A small rant / brain-dump around design. I was under no illusions that doing something like this was going to be technically challenging so not surprising that things have started to get tricky now that I’m going beyond basic map geometry. 🧵

#retroshooter #modding #gamedev

Still a few missing textures but mostly parsing the Marathon map format. If you haven't played Apotheosis X, I highly recommend.

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Abusing the universal map format. Hard to make it out but this is Hollywood Holocaust running in Blood and GzDoom (notice I haven't fixed doom coords - tut tut).

#duke3d #bloodgame #GZDoom #retroshooter #modding #gamedev

Oops.

Running Duke levels in blood.

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Duke texture indices and rotations fixed. Really need to start looking at those texture coords :)

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Better!

Love how the devs were able to nail the SW aesthetic despite the primitive tech at the time.

#darkforces #retroshooter #modding

Ok so it *almost* looks like SECBASE? Still a lot of work to get Dark Forces maps look nice.

#darkforces #retroshooter #modding

Better loading of Doom textures (still not perfect). Multi-selection editing of textures now supported.

#gzdoom

Cross-engine map viewer / editor. Is this a bad idea? Probably!

#alephone #eduke32 #gzdoom