Rozark's Palace: Football is Here

[Rozark]

Alright so here's the thing:
I went and made a V3.5C specifically to counter the intense filter complaints except there's a tad more than just that.
The Roz01 and Roz02 aesthetic updates were supposed to be delayed for V4, but nah, take them early.
V3.5B was supposed to be the final time Preemptive Strike appeared, oops.

V3.5C changelog on the front page. Now take those sunglasses off and enjoy the view.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ryjrav9q20sle70/RozpackV3.5C.pk3

I'm hoping to update my tauntpack within the next 2-3 weeks; don't hold me to that estimation.

Thanks for Playing,
Rozark

[Rozark]

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With V4B being released about an hour ago, I went ahead and updated Genesis Tunes to include 2DW3MUS. So yea, that's what this post is here for.

Download on the front page or here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/rk9pfq02hpd3wm2/GenesisTunesV2.pk3

If there's any issues with it just let me know.

[Rozark]

In an effort to be more presenting and open about what exactly I'm working on and when, I proudly present:

THE RABBIT'S BURROW
(Name is not yet official don't hurt me, same goes with the formatting)

It's a newsletter of things that I'll update you folks on whenever I feel like it. This may be within a week, a month, probably not a huge amount of time like 4 years though. Besides the one spoiler, everything is open, specifically the images. Go read it below.

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THE RABBIT'S BURROW
ISSUE ONE


OPENING
Hi and welcome to the first issue of The Rabbit's Burrow! Today I'll be discussing a number of updates to the Rozpack and the expansions, including a specific one that many have asked for for a few months! This issue will cover updates on "The Administrator", "Temporal Tower - Top Floor", "Gemstone Drifts", "Under Fire", and the fate of "Springfield". Without further ado, let's begin!

THE ADMINISTRATOR
As a few of you might know, the current version of ROZ13 "Preemptive Strike" will no longer exist in Rozpack V4. The reasoning for this is due to the poor execution on the idea of two airships and the infamous wind gimmick that its current iteration has. In its place will be a new map, "The Administrator". What I've done here is simplified it down to a single, small-medium-ish airship with an open front part, a centrified interior that contains a 3D floor upper and lower area, and an edited hallway of sorts on the back end. No gimmicks are set to exist and the time of day is likely to become a bright noon. Being a single airship, the size of the map has been condensed immensely. Have some screenshots, although the map is still a work in progress.


The front of the airship.


An angle of the back of the airship.


The interior/control area's lower floor. The top half/3D floor is not yet implemented.


One of the sides of the airship. Don't mind the mess, it's heavily WIP still.


TEMPORAL TOWER - TOP FLOOR
Another thing I've mentioned to a select few people is the revamp of Temporal Tower. The reason for this being that it is plagued with "Crystalman Syndrome", the act of multiple floors requiring hole teleports in order to go between them. One-two floor ones aren't bad, that's used in maps such as Iceman and Deserted Outpost. Temporal Tower had four floors. Yikes. What I effectively did was condense it into one floor.. ish. The new version feels like a single room with a vertical feel while having two floors. To put it simply, two giant rings are on top of each other with the upper floor being composed entirely of 3D floors. Keeping with the aesthetics and theme of the first iteration, I present to you screenshots from another WIP map.


The middle area facing towards a completed segment of the map.


One of the more central upper areas.


The lower area of one of the corners.


The upper area of that same corner.


GEMSTONE DRIFTS
The name should look new, but the layout certainly isn't. I've given "At Your Mercy" a bit of an aesthetic overhaul. Not only were the main textures changed, but the name and music were also adjusted. On top of that, I've added in a hallway in one of the cave areas, one that I feel should help improve the flow of the area. Unlike the previous two maps, the screenshots posted here are finished and pretty much final. Enjoy!


The new pathway.


The center area.


One of the back outside areas.


The Valley-ish location.


