The WIP Thread

[NeuralStunner]

Mythbusters inspired:

I know it's not quite heatmapping, but it would be pretty amazing to have heatmapping. Imagine hunting invisible beasties with that.

[Pixel Eater]

Actually I think it might count. I've only altered the front sprite so the left Imp is still 'unmapped'.
Here's a dark area:

Darkness.jpg

Edit: All Imp frames done now...

Impdun.jpg

[abbuw]

I took a whole bunch of black gradient flat sprites and did this little hack. Subtractive dynamic lights would have bled out and looked really ugly.

[Captain J]

Holy moly, those are some impressive and amazing things i never seen on any other doom mods/map packs. Especially that night vision effect looks tacticool as shiet!

[Pixel Eater]

Thanks Captain. Problem is, I haven't been able to figure out how to switch between the default and custom sprites in time with the main effect. Which means you're stuck with it on the whole game

Anybody know of an example of how to do that which I can dissect?

[Gez]

A solution might be to use the "####" sprite name throughout the imp definition. Can you set a sprite name through ZScript? If not, that sounds like a fine feature suggestion.

[Pixel Eater]

Like such?

---

Code: Select all

class ThermalImp : DoomImp Replaces DoomImp
{
	Default
	{
		+Bright
	}
	States
	{
		Spawn:
			#### AB 10 A_Look ;
			Loop ;
		See:
			#### AABBCCDD 3 A_Chase ;
			Loop ;
		Melee:
		Missile:
			#### EF 8 A_FaceTarget ;
			#### G 6 A_TroopAttack ;
			Goto See ;
		Pain:
			#### H 2 ;
			#### H 2 A_Pain ;
			Goto See ;
		Death:
			#### I 8 ;
			#### J 8 A_Scream ;
			#### K 6 ;
			#### L 6 A_NoBlocking ;
			#### M -1 ;
			Stop ;
		XDeath:
			#### N 5 ;
			#### O 5 A_XScream ;
			#### P 5 ;
			#### Q 5 A_NoBlocking ;
			#### RST 5 ;
			#### U -1 ;
			Stop ;
		Raise:
			#### ML 8 ;
			#### KJI 6 ;
			Goto See ;
	}
}

And then the #### can be redefined like a variable somewhere else?

Edit: It looks like everything's been bleepin' censored

[Gez]

Yeah, you'd want to rename the Spawn state label to Idle, and have for actual Spawn state something like Spawn: TROO A 0 Goto Idle just so as to set the correct sprite at the beginning.

[HAL9000]

I was bored so I started to port Chasm The Rift Monsters, Items, Weapons and assets to Gzdoom

Here is the Chasm Skeleton Warrior:

Converted from Chasm to to Md2, tweaked, frames were edited for use in Gzdoom to best fit the Actor
I will probably create several skin variations.

---

I'm still trying to figure out how to do Gibbing (head, Legs, Arms, weapon) similar to Chasm's Gib system

[Pixel Eater]

Yeah, you'd want to rename the Spawn state label to Idle, and have for actual Spawn state something like Spawn: TROO A 0 Goto Idle just so as to set the correct sprite at the beginning.

Cheers Gez! I've done that and added the following code:

---

Code: Select all

override void Tick()
	{
		PlayerInfo p = players[ consoleplayer ];
		if ( Cvar.GetCVar( "gl_thermalcam", p ).GetInt() == 1 )
		{
			self.bBright = true ;
			self.Alpha = 1.0 ;
			self.sprite = GetSpriteIndex( "TMTR" );
		}
		else
		{
			self.bBright = false ;
			self.Alpha = 0.3 ;
			self.sprite = GetSpriteIndex( "TROO" );
		}
	}	

And here is the result!

Switching.gif

But now the Imp is frozen

[amv2k9]

Already shown this off, but now it's animated! The ball of light in the center will be swapped out for something more appropriate to Ancient Aliens; I'm just not going to spoil it here.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gATpD ... VCUX3Iqk2d

[Pixel Eater]

You Ghostbuster'd them! Nice animation too

[Arctangent]

But now the Imp is frozen

That's because you're not calling Super.Tick(), so everything that handles momentum, state updates, etc. ... well, it's not happening unless you put it in yourself. Or call Super.Tick().

[Pixel Eater]

Oh right I had...

Code: Select all

if (!player || !player.mo || player.mo != self)
{
	return Super.Tick();
}

...commented out because I get this error:

Script error, "ThermoCam.pk3:zscript.zc" line 53:
Incompatible operands for != comparison

Edit: So I removed the if() statement and placed the Super.Tick() at the end of the function and it works! Thank you it seems to be working perfectly

[TrebbyTrebuchet]

Working on Half Life monster models