[Map Pack] SHARP (Version 3b - Hotfix)

[Shade Guy]

Welcome! This is my thread for the map pack SHARP: a collection of my maps with edited maps from the old map pack, Vortale's Roboenza Pack.

This pack currently contains a total of 20 maps; 15 maps by yours truly, along with 5 of Vortale's maps, refitted for DM.
SHARPv3b replaces 1 map and includes content introduced in MM8BDMv4a.

Maps included:

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15 SHA maps
SHA01-The Esplanade
SHA02-Frozen Fantasy
SHA03-Focus
SHA04-Abyss-mal
SHA05-Tree Junction
SHA06-Desert Mission
SHA07-The Real Drain Fortress
SHA08-Completed Cartography
SHA09-A.I. Plant
SHA10-The Cold And Bitter End
SHA11-The Birds
SHA12-The Land Up Above
SHA13-Cliffside Smash
SHA14-Astro Cuba
SHA15-Tower Of Gold
5 VRP maps
VRP01-Vortale's Bunker
VRP02-Frozen Dock
VRP03-Cloud Control
VRP04-Cave Of Wonders
VRP05-Last Hope

Screenshots + Map Descriptions:

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My first proper map ever, now with 77% less cramped-ness and pits everywhere.

A winter landscape with industrial corridors connecting snow-covered areas. Orange platforms that raise and lower on intervals are a highlight.

One of the first '3D floor hell' maps; what this map lacks in length and width, it makes up for in height. Focus on avoiding the lava at the bottom!

Explore SHARP's equivalent of the underworld! Jagged paths and caves surround an ominous castle...Okay, it's not really that ominous but-OH LOOK BATS! Spooky!

A larger map with all sorts of things going on. Fight inside the interconnecting caverns on opposite sides of the map and everywhere in between.

Based on a map from the obscure FPS Timesplitters 2! Check out the caverns and structures outside, and ponder about where all that sand is coming from inside.

This map features a combination of 3D floors and flowing water to construct the feel of an interior to this sewer/sea base hybrid.

Follow the water currents around this multi-layered facility in the jungle and you may find a way to the fenced-off Gravity Hold.

Another factory that doesn't seem to have a purpose! Follow the conveyor belt, but be sure to get off before the end.

This map utilises custom textures, similar to Vortale's last entry in SHARP. The two sides of the map act as a 'flipside' to one another.

Hey, look at all those birds perched around...watching us...waiting. Using Gravity Hold around them should be amusing.

Funny how SHARP's equivalent of fluffy cloud heaven is shaped like Australia. Creator bias, maybe?

MMCTF13 reimagined as a Deathmatch map! Forget about capturing flags, this is all about scoring frags!

Look, there's girders, quicksand...giant flowers...and a colour-changing sun...? I swear, this map's theme has no constancy -- I mean, no consistency.

Based on Shade Guy's favourite level from Kirby's Return To Dreamland! Now you too can run across golden bridges over a sunset.

The first of Vortale's 5 revived maps. On opposite sides of the corridor lie the wintery landscape outside and a tunnel leading deeper into the bunker. Side rooms are scattered throughout.

Take a ride on the various boats and machinery in this dock!...Okay, they won't go anywhere, but at least the boat bobs up and down. Tunnels surround the dock, hiding all sorts of items.

Vortale's entry into the second Cutstuff mapping competition. It's like Cloud Man's map, but with more symmetry and none of the gimmicks!

Explore a series of winding tunnels, leading to pits, lava and an underground steam. Glass doors that appear and disappear on intervals block off secret areas.

Vortale's use of custom textures here really creates a sense of desperation as players fight inside and outside the ruins of this burning city.