UNDER FIRE
Coming in as IRI07, we have "Under Fire". This map is a military base of the utmost top security. It even has security lasers! Two of them, but they still exist. Cross over the red targeting beam of one of these and a few seconds later a quickbeam will follow. Be careful not to get caught! Finished Screenshots! (Weapons are subject to change)


One of the main rooms.


The other main room.


A close-up of the security laser. The laser it fires isn't instant, you have a few seconds to run even if you get detected.


The outside area. If you look closely, you'll see two enclosed areas. Only one of them is playable; the area by the road is strictly decoration.


THE FATE OF SPRINGFIELD
Springfield, obvious pun aside, is an extremely open center room with a few side hallways. For quite some time I was on the ropes of what to do with this map, that is, until I remembered the joke entry into Knux's competition months ago. SUPER SANDERS 64 it was called. It actually received surprisingly good results despite it being a tad larger than Flashman. What I've decided to do is reskin it to one of my older ideas I had back when I was first mapping Rozpack V3, adding a side path or two along the way. With it, the smallest map in my pack will be born. At this time the name is still up in the air, but the relative theme of it is Magic/Clown - a carnival of sorts. Springfield will then be scrapped; this new map will take that place.

CLOSING
If you read the whole thing or just came down here to see more news, thanks for at least reading this. It's something I wanted to try so that you, the reader, can give me feedback on anything in my pack so that I can discuss it here while providing insight into what exactly I'm doing. With that said, there's a few more things that I need to mention that will happen in Rozpack V4 that don't have a place of their own. I'll (or rather, Lego and I) be rebalancing the music so that it's less pain on the ears. For the time being, I recommend keeping your volume down a bit. Emerald Quarry's earthquake gimmick will be removed, at least, the friction part of it. The actual quake effect currently remains in. There's going to be more software fixes. The last thing I'd like to mention is the removal of the sunset filter. Personally it pains me to see it go, but apparently it has no place in this game. However, the diving filter will still exist as besides low gravity, water has nothing special going for it besides bubbles and stuff. So yea, thanks for reading, post your feedback/comments below, and see you next time!

[Dark_Chaos]

question, I played behiend the door, and I'm just wondering if there is anything past the mirror area

[Rozark]

There is not; the mirror room is the last location.
Prior to MM8BDM V4, typing in crashout (or something along those lines) into the scripts/console crashed and ended your game.
That was the intended "finish", but it seems that that isn't the case anymore.

Thanks for reminding me; I should get around to updating that some day.

[Rozark]

I probably should've done this two(?) weeks ago:

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THE RABBIT'S BURROW
ISSUE TWO


OPENING
Hi and welcome to the second issue of The Rabbit's Burrow! After finally acquiring a new level of standard for myself, I've been chiseling away on layout cleanups, updates, and complete map replacements. Although this isn't everything (nor will I show everything), here's a few more peeks at things I've been up to lately. As a result, this issue will have significantly less pictures due to things like space and surprises. Today we've got "The Queen's Study", "Gemstone Drifts", "Radiant Carnival", "Hydrocity", "Crisis Valley", "Keystone Park", and the fate of "The Icecap Zone". Let's begin!


THE QUEEN'S STUDY
I like libraries. And rabbits. And ice stuff. And clock towers. Today I present a study/library fusion. Through the power of Duora's textures, Lego's size editing, Korby's recoloring, and my combining I've made these textures viable for mapping use. As with the new Rozpack V4 standards, this is a small-medium sized map. So yea. IRI08.Words PLEASE


Main Lobby.


I just wanna roll on my new carpets.


GEMSTONE DRIFTS
After feedback from.. the little people that did provide feedback -cry- I gave this map the first of my layout updates. Jump pads and walkable stairs are more frequent, the texture set is near exclusive Gemini and Flash, and a few other clean things.


Sub Room 1 with better accessibility.


Sub Room 2 with its new look.


The back outside area with its new look.


