The long awaited tenth beta of Newmaps has been unleashed upon the world! :D

This release is special! It marks the 2nd anniversary of when I started this crazy project! (Along with the first day of summer, but that's beside the point)

Also, I have included the Doom Builder configuration file I use, due to popular demand. (By popular demand, I mean one person asked me for it)

You know where to get it! Now, go!

Do you have any screen shots? :D

That would be nice indeed.

There's the two IJ3 shots I took, isn't that enough? :P

Yeah. I like it. Newmaps is a great addon. It just is.

Thank you. ^_^


I'm still waiting for some comments on IJ3 specifically, whaddaya think of it? Did I over-hype it? ;)

Could you post some screenies? My USB Drive is not with me right now, and this comp is slow enough... ugh.

Here's the two screenshots I took during the development of IJ3:

http://xbolt.knowledgehouse.info/images/ij3jungle.png
http://xbolt.knowledgehouse.info/images/ij3cave.png


And could someone please say something about IJ3? Only one person has told me anything about what they thought...

I have absolutely no idea what Idiotic Jones 3 is whatsoever. Could I have a little history lesson on it? (I did download the new version, but I simply haven't gotten around to playing it yet, but rest assured, I will eventually)

EDIT: I just played a little of it. I noticed you fixed the error where the Chex Warrior doesn't animate in the cut screens. Good work there.

However, there is a very annoying error that forces me to watch the first cut screen (it's also rather long) every time I load my save game. What happens is in the middle of the cut screen, I do "load game" and pick my game. However, the black borders and darkened contrast levels stay over from the cut screen into the main game, meaning I have to watch the whole thing to get around that.

Idiotic Jones III is... the sequel to Idiotic Jones II. :P

Anyway, it's the third secret level, E3M9, and my attempt to make a level based on solving puzzles, rather than shooting things. (Plus, it's a scripting MONSTER)

As for the cutscene thing, I agree that it is annoying. But I still haven't been able to make a way to skip them. In the meantime, what you can do is, start up episode II, which has the shortest cutscene, and load your game from there.

I played it yesterday.

Here's what I think:

xbolt, you made this, yes? Why, yes.

Can you beat it? This is probably one of the only levels I cannot beat. The light of death? So many little traps that kill you, even if you do use god mode. The name is what gets me. The last lemonade? Seriously, and the golden cup of lemonade?

Man, I can't even save then continue, or else the scripts mess up.

Yes, it is possible, but difficult. (I've killed myself in my own traps often enough)

Maybe I should write up a walkthrough of the level...


And the name of the level is a silly parody of The Last Crusade. (Crusade, Lemonade, get it? HA HA Ha ha ha... Um...)

This heavy scripting has caused a lot of problems as it is. It certainly makes it look good, but it itsn't without it's faults, either. Still, I have yet to have seen a Chex Quest modification use so much scripting as xbolt puts out. Quite an undertaking, I'm sure, and it can't be all that easy, either.

Oh, come on! It HAD to come out when I couldn't play it. Oh, well...

Keep it up, XBolt, I expect you to have it finished by summer 2008! :)

TGA

EDIT: Whoa, 400 posts? I've been here long enough to do that? Shoot

Hey, I like the idea of the F.D.S. Goop level. Although I would have made it more differently.

xbolt, do you have any idea when the next version of Newmaps might be out? Because of the new discovery of video skipping, I have little incentive to play the current version of Newmaps now. I really want that video skipping. :P

When It's Done™ :P


Maybe I could put together Beta 10 1/2... Stay tuned...

EDIT: Alright, Beta 10.5 is up and running. Go get it!

I will KEEL you for that! ^_^

Duke Nukem Forever! :D

Oh noez! :o


Wait, you're going to hit me with boat parts? :huh:
lol pun

Lol Zeeba Nebah ^_^

I REALLY hope that games comes out SOMETIME!

I hope your mod comes out sometime BEFORE that.

"D.N.F. will be done... ...uh, someday... Heh... Heh..."


Yeah, Newmaps will probably be completed before the turn of the century... :lol: