Hell-Forged (updated to v1.11 - development paused)

[TheBellTolls]

The secret is tagged as the items in that those areas. The Soultaker is a secret in the first screenshot. Depending on which power-up you selected for the Red-building, a 2nd-tier power-up will spawn at the destination of that teleporter, which has the secret tag in the second screenshot.

I see the problem now. I had full ammo when I checked the room, so I didn't collect the Soultaker for it to count. Seems like I glossed over the other powerup counting, though. Whoops!

There is a small switch near the floor to the right side of the upper level. It lowers the other pillar in that room which has a teleporter that teleports you to that upper secret area. Again, the secret tag is on the power-up itself. If you didn't pick a power-up that spawns in that area, there will be no point getting there.

I think I know what happened here. Earlier in the thread, someone brought up that teleporter brought them to the wrong spot, which was the case for me. It brought me to that small caged room with armor in it rather than up to the power-up. I guess that's a good reason I couldn't figure it out!

Did you get the secret Orange Mushroom behind the secret Green building cliff?

Yes I did, and he was quite adorable. I managed to get the 18/18 after emptying some Soul ammo, so that solves that! Thanks for the clarifications.

[Amuscaria]

Finished the player mugs for both sexes:

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This concludes the essential graphics. I'll leave the crouch-sprites for v1.10 since I accidentally saved over the male model with the female one. Still have the base uncolored one, but will take some time to set up again. Only other misc asset I need to make is to redo the Title/Logo image.

[TheRailgunner]

Finished the player mugs for both sexes:

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This concludes the essential graphics. I'll leave the crouch-sprites for v1.10 since I accidentally saved over the male model with the female one. Still have the base uncolored one, but will take some time to set up again. Only other misc asset I need to make is to redo the Title/Logo image.

Erm, why do these player faces have O-faces? I mean, Degreelessness is good, but it isn't THAT good...

[SamVision]

OMFG those god-mode faces

EDIT: Just remembered, are you going to bother making gib faces as well?

[Captain J]

Definitely realistic and amusing faces. I definitely like them faces, intact to injured! And of course, they have to pierce the heavens once they turn god mode on.

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Haah... G... God... God Mode...

EDIT:

Suggestion: "Templar man" and "Templar woman" instead of "Male Templar" and "Female Templar".

Templar man? Templar woman? Those sounds exactly like what Mega Man franchise would make.

[Gez]

laffo at the god faces

Suggestion: "Templar man" and "Templar woman" instead of "Male Templar" and "Female Templar".

[TheBellTolls]

I like how the male Templar gets a blood goatee when he's injured.

[Amuscaria]

Just remembered, are you going to bother making gib faces as well?

Maybe in 1.1. Didn't even know there was a gibbing mug until you mentioned it.

[Gez]

EDIT:

Suggestion: "Templar man" and "Templar woman" instead of "Male Templar" and "Female Templar".

Templar man? Templar woman? Those sounds exactly like what Mega Man franchise would make.

Yeah, just like policeman and spokeswoman are obviously superhero names.

[Captain J]

I'm sure Mega Man fans already made their own characters with such name, i presume. And of course, i was joking.

[Amuscaria]

Version 1.00 Released!

Download Link 1: https://uofi.box.com/s/wsj7b93r465yx8cwcnkgpe36xaq3ks39

Patch Notes:

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(v. 1.0 Release) (August 2019)

►Added kick alt-fire to Templar sword. Knocks enemies back around player, and deals more damage, but slower attack.

►Added some appropriate sky textures to replace the Doom/Doom II ones.

►Added appropriate mugshots.

►Added Credits and Help screen replacements.

►Removed the ability to choose episodes. No point since there is only 1 so far.

►Increased powered Mauler shrapnel damage to 12 (from 8) - compensates for inability to hit the same enemies more than once.

►Replaced Doom player sounds with those from the Hexen cleric for the male Templar.

►Did some final polishing of assets and maps.

►Destroyer Sphere now also fills Vorpal Blade and Soultaker charges to maximum.

►Made the Creative Commons and non-Creative Commons resource package for download.

►Changed pick-up message of the Mushroom plushies.

►The Rave-Shroom has been replaced by the Purple Shroom (will come back in Episode 2).

►Hellbolt mortar no longer bounces off of barrels and cannisters.

►Hellsmith now has a 1-second delay before he unleashes his homing rockets.

►Hellsmith firewalls no longer travel over the pillars in his arena.

►Expanded the Hellsmith's arena to compensate for his new homing Rockets (I blame Comet1337 ).

