Circuit Redux Map Pack [v2.4.1]

This mod ports and touches up every vanilla Circuit mode map from 1.09.4 to 2.0! It also contains community maps, thanks to their cooperation.

I hope to see a big effort in the future to make this mode more interesting because I see potential in increasing the interaction between other players. But even then, I really love playing this mode even in it's current state.

Included with this pack built-in, is Fickleheart's Circuit Redux script and will spruce things up with the HUD, knowing where you and other players are, and re-spawning in a farther place than the checkpoint if you die. The maps were designed specifically with this pack in mind, so it has the needed waypoints to work with it.

It also supports Battlemod, more specifically, the Diamond gametypes. I hope people will test that out and have a bit of fun...

Anyway, I am going to go into detail with what I did to every map and what I've done to make them better than their original revision.
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[SIZE=+2]Quicksand Ruins Zone[/SIZE]
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This zone has a little opening for Tails and Knuckles players to go over that Sonic likely can't, giving them a small advantage. There's also some platforms that rise out of the sand to hinder the average Metal player.

[SIZE=+2]Tainted Gorge Zone[/SIZE]
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The majority of the map has been edited, and I have added new routes and secrets that people can show off with. It might not be my favorite thematically, but it is definitely the best map in the pack and there's more changes than I would be willing to state in a small paragraph.

[SIZE=+2]Fertile Canyon Zone[/SIZE]
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This has gotten mostly minor touch-ups but it's now raining (a reason to actually have the mud there) and part of the road is now decayed...

[SIZE=+2]Burning Sands Zone[/SIZE]
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Re-textured, it's definitely not as ugly now.

[SIZE=+2] Race Alley Zone[/SIZE]
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Replaced that patch of acid with some more friendly water, and put a monitor down there. One of the slopes I placed can give you an advantage if you're strategic.

[SIZE=+2] Emerald Coast Zone[/SIZE]
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Expanded upon the Knuckles shortcut, and sloped a few parts up.

[SIZE=+2]Toxic Citadel Zone[/SIZE]
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This castle has stayed mostly the same, but I have added a new route for Knuckles and Tails to travel through.

[SIZE=+2]Frozen Night Zone[/SIZE]
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Other than visual, the water doesn't damage you anymore.

[SIZE=+2]Metallic Hall Zone[/SIZE]
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There's a little safety spring somewhere and some slopes, this map is great on it's own and doesn't really need anything done to the layout.

[SIZE=+2]Heaven Pass Zone[/SIZE]
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I added a cute fountain with a monitor! Yay!

[SIZE=+2] Warped Woods Zone[/SIZE]
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Just slopes, and I'm definitely not going past that in this case. This map is an absolute mess to work with.

[SIZE=+2] Corrupt Shrine Zone[/SIZE]
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The slopes probably have some effect here... Right???

[SIZE=+2]Sonic Circuit Zone[/SIZE]
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COMPLETELY untouched. This track is funny :)

[SIZE=+2]Slumber Circuit Zone[/SIZE]
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A NiGHTS track! Somehow, I made it a lot less of an eyesore.

[SIZE=+2]Now, here's the list of the included community-made tracks.[/SIZE] I hope this list expands in the future...

[SIZE=+2]Speedy Ruins Zone[/SIZE]
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Original Release Page

[SIZE=+2]Lemon Circuit Zone[/SIZE]
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Original Release Page

[SIZE=+2]Sluggish Shrine Zone[/SIZE]
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Kwiin and I made this abomination, exclusive to this pack. It's unfinished but you DEFINITELY get the point.

[SIZE=+2]Nightmare Circuit[/SIZE]
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Exclusive to this pack, by me. Includes a modified version of Nightmare Buzz designed to be the gimmick of the track. He performs his pinch phase (vile attack) every 10 seconds, then says a random taunt. Run for cover!

[SIZE=+2]OLDC Maps![/SIZE] I have got permission to use these old maps in hopes that the people of today will enjoy them.

[SIZE=+2]Lime Isle Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by JJames19119 for OLDC July/August 2006
Decorated thok barrier

[SIZE=+2]Morning Hill Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by JJames19119 for OLDC July/August 2006
Better colormap and now uses RVZ1 sky texture

[SIZE=+2] Ice Cap Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by JJames19119 for OLDC January/Febuary 2007
Slopes and minor visual improvements, also it uses Ice Cap Act 1 from Sonic 3's soundtrack

[SIZE=+2]Generic Greens Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by Playah for OLDC March/April 2007
Slopes :)

[SIZE=+2] Sandopolis Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by JJames19119 for OLDC March/April 2007
Spread around some cacti, and it uses Sandopolis Act 1 from Sonic 3's soundtrack

[SIZE=+2]Magma Mine Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by Playah for OLDC March/April 2007
Changed lava textures and made colormaps less intense

[SIZE=+2]Four Seasons Circuit Zone[/SIZE]
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Created by Oogaland for OLDC July/August 2006
Changed damage water in Autumn to CEZ1 Quicksand Water

I have raised the open area at the end of Quicksand Ruins and have made some rising platforms to deter Metal players.
The harmful water in Tainted Gorge and Toxic Citadel is now green.
In Fertile Canyon, I have made the mud goop and have removed the harmful properties from it. I have also made the sloped FOF more forgiving.
The water in Frozen Night isn't harmful anymore.
I have removed the skybox animals in Heaven Pass, but placed some on the ground. The last checkpoint is also moved ahead to give Fang and possibly others an advantage.
Slumber Circuit has gotten a revamp in the texture department to make it look less ugly.

