now raises the stairs instead, and the final door before the exit also requires a red key.
E2M7
Added one more bar in front of the exit to prevent squeeze glides.
E3M2
Expanded yellow key pillar so it would match the flat.
E3M6
Untagged the skylight inside the secret as being itself a secret.
E4M1
That line of health and armour bonuses just inside the big building would have a few floaters. They've all been moved forward and should be fully clear of that ledge.
Map05
The pit with the central column of water and the spectres was being blocked off by said spectres before the player could jump into it. There is now a monster blocking line right in front of the ledge, barely far enough to guarantee space for you to drop but close enough to let the pinkies bite.
You can now freely move through the gaps between any of the objects in the blue key room.
The exit from the blue key building now has a lift instead of stairs, and the wall prevents the nearest pinkies from seeing you until you've actually dropped inside. Hopefully this at least mitigates the problem of being stuck on the stairs with a pinkie right below your ability to target.
Miscellaneous aesthetic tweaks.
Map07
The lift overlooking the big arena was still suffering from monsters blocking from below. It has been moved to the side with an intervening ceiling.
The central grey aquatex nukage trim hub was a cross shape and the exits all had very strong lines turning right, making it look like a swastika. The southern section has been tweaked to throw off the symmetry and avoid that impression.
Made it possible to move all the way around the stack of crates in the eastern area with the switch.
Miscellaneous texture improvements.
Map08
The exit bars are now impossible to squeeze glide through. They are also styled in the same manner as the moving pistons by the big switches, giving the suggestion that they would be moved in a similar manner.
Map09
Fixed some floating pickups at the collapsed roof, the red key room, and the stairs to the warehouse admin area.
Shotgun guys in the admin area switch room are now situated between the deep cracks that were preventing their movement.
Map12
Turned the two wall-facing enemies around near (2016,96).
Added a second trigger line for the minigunner ambush store room so it happens even when you approach it from the other side.
Added a second switch for the bars normally opened before reaching the storage room ambush.
Replaced the BFG secret with a megasphere since you already get a BFG in Map11.
Map18
There were some lamps on the lower floor of the southwest room that were invisible from the higher floor but would block your movement. All major blockers have been deleted or moved to the edge of the room.
The tree near the red armour to the right of the start has been moved for similar reasons.
Map20
Moved some pickups (and the dead body) away from the bottom sides of the steps to reduce the chances of someone bypassing them while moving downwards.
Made the armour/health bonus placement more unambiguous around the cross and star.
Simplified the bridge around the red key so that the rising portion is only one sector.
Map22
Because this map has been disproportionately harder to pistol start than anything near it...
Moved all 4 player starts into the starting elevator to avoid a hot start.
Flagged some ammo pickups as appearing on all skill levels, as well as the southern super shotgun and the starting area armour. The easy-only SSG in the starting area is now a chaingun and appears on all skill levels.
The starting shotgun is now only available on easy, with two shotgunners (one of them guarding the armour) in its place on medium and hard.
Differentiated the walls of the starting elevator so you know which way to face, and made the switch resemble the normal (but broken) SW1TEK.
The switch system itself is simplified and given a simpler implied story: the big switch is broken, so you locate and use the backup system. The switch shooting is gone.
Made the fringe around the lava elevator go all the way around and populated it with health bonuses to make it clear you're actually expected to go down there, because frankly the original is so thoroughly obscured it looks like you're breaking sequence by exploiting an oversight in the map.
Extended the staircase down from the brown platform to mitigate the "pinkie right in front of you below your aim" effect.
Added a medikit near that brown platform.
The armour in the crate hall is now a medikit.
Map24
The hanging bodies in the red key room are now the non-blocking versions.
The trilobite stuck on the teleport pad in the square maze is now an octaminator so it doesn't get stuck.
The lines around the door leading to the serpentipedes with their backs to you no longer block sounds.
Removed the sound block flags on the octaminator ambush doors, so the pinkies can join in if you start shooting at them instead of powering through into the new room.
Map26
Health bonuses under crusher were floating.
Map27
Lizardbaby platform now has a full 72 unit clearance.
Spectres in the red rock area to the northeast are now in the tunnels and only come out when you land in the red water.
