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April 2002
Lavapitt Temple
Doom_Dude has released a new DM wad after a small fit of mapping he had at the weekend. The level contains seven new textures and ten new flats. Take yourself along to The Megawad and download it.
Deep
SB Software, home of Deepsea updated with news that some minor changes have been made to the registered version of 11.6. The shareware version has also been updated with these changes. Here is a list:-Change shipped optional 4th configurable Toolbar commands and eliminated obsolete key commands.
-Tool bar colors are controlled by your desktop Appearance, 3D Objects.
-Grid intersections cleared to eliminate occasional spots at some grid setting. Pop along and visit SB Software.
Karthik's Place One Year Old
Karthik's DOOM Pages have not exactly updated but Karthik wanted to let us know that he has been here at Newdoom for one year today. He does say though that he has now finished his exams for this semester and has two months of holidays coming up. He hopes to use some of this to get some doom work done.
Planet of the Imps Back On Track!
Planet Of The Imps the web comic devoted so lovingly to Doom, but has been on hiatus for nearly four months, is finally back in action! A new comic strip is on display every day, and the website is getting a lot of changes as well (new gfx, added sections, diff layout). After 100 comics, Zack doesn't know if he'll continue or not--it depends on the feedback he gets. Email Zack and let him know what you think of his site. He also says he may be writing a review for Wolfenstein 3D for the Gameboy Advance soon, so keep your eyes open. ;)
id Redesign
Check it out, the guys over at id Software have finally redesigned their website. Unfortunately, there's no news on the New Doom game... but then I didn't really think there would be. Thanks to Planky who sent us this news.
Why Editor Update
Jussi Pakkanen has updated the Why homepage with this little lot:This version has a few minor tweaks and one major new feature: the super easy, ultra efficient sector splitter tool. It is so simple that I can explain it with just two images. First you select the vertices that are the basis of the split. Then just select the splitter from the pop-up menu and you're done. All the crossings in between are calculated and added automatically and proper sidedef references are maintained throughout. The tool can handle anything, such as donut sectors, areas that are outside sectors etc. Don't ask Why, just download it.
jDoom II?
Jaakko has let us know that he is working on the next version of jDoom. He does say that there is going to be little progress over the coming weeks as he has exams to finish. Here is some of what he had to say:Last weekend I implemented LOD handling for the 3D models. It was quite fun to write a triangle mesh optimizer for md2tool and I think it turned out quite decent (about 40%-60% reduction of triangle count with acceptable results, at the maximum level). The MD2 model format has no support for LOD, though, which lead into a new model format, which I call DMD (Detailed MoDel, or Detailed MD2). The format is basically the same as with MD2, but there can be an arbitrary number of extra triangle lists and GL commands, each constituting a LOD. The next release of Doomsday can use MD2s and DMDs interchangeably. Sounds good.
Boing, Boing, Boing
The Epidermis Emporium has had 62 new skins added to the site, bringing the total number of skins available up to 302. Skins have been added to all catergories.
Mystic Release
Mystic has released a new single player/deathmatch level. The level is called lolly and resembles his 'Mystic series' of wads but has newer textures. It requires legacy to run and you can find it in the wads section of Doom Heaven.
Room On The Left... No Right... No, Hang On... Bugger
The Room On The Left has 6 maps of their megawad, called Underworld, finished and ready for download. Map ten is already done and will be available once the others are done. There is new music, graphics, text and a ded file embedded into the wad. To reach the downloads click on the doom logo.
DM From DH
There is a new DM release at Doom Heaven. It is described as a 'small high tech' level in which you will be fighting in flooded cramped corridors. It requires the legacy to run also.
| Wednesday, April 17, 2002 |
New Angry Rabbits
The Official Russian Zdoom site has updated with one hundred and one crosshairs. The styles of the crosshairs are threeangle, angle, box, circle, cross, dot, 'X' style, Quake3-style and with shadow.
Wim's Mini Mega Wad
The Mole's Lair breaks a two month silence with news on his 'highly classified top-secret multi-level episode'. This has now been renamed 'Mini-Level Megawad'. This will not be a full 32 levels but only eleven in total and the levels themselves will be quite short. There are new enemies and Wim has posted two new screenshots.
Edge Not Dead
EDGE has been updated. This is to inform us all of what has been happening over the last five months. There is also a list of what Darkknight would like to do next with the edge engine. He also talks about the addition of the new updated wad format called WD2. Currently the format employed by the Doom Engine is on the primitive side of things and editing it wrongly can cause major hassle. With a new format we can fix these inconsistencies with a new directory structure. I suspect that EDGE will support this new format WAD (named WD2) on the next release. Developers will be provided with tools and in the same way that EDGE converts maps to the glBSP format, conversion will similally take place from WAD to WD2. Like all developments, if it proves popular it will become the standard. There is also news on the multiplayer front with development of networking code for EDGE begining after the remain DDF files have been completed.
Get Your Newest jDoom
Jaakko 'skyJake' Keränen says you can get your latest version of jDoom (as well as jHeretic and jHexen)! Here's a summary of the key changes:(jDoom:) View and player weapon bobbing can be freely scaled with the cvars view-bob-height and view-bob-weapon.Model skins are precached by default.Rendering of particles can be made a little faster with the cvars rend-particle-diffuse and rend-particle-visible-near.Some interludes never finished on dedicated servers.Particles weren't generated properly on clientside. Available respectively at the jDoom, and the jHeretic and jHexen sites.