Music Codes/Credits:

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SHAMUS1 - Try Harder (Original) by Rushjet1
SHAMUS2 - Snowbank (Original) by Commandycan
SHAMUS3 - Fire, Fighting and Science Clubs (Cover) by 8BitDanooct1
SHAMUS4 - Running Hell (Cover) by Gamefreakdude
SHAMUS5 - Bushroot Stage from Darkwing Duck
SHAMUS6 - Flame Repellent (Original) by FearOfDark
SHAMUS7 - Wire Sponge Stage from Mega Man X-Treme 2
SHAMUS8 - Ninja Cop Saizou - Sewer Stages (Cover) by PureSabe (Used in Rockman 4 Minus Infinity)
SHAMUS9 - Artificial Intelligence Bomb (Original) by Naruto
SHAMUS10 - Rainbow Resort Stage from Kirby's Adventure
SHAMUS11 - Kirby's Star Stacker - Extreme (Cover) by ??? (Used in Rockman 5: Air Sliding)
SHAMUS12 - Dandilion Ride (Original) by FearOfDark
SHAMUS13 - Scaling The Dragon Fortress (Original) by FearOfDark
SHAMUS14 - Mighty Switch Force! - Whoa I'm In Space Cuba (Cover) by Jayster6721
SHAMUS15 - Kirby's Return To Dreamland - Castle Area (Cover) by NewAgeRetroGamer
VRPMUS1 - Mega Man X - Sigma Fortress 1 (Cover) by Coatlesscarl
VRPMUS2 - Mega Man X - Chill Penguin (Cover) by Coatlesscarl
VRPMUS3 - Mega Man X - Storm Eagle (Cover) by Coatlesscarl
VRPMUS4 - Theme 2 from Journey to Silius
VRPMUS5 - Lufia 2 Boss Battle (Cover) by Coatlesscarl
SHABOS1 - Oppression (Cover) by Commandycan
SHABOS2 - Excerpt from Super Mario Bros. 3 {Alternate Reality Edition} (Original) by Shnabubula
VRPBOS1 - Golden Sun - Saturos Battle (Cover) by Coatlesscarl
SHARPEND - Excerpt from Mega Man X Title Theme (Cover) by Coatlesscarl

Download:
SHARPv3b-https://www.mediafire.com/?as74r8a3tm5cjd1

Changelog:

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SHARPv3b-
General - New weapons/items added to MM8BDMv4a included in various maps. Weapon changes will not be listed for each individual map.
SHA02 - Some orange platform paths extended so players cannot jump across while platforms are lowered using straferunning.
SHA03 - Bubbles altered: cannot hold down jump to bounce higher, bounce SFX added.
SHA07 - Pits near the entrances to the sewer interior replaced with solid ground.
SHA08 - Completely new map since old SHA08 is now the base for MM6CEN in the core. SHA08 is now Completed Cartography: my entry into the Finish That Map! competition.
SHA11 - Railings added around the centre pit in the spiral staircase room.
VRP02 - Minor details added to the edges of the snow floors.

SHARPv3a-
All maps are now in UDMF!
New maps! SHA11-SHA15 included
SHA01-Insignificant visual edits.
SHA02-Insignificant visual edits.
SHA03-Insignificant visual edits.
SHA04-Skybox added (still pure black though).
SHA05-Updated to use Wood Man's new floor textures (as of MM8BDMv3b).
SHA08-Now uses transparent 3D floor water, with a colorsetter when in water. 'Teleport outside the map' glitch fixed.
SHA10-Dive Missile is no longer reachable without using the pit teleport.
VRP01-Stairs near the underground train changed to functional stairs. Insignificant visual edits.
VRP02-Midtex bridges replaced with 3D floors.
VRP03-Outside area overhauled. Should be a lot harder to fall to your death now. Glass platforms now use invisible 3D floors.
VRP04-Various steps changed to functional stairs. Midtex bridge replaced with 3D floor.
VRP05-Slopes inside blue building changed to functional (but slightly dilapidated) stairs. Ballade Cracker's ledge has been visually        edited and lowered.

