* levels: minor fixes.
Map14
- With jump enabled you could skip the floor raisers in the blue key area and get yourself stuck inside one of the monster ambush pits. This has been replaced with a simple warp-in.
Map15
- Redecorated the starting area to make it feel less like id. (As someone who really enjoys Industrial Zone I find the subtle homage creates misleading expectations when literally nothing else in this map plays or looks anything like the id map.)
- Replaced a texture in the lift to avoid a rarely seen tutti-frutti.
- Reduced all nukage floors to 5%-10% from 20%.
* levels: remove bad Map11 secret tags.
Also changed the west side door entrance in the southern branch to take advantage of #1050.
* 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.
* level: more fixes.
E1M3
- Minor item floating in one of the staircases.
E1M7
- Widened the item trenches in the northwest switch room to minimize the chance of a floating item.
- Narrowed the water trench in the southeast switch area to prevent someone from squeeze-gliding in.
E1M9
- Funny-shaped nukage bridge no longer has visible switches. Instead, that railing can be used from the outside anywhere along any of the long sides to lower it.
- Door on the north of that bridge was missing a doortrak.
E3M5
- Northeast giant blood pit had floating items in the new ledges. (Those bits are now also 100% pure meat instead of the rocky crust on top.)
E4M4
- Secret in the southwest is now the room instead of the doorway. Lighting adjusted accordingly.
E4M5
- There's an obscured lamp in the northwest that's supposed to look (in id) like a small lamp placed on top of the box. Freedoom's yellow lamp doesn't work for this, but Freedoom's candle sprite is perfect for the intended effect, so now it is that instead.
E4M6
- Various thin secrets.
E4M7
- Thing no. 580 was the wrong type and bled into the ceiling (see #941). The blocking version is now used instead.
E4M8
- The secrets by the starting area are now the rooms themselves instead of the doorways.
Map11
- Untagged the lizardbaby-triggered doorway as secret.
- All lizard baby sectors are now 72 units tall.
- Realigned the vines in the trilobite corridors overlooking the western atrium.
- Berserk red key secret room lengthened to guarantee having to step inside it.
- Red key is now at a different location, the platform now being a teleporter to it, allowing the location of the red key to be a single sector that can be flagged as a secret.
- Replaced the light source in the yellow skull room with something less likely to have already fallen over.
- Replaced the evil eyes with tech lamps since those aren't shootable.
- The trigger for releasing the pain bringers in the nukage fountain is once again a walk line.
Map16
- Every sector in the backpack secret was tagged as secret, leaving a total of 3 secrets one of which was skippably thin. The skippable is now untagged.
Map18
- It was possible to squeeze into the blue key pillar to trigger the ambush prematurely. The pillar is now the entire 64x64 platform.
* levels: more fixes.
E3M7
- Ambush-flagged and moved the pinkies in the lower small intestine so they stop trying to block the player from below either drop.
- Got rid of some orthogonal lines in the intestine to get rid of the fake contrast.
Map11
- Jump-proofed the decorative canal areas near the final arena.
- Some attempts to address #996.
Map14
- Removed the close-30-seconds door for the descending serpentipede monster closet because if they all bunch up like that while you have an SSG it's a boring wait afterwards. Have fun being hunted by them in the corridors!
- Addressed #996 in the south.
Map15
- Made the two lifts to the red armour secret visually consistent with each other.
- Some feeble attempts to address #996.
Map17
- Jump-proofed by Catoptromancy: numerous platforms raised above what should be jumpable in most sourceports that enable it by default.
- Added a backpack by the corpse near the start, as playing the map "right" and refraining from shooting until you get the tripod puts you in significant danger of running into a shellbox while at near full.
- The stairs inside the living room are flush up against the wall, so you don't waste time falling off and getting back on.
- The window texture now better matches the light falling on the floor.
- Moved Tree #73 and #37 as they were being invisible jump-blockers from below.
