Formatting is a mess I know but I hope y'all enjoy it.

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I plan on doing something with that wonderful whisper voice

Fun also-fact, (at least in Boom ports) if you scroll the wall texture, the sky will scroll as well.

You can use linked scrollers to create an illusion of movement too. I used this to create a switch that accelerated and then "moved" a spaceship by progressively scrolling the sky outside the windows more and more until it looked like you were "up to speed". I could have also had it slow down and stop but that wasn't necessary in my case.

I see... Yeah, in this way is more interesting....

Hope it works out! One other tip is to use at least 512x512 and downscale as the smaller sizes tend to produce worse results, I've found.

I tend to design for a shade of difficulty between HMP and UV and then balance from there. I consider UV to be properly done if I'm challenged by it, but am able to beat it with all monsters killed without any secrets collected (as I tend to put extra supplies in these). From there I'll submit a map to people for crit/feedback and adjust accordingly.

Lower difficulties see less enemies and some get replaced with lower-tier ones, though I do my best to make sure the replacements have similar roles. I'll never replace a pinky with a chaingunner, for example, but I may downgrade a revenant turret into an imp turret, or swap out a chaingunner for a shotgunner (if I do this though I try to be mindful of the change this makes to what ammo the player will have and adjust ammo pickups accordingly). Changing out a baron for a hell knight's an obvious one. Once I replaced a trio of revenants on UV with a single mancubus on HMP.

Generally speaking I tend to group enemies into these threat classes:

Zombieman/Shotgunner/Imp/Nazi SS Chaingunner/Pinky/Spectre/Lost Soul Revenant/Hell Knight/Cacodemon Pain Elemental (individual/in a small encounter) Baron/Mancubus/Arachnotron Pain Elemental (clusters/in a large encounter) Arch-Vile Cyberdemon/Spiderdemon

And these roles (note monsters don't necessarily fit into just one group and can depend on how they are deployed):

Pinners (Space/Movement Restriction): Shotgunner, Chaingunner, Revenant, Arachnotron, Arch-Vile, Spiderdemon, Cyberdemon Flushers (Space/Movement Enforcement): Lost Soul, Pinky, Spectre, Revenant HVTs (Combat Tempo/Route Management): Revenant, Pain Elemental, Arch-Vile, Spiderdemon, Cyberdemon Bruisers (Short-Range): Imp, Revenant, Pinky, Spectre, Cacodemon, Hell Knight, Baron, Mancubus Reachers (Long-Range): Shotgunners, Chaingunners, Revenant, Arachnotron, Arch-Vile, Cyberdemon Aerial (Can avoid walls, float, etc. fun stuff): Lost Soul, Cacodemon, Pain Elemental Fodder (Easy kills often as reward or to fill downtime): Zombieman, Shotgunner, Imp, Lost Soul (Best paired with a convenient set of barrels for the player to shoot to score big gibs!)

(You may notice the Revenant is in almost all of these groups; its popularity is imo derived from its unique versatility as a monster!)

Higher difficulties I'll use less generous health pickups. A soulsphere on HMP may be replaced with a set of three or four medikits, or a medikit might be downgraded to a stimpack. Sometimes I'll downgrade a megasphere to a soulsphere (again I try to be mindful of the fact that the player won't get a blue armor out of the deal there).

I tend not to touch armor, ammo pickups, or bonuses, though on HNTR if the situation calls for it I might replace a green armor with a blue armor. I tend to leave blue armor only for secrets or if a big fight is coming and I want to make sure the player is able to survive it.

Oh I've only heard of it but knowing that makes it a good ways more interesting! Thanks for the reminder

@Cuppykeks you always struck me as the kind of guy to use Cairo Desktop tbh.

thank you!

@kvsari You can ignore those. The sprites are from the Heretic sprite fixing project. I might actually remove those, at least for the time, since it is pretty annoying to see every time the editor is opened. The errors that show up is one of the reasons I went ahead and merged the resource WADs.

Does anyone want NPC textures? If you want to write a lot of text but don't want to align each letter then use c.eev.ee/doom-text-generator/ to generate your words as a single graphic and include it with your map when you need it. They'll be from here. Feel free to look for anything else you want from that pack as well.

Also MUSINFO works with Crispy Heretic so we can have more than 1 episode with unique music so problem solved there!

Important info regarding the Firemace:

Heretic's Firemace only has a "~75%" chance of spawning in total at one of several Firemace spawn points placed on the map. Even then you can only place a maximum of 7 spots for the mace to spawn. When the MaceSpotCount reaches 8 the game has an error. In deathmatch, the firemace will always appear, but there will still be only one on the map.

So the Firemace weapon pick up doesn't work the same as the others as it's not guaranteed to spawn in, even if you only have 1 Firemace spawn. It's coded this way to be a rare weapon as with the Tome of Power it kills all non-boss enemies in one shot being extremely powerful.

Thank you to @SilverMiner, @lobo, and @zedonk for the information.

Testing a bit I'm not sure just how random it is which mace will spawn out of several 😵

Hmm the image? Not exactly, but "ORACLE666 is about drifting into the liminal space between real and surreal, floating through ethereal pastel clouds, and dreaming future memories" sounds nice though. Maybe something made with Bryce 3D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIwcPA1_34 It won't run on my computer though so idk when or if I'll ever get to playing with it.

Thank you for your replies @JadingTsunami and @Cuppykeks . I've decided to go with your suggestion of manually building the resource WAD in Slade.