ZDoom

Recently got the idea for a new hero: Descent's Material Defender. He'd use his weaponry from the games... minus the ship of course. Maybe with a jetpack or extra movement options. I doubt anyone would take the time to make the custom assets needed but I'd love to see it.

Silly question I'm sure, but does every new sound effect need to be defined in a SNDINFO lump in order to be usable by, say, ZScript, or any other part of a mod? I have a whole bunch of procedurally-generated sounds that would be tedious to write new names for by hand, and I'd prefer not to write a ...

I've been trying to get normal and specular maps working on a weapon sprite to no avail. Can you only use them on entities? I tried putting them in the auto folder, renaming them so they don't conflict with the actual sprite, and specifying the full file paths, as well as updating to a dev build ...

May I ask, did you use ACS or SBARINFO? I replicated the complete HUD from A Link to the Past via ACS but couldn't draw the selected inventroy item with it. Neither - ZScript. (Unless I've teleported to the past?) Anyway, I still can't think of a good way to approach armor. Having it override ...

[Hexen was actually significantly more disappointing to me because it had such a strong start. I was enjoying myself well into the swamp but it wasn't long after that when I just sort of petered out. I call it "shareware syndrome." (Even though it isn't shareware...) But yeah, Heretic's good, but ...

[Hexen was actually significantly more disappointing to me because it had such a strong start. I was enjoying myself well into the swamp but it wasn't long after that when I just sort of petered out. I call it "shareware syndrome." (Even though it isn't shareware...) But yeah, Heretic's good, but ...

If I'm trying to make an inventory item that should only be picked up if, say, the player doesn't have item X in his inventory, which virtual function should I override - HandlePickup, TryPickup, TryPickupRestricted, CanPickup, or ShouldStay? I've been trying HandlePickup already, but even when it ...

I'm making a mod that operates on health points instead of a health percent. I've already figured out most of the hard stuff - how to make it so damage is only dealt in multiples of 10, etc. - but I want armor to work in a specific way. Instead of blocking a percent of damage and dissipating by a ...

Just added a Far Cry-style health system to Heretic, in preparation for a Zelda-ish HUD (the kind where you have HP symbols instead of a number.) I'll edit this post when I have said HUD working. EDIT: It's getting there! https://i.imgur.com/INoQmDPl.jpg Don't know how to make armor work the same ...

I'm loving it so far! My only minor complaints: Some of the weapon archetypes I've seen so far are too same-y? The starter wand, golden wand, and dragon claw all have hitscan fires and projectile alt-fires, for instance. (The dragon claw can be forgiven; its spread is much greater and its ...

A parody level titled "Creator's Intent," in which all of the fun secrets are along a single convoluted path. Said path naturally closes off if you, say, cross the wrong linedef, or have an enemy cross a certain linedef, etc.

[Obligatory "Woah there, Satan" comment here]

DOS itself isn't scary, but you could probably make a really good horror game based off of it. I've kicked around this idea in my head of a DOS-based game with unsettling aesthetics that has purposefully undocumented command line arguments that reveal a story the deeper you dig, for instance.

Anybody know how much a Doom pixel would stretch relative to the pixels themselves? I know it's 16:10 stretched to 4:3, but I want to know the width/height ratio of the pixels themselves. I'll do the math if I have to, but I figured I should ask, just in case. (This is so I can see Doom sprites ...

Is (or was) there a source port that softened the harsh sector lighting that Doom's known for? Something like Quake and how it bilinearly filters shadows?

I just start Quakespasm and then type "game hipnotic" or "game rogue" in the console. Or "game ad" or whatever other third-party pack you may have downloaded. It works fine in Quakespasm (I know it's not enough in older Quake engines). Be weary of that. Mission Pack 2 (and possibly 1) will glitch ...