Fixed minor sector issues in Heaven Pass

Tainted Gorge has a few visual tweaks, and there are now vertex slopes.
Frozen Night now uses different textures.
Fixed an issue in Metallic Hall where in some spots if you die, you will infinitely re-spawn in between the conveyor FOF and the ground, resulting in an infinite loop of death. But because of this, a new issue has popped up where players can go under the FOFs.
Heaven pass has some texture alignments and a vertex slope.
I have fixed the dreaded issue of giant invisible bustable blocks showing up in Slumber Circuit, which has caused extreme lag and usually crashes on lower end systems.

Added maps

Burning Sands Zone (Quicksand Ruins)
Race Alley Zone
Emerald Coast Zone (Fertile Canyon)
Warped Woods Zone
Corrupt Shrine Zone
Speedy Ruins Zone (by LazyMK)
Lemon Circuit Zone (by PencilVoid)

All Tracks

Changed internal map names in an attempt to avoid conflict with other mods
Removed checkpoints with CEZ grass and a purple tulip as it was a very clashing design choice for most maps
Corrected Star Post angles (doesn't matter because of the script)
All liquids now have ripple effect if they didn't already. Yes, even mud.
Optimized control sectors to use less linedefs
Fixed levels showing up in Singleplayer's level select

Quicksand Ruins

Slight visual tweaks
Attempted to fix an issue where the ceiling slope would "grab" the camera if you were high enough. It still happens, but less often.

Tainted Gorge

Fixed FOF brightness issue
Changed some textures and flats
Opened up a shortcut more and added monitors to it
Fixed uneven ceiling heights in the sky
Adjusted acid colormap
Added detail to the acid-dumping FOFs

Fertile Canyon

Changed wall textures
Raised outside geometry (It's a canyon, right?)
Changed mud texture
Made floor under mud lower

Toxic Citadel

Adjusted acid colormap
More texture variety, including new textures and flats for areas around acid and inside the castle
Cave ceiling is higher
Sloped the end of the Tails/Knuckles shortcut
Curved areas near the start line
Re-did the entire Circuit Redux path

Frozen Night

Changed ice texture/flat
Removed player spawns that got cucked by snowmen
Water now has a colormap
Added a slope near the end

Metallic Hall

The first checkpoint, which is on top of a conveyor, now behaves like the rest of the section since it isn't grass anymore
Damaging floors now look like as they do in THZ2
More textures on the walls

Heaven Pass

Decorated start line
Moving platforms at the fountain are faster

Sonic Circuit

Corrected grass and road texture, now it looks exactly like it once did.

Slumber Circuit

Moved Ideya outside of the map
Added a checkpoint in-between 1 and 2 to fix the WRONG WAY issue

Added maps...

Sluggish Shrine Zone (by Zippy_Zolton and Kwiin)

Along with a new OLDC section!

Lime Isle Zone (by JJames19119)
Morning Hill Zone (by JJames19119)
Ice Cap Zone (by JJames19119)
Generic Greens Zone (by Playah)
Sandopolis Zone (by JJames19119)

Quicksand Ruins

Fixed many sector heights
Visual tweaks
Redone Circuit Redux path
Skybox has been edited by Kwiin

Tainted Gorge

Cave section completely redone, with some effort into anti-Metal.
Visual tweaks
Redone Circuit Redux path
Some bushes were changed to trees and vice versa
Acid falls in the lake are now falling FOFs
A shortcut is now sloped
Many, many rendering errors in linedefs have been corrected
Acid barrels are now bobbing FOFs and use a custom texture
Skybox has been edited by Kwiin

Fertile Canyon

Thok barriers lowered (when will it end?????)
Section before Checkpoint 3 has been adjusted due to complaints about it breaking the flow
Different mud Flat
Skybox has been edited by Kwiin

Burning Sands

A spring is placed to give Amy a perk-up
Different textures
Added more linedefs to rocks at the beginning

Race Alley

Added decor, such as for the vertical wind currents
Adjusted sector heights around Checkpoint 3
Amy spring, yw Tatsu :)
Properties of the horizontal wind shortcut have been adjusted
Pipes in the "level select picture area" have proper textures for turning

Toxic Citadel

Fixed hazard markings in the Circuit Redux path

Metallic Hall

Corrected texture alignment in most areas
Added a slope after Checkpoint 2
Redone Circuit Redux path; no more wrong way issue

Heaven Pass

Changed grass flats
Added a slope to make platforming easier
Increased skybox size to make it look slightly better in OpenGL (horizon effect is software only for FOFs)
Fixed some statues being pushable

Warped Woods

Added springs for Amy
Fixed a missing grass midtexture
Fixed a tree slope error
Added Flat alignments on east/west tree branches
Altered the red spring shortcut entrance area
Different textures, such as the custom barrel also mentioned in TGZ