RADIANT CARNIVAL
The second of my brilliant shower ideas I had on that day. This map replaces Roz20, Springfield. Yes, Springfield is now retired as the third map from V3. Anyways, this is Super Sanders 64 over the first major layout cleanup/aesthetic update. What was once a "demo" for IRI04 Desolation and an example of a small 64 deathmatch arena is now my smallest map in my pack. Eat it, size creep. Seriously though it's ironic with these new standards


The New Area for the two-three people who remember the original Super Sanders 64.


The Main room.


HYDROCITY
One of the Layout Cleanup/Updates that I'm willing to showcase. Basically, the insides of the buildings have been reworked a tad with walkable stairs/jump pads while the outside has been renovated by the removal of the water segment. It's now a sealed off beach. This should force the utilization of the buildings more often while overall shrinking the map/making it less open. It's also got a groovy new jam; and if anything could be controversial now it's the style of said new jam. Original Chiptune hype


I love my new sidewalks.


CRISIS VALLEY
The second of the two I described earlier. Here we break part of the "Accused Symmetry" on one of the sides with a tad more cover. Not showcased is an interior rework involving jump pads and the removal of a pit, and a tweak to a side area where the new teleporter exit is located. This should prove interesting.


Exterior.


Interior.


KEYSTONE PARK
Fun Fact: My first map was actually demo/room named Keystone Park. I spent 8 hours on a room. Similar to what Smash does these days OHHHHH >_> Anyways, it was lost during a fatal saving error. When the Falcon Compo existed, the reason I finished so quickly in so swell of time is that I remembered the design of the main room of the lost map. This map is an envision of that map if it were to be completed by Rozpack V4 standards. The timestopper room has been removed along with a music change. I'm so sorry I swear that song wasn't intentional it was just catchy q_q I present to you A Lighthearted Prank, or rather by its new name after the cleanup I gave the map, Keystone Park. This map will be replacing Timbark Clearing as of Rozpack V4, marking the fourth map to be fully replaced.


Featuring a different skybox to boot.


THE FATE OF THE ICECAP ZONE
Surprise I killed it. Real talk though, it was open and full of design choices by Rozpack V2 standards. Quite gross if you ask me and I'm not sure how it survived this long. Yes there's a replacement map and no it will not have snowboards. As much as I would've wanted to put them in they simply won't "work" for this map If you go waaaaaaaaaay back to the SWBT compo, yea, you know where I'm going with this. "Can't Stop the Top" is getting a "major" layout/aesthetic cleanup and being retooled under a different texture set as ROZ02. Get hype.


CLOSING
I've mentioned before of Rozpack V4 standards, just what are they? Well, a few design choices that I've made in the past are now extinct in unintentional ways. The vast majority of ladders have been replaced by their cooler cousin: the jump pad. Numerous stairs that were once not walkable without jumping are now walkable. Most open maps have either been touched or completely scrapped. As a result, I'm expecting an increase to the pace to my maps as well as the playability. To further remedy this I've selected King Dumb as the official Weapons Headmastername patent pending of Rozpack V4, putting Smash and his outdated weapon antics to rest. seriously why is there like 12 different weapons in Emerald Quarry that map is so small :LPersonally I'm more hype for this than I was for V3 simply due to how I've taken another stage in map evolution. As always, thanks for reading, post your feedback/comments below, and see you next time!

[Zard1084]

I liked ice cap zone! oh well.. it was your map anyways.

[Emmanuelf06]

Some maps look cool ! CRISIS VALLEY is my favorite of this pack (Gerudo Zelda theme thing plz =) .
Good idea for Hydrocity ! Yeah, a wall or something before the water is a good idea
And RADIANT CARNIVAL, could be interesting to see how it's because MMBMAG is boring for me.... Could be nice to have an other way to play in magicman style map

I wanted know, can you add MM6BOSS2 Sega genesis remix for your music pack? I like playing sometimes this music but it's only the 8 bits one x) .....If u want.
Also, can a "music pack" make some lags on a computer (like laptops 2 go ram + 1,6 ghz), i would want host it more on my stand (for videogames festival), i tried it, but a computer has frozen, i suppose it was a bug or something.....not from the music pack or mappacks?
Well, a friend told me, mappacks can do some problems, not a music pack...?