- Restored there being three chunks of rock for the blue key.
- Changed up a lot of textures in hopes of creating visually distinct areas.
- Added an extra secret in the start tunnel.
- Made the switch in the water go to 8+LAF fast instead of lowest because those weird sudden flat changes didn't look good.
- Shrank the pillars near the yellow key so you could move around all of them.
- Changed the torches inside the southern switch corridor to techlamps, and added new torches around the entrance to the eastern building.
- Changed the hanging corpse in the living room to another hanging corpse. (see #941)
- Made the couch look more like a couch. And one that's been in a war zone.
Map23
- Replaced the haphazard texture on the northern teleporter room and added some light sources.
- Improved the trim around sector 236 so the door doesn't go right into the curve.
- Used the correct CONS1 flat for sector 246 and shrank it accordingly.
- Addressed #996 in the south.
- Moved the (non-hanged) corpse in the starting secret out of the doorway. The way it hinted at the true nature of that wall was really neat but sadly doesn't play well with software renderer.
Map25
- Southern curved tunnel had a single orthogonal line that led to a misleading fake contrast.
- Some feeble attempts to address #996.
* Delete map17m.wad
* levels: restore old e2m1.
* levels: address E3M6 softlock.
see #998
* 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
freedoom1.wad
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
freedoom2.wad
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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Co-authored-by: mc776 <24984517+mc776@users.noreply.github.com>
* levels: more misc. fixes and improvements.
This one's a bit more ambitious than the other one, sorry.
**E2M8**
Missiles were disappearing into the outer walls. It's clearly not desired behaviour since they only disappear when fired at ground level targets - when you have plenty of space to dodge - and not when fired at you while you're on the ledge where it might have been handy. It also wasn't happening consistently. Flipping the linedefs didn't solve the problem so the sky above the slime has been lowered to compensate.
Some more ornamentation added to the corners of the slime to cover up the resulting sky oddities.
**E3M6**
The monster closet in the far west-southwest was having some render issues so I moved some vertices around.
The skull pole in the eastern blood room interrupted my flow so I moved it.
Added a bit of stuff to the exits. Both E3M7 and E3M9 start off with a pretty strong techbase/hell mix so the additions should reflect that.
Changed up the start. The back wall now has some skylights, the players start just in front of the door and instead of one serpentipede standing with its back to you completely oblivious it's standing around the corner waiting to ambush (along with 1-2 buddies)
Rocket launcher #53 (near the star thing, which has also been given a bit of a makeover) is now marked multi-only.
Fixed various texture issues and merged various identical sectors.
Added more health and a way out of the pit with the zigzag bridge.
Moved the bars around to make it a little more obviously impossible to squeeze through.
Marked the teleporter to the red door as needing a red key. (Not marking the door itself just for aesthetics.)
**E3M7**
Fixed up some texture alignments in the first fighting area and the lift leading into the intestine area.
Fixed up some texture alignments in the intestine area and some minor remodelling of the wooden exit gate out of it.
Added an anti-pinkie-block trench (see Map13, Map20 and Map29) in front of that first drop in the red spiral chamber.
Moved some stuff around in the intestine/stomach area to get rid of jarring fake contrast effects.
Made the teeth at the start of the digestive tract white.
Added more health and armour in the areas leading up to the spiral.
Added some skylights on that long marble corridor.
Moved everything in the spawn chambers so that the last weapon you autoswitch to is the shotgun. There is no skill level that places anything you can immediately melee right behind that first door so it's just "haha we gave you all this prep but you forgot to switch" as the player takes a bunch of fireballs while switching to a proper weapon.
Made the cyberdemon fight more interesting and chaotic. All four corners now (can eventually) open back up into the hall, and monsters warp into the hall and just outside the front door.
**Map06**
Continuing from #865.
**Map10**
Addressed #867 and #714.
Softlock if you could run into (-2696,736). Moved the tree and rock to allow passage out, and also added a medkit there as a little reward (or compensation if you get cornered in there) given how long it took for this to be reported.