* levels: fix one screwy texture.
Monitor in the room west of the westmost shiny lowering shelf thing.
* levels: more minor fixes.
E2M1
Life surge secret was marked on the thin doorway, making it possible to fail to register even after you've taken the surge. The secret is now the room itself, at the cost of that random light effect.
E2M6
Life surge secret was marked on the thin central bit of the sigil, leaving *lots* of room to step around it while grabbing the powerup. (The fact that the red makes it kinda look like a hurtfloor really doesn't help.) The secret is now the larger room itself.
Map12
New eastern storage room trigger wasn't covering the entire hallway. It should also be diagonal to minimize the chance of it being skipped entirely.
Map28
The serps on the ledge by the bloodfalls and fleshy sigil were facing the wall and marked as ambush. They now face the actual play area.
Map29
Moved all the secret pit pickups a little bit further inside the square so they look like they're resting on the surface of the solid floor.
Map30
The multiplayer-only spawn pickups are now flagged as multi-only.
* levels: tiny map04 aesthetic tweak.
The fake contrast exaggerates the shadow on some "AGM" silver columns while eliminating the shadow on others. These are often right next to each other on the screen, producing absurd results. This moves 1 vertex from each affected line 2 pixels so they are no longer orthogonal.
#888 didn't actually add the new flats to the build instructions.
Now that they are usable, I've updated the Map26 crushers to use the bodies flat that I'd originally wanted instead of the skulls.
The only big pack available now is on the "outdoor" revenant platform.
You still get a total of 280 in singleplayer, which is still way more than you need but at least not enough to kill every enemy with the plasma rifle alone.
**E1M2**
Addressed #916. Instead of having those three goons face you differently on hard, you just get more enemies (also facing away from you) in that room.
**Map10**
Addressed #916. I'm doing these two maps just because they were already updated recently so we might as well go all the way.
**Map11**
Addressed #916.
Made the colour door stripes go all the way down, because we can't fucking look up in vanilla and the things are invisible when you're right up at the door in question.
Lowered the switches just beyond the red door to eye level.
**Map26**
The bridge switch was a bit hard to find. It's been moved to the panel next to the pantry.
At some point I'd somehow forgotten to deal with ceilings, resulting in misaligned and mismatched stuff everywhere. Hopefully it's all been dealt with now.
Added some details to the grey tunnel and made the green torch in the wood tunnel present in single/coop as a light source.
* levels: map02 tweaks.
The yellow door appears to open by splitting itself into 3 parts, then moving only the middle part leaving the sides behind. This is now fixed so that the entire door moves.
Touched up the texture alignment above the exit door and replaced the floor on top of the monitor thingy blocking direct fire from the serpentipedes in front of the yellow door.
The little drops into the water area near the start can be cheesed by staying in the lit areas behind the monster blocking lines. This seems to be unintended behaviour so I've added new blocking lines that are exactly the size of the player.
The big drop past the red and blue doors needs something to stop the pinkies from blocking the player's initial drop. They're all set to +ambush now.
The exit sign has been given the flat-bleed treatment as Map01 and Map26, but this time I've actually kept the lower floor within monster step height. (I'd fix it for Map01 but it turns out the monsters step around it without issue.)
* levels: more misc. fixes.
**Map03**
The green corridor had some texture alignment and mismatched flat issues; the switch door was overcomplicated for what it was doing and didn't even look better than just using a simple wall switch texture. The corridor itself had a shadow across the middle that had nothing casting it; it has been removed.
Gave the curved terminal wall light grey flats to not stick out as much.
**Map21**
The cage bars along the walls of the lava border corridor should be impassable.
**Map26**
It's possible if you're careful to grab the super shotgun without triggering the lowering panel, causing the player to be potentially lost without any further indication they should move towards the alcove. Since I want to keep this as a foreshadowing of what is possible with stealing the key from the necromancer, there's now also an armour bonus a little further in.
The rising pit was too easy to jump into before it was finished, ruining the effect. I've packed everything closer together and moved one of the hard spectres into the corner outside the pit. The northern bit of the room is also expanded to let the worms move that way.
* levels: bugfix: remove E1M2 wall midtex.
