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mc776
a828330d25
levels: more minor fixes. (#1040)
* 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.
2023-08-03 14:16:55 -03:00
mc776
2c55c8df7f
levels: minor fixes. (#1026)
E1M2
- Fixed the heights of the little yellow pillars to match the rectangles.
- Fixed up some textures in the secret near the exit.

Map29
- Added Catoptromancy's big stash of ammo on the yellow key pillar.
- Added some radsuits in the home base.
- Fixed some texture alignment issues in the home base.
2023-07-16 11:14:26 -03:00
mc776
99149fba2d
levels: various minor fixes. (#990)
* 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.
2023-06-24 19:02:43 -03:00
mc776
8c076fcba9
levels: minor Phase 2 fixes. (#964)
* levels: minor Phase 2 fixes.

Mostly for addressing #694.

Map05
Realigned grey hex textures around soulsphere switch. Now the odd one out is the door.

Map09
Fixed up the lighting in the start room.
Reflagged some secret doors as secret rather than hidden.
Consolidated the two W1 Floor to LAC triggers around the yellow key.
The red key rocket launcher sequence could potentially mess someone up who - given the hatchling closet, quite reasonably - avoids grabbing the rocket launcher. It seems needlessly convoluted, but it is a funny prank how the switch makes the red key disappear entirely for a bit. Instead of untangling this I'm just going to add some health bonuses around the rocket launcher so the player will eventually go there.
Tried to mitigate the worst of the various crimes against texture alignment in the crate maze, adding a light source in the process. It would take a *lot* of work to make it actually look good, a lot more than can be done in a batch bugfix PR.

Map10
Lower unpegged sector 70 (red door leading outside) door tracks.
Added matching midtexes to the insides of the fences around the lights by the door leading to the final corridor.
Line 839 (south-southeast red armour behind waterfall) flagged secret and the lines on the other side flagged hidden.

Map11
Realigned grey hexes in corridor around minigunner switch room.
Added an evil eye right in front of the shootwall secret.

Map12
Change line 330 midtex to the new MIDSPCSM with no offset.
Lower-unpegged line 4787 doortrack.

Map13
Sectors 243 no longer uses mismatching TLITE6_5 flat. (Sector 170 actually looks okay ingame.)
Realigned line 260.

Map15
Line 163 W1 changed to WR to prevent a potential softlock.
Aligned COMPSPAN on sector 561 to match surroundings.
Fixed some textures in the green corridor in the west overlooking the nukage. Also set those zombies in there to ambush since that seems to be the intention based on their placement, and made that big block thingy on the east end of that corridor a more normal-looking door.
Touched up greyhex near sector 491.
Flagged linedef 5293 secret.
Sectors 145 and 116 (rock fringe around nukage around red key platform) consolidated into one sector, made non-damaging, and without the invisible blocking lines.

Map16
Changed Line 1089 to SR instead of S1. (Switch that opens the secret to the east)
Realigned all the SUPPORT3s in that little painlord corridor while shrinking the "ribs" a bit; also widened the little exit atrium so the space between the lights is as wide as the door. (After looking at the others I am not going to widen any more corridors at this time.)
Grossly simplified the twisty yellow key corridor, and lowered the ceiling of the outside of the door so the yellow door stripe would fit properly. One doortrack needed to be given the DOORTRAK texture. The remaining "ribs" are recessed further inside the wall so they do not impede movement at all.
Lowered the ceiling above the other yellow marked door as well. The corridor around the corner has been expanded slightly.

Map22
Flagged line 830 secret.

Map23
Fixed candle placement on east end of zombieman corridor.
Consolidated some identical sectors around the big "AGM" floor and lowered the torch platforms so they wouldn't clip into the ceiling.
Raised the ceilings on the techpillars right after the first long lift. The walls in front of them now match their surroundings.
Removed lower unpegged from lines 2066, 2082, 2062, 2075. ("Door"tracks for the route across those pillars in the southeast - they're actually lifts not doors)
SSG secret fixed. (And marked.)

Map28
Lines 2326, 622 lagged secret.
Realigned lines 4594 and 4671.
Realigned scrolling textures around sector 517.
Touched up monster closet around sector 399, changing to to 8 about HAF fast and making the closet a bit taller so there'd be a better natural threshold between those areas. The doortracks were fine, if a bit complex.
Raised sector 474 ceiling to match marble brick seams.
Made sector 147 (cubes hanging over hot rocks) do damage and sectors 91 and 115 (teleport pads) not.