SHARPv2a-
New maps! SHA05-10 included.
In general-MM8 content included in most maps.
SHA01-General tweakings, mainly visually.
SHA02-More general tweakings, mainly visually.
SHA03-Even more general tweakings, mainly visually.
SHA04-'Safety rails' added. Death pit in the middle expanded to emphasise 'this is a death pit'. Plus some general tweakings.
VRP01-One very minor visual thing changed. Minor texture edits.
VRP02-Boat area edited slightly.
VRP04-Minor texture edits for Software users. That's right, I care about you guys!
VRP05-Ladder leading to Ballade Cracker has been replaced by one larger slope.

Old Downloads:
SHARPv3a: https://www.mediafire.com/?wm5qik75a3mmma8
SHARPv2a: http://www.mediafire.com/?49w540ld62z4ae9
SHARPv1: http://www.mediafire.com/?t65ubgv6x7a78yn

[SaviorSword]

By the impression of the 1st screen, it looks a little clustered. Try to give people breathin' space.  

[lol]

Downloaded it and played on it for a while. This map is really nice, but like Savior said, there are some corridors (especially in the picture with the Darkman bot) where it's really narrow. It seem as if you kinda scrunched everything together, as if you had a limit on how big it should be. However, weapon placement is nice. I like how you put Tango and Star Crash in places where it is most likely that players will fall to their doom. Overall, it's a good map.  

[Shade Guy]

Thanks for the comments. I don't think I had a size limit, I just have a poor sense of scale. I'll widen the corridors more when I work on it next.

[Muzaru]

I liked it, seems like a good duel/2v2/5 person ffa map.
The only part I thought was small was the room with the Bass buster.

[Darkseed]

This is a very nice map! if you fixed the problems They've told you, i would be asking you if i could put it in Me and Roc's Map Pack! (name not known)

[Shade Guy]

Okay, question to people who have tried playing this map. In the middle area with pits where the windows are, there's that platform in the corner (I believe that was where I placed Pharaoh Shot) that can only be reached by item 1 or simply hopping on the edge of the window and walking to it. Should I place some block everything linedefs to the window ledge to make it so it is only reachable by item 1, or keep it the way it is?

[LlamaHombre]

Keep it the way it is.

v1b Pharaoh Shot, I miss you.

[Shade Guy]

Update time! I made corridors bigger and other things I thought were somewhat important. Also added some MM7 weapons and textures.

[Shade Guy]

Okay, minor progress bump. I have been working on a map based on MM1DW2 recently, and it has confused the hell out of me. First of all, one of the shafts where you hop out of the water doesn't seem to like my low-gravity coding, even though every other shaft works fine. I've made a quick fix to that, but still...It's annoying.

Secondly, I want to know how the original Wily2 works at all. I looked at the script editor for that map...It's empty. Yet, there are underwater segments and everything.

[Vortale]

I'm taking an epically wild guess since I'm not sure on how this works myself.
But MM1DW2 is in the same campaign as MM1ICE, and the entrances to the water shafts in MM1DW2 share the same tag as the outside water patch of MM1ICE. I don't know if it's using Iceman's script in a different level, but if it is, it would make sense.

I'm probably wrong though. Very wrong lol

Anyway I think I was supposed to comment on your map and I forgot. I quite enjoy it, though I have a few personal bugs.
One is the pink jumping room with nasty holes. To me, it feels really uncomfy, because I feel it's going to be very difficult to get out and the main reason are the holes between each step. I can't advance, or knock back could throw me into a hole. And except for Air Shooter, I don't see myself going in for anything worthwhile. There are needles outside that seem not too difficult to get. I actually preferred the previous version, when the ground was much higher.
Also, are you supposed to use the window sill to get to the Pharaoh Shot? I was constantly trying to get Item-1 to get there until I noticed it.
There's that tiny gap between two platforms at the end of the waterfall. Though it's difficult to fall into it unless you kind of do it deliberately, I don't think that small gap should be there, since I can just walk over them and I'd only fall straight in it by one fluke of an accident. Makes the room feel a little less deadly as well.
Although it's not an actual issue, you have many walls that are sectors with the ceiling brought to the top. You can just delete those, though it's not important. Just something I noticed while looking at the automap.