[NemZ]

Nice to see so much of my stuff being put to cool uses.

Doublecheck the spiral column textures in carnival though... you have to use the correct ones on each side for the spiral to work right.

[Rozark]

Some maps look cool ! CRISIS VALLEY is my favorite of this pack (Gerudo Zelda theme thing plz =) .
Good idea for Hydrocity ! Yeah, a wall or something before the water is a good idea
And RADIANT CARNIVAL, could be interesting to see how it's because MMBMAG is boring for me.... Could be nice to have an other way to play in magicman style map

I wanted know, can you add MM6BOSS2 Sega genesis remix for your music pack? I like playing sometimes this music but it's only the 8 bits one x) .....If u want.
Also, can a "music pack" make some lags on a computer (like laptops 2 go ram + 1,6 ghz), i would want host it more on my stand (for videogames festival), i tried it, but a computer has frozen, i suppose it was a bug or something.....not from the music pack or mappacks?
Well, a friend told me, mappacks can do some problems, not a music pack...?

Crisis Valley's song is staying the same, yes. It will however be getting a cleanup due to the older method of compression being poor compared to my newer way. (Volume, file size, quality, etc)

Map packs have the potential of having overlapping textures, etc(thus breaking them), an example being the appearance of core BRG if you load CSCM. However this usually only happens with outdated packs as more updated ones tend to notice when this is happening. If this is a report that my music pack has crashed; it's the first I've heard of it. The specs you gave seem similar to my old laptop, which, didn't have any problems running it at all. There isn't any reason for a computer to lag while it's loaded unless the computer is severely outdated and can't run MM8BDM to begin with. As for MM6BOSS2, I'll probably add the core boss music to the pack along with MM9 things (Which is going to wait until V5 is released unless I just get an urge to update it).

Nice to see so much of my stuff being put to cool uses.

Doublecheck the spiral column textures in carnival though... you have to use the correct ones on each side for the spiral to work right.

Will do, thanks.

[Rozark]

I'm hoping to update my tauntpack within the next 2-3 weeks; don't hold me to that estimation.

Ayy it's totally been at least 2 weeks.
Any longer and people would think this is dead.

Sniper Joe getting you down?
Bugs in the way?
Too much sadness for some.. dark.. reason during your pleasure times?
Look no further!
I present to you:

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FUN TAUNTS V6
You can find the changelog on the front page and a download there and here:
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Now get out there and make some Rock trickshots!

[Rozark]

Yo I'm here with some special announcements

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THE RABBIT'S BURROW
ISSUE THREE


OPENING
Hi and welcome to the third issue of The Rabbit's Burrow! Wow, a lot of time has passed. No, this project isn't dead; plenty of work has gone into it since the last issue. However, this is probably going to be the last issue simply because I want to keep a few surprises and I'm running low on things to work on. There's a lot to cover here so let's get started!


THE EXPERIENCE
Hi I'm here to remove this from joke status and make it a tolerably fun map by removing the Disco Filter and applying the map's effects to the textures themselves.


About the speed it'll be going at.


MOONLIT MINES
Updated aesthetics and layout to Roz04 (Previously named Subsurface V). It's now solidified as an abandoned mining facility instead
of some weird planet that tried to mix Napalm and Search textures.


The "Main" Room. Completely demolished the waterfall thingamajig and went with a good old fashioned giant crystal.


Previously known as the "Crate Room"


NEW WORLD
Alien Worlds. Tentacles. Mysterious Gloop. All that and more on the map that's replacing Roz06 (Previously known as The Scales of Science). Please don't be lewd. I wasn't. You shouldn't. That's a lie how can you not be over something like this


Side Room A. You've got towering tentacles in the skybox too.