Map29
Swapped out the textures on the sides of the big green skull pad.

* levels: fix up map23 southeast secret textures.

I messed up the texture replacement around the green torch, the extreme sudden darkness ruined the blue AGM text, the pillar lift-doors needed a better division between the tekwall and red rock, and that huge swathe of DOORTRAK hurt to look at in vanilla.

* levels: map07 aesthetic fixes.

Replaced BIGDOOR1 on sector 50 as it was giving tutti-frutti.

Fixed the textures on the lifts in the green area beyond the outdoor area.

Miscellaneous texture alignment fixes and added some more thresholds between materials.
2023-05-06 17:23:28 -03:00
mc776
789287b301
levels: address map29 artificial difficulty. (#938)
If you pistol start this map, on the teleport into the tower you will be forced to get helplessly shredded by serpentipedes while you're switching to the polaric that's right at the destination. A second one has been added on the platform with the backpack that leads to the teleporter, and the current one has been flagged as multiplayer-only.

Right after this is the blue key, which cannot be retrieved without taking damage from the hurtfloor below. There's no reason to be anywhere near this pit after the blue key so the double telepads doesn't even make sense, except to warp the occasional spider into the starting room which just looks silly. To address all these issues, there is only one pad, right next to the rocket launcher switch, which lines are monster blockers, and the blue key platform is now *higher* than the ledge you reach it from so you can see it moving, retreat back into the tower, and go back to the RL platform and reach the telepad without touching the lava.

The medikit with the blue key has been moved into the main ground area in the northwest.

The jump from the wood tower onto the teleport to get into the stone tower is now surrounded by monster blocking lines.

Got rid of two things that seemed intended only to spite the player:
- the sub-shotgun in the green room, which would cause a weapon-switch just as you face the painlord at the top of the lift, is now just two packs of shells.
- all four doors of the minigunner shack are usable. (They are also equally lit, unlike previously when one of them was slightly darker and it wasn't the one that was usable.)

Added a radsuit and medikit to the back of the green building, so that exploring that area isn't merely unmitigatedly punished.

Added a visible light source to each of the indoor areas.
2023-04-22 11:18:42 -03:00
mc776
1b14bb26bb
levels: remove flat bleed tricks in Map20+29.
Map20: Just added textures to the lava jump and made the sectors thinner. No one's going to see them outside of deathmatch without noclipping anyway.

Will just leave the hole in the red arena ceiling where it is - players don't look up anyway.

The little red button in the closed-off brown metal area also uses flat bleeding (which frankly I'd taken as precedent to let me do this with the other stuff at all).  Turns out it's perfectly visible with the light reduced to the surrounding area so I have done that (and also added some downwards movement of said button).

Map29: Moved the spectres out of LOS.
2023-03-27 10:13:04 -07:00
mc776
9442f65f27
levels: address #916 for Phase 2. 2023-03-25 15:48:43 -07:00
Steven Elliott
2f066d434b
levels: rebuild nodes (#846)
Ran "make rebuild-nodes"
2023-02-27 12:57:49 -03:00
mc776
98740b1307
levels: more misc. fixes and improvements. (#882)
* 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.
2023-02-27 08:05:52 -03:00
mc776
3efe8a0e41
levels: fix various bugs. (#871)
* levels: fix various bugs.

Thanks to Goji!, Inuk and rednakhla on Discord for pointing these out.


E1M3: Northern lift simplified to address texture alignment problems.

E1M5: Door near (-205,1336) (leading out into open ceiling area with the big strip of lights down the middle) door tracks needed to be lower unpegged.

E1M9: Lift near (-2328,120) was split into 2 sectors, causing HOMs when they went out of sync. There's nothing that relies on this split (contrast the neat lighting stuff from Map22) so the lift is just merged into one sector.

E2M2: Shellbox near (-486,192) is right on the line between two stairs, causing it to rest on the bottom step which causes ports like GZDoom to have the sprite clip *very* visibly into the upper stair. Moved it slightly so it rests on the upper of those two stairs.

E2M3: Door leading to red key and "door" leading to soulsphere: former should be lower unpegged but latter should not, but were reversed. Two exit-door-textured doorframes also given more conventional DOORTRAK and lower unpegged treatment. The teleporter representing the hatch going down into the nukage is now fully repeatable.