Marked the blue door leading to the yellow key as needing the blue key.
With jump enabled you can easily grab the blue key early and skip the entire left twisty area of the map. I don't want to fence this area off because it looks and feels like shit that way, but the player should still have a reason to go the long route. Right now there's a rocket launcher and chaingun that way.
So I've made the following changes:
- Added a tiny step in the eastern corner of that ledge that lets you get up to that level without jumping.
- Changed thing #130 from a chaingun to an ammo box, but added another chaingun that's multi-only. You will still get a chaingun in this room in single, but you'll have to pry it out of someone's cold dead hands.
- Flagged RL #202 as multi only and adding 2 more rockets in that spot.
- Flagged shotgun #365 as multi only, and added another shotgun to (-3648,400).
The super shotgun secret #1 is also trivially easy to jump onto. I've moved the gun into a secret area that can only be opened if you specifically go down that waterfall.
**Map12**
Restored staircrate access to berserk pack #510.
Changed sector 740 into a door and tagged it 56 to match the other stuff that opens in that area.
Shrank sector 437 and neighbours to align the ceiling lights correctly. Also added an overhang.
Made the monsters in sector 575 teleport into the teleport sectors inside the accessible part of that sector.
Made chaingunner #515 visible by using chainlink instead of a tinted window. (how would it even shoot through the glass without leaving holes???) It is also an imp in easy and medium.
Fixed some texture alignments/matching in the northeast tower and stairs in that big western arena.
**Map13**
Added the rising-trench trick to keep the spectres from blocking the very first jump into the big slime pit.
Gave the top of the blue key pillar a more appropriate texture.
**Map14**
Addressed #867.
Secret sector #107 expanded to keep the player from picking up the chaingun inside it even when the secret is not made accessible.
Got rid of the cage trap for the yellow key, in favour of a baron (knight in easy) warping onto the pad when you hit the switch, which must be killed before you can leave. Reasons: the cage trap can be too easily ruined by a player or zombie, even accidentally; these kinds of traps are not good for replays because they disrespect player agency and punish efficient players with a longer dead time; the trap is impossible to guarantee without either an extremely contrived funnelling the player into the trigger line, or having multiple trigger lines thus running the risk of forcing the player to wait it out on two separate occasions. An additional shell box is provided with the yellow key.
**Map15**
Northwest secret involved a multi-sector lift that clearly goes out of sync. Added a new simple lift behind it instead, and fixed up various textures there.
Moved 333 and 334 a bit over so they couldn't be picked up from the other side of the wall by the switch.
Made overlapping enemies 295 and 255 alternatives that only appear in different skill levels.
Window overlooking blue computer switch now has chain link to mark it as impassable.
The rising red key platform (and all its various components) could be triggered twice, resulting in unwanted effects. The second of these switches is inside the pit and clearly designed to prevent a softlock in case the player reached that area before the switch was hit. The second switch has now been removed; the only path leading to the area is now only accessible if the first switch is hit. As this disables the lift function of the final bridge, safety lifts are added on both sides.
**Map16**
Broke up the linedefs in the outdoor visual so everything should be under 2048.
Added fences, railings, tall lamps, etc. to better mark where the player shouldn't be going.
There's this gap between two buildings that you can slowly squeeze into and find nothing at the end. It's clearly not meant to go through but it's not quite small enough to communicate that reliably, which keeps getting some players misled. I've expanded this area and made it end with the shittiest tiny little fenced-off alley I can do in that few linedefs. The stimpack is now back there.
Spruced up the blue key building a bit, and made that curvy gap actually navigable.
Widened the little steppy things on the edges of the thick box things because navingating that was really annoying.
Miscellaneous other breakings-up of monotonous surfaces.
**Map20**
Broke up a lot of >2048 linedefs.
