Chaos Factory - Single Player Map (-cl2 Limit-removing)

I don't know why Slade is crashing on removing flats. But I've found trying to remove patches from pnames screws up textures.

So when I want a version with only so many textures. I copy the texture1 and pnames from normal Doom 2 to my wad. Open the texture1 of that wad and the texture wad. And copy just the textures I want.   I've remade wads like that to get rid of textures, copying just the ones I want from the old version to the new.

Cool looking map!

I believe the answer is to suffer. I think there was a setting in UDB that cuts all unused textures from a map if they're in the same wad as the map, or something along those lines. If my memory isn't completely borked and that function does exist you could theoretically do this with each map separately before merging them and adding them to the patchtable and texturex afterward. I do recall it cutting all but the first texture from switches and animations unfortunately so I had to track down the missing textures and add them manually. Keep in mind this is something I vaguely remember doing once a few years back and that I may or may not have any idea what I'm talking about. There are likely others kicking around here that have a better answer and actual experience. 

That is very useful information, thank you both. This is great actually, now at least i understand what i need to do. In any case, it looks like i will have to put in some work when it's time to compile the episode. I guess i can always just dump the whole texture pack in it and call it done deal, but i rather have a good, clean release. On the other hand, for individual map releases, i don't mind doing it the lazy way. This one in particular is just for playtesting purposes, so no big deal.

Yup, that is exactly what i was using, or more like, attempting to use up until now, but never with any success. Deleting animated textures wouldn't have been a big problem, because i could've just used all textures in dummy sectors, so that Slade doesn't delete them. The real problem with using the maintenance option is that it always breaks something else and makes the maps unplayable in anything other than GZDoom, or in this case, not even letting me delete the unused flats and crashing instead. Your solution is good and i will follow it in the future, but for this episode i'm a bit late, i've already made some maps and i used a lot of textures, so i think i'll have to load the maps without the resource pack, to check all the missing stuff, and then copy it somewhere in a list, like Gokuma suggested. It will cost some time and tears, but eventually i should be able to package the whole thing properly.

I think i came across this or a similar program before, when i was looking for easier ways to compile wads, and it might just be what i need, but i couldn't find a single tutorial, not even a written one, on how to operate this thing. And i need a tutorial, because i'm bad at figuring this stuff on my own. I tried to work with it once, got frustrated at how unclear everything is, and never touched it again. So please, if you know of any guides on how to use Doom Tools for compiling textures, let me know. 

What AskYourDrAboutUVFast posted about was what I was remembering, I'm pretty sure. Will have to take a look at doom tools myself.

As for the actual map, I enjoyed it. The weakest spots for me were the beginning and end. The beginning because the layouts of the initial outdoor area felt a bit awkward/clunky to play in at times. It had a bit of the "you have to know the map to play the map" feel in the very beginning, particularly when dropping down at first. That went away quick though and the start would be the best time for that so no biggie there. For the last fight I cleared up all the revs before triggering the caco swarm. I'm sure it would play out differently otherwise but I ended up with pretty much no infighting and peekaboo killed the mastermind. Sort of underwhelming. I don't recall the mancs getting very many, if any shots off. If you want to make them more of a threat you could stretch their sectors out a bit which should let them get off some more shots. It's very possible you have them in the small sectors to nerf them though and my rng just kept them from shooting. I enjoyed everything in between. Really good interconnectivity. Progression was fairly clear. Secrets were hidden well but not too hard to figure out. Some good traps. Tons of health so nothing was too punishing. You could probably scale the health back a little bit honestly. Ammo balance felt pretty good though. Overall good stuff. Looking forward to the rest of the episode.

It does prevent straight up circling well but it's easy for it to take very little damage which leads to the peakabooing. Cyber would probably be more engaging. Splash damage may be pretty nasty there though. You could also consider something like a couple arachnatrons. Would have similar effect but lower health pool for cleaning up at the end.

The mancs could have been somewhat RNG for me like I said. I would see if anyone else brings it up before considering messing with it.