Millennium +2
Doom Millennium is looking like getting released at last. If it is not released by May 8th old mappers have said they will release half the maps as a stand-alone mini-episode. Lüt is looking for people to help out. He needs mappers, sprite artists and sound people. So if you can help contact Lüt.
Ken Silverman Interviewed
Over at the Doom Encyclopedia there is an interview with Ken Silverman. Who incase you didn't know was the guy behind Ken's Labyrinth and the build engine. Head directly to the interview Here.
Caverns Out Next Week
GG INC is telling us that Carverns Of Darkness will be out next week. It's been a about three years in the making but Joel says 'It's worth the wait'.I'm in the middle of testing MAP04 now. I stopped about 15 minutes ago and still haven't properly calmed down. Nokturnus has made masterful use of teleporting bad guys. Just when you think you're safe one of them pops up of nowhere and scares the hell out of you. Brilliant stuff. Only a week now.
Simpsons TC
Walter has let us know of the release of Simpsons total conversion. There are all new graphics and all new sprites. The weapons have remained the same though. Check it out at Sipmsons 'Hell In Springfield.
Doom At E3?
There is news over at Shacknews that id Software are going to be at this years E3. Shacknews say that they have confirmed that id software do have some floorspace. This is being shared with Activision. This could mean that Activision are going to publish Doom but this is just speculation. There is also a Shot of the cover of the E3 brochure which states at the bottom Tim Willits, id Software (Showing Doom).
| Wednesday, April 10, 2002 |
Andy's Indifference
Andy's Doom Projects Temp Page has updated with news that Indifference is now finished and work has begun on a new project call Deus Ex Machina. There are some screenshots of this and it will replace e3m7.
The Guardian
Presage has been updated with news that Gonzalo has updated his section of the site. This update contains the release of 'The Guardian' his latest and possibly his last Doom level. Unfortunately I don't have much time for Doom anymore, so the Alley will stop here for some time. Hopefully I'll get back to Doom in the future, but that's something I can't assure now. My maps will still be available for download, and of course I'll let you know if things change. Hoping that this break is shorter than I expect but fearing it won't, I'll take the chance to thank all doomers that helped me and encouraged me during these years, and to wish the Doom community a long and intense life, specially with the new Doom coming soon... Check all this at Presage.
Kathik's Instant Zombification, Just Add Water
Karthik's DOOM Pages have been refreshed. There is a new wallpaper called Instant Zombification. There are two reviews of the last level he released, 'The Other Side Of Phobos' by Wim Vanrie and Stephen Clark. In addition to this there is a 100% kills/ 100% secrets on Ultraviolence demo of the level.
GG INC
Joel Murdoch has let us know that he has updated GG INC. Although this was last week Joel says he has been getting over a virus. There are four reviews plus a bit of news.
A Death Match Made In Hell
Deathmatch In Hell has been released by Maik Lehmann. Although the title says Deathmatch it is also a single player and Co-operative wad. You can get it from Here.
Hellish To The Core
Hellcore has updated with ten new screenshots. Eight of these are from map01 and two are from map18. They are also in need of some level designers. So if you fit the bill then head along to Hellcore.
Treking Along
DoomarenA has updated with a new page of four screenshots from the Star Trek TC. All of the shots are from level 2. There will hopefully be a 1 level demo out within the next two weeks which could contain one of the latest borg type enemies if I get my ass in gear and finish it.
Indifference... Sorry, What Were You Saying?
Andy Leaver has released Indifference. This replaces E1M2 and he says it has been beta tested so there should not be many bugs if any. If there is he would like some feed back on it. Now you need to go to Andy's Doom Projects Temp Page.
Doom Arcade
GooberMan has finished and released a new Doom - The Arcade Game map. It is the second bonus stage map entitled 'You Sunk My Battleship'.
Doom Encyclopedia
Doom Encyclopedia is a site filled with lots of interesting stuff to browse through. Although the site is not fully up and running it's still worth a good look.
Doom Heaven
Doom Heaven have updated their little cloud with some new links and a new work in progress section. This contains all the new wads coming up. At the moment there is some screenshots of a new Legacy DM level being worked on.
New jDoom
There seems to be no stopping Jaakko Keränen at the moment as jDoom gets another update bringing it up to version 1.13.0. The netcode has been polished up a little. An example that Jakko gives is a warning about possibly incompatible IWADs will be displayed in the Client Setup screen. Various bugs have also been fixed. There is also some new kickstart features added.
Why 3
Jussi Pakkanen dropped us an email to tell us that Why is now up to beta 3. This version now has scripting support at the level where you can make your own scripts. There has also been a page setup to tell you how you can help with why's development. Why is available for Windows and Linux.
Compet-N
Compet-n has some late easter treats for you. There are demos for Doom 2, TNT, Requiem and Ultimate Doom just to name some. There is a full zip containing all the demos at Compet-n.
007 Level Pack
Derek has let us know that there is a new level pack available for Goldeneye Doom2. The level pack now includes the Archives level and the Silo level as well as fixes and level addition in this pack to the already existing levels. Derek also menions that these levels have also been compliled with Zennode to be compliant with GL supported ports.
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