P1 now starts in the middle, right on that pillar that looks like it'd be a great slightly-unusual starting teleport pad, instead of having an easily opened door right behind them with no explanation how they got there without noticing the shotgun guy. The blocking pillars now have a skull so you know the skull switches are related. Said switches are now part of the fence - it looks vastly better this way and fully jump-proofing this section was always a bit of a nonconcern.
The starting building outer catwalk tends to snag the player in vanilla if they run along the side (which now has a fence to demarcate it). As far as I can tell this is completely unavoidable, so the entire area has been widened to avoid accidental contact while avoiding getting caught in the more obvious geometry of the pillars.
There are three more shotgun guys behind the first door in multiplayer. That's four shotguns!
Windows in that first red building you have to get into are NO LONGER MARKED IMPASSABLE. OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER. I've also added thin deep invisible grooves in the lava that disappear on your first jump attempt, to keep the spectres from blocking you.
The switch granting access to the blue keycard room is now behind a cage and cannot be punched, getting around some mods that stop the fist from alerting monsters. The ceiling has also been raised slightly to address texture alignment.
The lift that you take into the big red building if you fail the jump now visually matches the one inside.
The blue keycard lift monster spawns are now staggered so you can't clear through all of them at once and stand around awkwardly to wait for the lift to finish. (If you didn't pistol start this map you might just clear out one wave, then stand awkwardly for a much shorter and non-deterministic time until the next.) There's also a lot more of them, just so you don't clear them out *too* quickly. The monsters will teleport into one of the next areas if they try to follow you out of the room.
Figured out why I've always ragequitted this map: there was NOTHING in the marble temple that would tell the player that the skull pillar in front of the cyberdemon is a usable lift. No vanilla-compatible switch texture works here aesthetically. So I just finished the implied temple and added an altar, in the middle of which is a clearly visible switch.
Added more health (of which there had been nearly none, even what I've added is stingy af compared to even Map21) and armour and replaced a multi-only (GOD WHY) soulsphere in the southeast with an also-singles medikit.
Made the square room less utterly dreadful by adding some sky.
Added a lift out of the damage sector in the end area.
Added some secrets.
**Map23**
The two doors in the G-shaped spiral corridor just to the east of the helipad are now single-use stay-open. The problem is that with all the corpses and archviles the closing doors were creating a lot of crushed corpses that were being raised as ghosts in vanilla. (Made even worse by the fast doors which could reduce the opportunity for more incoming monsters to block the descending door)
**Map27**
Spaced out the candle display in front of the devil icons on the east with the shellboxes, to prevent more floating-ledge movements. Honestly I think it looks better this way especially with the bigger Freedoom candle sprite.
Merged/deleted a few redundant sectors with no change to map geometry.
**Map28**
Fixed a misaligned marble skull face near (-4159,1348).
**Map29**
Starting room large devil icons now have staticky trim instead of appearing to tile. Each face is now only two linedefs instead of three, as the perfectly orthogonal middle lines were subject to the fake contrast and didn't look right.
Widened the shaft on the southwest arrow and the flagellum on the northeast sperm to let the serpentipedes move more freely.
Moved armour away from the yellow key platform, guaranteeing its availability from the ground.
Bottom room with spectres and archvile now blocks the spectres from getting right up below the ledge until you've crossed it. The rising platform in that room is also a bit more visible - with the same textures and dim lighting it was almost totally invisible in vanilla unless you already knew where it was.
* levels: improve map16 big view out onto the river.
The big warning stripes on the old railing were right at eye level.
Also the ambiguity whether that was concrete or asphalt or beach finally got to me so I needed to show where the concrete ended and the beach began. (This was originally going to be something more like [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Riprap.jpg) but it ended up being way too visually noisy - that one big rock in the sand now is a remnant of that.)
* levels: fix tutti-fruitti on the topmost stair on the northeast corner of the big western arena.
In each of the four corners of MAP14 outside there are large cylinders
on raised platforms that monsters get stuck behind. This fix moves the
monsters from behind the cylinders and adds linedefs that the monsters
can't pass.