But these are personal gripes! I do quite like this map. Many folk may still think it's a bit claustrophobic at points, but it has improved since the previous version. Keep at it man, good luck with your next endeavour!

[Shade Guy]

Hm...I'll try and make that pink area a bit less dangerous. The main reason I lowered the area was that I wanted that area's purpose to be 'come in here and get some good stuff, but you might die trying'. I guess that I've failed to provide enough reward for that level of risk. Would you be able to suggest any weapons/items to make going there more worthwhile?

Also, I lowered that area because at the height the platforms were, you could simply jump to the Pharaoh Shot platform instead of Item 1'ing or taking the windowsill path (yes that was intentional; might change it, though).

You have many walls that are sectors with the ceiling brought to the top.

Eheheheh...Yeah, I made this map when I was a bit new to DB2. I've learned not to do that now.

With the tiny gap, do you mean the gap between the passage from the Shade Man-esque room and the waterfall area? Or do you mean in the lower half of that area?

Anyway, thanks for those comments and I'll try to work on things you've pointed out.

[Vortale]

When it comes to weapon choices, people will probably tell you I'm one of the worst for choosing weapons lol
However, I feel this room - and some of the evil pitfalls in this map - could be saved with a Beat Call. That way if I do fall to an epic death, I'll at least get one extra chance to get out. At this moment, the map doesn't accommodate Beat, as the pits are just labelled instant death. You could probably borrow some code from Gyroman's stage and apply it to the death sectors.
As for weapons, I'd say keep Air Shooter, but that's because I personally like it lol
The thing is with this room is that if you're caught it's difficult to get out, but if no-one has noticed you in there it's easy to get out. Perhaps have an Eddie in the centre; have fate decide if it was worth going in the hole. You can keep the Air Shooter and Bass/Metal Blade down there if there's a Beat somewhere on the map. If you don't want to go for Beat, perhaps Skull Barrier could also do the job. With something like this it's best to experiment to see what would be worthwhile, because what's worthwhile to some won't be for others. Some people love Bass for instance, I don't. But EVERYONE loves a Top Spin!

I'm referring to the lower half of the waterfall. The tiny gap in the upper portion is easily missed. If you come from the upper portion into the lower, especially in Software Mode, it's difficult to see what's down there. I expected water first time. Thankfully I landed on a platform, but came a few pixels from falling in the small gap. If there was no gap I wouldn't feel as if I was taking any risk falling down, and that would help keep a nice flow with the rest of the level as I could fall down, not worry about a possible death, then run into the next rooms. You're free to keep the room as a giant pit with a few platforms of course, this is merely a minor gripe.

Remember, as creator of a map you can always say "No, I disagree and I'm keeping it that way."

[Shade Guy]

Update time! Yeah...At the moment I've stopped work on the MM1DW2-esque map due to lack of interest. But instead, I give to you Frozen Fantasy, a snowy map with some rather...Unique...Platforms. As usual, I've just dropped weapons and items in spots I thought were good, so please tell me anything wrong with the layouts. Link is in the first post.

I did some things to Drain Fortress, so I'll have to update that sometime.

[lol]

Sorry if my choice of words aren't the best.
It's a nice looking map. For one thing, the rise-fall platforms. I like how some are placed to possibly trap you, if you don't have any items. The weapons placement is great, esp. on the rise-fall platforms. Though, in the little alcoves, maybe you can put one weapon there, or an item like Rush Coil. Overall, I love it. Though in my own opinion, where Eddie is, maybe you can move it along to the side on that narrow walkway, but it's just my suggestion. Also, I don't know, but:

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This irks me for some reason.