The Marbelous Three - Doomworld /idgames database frontend

Title:	The Marbelous Three
Filename:	levels/doom2/Ports/s-u/tekmarb3.zip
Size:	292.17 KB
Date:	10/28/04
Author:	Jan Engelhardt
Description:	This map begun with a blood-marbled room as a possible candidate entry to CC2, but soon evolved into a textural experiment involving two facing worlds, tech vs marble. I tried to find a good tex combination, since most tech() textures do not fit well with marble. I hope I can satisfy this. The "Three" in the map title refers to the early textural map design where a lot of structural objects came in groups of three due to the limited texture set. I mean, there are three faces (LION, GARG, SATYR), three daemons (MARBFAC), three key(color)s... and that's pretty limited.
Credits:	boris - it'sa wad in progress! Cadman - cc2 Erik - testing trampoline
Base:	from scratch and memory
Build time:	according to Erik it must have been 250 hours /me says 300 hours. Or 8 months, depending on how you look at it.
Editor(s) used:	WinZETH (yes, _Z_eth)
Bugs:	- Under non-ZDoom, the red skull accelerates, which should not happen. This has been worked around, it now gets "out in time" in all ports. - not all secrets may be reached due to the fact that Legacy is not fully Boom compatible - [Legacy Software Renderer at least] the light is different (dark areas are darker, and light areas are lighter than other ports have it)
Rating:	(7 votes)

Download mirrors:

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idgames://12922

Reviews:

mallo	Nice 10-minute map! Not too easy, and not too hard. And the architecture is awesome! 5/5	x
Anonymous	This one is a medium-sized map with a gothic style. It's playing in and around a temple-like building in a mainly gloomy and well-detailed ambience with a lot of marble, blood and earthy textures. The challenge is avarage, the monsters aren't too hard and you've got plenty of shotgun shells. Only in one or two situations I was really in trouble when I was suddenly surrounded by a flock of imps. Very nice! 4.5/5 -Milian	x
Anonymous	Great detailed map, thats messed up with too low ammo, not fun if you have to make every bullet count. 3/5	x
Anonymous	A damn good map! Very detailed and fun. I thought it a bad choice to release your map before CC2 was out, though -Agent Spork	x
Anonymous	good map	x

View tekmarb3.txt

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Name        : The Marbelous Three

Description : This map begun with a blood-marbled room as a possible candidate
              entry to CC2, but soon evolved into a textural experiment
              involving two facing worlds, tech vs marble. I tried to find a
              good tex combination, since most tech(*) textures do not fit well
              with marble. I hope I can satisfy this.

The "Three" in the map title refers to the early textural map
              design where a lot of structural objects came in groups of three
              due to the limited texture set. I mean, there are three faces
              (LION, GARG, SATYR), three daemons (MARBFAC*), three
              key(color)s... and that's pretty limited.

Author      : Jan Engelhardt <jengelh [at] gmx de>
Release date: October 29 2004
Files       : tekmarb3.wad

This map is Copyright (C) Jan Engelhardt, 2004.
        It may be modified and/or distributed under the
        terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE V2,
        (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html),
        with the exception of being BSP'ed with Deep.

Additional  : boris - it'sa wad in progress!
Credits       Cadman - cc2
              Erik - testing trampoline

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Game        : Doom 2
Engine req. : Boom compatible
Map #       : MAP19
Modes       : Single Player only,
              no Cooperative or Deathmatch starts

Difficulty  : implemented
 settings     The ammo/health/skill distribution is laid out in a way that it
              does not depend on monster infight or finding secrets, and as
              such may seem easy even on skill 4 for those who do not rush
              through the monster mass.

And a hint: "Hide" behind projectile-firing monsters to
              protect against hitscan weapons.

Known bugs  : - Under non-ZDoom, the red skull accelerates, which should not
                happen. This has been worked around, it now gets "out in
                time" in all ports.
              - not all secrets may be reached due to the fact that Legacy
                is not fully Boom compatible
              - [Legacy Software Renderer at least] the light is different
                (dark areas are darker, and light areas are lighter than
                other ports have it)

Base        : from scratch and memory
Build time  : according to Erik it must have been 250 hours
              /me says 300 hours.
              Or 8 months, depending on how you look at it.
Editor used : WinZETH (yes, _Z_eth)

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Where to get this WAD:

http://linux01.org:2222/

or your favorite 3dArchives mirror, currently at
    ftp://3darchives.in-span.net/pub/idgames/

sunet.se is also a nice one!

(*) To clarify: "tech" means the E1 tech textures like CEIL1_1, EXITDOOR,
    DOOR2 and such, while "tek" refers to the Doom2 green textures TEK*.
    TEK would never fit with marble.
    I had to crunch the filename to 8.3, though...

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