What an absolute beast of a level! Its scope reminds me of Omnidoom Rebirth. Is that one also by you? I can't remember Correct! I also did Omnidoom Rebirth, which was a remake of the original Omnidoom level I made back in the 90's. In fact, I'm considering redoing Omnidoom Rebirth after learning so...

Version 1.2 of Galax Rebirth is now available (download link in the original post). I don't plan on releasing any additional versions after this one unless someone reports something glaringly wrong with the level (size concerns aside) or some new feature is introduced to Descent Rebirth like support...

To be honest, I've never had a real interest in building single player levels or campaigns. I've always had more fun building Anarchy levels in which to romp around with friends, although I haven't played Descent 2 Anarchy since the late 90's (testing levels doesn't count). As far as D2X-XL is conce...

Time to implement 16-player Anarchy in Descent Rebirth. Let's make it happen! On a more serious note, yeah, the level is very large. I got a bit overzealous with the design. Also, I've uploaded version 1.1 of Galax Rebirth (as of this post) since I found an area in the top-most level where some conn...

Yep! I wasn't kidding when I said this level was a beast. I had to be provided a modified DLE executable (from this very board, in fact) in order to even save the level because it has so many segments.

Thank you! It's certainly fun to fly around.

Thanks! It was definitely a labor of love. It took me far more time and focus to complete than my previous "rebirth" effort with Omnidoom, another of my old Descent 2 Anarchy levels from back in the day. Galax Rebirth turned out far better than Omnidoom Rebirth in my mind, but yeah, it's b...

Hey folks, It’s finally done! After two years of work, I’ve completed Galax Rebirth, a complete remake of Galax, the very first Anarchy level I ever created for Descent 2 during its heyday. Ultimately, the remake differs significantly from the source material, but some layout elements have carried o...

I have a feeling DLE is doing this because the bitmap palette isn't an exact match, so it's not sure exactly what color is supposed to be transparent, so it assumes all the colors are not supposed to be transparent. Does Paint.NET allow you to copy the palette from an existing bitmap (exported from...

Well, I've discovered a few things: The transparent color for the Ice palette appears to be: R:228, G:228, B:228 (a light gray) Even if I use that particular RGB value in a texture and save it as an 8-bit bitmap (I'm using Paint.net), DLE seems to automatically change the color to a different, albei...

Hey folks, I'm struggling with creating custom textures that have transparent portions. Way back in the day I was able to do this, but now I'm having no such luck. For my new map, I'm using the ice palette and have the tried the following colors to serve as the transparent color: R:120, G:88, B:128 ...

Holy moly man! Now that's some detail! Over 2500 cubes definitely allows you to make some extremely impressive-looking areas. This doesn't look any worse detail-wise than say, Quake 2. Too bad that working with such high cube counts is so time-consuming, and the original game doesn't even support t...

Hey everyone, After a lengthy hiatus, I finally finished Omnidoom Rebirth. I've lost count the number of hours I spent knocking this thing into shape, but it has reached a state with which I'm happy. Note: Due to the sheer number of cubes visible in a few places, Descent Rebirth will show "blac...

Hmm. Scroll down to the "Meeting pilots, arranging games" section on this page - it probably explains the current scene better than I can alone :) http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php The actual Rangers site (comes with an auto-updating list of who's connected to the server and in w...

Are you aware of the Rangers' Mumble server? (You don't need to be a member to log on to it.) That's probably the best place to scrape together a few people to play - Big Rat gets his latest levels tested that way. :) I wasn't aware! I've been out of the Descent loop for a long while, plus I haven'...

I've not yet tried to do any multiplayer on D2x Rebirth so I've no idea if it works. My schedule is somewhat flexible. I'm typically available on weekdays after 9 PM MST and on weekends. Unfortunately, redesigning the level to be "cube efficient" would require starting from scratch, which ...

Testers Needed. See this post: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23268

Hey folks, after 18 years I decided to finish some old business and redesign one of my earliest anarchy levels--Omnidoom. Yeah, I don't remember why I called it that, but since this is a recreation I'm keeping the name. It's certainly not the most cube-efficient level, not by a long shot, but it mor...