The level had a decorative door-the-player-had-come-in-from that was obscured by a wall texture.
Thanks to Smokey on Discord for pointing this out.
I've also removed the Doom Builder camera thing.
* levels: Cleanup Eureka errors in seven levels
Relatively minor Eureka fixes following the level changes at the start
of 2023
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E1M2 Outside wall ceiling lower than floor. Raise ceiling to 100.
Fix stuck shotgun zombies in hidden in triangular sector #319
Fix unused transparent CGRATE1 texture on linedef #747 by
clearing it
E1M9 Remove unused back sidedef on lower side of door jamb sector
#255 in the upper right hand corner of the map.
E3M7 Sector #182 cleared unused tag #31
Sector # 58 cleared unused tag #35
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MAP14 Replaced missing textures with GRAY1 in monster closest upper
left of map
MAP16 Fix missing textures in inaccessible outside area with ASHWALL2
MAP26 Delete unused tag #2 in sector #38
MAP27 Replace four missing textures above four short red torches with
MARBGRAY in the switch maze room
Replace transparent texture AQTRIM03 with AQRUST10 on lower
trim for door below the switch maze room
* levels: rebuild nodes
Ran "make rebuild-nodes"
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* levels: improve Map26.
Continuation of #893.
* levels: fix Map26 temple and lights.
The room is now symmetrical and it's the icon that's lit more than the altar behind it.
The cavern now has a visible light source to explain why it's not totally dark before the outer wall drops.
* map26: remove broken icon secret.
The sector is too thin for the "secret" to register for the game mechanics.
* Add files via upload
**Map01**
Swapped out the impassable line for narrowing the big door gap enough for it to actually clearly visibly block the player's movement.
Used the flat bleeding trick to get rid of that little spotlight under the exit sign. The distracting bottom light on the sign itself has also been removed.
**Map03**
Unflagged some invisible impassable lines in front of screens and switches in the first corridor since they weren't needed in the first place.
Changed floor/ceiling textures on the curvy screen corner so it wasn't blatantly conflicting with the tile pattern.
Added a railing onto the big nukage rooms.
**Map12**
Flyers in the far northwest room could not figure out how to get into the big arena if they're in the dead ends. The side doors can now be opened by them.
Fixed some misunpegged lowering platforms/item closets in the south.
**Map15**
Second attempt to fix the rising shipping elevator. No more moving bridge (at all - the new safety lifts are still there), both switches available again, everything actually takes some time and moves visibly now.
Tag 56 changed to the four lines on the border of the pit.
Moved the cells even deeper into the expanded secret room as parts of the hitbox were still sticking out on the other side of something.
**Map16**
Unaligned the MIDSPACE in the new back alley.
**Map21**
Added an implied ladder leading down into the starting room.
Fixed the plasma secret in the library. If you went inside the room and let it close behind you, there was no way out; the way you came is now given the same lift tag. The secret itself is marked with something better than just suspiciously secret-tagged linedefs on the automap. The library south wall is also no longer incorrectly tagged as not to show up on the map.
Fixed the misaligned, improperly pegged door side texture in the big wall that opens up to the north of the big lava pit.
The lift leading into that room overlooking the big lava pit can now be traversed both ways.
You can actually fall into the lava in (-948,1836) with no way out. Narrowed that section accordingly.
**Map23**
Reduced number of sectors and number of secret sectors (doorway into the actual secret also flagged as secret) in the southeastern secret.
Fixed lone floating rocket by the crate north of the G.
**Map25**
Northwest baron/chaingunner teleport ambush was double-triggered and one of them did the opposite of what it was supposed to do. That entire area has been redone as a creepy wooden shack, to get rid of the arbitrary anti-jump invisible blocking lines.
Also added a sector to make sure noises pass through to those two individual monsters.
Unstuck serpentipede # 444.
The exit room seemed a bit dark for that lava so I took the liberty of changing it to 5% and a hot (but solid) rock texture.
Overhauled the starting entrance to explain why you were stuck in a little cramped chamber that you could only exit by shooting something behind you.
**Map32**
Got rid of the double-sector red key lift, in favour of just the outside portion being the lift.