Map07: Infinite height in vanilla would cause the spectres in the red key courtyard to trap the player on the entrance ledge from below in a way that could not be seen or diegetically explained. Those three spectres now warp in only after you cross the ledge. (Setting them to "ambush" would do nothing since you're in LOS with them from the top of the ledge.)

Map11: Lights above red keycard weren't aligned; moved that entire sector and added a few lines to round the corner. Removed a strobe effect on the exit teleporter to compensate for a GZDoom issue where the light would go to absolute zero during the blink.

Map12: Room to the south with the 2 stimpacks, ammo boxes, 2 chaingunners and berserk would sometimes cause some of the items to be "levitated" to the highest sectors they touch. Moved them away from said higher sectors - it looks a bit sloppier but this is a backroom not a storefront lol.

Map13: The easternmost archvile platform had the archvile stuck in the seam, preventing it from lowering in vanilla. (Worked fine in GZDoom) Moved it a little further in.

Map19: The combat slugs teleport in from a W1 teleporter which could sometimes be spent while one of the pinkies is blocking the destination, permanently preventing that slug from teleporting in. These are now WRs like the other teleporting enemies.

Map22: More W1 monster teleports that should be WR. Also filled in some missing textures in the multi-sector lift connecting the cavern to the hall in the southwest, which parts are clearly not meant to be seen moving separately but can - it still looks fucked up if you manage to desync them, but it's a diegetic fucked up now.

Map24: Another W1 spawn. This one is impossible to screw up in vanilla, but there are some mods that could end up spawning something there that could block the archviles from teleporting.

Map25: More W1 problems. The spawn source room now also has a small barrier to make sure each pinkie only goes to its own teleporter unless the initial teleport fails.

Map27: Lizardbaby dropping too far meant that the bracket was falling along with it in a visibly unnatural way.

Map29: Broke up all the long linedefs on the perimeter of the map to get around the invisible hitscan barrier bug: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Hitscan_attacks_hit_invisible_barriers_in_large_open_areas
(Ideally this entire perimeter should be redone to break up the box in favour of more natural-looking formations, but that's a bit outside the scope of a fix like this.)


Also got rid of the Plutonia-style start/end teleports on the fixed Phase 2 maps, to address #867.

* maps: more fixes.

More floaty items and other things.

E1M9
- floater mid south stim by staircase
E1M7
- floater northwest clips near the tunnels
- floaters near switch by railings, now all on the railings
- duckproofed sector 439 barrier
E2M9
- floater thing #125 medikit on top of lift, now in middle of platform
- shotgun guy (thing #309) and the spectre behind it stuck in geometry.
- lines 430 and 761 both open the same door and are in the same room right next to each other. Since 761 is actually textured and positioned as a switch, the tag and special on 430 is removed.

* levels: flag e2m7 DM stuff as multi-only.

Marked the following based on eyeballing out what items are right next to DM spawns with no obvious alternate route to them: 487, 488; 203, 397; 499, 500, 501, 502; 482, 485; 491, 492, 493; 494; 496; 28, 486; 182; 54

* levels: more misc. fixes.

E1M6 W1 lines 2318 and 2321.

E3M5 Removed all monster block lines in that gross blood room and raised the blood floor to only 4 below the normal floors, but flagged more monsters in there as ambush to make up for it. Also fixed a lot of texture alignment issues in the top skin panels and lowered the ceiling, along with adding a new sector to address texture tiling issues in the northern teleporter room.

E4M1 fixed a mysterious HOM that was going on near the northern shadow line in the northern outdoor area. Merged a lot of sectors that were identical in their properties.

E4M7 entrance to sector 985 seems to be intended that the player run off the ledge into that room, then the pinkie near the ledge ambushes the player from behind. Instead, what sometimes happens is that the pinkie is alerted somehow, then obstructs the player (vanilla infinite height) from being able to get down there. That means of getting down into that room is now walled off, and instead you step onto that lift to bring it down from above. Neat side effect: any monsters still in the ring when you enter that room will follow you down there.

E4M5 linedefs 1724 and 1725 were facing the wrong way and couldn't be hit with projectiles.

Map25 Float thing 217. Moved that entire row further south to address floating item issues.

Map28 Float thing 464.

* levels: use inner room texture in E4M7 lift.

* levels: align side textures on that lift.

Didn't realize the little squares were sticking into the floor at the *bottom* of the lift as well.
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Xindage
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Ayub Ahmed
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Mike Swanson
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Simon Howard
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