Just to show I haven't been sitting on my hands after all the DLE fixes: http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/tt336/Najarati/Screenshots/Omnidoom%20Rebirth%20Editor%20View%203.jpg Layout is essentially done. Some clean-up needed in the two "lava rooms". After that, just need to place the wea...

The official release isn't up to me alone, but I'll finish up my part once I get back home. One of the things I have to look at is performance - modifying some of those operations to run all the way up to 60,000 or whatever vertices could in theory be quite slow if not optimized. Then again, if it ...

I've discovered some interesting behavior with marking. Symptoms: I mark several sides and go into block mode with the intent to move the lot of them. Even though all the appropriate lines/points are marked orange and have boxes on the points, DLE either doesn't move all the lines/points or doesn't ...

OK, think I fixed it (there were three separate issues that I ran into) - see if this works. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40598935/DLE.exe Ah, most excellent! I replaced the file and fired up the editor. I started inserting a random bunch of cubes and was able to take the level up to 2001 ve...

Hmmm. It's hard to say. I might have a chance to get it fixed within the next couple weeks; but it's hard to be sure whether I'll have enough time. It depends how much uncertainty you're willing to work with :mrgreen: And how long you expect the project to take anyway. Right now, it all boils down ...

Yeah, there's an accidentally-enforced vertex limit I haven't, uh, gotten around to fixing yet. Really need to do that, you're not the only one who wants that. Good to know! Should I hold out for a fix? I can sit on the level for a bit in the meantime. Um... so... popular weapon distributions mainl...

Well, shoot. I seem to have hit a snag. If I add any more segments DLE crashes no matter what I do. According to the diagnostics, the maximum is 20,000 segments and I'm nowhere near that at 1763. Anyone experience this issue and have workarounds? UPDATE: It seems I've hit the vertices limit at 3,606...

That's because there are multiple maxima, so to speak. DLE, D2X-XL and D2 Rebirth all support several thousand cubes; the original version of D2 only supported 900. Well, that makes sense. I'm glad for the increased cube limit. Speaking of which, the level is slowly coming together: Screenshot 1 Sc...

Overload's level editor looks like it will be along the same lines, and really cool. :) I've been building a couple D2X-XL missions for practise, though I don't know I'll ever finish them... Ah, if that's the case it should be quite fun and hopefully easy to pick up. As for D2X-XL, I was debating b...

On a semi-related note, I began something over the weekend I've not done in about 18 years--level design for Descent 2. I downloaded Descent 2 Rebirth, the Descent Level Editor, and jumped headlong into designing. Honestly, it was like riding a bike. Thinking back, this relates to unfinished busines...

Level editing was a definite for Overload, it was the modding tools and documentation that was a stretch goal. Ah, very good. I thought level editing was considered part of the modding tools. I've been wanting to port some of my old Descent/Descent 2 levels into a modern Descent-like game for a whi...

Najarati, I have long been an incorrigible fan of Descent 3, any mods and maps. Sometimes I play Descent 1/2 for nostalgia. I'm pretty tightly communicate with the mappers and modders, but in other games. I did play Descent 3 starting day one of its release, but my interest waned after a few months...

In short, Overload is still quite crude, but clearly identified as classic Descent, if you are in SolC, you feel instantly that this is Descent, while if you are in D:U, you're a long time thinking what this is. I took a quick look at both Overload and SolC and I'm intrigued. Both of them instantly...

Tyranny was on the DCL briefly a couple years ago - haven't seen him much since then though. It's a pity, he was looking pretty good :) I'd also suggest watching Overload and Sol Contingency, as far as games go. We're not quite sure which one will be the best, but people have their favorites alread...

I'm engaging in some serious thread necromancy, here, but after seeing this posting of screenshots from the old DMC website I just had to respond. Especially, since my call sign is listed, albeit as an inactive member. I am, in fact, {DMC}B00MER from that list. It's crazy seeing the Dark Mavericks' ...