mt_Nightopian_Casino.wad. Remade With 42% Less Fail

http://www.4shared.com/file/74522339/7fc3f019/mt_Nightopian_Casino.html


If you've played the July/August match pack, then you already have an idea what this map entails. However, I've finally gotten off my ass and revamped the map into a reasonable size and latency. Here's an updated screenshot of it to give you the gist of it:



This level is a bright and cheerful inside-outside arena with 3 rail rings, 3 bomb rings, and 3 infinity rings scattered about. It's essentially a top-off casino lobby with an outdoor garden area to fight in.
As far as my net tests have shown me, I've completely gotten rid of the lag, so it should be completely playable with 7+ people in a netgame.

oh, and don't be fooled by the apparent Christmas theme. Use -noholiday in the command line.

Holy crap that looks awesome!

I test it! Nice level dude!!

It doesn't look bad, although I'm not sure about some of the textures used in this stage, I'll give it a shot maybe sometime this weekend.

Wow. That's a pretty big improvement. I have a suggestion, though. Put Random monitors inside the slot machine reels, not Super/Silver Ring monitors. That way, your prizes would feel more like they were awarded by chance.

WHOA! Dude I got to learn some lessons from you, you might be the best level maker I know. I get really jealous of your work seriously. Well maybe I need to losen up on the NG-mod but anyway....THIS LOOKS CLEANER THAN ALL THE B.E.T RAPPERZ. -LOL- Awesome job Kuja!

Thanks for the flattery, ego feeding, etc. But honestly, it's not what you make it out to be, and I am not the best level maker to grace these forums, thank you very much.

Also fawfulfan, I wanted to avoid doing that, as it's a slot machine. And you get money from a slot machine when you play it, yes? :P

Glad to see you guys enjoyed the revamp. I might just let this topic settle unless something comes up that I didn't catch in my testing. Well, have at it!

Kuja said:

Also fawfulfan, I wanted to avoid doing that, as it's a slot machine. And you get money from a slot machine when you play it, yes? :P

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Very true, but even so, it feels too predictable that way. Besides, in a REAL slot machine, you don't get loads of money from each reel. Nor do you have to jump inside the reels to claim your prize.

I just though of another way to make the slot machines even more realistic. Instead of putting monitors behind the reels, make it so that each reel has a shatter block FOF inside it with an animated custom sidef texture that makes the reels appear to spin with shapes on them. That way, the reels actually look genuine. Plus, put another texture behind the bustable FOF that has a custom texture resembling ONE of the shapes on the spinning reels, only not animated. Make it so that the first two reels have the same texture behind them, but the third has a different one. This way, whenever Sonic jumps inside a reel with a "spinning" texture, the FOF shatters, revealing the "stopped" texture behind it, as if the reel was spinning, and isn't anymore. So, not only do they look like real slot machines, but they act like them too--you never actually win the jackpot!!!

Custom animated textures? bustable FOFs?I'm not THAT concerned with such a minor detail. The slot machines were only meant to act as a clever way to obtain ring boxes.

4Shared is blocked.

Oh, right.

...FFH?

Kuja said:

Custom animated textures? bustable FOFs?I'm not THAT concerned with such a minor detail. The slot machines were only meant to act as a clever way to obtain ring boxes.

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But Kuja, it's minor details that make the level.

Minor details are good, but I think the most important thing is how well it plays. This is probably even more so in match, where the main focus is to try to hit the other people.

It plays well in Match already--I seriously recommend you try my idea, and maybe scatter ring monitors throughout other parts of the level.

Framerate has improved immensely. It's smoother than Elemental Mansion Zone, now.

There are plenty of ring monitors around the level already. Not counting the 6 slot machine ring boxes:

-2 10s in each corner.
-2 25s at the top of the stairs on each side.
-2 MORE 25s on the very top level.
-10 10s on the outside.
-4 10's on the outside, on top of the canopy.

I think that should guard well enough against any attraction shield rape. ;)

The place was more addicting than gambling for real (exaduration but you know what I mean).

I felt that their were too many rings in the level but I loved the platforms, does not lag or glitch. Nice job on this one.