Compendium - Classic Megawad Compilation

[::Bloodfury::]

Hi, don't know if anyone pointed out. But I have found few smooth doom compatibility issues.
Candleabra and that small black candle have a one pixel height offset jump in one of their frames,
and makes them seem to be "jumping". Had something to do with their brightmaps and gldefs.
I deleted them for a quick fix in my file. But wanted to point this out if you plan on optimize this
mod for certain gameplay mods. Seeing smooth doom is kind of popular.

Also in the megawad strain, the fast imp enemy does not work with smoothdoom cuz they share same sprite name TROX.
Fixed that just by renaming those frames as TROY.

Anyhoo just wanted to point out these couple of things.

Except that, as a mod alone, this is a great WIP. Keep up the good work.

[capybard]

This is absolutely incredible work, thank you for making it!

[Enjay]

Hey! Some of my old stuff is in here. That's very cool. Thanks for the compliment.

[Zhs2]

Project Slipgate has a few noteworthy things to fix:

- SLP02's yellow door never opens, making the map impossible to complete normally. The switch in the room with the yellow sector-colored silver pillar doesn't do anything of note.
- SLP05's camera special, the one outside the first Radsuit room, always desyncs multiplayer games when used. (???)
- The ambient sounds in SLP08 and SLP09 constantly loop, rather than playing a sound at random intervals - that is, the owl, cricket, and Quake zombie sounds.
- Messages only display for the activator of the script, which means only one player ends up seeing printed messages when they occur.

[dljosef]

This is certainly interesting. So many levels to choose from.

Would there be a chance of later mapsets being involved such as Epic 2 and whatnot?

[JPL]

This is a very cool project, nice work!

When I'm in the main open area browsing the WADs I find myself wanting some organizing principle to the space. Have you considered creating sub-areas off a foyer that, for example, organize each WAD by release year, eg one room with 1995 wads, one with 1997 wads, etc? As a bonus that would create a sense of community history. Just an idea.

Another vote for adding the Community Chest series. And I have a soft spot for HERIAN 2 though I don't know how highly the community regards it.

[dljosef]

I second the wad arrangement idea, as that could definitely help me with the order those wads were made in.

Herian 2, I think its alright...other than the fact that some of the maps are rather difficult in terms of finding out what to do and where to go. Especially the one map where you're on a cruise ship.

One vote for Whispers of Satan.

[ShockwaveS08]

I second everything JPL just said; a little organization goes a long way...and potentially boosts framerates as it doesn't have to render one gigantic room all at once.

And I plunk down one vote for the Community Chest quadrilogy.

[Dynamo]

Thanks everyone for the kind words!

Hey! Some of my old stuff is in here. That's very cool. Thanks for the compliment.

You're welcome, thanks for making such awesome mods in the first place

Project Slipgate has a few noteworthy things to fix:

- SLP02's yellow door never opens, making the map impossible to complete normally. The switch in the room with the yellow sector-colored silver pillar doesn't do anything of note.
- SLP05's camera special, the one outside the first Radsuit room, always desyncs multiplayer games when used. (???)
- The ambient sounds in SLP08 and SLP09 constantly loop, rather than playing a sound at random intervals - that is, the owl, cricket, and Quake zombie sounds.
- Messages only display for the activator of the script, which means only one player ends up seeing printed messages when they occur.

Thanks once again for the bug reports: I did release a hotfix for slp02 on an earlier page, and I'll make sure to fix the sounds for the next release. I had fixed similar occurrences on dissolution but failed to spot those in slipgate.

Would there be a chance of later mapsets being involved such as Epic 2 and whatnot?

This project is entirely focused on older wads, representing a different era of modding than what we have today, so recent releases such as epic 2 or the community chest series are definitely out of the scope for this project. They would furthermore require a much bigger effort in order to make them cross-compatible with everything else. Nonetheless, I will likely be adding some more mappacks for future versions.

[JPL]

One idea in case you care: it would be fairly easy with ZScript to display each megawad's custom status bar art, where applicable - simply storing all the statusbar lumps under unique names and then having a trivial bit of UI script to draw the appropriate graphic. I suppose there are other custom graphics in many megawads that aren't seen as well - the help and credits screens, custom menu art / fonts - but those would be a bit tougher to swap in depending on which wad the player was in.

[SiFi270]

When you land on the green crates (or whatever they are) in the first area of Daedalus map01, there's an orange splash. Also, do you know what's causing those red symbols in the lower right corner of the screen? It may not actually be Compendium's fault, but I figured it was worth asking anyway.

[Camper125Lv]

at map VCO19 there is one teleporter textures not correctly aligned and is it normal that in vilecore i jumped from 14 to 31 then 32 and back to 15 level?

edit: 4 teleporter textures not aligned.

[SiFi270]

The Enigma Episode seems to use the wrong skybox. I'm pretty sure it's meant to be the same orange sky that Thy Flesh Consumed used.

[Kagur]

The level exit in map 02 of Mancubus wad (by shitbag) is broken.

[Gorec]

The level exit in map 02 of Mancubus wad (by shitbag) is broken.

wokrs for me,completed the whole wad