The WIP Thread

[Enjay]

Nice job, very neat. You'd never know there used to be a shield there.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Well, I've been teasing and bothering the Discord servers long enough. I think it's time to drop a few screenies of my upcoming project here too:






No release date yet, but the situation just evolved from an bad alpha to a less crappy beta. Expect news soon.

[Captain J]

Is the spawn face at the last screenshot model or voxel? It has quite an interesting texture!

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Believe it or not... it's a sprite! And it has rotations. Extracted from the SNES cartridge

[Jarewill]

The development is going swimmingly well. As soon as the title animation is finished, we'll start improving the menu first, and then other features, to one by one.​

Woah!
This effect looks amazing!
Also I spot that the blue one has an even bigger sword, which is bonus points from me instantly.

Shieldless Acolyte

That is looking great so far!
I can't even begin to imagine how you got that arm.
It looks like it's straight from the game itself!

Well, I've been teasing and bothering the Discord servers long enough. I think it's time to drop a few screenies of my upcoming project here too:

That spell system certainly looks interesting.
I'd like to see how exactly it works in action.
Doesn't look like it will be comfortable to switch in battle though.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

As it stands now, think on the ammo dropper from Brutal Doom. I pretend to test it with the keyboard arrows, and if possible, a script that allows using the mouse to select it

[MartinHowe]

Behold, The Cats of Carnage!

Doing for cats what MBF did for dogs, these cats are badasses that can gang up on demons, jump at a lost soul and maul it in mid-air, eat corpses to regain health, hunt enemies for food, and even beg the player for food if there's nothing small enough for them to kill! You can even "use" them and they purr or meow .. or maybe if you're unlucky ... just ignore you.

Full details and downloads here - have fun

[Jarewill]

Finally got the last feature I wanted to do done:

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A playable Templar suit!
That's a thing I always wanted to see in Strife, alongside customizable rifles.
I was inspired by how Fallout 4's power armor works. That game might have not been the best, but I loved that power armor system.

It's even customizable!
Currently it has 3 customizable slots with 3 different options:
Primary weapon - belt-fed assault gun, flamethrower and a Mauler.
Secondary weapon - melee claws, missile launchers and grenade launchers.
Addon - more armor, better life support, better power generation.
Simple, but it works.

Now the weapon reloading I made a pain on purpose: using the left side of the armor reloads the left secondary weapon, right is right weapon and front is the primary weapon.
I made it that way so the player won't be too powerful: the secondary weapons pack a punch, so I don't want the player to be able to just spam them.
And I also wanted to make the flamethrower and the mauler even better than the rifle: they don't need to reload as they are using the armor's power.
I mean, the flamethrower is already satisfying to use on human enemies and the mauler already destroys everything with ease, but I wanted to give them a small bonus too.
To balance it out, the mauler is only the primary mode, no torpedo. And for the sake of my own sanity, the grenades are only HE.

It can be obtained late in the game however. (Pickup is at MAP26)
But I would say it's worth it, just because I find it soooo fun to actually use the suit.
I also really like that belt-fed assault gun I made, even though I used mismatched sprites for the bullets.
And yes, you can insta-kill any human enemy by just dropping onto them and crushing them.

But with this, now all that's left to do is make sure there are no bugs and make a custom help screen.

[Captain J]

Very nice and super detailed addition for Strife! It's darn impressive that you actually can squash the enemy from above. Also Switchable armament is great too.

But i wonder if the player could get out of the armor if it's completely destroyed? Or they die inside of it?

[ImpieTwo]

Well, I've been teasing and bothering the Discord servers long enough. I think it's time to drop a few screenies of my upcoming project here too:

I'm down for this.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

A small video showcasing my upcoming Spawn mod. Apologies for the bad quality.

[Captain J]

Bad Quality? Nah it's really not. I can see the details going on with both vid and the mod. I really can't wait to play it!

[Deybar_TECH]

Pretty...

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Uses a flow map texture to determine movement direction, and adjusts the normal map dynamically with the direction and velocity of water flow. Also samples another texture for the surface debris/foam, which moves with the water and 'collects' in areas with slower moving water. Loops seamlessly.

I am interested in this beautiful water effect.

where can I get it?

[AFADoomer]

I am interested in this beautiful water effect.

where can I get it?

Check this post ("my shader" link. Note that it only really works with dynamic lights, so playing with it in normal Doom maps is not the greatest.

[Nash]

Note that it only really works with dynamic lights, so playing with it in normal Doom maps is not the greatest.

Hopefully this PR (if it gets approved) will help alleviate it somewhat. :)