Remake of shdw_dm1 - interested?

Would you guys be interested in the remake of shdw_dm1? The map is about 20 years old now and I’m the original author. It is my understanding that it was played from time to time both in Nexuiz and Xonotic.

And if there was some interest what would you like to see?

1. Just a visual glow up with the exact same layout
   
2. Minor tweaks to fix the biggest issues + a visual touch up
   
3. More significant changes for better flow & movement + a touch up
   

My original goal was for it to be a duel map but that probably never happened.

I personally have a hard time remembering all the maps by their names which consist of <author>_<type><id>
Other than that it's always great to get good remakes of old maps

But else the question would be more: Do you want to map again?

I enjoyed it a lot when it came to arena FPS, saddly there is not much of them around anymore. After playing the map for a bit i not sure a remake is such a good idea tho. It would need some significant changes for me to br happy with it these days so it’s not clear how much of a remake it’d end up being.

It just isn’t a great map to begin with.

I can't find your map, can you please give a link to download it?

shdwdm1 - you mean this one?





Its playable on ⚴ (Prophets) DeathMatch Temple [InstaGib|Hook]

GreetZ Su

I enjoyed it a lot when it came to arena FPS, saddly there is not much of them around anymore. After playing the map for a bit i  not sure a remake is such a good idea tho. It would need some significant changes for me to br happy with it these days so it’s not clear how much of a remake it’d end up being.

It just isn’t a great map to begin with.

How about that: take what you find worthy and make a new map? I wouldn't be against something new. Just map and have fun

@ shadow, _para

Both of you guys are boss mappers.  And Xonotic has all the abilities of DarkPlaces obviously.

I don't claim to be all that great of a mapper, but if you want to freshen things up I have found taking textures from TextureCan and AmbientCG ( CC0 license for both) I can make stuff like this in 5 minutes:






These screenshots are not using anything fancy except setting r_glsl_deluxemapping 1 and optionally r_bloom 1 or (maybe 2).  r_glsl_deluxemapping 1  is a DarkPlaces default so ...

What I do is take a texture like ...

https://www.texturecan.com/details/250/ <--- CC0 license

I download the bricks0019.zip.  The bricks_0019_color.jpg -> bricks_0019.jpg  The bricks_0019_ao.jpg -> bricks_0019_gloss.jpg (as a starting point, not perfect).  bricks_0019_NormalOpenGL.jpg  -> bricks_0019_norm.jpg

/Thought of the day.