A Call For Help: WAR (Pizza Tower) as a Level

[Baba_theBooey]

First and foremost: I actually have a laptop, so I could learn Lua and SLADE. still haven't yet, but now I won't be 80% useless.


I attempted to start this myself, as I actually downloaded Ultimate Zone Builder. It even woulda had custom textures. HOWEVER, I got SIGSEV'ed every damn time I tried to test it, UZB wouldn't show every texture I put in despite it all being fine, and frankly I'm already sick of trying. (Edit: I also think it's mostly just overwhelming to learn, lol)

I'm hoping to try and continue the project, but I can't do it alone. If anyone out there wants to help, please let me know and we can hook up on Discord to do it.
I can provide textures, music, sound effects, animations and I bet I'd still be able to place enemies and other things.

I really don't want this project to die.

 

[Banjo268]

Whoa, War in SRB2? Sick!
I wish I could help but I'm not smart enough to learn Lua and deal with UZB :P
I wish the best luck onto you though! I hope you update this thread with any progress you have, this looks sick!

 

[Baba_theBooey]

What I'm planning:

1. The level starts in a small room where Sonic (or whoever else you play as lol) enter from the actual door ripped straight from the level. It's a small bit of barebones platforming ahead until you come across a wider room, a 1-Up proudly displayed in the center infront of a locked door. Once you break the 1-Up Monitor, it opens the door, runs the War Timer .pk3 and starts Thousand March.

2. The level is evenly split into 3 parts, each decently lengthy, and each containing one Secret Eye each. These sections can be labelled Bunker, Battlefield and Laboratory.

3. Toppins are used in place of Emblems, but aren't as hidden (especially since they make sounds.) Alongside this, Gerome and the Level Treasure will be carried over.

4. While gimmicks like Mines, Pizza Tanks, rockets and Rats will be carried over, enemies may not, at least not outside of a future update.

5. There will be a functional Lap 2.

6. I'm kinda hoping to modify the War Timer so that only 1-Ups get replaced with War Terminals, and entering Lap 2 will replenish all monitors EXCEPT these. This will allow for Shields and Ring Monitors to still exist. Because I'm replacing 1-Ups, the stage will give you infinite lives.

7. Checkpoints will ONLY save you from pits or crushdeaths (if I decide to use crushers.) Dying by any means, even from bombs, will fully restart the map. This shouldn't be a problem, considering you can't die normally in Pizza Tower, and dying from a Time Up! normally boots you out of the stage anyways. Besides, you have rings here. Just don't be stupid and you definitely won't die from anything other than the bombs.

 

[Saxa2007]

First and foremost: I actually have a laptop, so I could learn Lua and SLADE. still haven't yet, but now I won't be 80% useless.


I attempted to start this myself, as I actually downloaded Ultimate Zone Builder. It even woulda had custom textures. HOWEVER, I got SIGSEV'ed every damn time I tried to test it, UZB wouldn't show every texture I put in despite it all being fine, and frankly I'm already sick of trying. (Edit: I also think it's mostly just overwhelming to learn, lol)

I'm hoping to try and continue the project, but I can't do it alone. If anyone out there wants to help, please let me know and we can hook up on Discord to do it.
I can provide textures, music, sound effects, animations and I bet I'd still be able to place enemies and other things.

I really don't want this project to die.

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we actually wanted war as peppino 7th special stage, and after that, he unlocks the shotgun LOL

if you ever get this done, please let me know, id love to have it in ntopp

(well, if it isnt using udmf, theres a big bug causing it to be unusable on some other devices, like linux and android (32bit))

Post automatically merged: Jun 8, 2024

First and foremost: I actually have a laptop, so I could learn Lua and SLADE. still haven't yet, but now I won't be 80% useless.


I attempted to start this myself, as I actually downloaded Ultimate Zone Builder. It even woulda had custom textures. HOWEVER, I got SIGSEV'ed every damn time I tried to test it, UZB wouldn't show every texture I put in despite it all being fine, and frankly I'm already sick of trying. (Edit: I also think it's mostly just overwhelming to learn, lol)

I'm hoping to try and continue the project, but I can't do it alone. If anyone out there wants to help, please let me know and we can hook up on Discord to do it.
I can provide textures, music, sound effects, animations and I bet I'd still be able to place enemies and other things.

I really don't want this project to die.

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actually, hang on, i can probably help in the coding division! i need ur discord

 

[gameboy959]

i can help give me the folder and i can make it!

 

[Baba_theBooey]

i can help give me the folder and i can make it!

Given your wording at the end, I feel the need to clarify: I don't want someone to just make it for me, I want explicitly to have help working on it, which means I'm doing things alongside somebody else helping

a. wrestle with Ultimate Zone Builder
b. program in things that would require Lua/SLADE, neither of which I know
c. fill in more textures because I have no clue how much would be too little or too much lmao
d. help with the layout as it is, because at the end of the day we're talking a pretty big map. Definitely not something I can pull off on my own without being burnt out, especially with my attention span.

That last one, that's why I also started that Ruins map. That's far smaller, and thus less of a problem than a 3-part gauntlet (gantlet, for those in the know because this is still the DOOM engine.)

 

[sohom]

I am not smart enough to code a lua