[Moderate] Daunell [reworked map]

[deen]

Send me the sound file,ideally the original source. I can usually reduce the file size without losing quality.
Dilate the logo.
Added to planned releases for Thursday, if anyone wants to take a final look, do so.

[deen]

Logo needs to be dilated still (not made bigger, run through the dilate tool), there should be 1 sound source with para 0-0, not 50 sound sources spread over the map. Considering that there are such simple bugs, I'll not release the map today and rather wait for someone to test it properly.

[Lady Saavik]

map looks too cinfusing and complicated so I didn't understand the gameplay sometimes
and I hate the idea to put cehckpoints everywhere
your Novice maps were better

you can easily skip the start and switches - take CP4 and go left into tele where unsolo is (make this checkpoint AFTER the start line...)

[Evoli]

I cant believe, that Im doing so much stupid bugs....
I will next time looking better at my map at some other maps...

P.S. should I do make a Demo how to finish this map?

[Welf]

i played the map 1 1/2 times i think, so gameplay should work

[Evoli]

Im apoligize what fore silly Bugs i maded, next time o should take a better look to my maps

Music updated, no more laggs in the music itself....

heres the updated Map: (thx deen how to use the Sounds with low bitrate ^^, deen i just made the Logo tiny, so it looks ok)

Daunell.map

updated

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[deen]

Now you reduced the bitrate too much, music sounds bad to me. The version I gave you sounded better and was only slightly bigger. You also replaced the dilated logo with the undilated one again, so I fixed both again:

I guess this whole stuff with getting the mapres right is not easy, people make mistakes there always. I would appreciate if someone writes some more tutorials.

To compare music quality, always compare to the original source and always use the highest quality source you can find. Play a short piece from the source, then your converted sound file. Increase the bitrate until you can hear no difference or the difference is small enough.

For comparison, here's how your undilated logo looked and the dilated one:

[Evoli]

deen how about making a video, how to make sounds with Opus or something?
this would really help for players

[hi_leute_gll]

I guess this whole stuff with getting the mapres right is not easy, people make mistakes there always. I would appreciate if someone writes some more tutorials.

Well...about logos you basically should just care that height and length are in steps of 64 pixels and that the final mapres ran through the dilate.exe.
Placing it as quad with aspect ratio and it should be fine as long as the mapres was made with goood quality.

[deen]

deen how about making a video, how to make sounds with Opus or something?
this would really help for players

Since I'm on Linux and most mappers are on Windows, I don't think anyone would appreciate my methods. I start by converting the original source to wave, in this case this mp3 file: https://db.tt/CrgK4R2N
So I just run

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ffmpeg -i keygensong.mp3 keygensong.wav

Next I convert with opusenc to Opus, starting with a bitrate of 10 kbit/s:

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opusenc --bitrate 10 keygensong.wav keygensong-10.opus

It's quite small, but sounds terrible:

keygensong-10.opus

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So I increase the bitrate and do the same with 20 kbit/s:

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opusenc --bitrate 20 keygensong.wav keygensong-20.opus

It's much better, but still not good enough, it sounds a bit dull, you notice the missing details:

keygensong-20.opus

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So the final step is

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opusenc --bitrate 30 keygensong.wav keygensong-30.opus

Now I'm happy enough with the result and can add it to the map:

keygensong-30.opus

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