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Hi, try to increase the difference between the playground and background colors and details
Also, do something about those black spots
It feels like I can hook the red tiles and not the black ones
Especially when you use the same color for the hookable tiles
The black tiles appear as being another entity
Try to remove the outline of the tiles in the background or reduce it's intensity or the difference in colors between the center and the outline of the tiles
I think you could reduce the size of sky2-1
Try to make it grey scale, it weighs less, as you don't use the colors of the image
Do you use every single ddnet_tiles and ddnet_tiles6 tiles ?
If you use most of them then it's ok, otherwise try to only pick the one you use by gathering them on 1 single tileset or remove the tiles you don't use from the original tilesets
Also, I forgot about sky2-1 that you need to use 2^n values for its size (32,64,128,256 etc)
Do the same for tlqkf2_special_thanks.png, tlqkf2mapname.png and whitemoon.png
Should I read 2 or 22 ? Anyway, the numbers are too small
Try to make it more visible
Here is one example of mine :
I'm not very fond of shields in maps in general, there is almost every time a way to avoid using them. But I guess it's fine, that's only me and a few shields haters 😂
1) Is it necessary to display the speeders ? 2) I really can't see a thing there, too many small tiles of many different colors
I think that's all for today
should I remake generic_clear to remove or reduce outline?
That's one way of doing it
Adding blur is good too
why do you think speeder shouldn't be displayed
What does it add to know there are speeders ?
Do they do anything special at all ?
This speeder serves to help you get into that part a little more naturally
I don't have a recording program so there may be shaking while taking a video with my phone 😅
are u really want to remove speeders?
I'm not sure if they are really needed but I was talking about leaving them and not displaying them
after thinking about it, I won't show the speeder tile.
don't do anything that special
-change some gameplay to reduce some shield -added filter -changed hookable, unhookable block color (unhookable block changed a bit, added some green 😄) -added
layer, It use gray color -reduced background tile outline -changed all selfmade images 2^n size -made switch number bigger -changed image's 2nd file to watch better
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xDD
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imagine crying when its been only 2 months 😂
it's been less than that if you count Papota
kind a annoying get into the hole should be 3 tiles of space imo
the deep below should be down 2 tiles
even with dj feel tight
you can swing here instead
1.- sometimes with this swing due the speed you overpass the unhookable maybe extend the unhook a lil bit so the flow its better
sometimes you can get stuck on the corner when u do the swing after the switch on top
$waiting
Now about the design
I don’t like how the unhooks/hooks looks like, the black thing is kinda ugly
But idk
I assume due this conversation that you lowered the weight that the file have which I think might be the main issue of the high mb of the map
But I think still too much, the map hasn’t that much of things to weight that quantity
$optimize
Hi ! I didn't change anything did I?
I was just pointing the conversation that you had xd srry
Maybe you could use some clouds from bit to reproduce the same effects on the bg, she doesn’t have a problem with other people using his mappres
What conversation ?
This one
Please be clearer, I don't get where we are going
What's wrong with my suggestions ?
Nothing I’m just bringing that up again so maybe
@n0vacould find a replacement for the bg, srry for not being clear
Due the image could be the thing that makes the map heavier
Oh ok no problem 🙂
I should give it a look again, to see what's been changed
Okay
yes in did this is half of the map size xd "496"
besides u cant even notice the bg tbh if i didnt check the folder i would never knew
so is this like, barely visible?
the image used?
I think there's further ways to optimize the image so that it's as visible as it needs to be. Grayscaling is definitely an option, but you could also quantize the colors, too. So that way there could be like, only 16 shades of black. Since it would be super non-visible I don't think banding would be an issue.
I reduced the sky file from 748 KB to just 92.5 KB. I hope the stepped colors won't be an issue, but I don't think it will be seen in the context of it being almost invisible.
oh nice thx, let see what mapper think 😄
Also, we could combine the logo and special thanks images, using Slice Quads to separate the two.
This map could be SUPER optimized, which is more surprising than you would think. I'm creating a optimization chain to see how far I can possibly go without it being outlandish. One of them is tackling the 17 layers.
Like, this is kind of nitpicky, honestly, but there is no reason for there to be this many isolated layers, and each of them having a seemingly random X and Y pos.
i think its fine
better than too little layers
stopper y16 is probably to center a stopper on an even height stopper line
(for example u cant center a single stopper tile on a 2 high stopper pair without offset)
layer 9-10 could be merged the first 3 layers could be merged
6 and #11 are necessary for this argument tho
with the updates (including some layer merging) its safe to say it goes from 906 KB to a whopping 493 KB and thats not even with $optimize
this was the image i used for the merged text as well
what about that 3 kb
a single kill tile
XD
even if this is not death the speed what you get on the swing after the switch sometimes stop the speed that you got and sometimes not try to fix it breaks the flow bigly
the swing on top that lead to a platform on the left can be skipped by just using 3 shotguns on the dots that i pointed quite tight tho so should be fixed easy
idk but imo the logo look really blurry
The weight of the map still can be reduce, between this 2 things are 177,4 kb just use photoshop and erase thing that u didnt use or cut the simbols and paste it in another screen (if u are not understanding what im trying to explain just tell me :D)
$waiting
that might have been my fault rip :(
it was like that b4
thats smaller than i could get. how'd you do it?
read this
idk why u put a speeder there u go wall anyway xd
1.- stoppers not marked 2.- imo deleting 1 unhook may do a difference 3.- move this 1 tile to the left idk if 2 is too much test it
Is there any change if I change it like the contents 2 and 3?
mmm i would say the 2 yes because you could do the part better idk how to express it, but it would help after do the swing to enter on that spot the 3 idk i didnt test it
In this video, I moved my body a little to the right and prevented the freeze tile from initializing the speed in that part. And since the speed tile replaces this action, the probability that the freeze tile initializes the speed can be drastically reduced.
Putting the freeze tile under the starting part could reduce the speed initialization of the freeze tile, but the speed was still initialized when certain actions were taken, so the speed was used to prevent that small probability. In my experience, the speed is still initialized from time to time, but I think it has made a really big improvement compared to the beginning.
The following is a recording of a part of the map being tested.
normal (often failed)
just putting the freeze tile under the starting part (sometimes failed)
putting the freeze tile under the starting part and putting speeder (maybe barely failed)
Mmm ok also depends on how you swing and jump so should be okay
u forgot to mark the speeder due impacts directly on how the part work
these stoppers corners shoud be as the others, besides the stoppers that are on the left where the lasers are has the same corner
put the spawn on the ground
after this is ready
@n0va
$waiting
but maybe no bugs??
what did u change
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okay i assume is this one, imo made the part annoying
was nice b4
nvm its ok
$optimize
$ready 3
if someone thinks different about the rating just make the opinion 😄
do a screenshot pls
the problem is fixed now, do I capture what is fixed?
yes pls
In some cases, if you turn on switch number 2 and keep pressing the jump button when moving from right to left, you may not be able to step on the platform because of the fast speed. I moved the top wall to the left a little to fix this.
OKAY
deep not marked
if u jump to early here you wont get the enough speed to get on top and you'r dead
$waiting
$optimize
$ready 3
gg
4*
4 I think is too much
But if people think that way we could rerate
3 or 4
balance map pls
thx
laser part 2 hrd