The collapsible thingy is a spoiler plugin. It does come in handy . I’m pretty sure this is the same one. The name of the plugin is Advanced Spoiler.

Also, that little collapsable paragraph is pretty neat. Any idea how I could get that on my own blog?

I’ve been doing a ten-map or so wad for ST/ZDoom, some maps being over a year old. And none of them is finished. A bunch is half-way done or so.. maybe after I finally get the stuff out of the door I could take a look at boom mapping.

I can understand that newschool and vanilla mapping are totally different worlds. But I guess I’d understand it even better if I tried it myself.

My Doom mapping background comes from the product of ZDoom/Skulltag. In relation to pure vanilla compatibility, those formats are magnitudes less limited. So by the time I started doing serious vanilla-compatible mapping, it was quite a shock at how much more limited that format is (even knowing that beforehand). At first it sort of sucks because you can’t exactly pull out a vision the same way you can with less limited formats. But you quickly learn to adapt to what works in vanilla at a base level. After you get a feel for it, you find that there are all sorta of cool things that you can pull off within the vanilla format that are just as impressive as something made in a less limited format. You have to get past that “limited environment” metal barrier first though before you can appreciate what you have to work with and what can be done.

I would think that from an outside perspective, people would view these vanilla works with the same understanding you get after working within the limits. But that’s unrealistic since there’s only a small portion of the whole playing group that truly understands that. So if you compare newschool works versus vanilla works at the same levels, its not entirely fair. Rather you have to understand the differences between the two first (both in terms of limits and creativity) before comparing them, I think.

When I get right down to it, I prefer the middle ground – Boom or Limit-Removing compatibility. The reason being is because I like to have some limits to keep me in check but enough wiggle room to let my creativity roam around a bit. Vanilla is fun but its limits do bottleneck certain map concepts.

If you really enjoy Doom mapping and you want an experience that might increase your design theories, then I say definitely give vanilla mapping a try sometime! Once you get past that barrier, it really is a lot of fun

Liking the stuff, albeit it looks less impressive than newschool stuff, I guess that’s inherent from the vanilla limits and getting the stuff look like that must be quite a feat. And the texture usage certainly makes up for the lack of complex geometry.

Looking at it again, it actually looks pretty great! This will be an interesting play-through once the megawad finally hits the doors.