Corrupted Shrine

Added an FOF at Checkpoint 3
Expanded platforms at the end of the level so they are a more viable option

All Tracks

Changed map numbers for organization purposes
Made player spawn points consistent with each other (excluding community maps)

Emerald Coast

Merged some sectors together to optimize things

Lemon Circuit

Fixed subtitle color being incorrect

Sluggish Shrine

Extended finish line to the entire room

Lime Isle

Increased a star post sector in an attempt to fix a bug where it sometimes does not register passing the checkpoint if you are going quickly

Morning Hill

Fixed texture definition not being big enough to cover a wall after the two sets of springs
Fixed finish line not extending to the entire level

New Map; Nightmare Circuit!
The Circuit Redux script got edited by JJK, it now displays checkpoints on the track.

Tainted Gorge

Attempted to fix OpenGL rendering bug (couldn't, but it's less obvious)
Added springs at the end of the big acid pit so you aren't screwed

Fertile Canyon

Adjusted texture alignments

Toxic Citadel

More texture/flat variety
Adjusted Knuckles/Tails shortcut
Optimized control sectors to use less linedefs
New skybox

Burning Sands

New skybox (thanks Kwiin)
Adjusted texture alignments

Warped Woods

Fixed a flat alignment not having the "don't align floor" flag

Corrupt Shrine

Made platforms even bigger
More/replaced textures

Generic Greens

Removed unknown Thing

Oops, I didn't put Lemon Circuit's music in 2.2... That is fixed now.

New map: Magma Mine Zone

Quicksand Ruins

Lower ceiling
Rising platforms have a different pattern

Tainted Gorge

Fixed a grass midtexture not showing up due to tag conflict
Added flat alignment in some areas
Replaced vertical springs with pipes and gas jets
Added pipe obstacles, especially higher up (anti-Metal)
Falling acid in cave have a different pattern
Added half-light block gradients to death pit and acid

Fertile Canyon

Flat alignment at checkpoint 2
Mud now behaves exactly like CEZ1, for consistency with the vanilla campaign
Fixed some incorrect textures

Burning Sands

Lowered ceiling
Removed unused control sectors

Race Alley

Decorated thok barrier
Added diagonal springs after wind shortcut

Emerald Coast

More slopes
Flat alignment in some areas
Lower ceiling

Toxic Citadel

Removed thok barriers inside the castle
Decorated purple shortcut
You now can't hear rain and thunder from inside the castle
Half-light block gradient to acid
Raised cave ceiling
Added shortcut in the cave
Erased sectors around banner midtextures, now they are just lone linedefs

Frozen Night

Added shortcut
Less ice, more water (global warming sorry)

Heaven Pass

Different textures
Colormap
Adjusted blocks to the original map's position, with a flat alignment fix
Extended outside barrier

Corrupt Shrine

Different textures
Moved those blocks even further apart

Slumber Circuit

Adjusted texture offsets
More visual portals
Flat alignment

Lemon Circuit

Compressed music

Sluggish Shrine

Lap count is now 3

Nightmare Circuit

Compressed digital music

Ice Cap

Cropped level select picture

Generic Greens

Lap count is now 3

New map: Four Seasons Circuit Zone

Edited script with more accurate calculations and a feature which may or may not be used in the future

Converted sounds to doom format to reduce file size

Removed "midi" option for Nightmare

Fixed OGGs actually looping

Nightmare Buzz now shoots twice as often

All Tracks

Redone some aspects of level headers, now supports MapVote by Krabs!

Quicksand Ruins

Adjusted Quicksand
Better "thok barrier" treatment

Tainted Gorge

Removed thok barriers
Adjusted skybox

Fertile Canyon

Removed Techno Hill grass
Removed thok barriers
Lowered ceiling

Burning Sands

Better "thok barrier" treatment
Adjusted Quicksand
Added skybox in-map centerpoint

Race Alley

Removed thok barriers

Toxic Citadel

Removed thok barriers

Frozen Night

Removed thok barriers

Warped Woods

Fixed some texture alignment

Lime Isle

New sky
New colormap
Texture adjustments
Better "thok barrier" treatment

Morning Hill

Extended the area of the last checkpoint

Ice Cap

New sky texture

Generic Greens

New skybox
Fixed misplaced grass midtexture

Sandopolis

New sky texture

All Maps

Now supports Diamond modes in Battlemod! (except Slumber Circuit Zone)
Monitors have been adjusted to randomize even when random setting is off. This also includes a new gimmick where there are fixed monitors containing shields fitting for the level.

Quicksand Ruins

Finish line extended to "thok barrier" area

Fertile Canyon

Texture fixes
Restored a shortcut that was unintentionally removed

Burning Sands

Finish line extended to "thok barrier" area

Toxic Citadel

Adjusted a Knuckles shortcut

Heaven Pass

Fixed an incorrect texture

Nightmare Circuit

Added a message that plays when the map starts

Sandopolis

Better "thok barrier" treatment

Four Seasons Circuit

Fixed incorrect flats on trees

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