Fixed all the windows so you can't jump through them in GZDoom under normal circumstances. Added some decorative railings.
Marked the berserk secret so it can be found without checking the automap (and can no longer be found by checking the automap), but in that specifically annoying, obtuse way that everything else is intentionally done on this map.
(NOTE: these Map32 fixes are pending another major improvement to this map that rednakhla is working on and may be overridden by other decisions in their version. I'm just throwing this out there as a temporary fix as we do not appear to have a timeline for that version yet. If it is completed before this PR is merged I'm more than happy to add it here.)
* levels: fix map15 western secret lift bug.
Using the lift from the bottom would sometimes fail if there are monsters. This seems to be an unusual nodebuilding-related glitch.
Moving the bottom activation to a separate wall switch seems to get around this.
* levels: allow map15 supersecret armor in easy/med.
Easy also allows one of the medikits.
Before this change that room was completely empty outside of hard.
* levels: use new texture on map16.
* levels: map21 fixes.
The lava groove border could be jumped into as it was exactly 32 units wide. Reduced this all around to 24, and added a damagefloor there just in case.
One lava damage floor had 20% for no apparent reason where everywhere else the player would be expecting it to do 10. It now does 10.
Rearranged a bunch of stuff in the final corridor for the bricks to line up.
* levels: tutti-frutti on southern computers.
There's now a gap between the ceiling and floor computers. It looks less bad than either the tutti-frutti or lowering the main ceiling so that the wall textures are cropped off.
* levels: remove map26 obligatory damage.
It appears that the collapsing bridge may have been intentionally designed to be impossible to cross without jumping, requiring the use of the damagefloor route to progress. There is now a radiation suit just before the blue key door, and stimpacks along the damagefloor route are now replaced with a bunch of health bonuses and a stimpack on the other end of the teleport.
Some of the sectors in the early part of the map have been simplified and useless line triggers (W1 on one-sided, etc.) removed.
(A similar note applies to this as for Map32 in this PR, but I'm the one working on the bigger change this time.)
In levels/map2*.wad files fix errors flagged by Eureka when F9 (Check /
ALL) is pressed. This is mostly missing textures and similar errors.
MAP20 Removed translucent light covers from the two vertical florescent
lights and reduced their brightness to compensate
Made translucent lava fall near elevator opaque, but a bit more narrow
so that the player can see that there is a passage behind it
Use darker RROCK03 for torch sector instead of ceil light transfer
Made 8 square sectors at the center of large sector darker instead of
ceil light transfer
Made teleport closet in red building lighter instead of floor light
transfer
Fix mismatched due to sector due to gate (linedef #285) by replacing
with bars similar to the bars elsewhere
Fix mismatched sector due to the linedef that crosses the star near
the center of the map
Replace floating walkway (sectors #430, #433 and #434) with a simple
walkway that has one sector
Fix ceiling below floor in the outer perimeter of the left most room by
setting the ceiling height to 40
Remove flashing spinning lights in teleport room lower right part of the
map
Clear transparency of the teleport in the lower right part of the map
Remove additional player one and enclosing sectors at the bottom of
the map used to drive the spinning lights
Remove some of the now defunct Boom control sectors
Fix missing textures
MAP21 Reduced deathmatch starts from 12 to 10
Replace transparent texture MIDGRATE with METAL on solid
Move vertex slightly to fix overlapping linedefs / mismatched sectors
Remove unused sector tags #20 and #23
MAP22 Fix missing textures
MAP24 Remove doom camera (#32000)
Remove unused sector tag #12
Fix missing textures
MAP25 Fix ceiling below floor in gargoyle pillars by setting ceiling to -32
Fix non-animating switch texture above yellow skull key with AQRUST01
Fix missing textures
MAP26 Fix ceiling below floor in door by setting ceiling to -96
Fix missing textures
MAP27 Replace transparent texture AQTRIM03 with AQRUST10 on solid
Add the minimal 4 DM player starts
MAP28 Fix sectors with ceiling below floor at the top
Fix Medusa by changing SKSPINE2 to SKSNAKE2 on an opening that looks
like a picture
Replace transparent texture MIDGRATE with METAL on solid
Fix missing textures
