Step Four: Building A Level To Match The Music!
#Gzdoom builder skybox code
While working on the script I created a few re-usable snippets of code that were able to adjust the colours of the lights or cause strobes, etc.Īfter many hours of writing code, doing math and repeatedly testing the lights / listening to the song, this was the result: The colouring was done with Sector_SetColor and the brightness was done with Light_Fade, fading the lights in and out, and using while-loops on the colours to make them slowly progress from colour to colour. This was relatively crucial given the fairly tight deadline of this project! Using math to calculate when in the song certain actions took place I was able to speed up the coding process. I can’t remember the exact BPM of the song, but using a basic example, 120 beats per minute = 2 beats per second = 1 beat every 17.5 tics. Yep, it’s time to make an actual lightshow now! I did some maths, broke down the timing of the song based on 1 second = 35 tic math. I then created a skybox which has all of the lights on mid-textures in a zero brightness sector, each ‘light beam’ being tagged uniquely so I can then light them up and recolour them etc via ACS. I dropped the music on repeat to learn it – while it was playing I was throwing down some sketches of what “scenes” I wanted my lights to have, and then created a few “light beam” graphics to use in the map based on the sketches. I had to create some interesting visuals based on the music, so to make it as prevalent as possible I decided to make the skybox a massive lightshow, completely in time with the music itself. Now that I knew what song I intended to use I got to planning.
#Gzdoom builder skybox free
Of course I had to look for something copyright free, or royalty free so that it can be streamed without copyright strikes on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube which is where Joel shows his Vinesauce content. After searching far and wide I settled on: the following: I opted in for something dancey or dubstep etc… just electronic music of a sort. I had to find a song which had enough interesting sounds in it to base the visuals on it. I’d been waiting for an opportunity to make something of the sort, and when this competition rolled around I figured it’d be a sure-fire way to stand out from the crowd! Step One: Choose Some Music! Hell, it’s not even your normal Dragonfly map!īack when I worked on Skulldash I wanted to take the “Nightclub” bonus level’s concept and crank it up to eleven – A level which has visuals directly influenced by the music. Let’s be honest, Nightlife just isn’t your normal Doom map. Nightlife – My Quirky Vinesauce Doom Mapping Competition Entry
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