►Changed the inter-spoke flow of HF1M8. you can enter any ajacent spoke once you get the Skull keys needed.

►Removed the small lifts in the blue area of HF1M5 that was easily missed by players. Replaced with stairs instead.

►Moved keys UI elements to lower left corner so they aren't overlapped by the Power-up icons.

►Fixed a bug that caused the Juggernaut Sphere to not reduce melee damage.

►Fixed the Invulnerability sphere losing its effect if the player stands still (caused by Vorpal Blade reflective fix).

►Fixed (removed) useless "wepnormal" damagetypes on monsters (didn't know melee had its own damagetype).

►Fixed a bug that caused the player's Firewalls to explode if dropping to a lower floor.

►Fixed some torches that were misappropriately tagged as coop-only in HF1M6

►Fixed a bug in HF1M8 that caused the player to teleport into the wrong secret.

►Fixed Juggernaut HUD icon. Screen color fades over 10 seconds instead of lasting the entire level.

►Fixed a bug that caused non-charging weapons to show their alt-ammo in the full status bar's charge section.

►Fixed some minor errors in various maps - missing textures, wrong sounds, wrong textures, lighting errors, etc.

►V 1.00 now requires GZDoom 4.1+ to work. 3.7 crashes in Deathmatch for some reason. :/

Future Development:

I'll be taking a LONG break, at least until Doom Eternal comes out and I get to play thru it. Won't be making any changes until then unless some major bug is found. There is a long back-log of artwork I need work work on for the time being.

The next project will either be Episode 2 for HF, or the HF-Sequel "Hell-Forged: City of the Damned". Ep2 will pretty much be like HF-EP2, but in a different plane of Hell with a focus on the undead. CoTD will be more Hexen-like, with 4 unique classes, each very different from one another. The documentation have been written out and I'm confident I can pull either one of these off relatively easily now that I have the 3D-2-Sprite work process down. Ep2 will be a lot easier to make, but CoTD seems more fun to make. Either way, won't be for a while. Might ask for help mapping or something after the bulk of the resources have been made. We'll see, since these won't be fore a long while.

The next major patch will be v1.10, with the following planned additions:

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►Added secondary attacks to the Hellduke, Director and Behemoth (similar to the player's alt-fire for the weapons).

►Added melee attack to Hellduke.

►Added crouch sprites for both player classes.

►Added Super-secret map "Sharknadoom". Accessed by gathering all the shroomss and beating the Hellsmith.

►Added Shark-demon and Manshark monsters for Sharknadoom.

►Added Trident, Harpoon-Bow and Harpoon-Gun for "Sharknadoom".

►Touched up Hellduke to make it look more like the cover art.

►Redid the death animation for the Guardian to be more like the Sentinel's.

Thank you all for helping me pull this project off. Special thanks to those that have taken the time to play thru the alphas and betas. The project would not be possible without y'all. Cheers!
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I'll be packaging up the resources into 2 separate wad files. One that I can release onto Creative Commons, and the other that I can't due to the derivative nature. I'll be adding these to the Resources subforum sometime later today after some package clean-up.

[TheBellTolls]

Woohoo! Good thing I only got 3 levels recorded before this came out, haha. Awesome work, Amu. Have a good break.

[Captain J]

You're working hard as usual for the mod, i see. But hey, the update's done now and get some rest! You deserve it. Few changes are quite nice, and i thank you for adding kick attack for the Paladin Sword... Although it's quite slower than Duke Nukem 3D's mighty foot or Hacx's Boot. But it's useful nonetheless.

[Amuscaria]

You're working hard as usual for the mod, i see. But hey, the update's done now and get some rest! You deserve it. Few changes are quite nice, and i thank you for adding kick attack for the Paladin Sword... Although it's quite slower than Duke Nukem 3D's mighty foot or Hacx's Boot. But it's useful nonetheless.

I'm not sure how I can make the sword act normal, but the alt-attack (kick) knock enemies back. The A_CustomPunch doesn't have a push parameter. I tried using a projectile, but that doesn't work very well at all.

[SamVision]

You're working hard as usual for the mod, i see. But hey, the update's done now and get some rest! You deserve it. Few changes are quite nice, and i thank you for adding kick attack for the Paladin Sword... Although it's quite slower than Duke Nukem 3D's mighty foot or Hacx's Boot. But it's useful nonetheless.

I'm not sure how I can make the sword act normal, but the alt-attack (kick) knock enemies back. The A_CustomPunch doesn't have a push parameter. I tried using a projectile, but that doesn't work very well at all.

You could put the RadiusThrust on the puff instead.