Side Room B. Somewhere around where that red brick is, there's a path to other parts of the map (Quite a steep drop) along with some death pits. Get excited. It really isn't as bad as you'd think


HIS CRUMBLED PALACE
Old map was depressing and consisted of flow issues everywhere. The aesthetic also limited it to just Sword/thrown in Ground once that existed. New map is less depressing (It's still a destroyed palace) but the flow is beautiful. It's also got a new beat along with a nice mixture of King.


Main Room A. Not much to say here. I certainly had more to work with in this iteration than the previous.


Exterior. Ignore that top line of glitch as that was just a camera error (oops)


SETTLING WEST
Yo I put things on the roof and updated the train interiors. I also fixed a few framerate problems/bugs with the skybox. It still moves; there just aren't any giant pillars there. (Which was probably what caused most of the problems anyways)


ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF shot 1.


ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF shot 2 (and some interior)


PROTON POWERHOUSE
I condensed the tilesets and cleaned up the layout. I also added more consistency to the location in terms of "Why is this building floating over a city". It wasn't. Oops. I hope you like creating your own obstacles because pushable trucks exist, although they're limited to only the outside of the building.


Some interior.


Aww man isn't that great you can actually see where the penguins come from each day in order to provide power.
That reminds me, the penguins aren't on strike anymore. It actually has enough power to sustain itself. (and a surplus!)
As a result the brightness "gimmick" has been removed.


TEMPORAL TOWER - TOP FLOOR
This isn't the layout I've been showing off for the past few issues; that layout was scrapped due to the large amount of 3d floors that were accumulating and causing lag. This one is much nicer anyways. This is probably my favorite map in this pack now but that's just me.


Some exterior. Delicious. The bricks were also updated so the place isn't run down anymore.


Another ill-timed camera shot created that line at the top, my apologies. Anyways, this clock actually works. For every minute of in game time an hour passes while for every second of in game time a minute passes. Makes you lose your sense of time.


PERFECT BLOSSOM
New layout. New jam. Old layout had a very clearly forest tacked on while this iteration has one mixed in.


That petal photobombed so hard.


Backyard.


CLOSING
A brief reminder that any weapon/assist placements aren't final. That was a lot to go through but I'm certain it should be enough to hold you by until its release, which, by the way, has an ETA of Late August. It may come sooner, may come later. It better not come later if so I'm boned ;_; There's still plenty of surprises left that I haven't spoiled here. My apologies on the current state of the pack that's in the servers right now; pre-jam was a weird time for everyone. Here's hoping that this gets appreciated and played to its fullest once again. Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

Now that I'm proofreading things I noticed a lot of images have weird lines at the top. Oops

[Superjustinbros]

These redone maps are fantastic.

[Rozark]

Due to an unexpected computer problem I'm bumping back the release ETA on RozpackV4 to sometime in September.
I mean that was kinda dumb but w/e some people were looking forward to the end of August ;_;

[Rozark]

Hi
It took almost a year and there were quite a few roadblocks along the way, but today's the day. I'm proud to present:

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ROZPACK V4
Surprise I bet you didn't see that one coming

http://www.mediafire.com/download/51d6h ... packV4.pk3

There's a link.
BestEver link and a Changelog is on the front post.
Have fun folks.

..
Nah it needs more spice.

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IT'S TIME NERDS
AN EON AGO A LEGEND BROUGHT FUN AND JOY TO THOSE AROUND HIM
SOME OF THOSE WERE GOOD
SOME OF THOSE WERE BAD
BUT TODAY THAT DOESN'T MATTER, THE FUN'S BACK AND THERE'S MORE GOOD
BRING IN THE CONFETTI AND BALLOONS, PERHAPS A FRIEND OF INTEREST


HAVE A GOOD TIME!

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