DDraceNetwork - mapping

Nixus 🔥

Does it look old school?

oldschool are maps that have been released before ddnet, not really a style

kebs

oldschool are maps that have been released before ddnet, not really a style

Is the part good?

its a bit unbalanced cuz the drag is novice but the swing is high moderate

00:15

the flow leading into the swing isnt great as you exit the stoppers and go up and back down, u don't want the player to walk slowly in circles bc its unsatisfying movement

00:16

you did a great job at using mostly vanilla entities, it looks clean

00:16

i consider oldschool as mostly simple tiles and you got that perfect here

jao's hairy kebab

the flow leading into the swing isnt great as you exit the stoppers and go up and back down, u don't want the player to walk slowly in circles bc its unsatisfying movement

i will try to loosely describe what i would consider good flow for u to try here if u give the topp player some more space and move the swing down, they can use those hookables to get speed down and then right. the blue arc represents the path of the swing and the blue dotted line is where they hook

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is there a way to change the color merging from "i like gray" to hsl or something like that

Does anybody know if it's possible to check a map against the bot before opening a submission?

twmap

twmap-check -vw -- <mapname> simply using the bot and not needing to setup a project would be nicer, but whatever

Assa

twmap-check -vw -- <mapname> simply using the bot and not needing to setup a project would be nicer, but whatever

@Patiga

this doesn't even do what I ask for <.< it should be twmap-check-ddnet <map> --summary (edited)

15:06

already opened a ticket for the bot, no need to further annoy Patiga, he is already in the mapcredits

15:07

Also i guess the "check for irregular map settings" just checks the syntax

it also checks for settings that are unusual

15:08

idk which ones but there are some commands that will be mentioned by it

    ("sv_no_weak_hook_and_bounce", UNDECIDED),
    ("sv_old_laser", DEPRECATED),
    ("sv_old_teleport_weapons", DEPRECATED),
    ("sv_old_teleport_hook", DEPRECATED),
    ("mapbug", DEPRECATED_BUGGY),
    ("sv_reset_pickups", DEPRECATED),
    ("sv_save_worse_scores", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_show_others_default", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_teleport_lose_weapons", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_teleport_hold_hook", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_destroy_bullets_on_death", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_destroy_lasers_on_death", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_plasma_range", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_plasma_per_sec", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_dragger_range", UNUSUAL),
    ("sv_endless_drag", REPLACED),
    ("sv_hit", REPLACED),

Found the list

15:17

but, you can put irregular tunings in

15:17

Maybe I should write Patiga a list of additional known issues

@louis Any plans for Linear 2 btw?

17:27

Most finished map for half a year now!

we dont need linear

17:31

we need quadratic

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deen

Most finished map for half a year now!

oh it beat multeasy?

17:31

ig that makes sense its way shorter

17:32

actually nvm i think i knew that already kek

no plans yet justatest

bro gonna map Curved

exponential when

Koll Potato

we need quadratic

sounds way more fun an idea than Linear 2

Koll Potato

we need quadratic

true

@lemone hello new player

I am working on my map and I'm aiming for it to be moderate 1 star, I've played a decent amount of moderate 1s and I think it's roughly the right difficulty. The issue is I can't really figure out what moderate 1 difficulty really is. I just played "rizek" again and it feels like it should be novice 2-3 star, but it is moderate 1. Likewise I play some novice maps and they feel like moderate maps

ScReeNy

@lemone hello new player

helo u look familiar i know u?

Any guidance for how I can guage the difficulty of my map?

Kufi

Any guidance for how I can guage the difficulty of my map?

can i take a look at your map?

Sure. I'm in the server now called "Cafe Test"

coming

Kufi

I am working on my map and I'm aiming for it to be moderate 1 star, I've played a decent amount of moderate 1s and I think it's roughly the right difficulty. The issue is I can't really figure out what moderate 1 difficulty really is. I just played "rizek" again and it feels like it should be novice 2-3 star, but it is moderate 1. Likewise I play some novice maps and they feel like moderate maps

rizek is a old map

19:35

look at newer maps

Kufi

Any guidance for how I can guage the difficulty of my map?

Try to focus on maps released in the last ~2 years. The issue with rating is that people kept getting better and better so rating things is hard

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19:36

And also old ratings are very inaccurate

louis

no plans yet justatest

do quadratic and then u can do cubic as well

sure

21:28

even if i made a linear 2 people prolly wouldnt play it unless it was named linear 2

also put it in parabola shape and make it solo finishable (but harder). Would be very cool

21:29

they will if they see a tiktok

would a non linear map go hard tho? @louis

maybe i do a concept map, but i never mapped before gg

cyberfighter 2

would a non linear map go hard tho? @louis

ofc linear 2 would need to be nonlinear

would that be like

21:30

doing parts in any order or the map being very open

very open + optional weapons but not required

21:30

but maybe u can go faster if u get the optional weapons

t0 start abuse tho

21:30

it would devolve into tangerine i guess

louis

very open + optional weapons but not required

imo the kinda design linear has would be kind of weird on an open map

cyberfighter 2

t0 start abuse tho

thats fine

cyberfighter 2

imo the kinda design linear has would be kind of weird on an open map

u can just add forks here and there

so it would be kinda like lumine i guess

21:32

or uh

21:32

the other map (luminati) (edited)

@louis when submit the map that was just 1 long line or whatever

@Souly it got declined

lol no way

21:47

when

hi souli luis

what was the name

https://ddnet.org/testlogs/show/2Longer

What diff is this part? It's the end of my map

is it a 2 tile aled

Oh sorry

22:49

You have laser

22:49

Forgot context

is brown hookable

No, goes into hf

probably 5 star novice or 1 star moderate then

Sweet, perfect

but then again people are learning to pseudofly before doing novice 2 stars

Haha

meloƞ

Try to focus on maps released in the last ~2 years. The issue with rating is that people kept getting better and better so rating things is hard

keep adding more dificulties like geometry dash

23:58

or u could try to either automate the process like osu from demos of the intended route or. you could also make a pg rating sorta thing like if ur a novice 5 youre allowed a max of 3 assisted moderate tricks

23:58

or something like that xd