Journal #5081

Well, I have been inactive for a while, haven't I?

I finally finished tweaking my Necropolis: Mausoleum map -- although for the relatively minor mods I made, it didn't seem worth uploading the new version to my site so that is still slightly outdated. I can't even remember what the changes were, anymore!

After a brief hiatus I started mapping again -- and so far, with numerous interruptions along the way, I've been working on my latest effort for almost a year now! The idea was to rebuild my first level, LavaLab, using some of the tricks I've learned since I first released it all those years ago. This plan was inspired partly by a general sense of dissatisfaction with the mostly square volcanic crater -- and partly by a great set of volcanic rock and lava graphics made available by srry in "The Free Texture Thread"...

It must be 8 months or more since I first told srry I'd be making use of his graphics, and showed him my very early level layout. Since then the level has gotten rather complicated, and the last month or two - in what little time I get to actually work on the thing - have been a constant juggling act, trying to add more to the level while keeping the CLIPNODES below 100% (I'm hovering at around 95%, most days...) There's still plenty I want to do with it, so it won't be released for a while yet - but perhaps 'tis time to show srry a couple more screenshots of what I've done with his textures... :)