Well, allow me to retort...

Thursday · 14 Nov 02 · 10:13 PM IST | Posted by Karthik | Category: Doom

...what does Marsellus Wallace look like?

Oh, this is not going to be an excerpt from the Pulp Fiction screenplay, rather, I just wanted to say some things about Out of Phase 3: One Cloudy Afternoon.  Somehow, I have a sort of affection for this level, and I like it!  The texturing in some places may be a little strange, but overall, I thought everything went well together.  The funny thing about this level is that I actually had to do very little texture alignment.  In the indoor areas, most of the walls were made with the METAL texture and they just had bits of other textures in them, which didn't need alignment at all.  There was just one wall (the one with the STARG3 texture) that I aligned, and I now think it looked better without aligning!

As for the outdoor areas, the walls are all at 90 degree angles, and the textures are not aligned in all places.  This was done intentionally.  You know, the day before I released the level, Varun suggested that I curve the walls in the outdoor areas and smoothly align the textures, and so I did.  That is usually considered a "professional" thing to do, but in this case, it just didn't feel right to me.  Don't ask me why, even I don't know.  So I reverted back to the older version of the level, made a few enhancements (just aligned the linedefs which would have looked ugly otherwise), and released it.  If that looks unprofessional, then it was just the kind of look I was aiming for, and I'm happy with the way it turned out!  In fact if I had to go back and make changes to the level now, I wouldn't like to change anything about it.

I like the level because it's more true to classic Doom II than my other levels.  And I like the secrets in it too (especially the megasphere one).  So for a future level, I want to make a good, large sized level that follows this style of design.

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