Part of the Eureka cleanup involved fixing warnings having to do with
missing textures. Eureka was used to fix the missing textures by
replacing the "-" with "GRAY1'. Unfortunately fake floors and ceilings
resulted in false positive warning. Fixing the warnings broke the
intended rendering - the fake floor or fake ceiling is supposed to be
extended over what is now a gray hole. The solution is to revert the
missing texture fixes that have to do with fake floors and ceilings.
freedm.wad
DM02 Ceiling above the arrow.
DM20 Ceiling above the lights near door.
DM23 Ceiling above the light.
Ceiling above health bonuses.
DM25 Ceiling above polaric energy cannon.
DM26 Ceiling above DM spawns.
freedoom1.wad
E2M5 Floor with hatchling pop up near the start.
Floor with trilobite pop up near the end.
E2M7 Pillar surrounding the blue key.
Floor with monster pop up at the end.
E3M3 Ceiling in triangular room.
Floor with trilobite popup near triangular room.
Floor with pain lord pop ups upstairs from triangular room.
E4M1 Ceiling above yellow key.
E4M3 Floor slit in the ground outside (rendering trick?).
E4M4 Floor below the exit sign.
E4M6 Floor lights at the bottom.
Ceiling above teleporter.
Slit in blue floor (rendering trick?).
Ceiling light above the red key.
E4M7 Floor internal control sectors in nukage.
Floor below the exit sign.
E4M8 Floor below the exit sign.
Ceiling above the teleporter.
E4M9 Floor below the lights.
freedoom2.wad
MAP14 Floor for four outdoor monster pop ups.
MAP17 Floor with four internal control sectors in the middle.
Ceiling above logo in red floor room.
MAP18 Ceiling above the player spawn.
Ceiling above the end.
Transparent windows
Floor with monster pop ups outdoors.
MAP20 Ceiling above the light in corner.
MAP25 Floor with monster pop up outdoors.
In levels/map1*.wad files fix errors flagged by Eureka when F9 (Check /
ALL) is pressed. This is mostly missing textures and similar errors.
MAP10 Fix door with ceiling (-32) below floor (-24) by raising ceiling
MAP12 Remove 3 zero length linedefs that had the same begin and end vertexes
Fix non-animated switch texture
Remove unused sector tags
Add missing textures
MAP13 Remove doom camera (#32000)
Remove unused Strife linedef tag #999 and 97 WR Teleport on that linedef
MAP14 Fix ceiling below floor in two sectors by raising ceiling from 120 to 128
Add missing textures
MAP15 Remove unused tag 33 on linedef and 121 W1 Lift Lower /fast on that linedef
Clear 4 sectors tags without a matching linedef
Add missing textures
MAP17 Add missing textures
MAP18 Fix pillars with ceiling (136) below floor (640) by setting ceiling to floor height
Add missing textures
MAP19 Remove unused sector tag #20
Add missing textures
Some editors like to save cruft into a wad, along with the map data.
Unfortunately, it is pulled into the build targets by deutex, which
simply includes every lump in each map wad into the final build.
- c1m1: remove __EUREKA
- c1m5: remove DEHACKED
- c2m9: remove __EUREKA
- dm18: remove __EUREKA, GL_*
- dm32: remove __EUREKA
- map03: remove __EUREKA
- map05: remove __EUREKA
- map14: remove __EUREKA
- map17: remove __EUREKA
- map32: remove UPLTEMPL
map06: the spider mastermind wont shoot back, seems trapped on sector
mismatch. FIXED, made spider platform larger.
map10: fixed map with new ammo and monster arrangements and exit.
map13: needs finished or replaced. Only added an exit, and made skill
more sane.
map14: needs most sectors unjoined. FIXED, maybe. Much more noticeable
in coop with random sectors and HOM.
map24: needs skill adjustment FIXED,
Signed-off-by: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>
