[WIP] Might & Magic VII in DOOM

[ZDL_800]

Hello,

First I would like to say thankyou for this great game, its brilliant.

Having a few troubles, basically the options setting fonts are all squashed onscreen? I cant see anything because they are all overlapped? We did try to scale the HUD but it doesn't effect the options settings?

Its a bit too dark without a torch of somesort? May I ask is there actually a torch in this game? Something along the lines of the Brutal Hexen RPG mod has a brilliant torch which needs fuel to keep alight, just wondering if there is no torch in this game could it be possible to implement the torch and fuel? You could buy the torch fuel at the shop if needs be without spawning the fuel ingame?

Going through doors ie the first door ingame leading to the cellar lags the game really bad? Seems to autosave everytime you go though a door? is there anyway to disable autosave? I'm sure it would load the next scene much faster.

Thanks again.

[biopharmer]

Holy crap I love this, I've been wanting some sort of way to make new Might and Magic 6/7/8 style games and this would be an awesome way to do it
Are there any huge limitations that might prevent potential 1:1 6/7/8 style games?
I'm excited to see what you do!

[biopharmer]

Going through doors ie the first door ingame leading to the cellar lags the game really bad? Seems to autosave everytime you go though a door? is there anyway to disable autosave? I'm sure it would load the next scene much faster.

I think that's the behavior of the original games. I guess MM6/7/8 just saved a lot faster.

[ZDL_800]

Thanks for the reply.

Is there any way to disable the autosave function on this mod?

Thanks again.

[SamVision]

I am almost certain that autosave thing is a default G/Zdoom feature because it happens in all mods and games that use hubs.

[rayburn]

I guess I'll add to the resources of this topic.
Here's a bash script that automatically renames Might & Magic monster sprites into Doom-compatible names. No sprite flipping required!
In case you ever want to port a lot of Might & Magic creatures into ZDoom. It has minor issues (like it doesn't understand that sprite with only one rotation must have 0 instead of 1 in it's name), but otherwise it works perfectly and already saved me lots of hours of work:

---

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "${2}" ]; then echo "no arguments"; exit; fi


ORIGNAME="${1}" #4 letter mm name
DOOMNAME="${2}" #3 letter doom name, 4th letter will be a number
NAMEINDEX=0 #last letter of the name will be replaced with this number and increment if needed
TARGETDIR=${3:-$(dirname "$0")}
DESTINATION=${4:-$(dirname "$0")}
EXTENSION=".bmp"

#frames will go here
atk=''
death=''
corpse=''
special=''
pain=''
idle=''
walk=''


#FRAMECOUNTER=0


for file in ${TARGETDIR}/${ORIGNAME}*${EXTENSION}
do
oldname=$(basename ${file})
actionletter=${oldname:4:1}
action=${actionletter^^}
case $action in
"A")
action=atk
;;
"D")
action=death
;;
"X")
action=corpse
;;
"F")
action=special
;;
"N")
action=pain
;;
"S")
action=idle
;;
"W")
action=walk
;;
*)
echo "Unknown action ${action}"
;;
esac
seq=${oldname:5:1}
seq=${seq^^}
direction=${oldname:6:1}
newdirection=''
case $direction in
"0")
newdirection="${seq}1"
;;
"1")
newdirection="${seq}8${seq}2"
;;
"2")
newdirection="${seq}7${seq}3"
;;
"3")
newdirection="${seq}6${seq}4"
;;
"4")
newdirection="${seq}5"
;;
*)
echo "Unknown direction ${direction}"
;;
esac

read -r "${action}" <<<"${!action}${seq}" #add seqeunce letter to the list

newname=${DOOMNAME}${actionletter^^}${newdirection}
cp ${TARGETDIR}/${oldname} ${DESTINATION}/${newname}${EXTENSION}
done

echo "//${DOOMNAME}A $(echo -n ${atk}| tr -s 'A-z') atk"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}D $(echo -n ${death}| tr -s 'A-z') death"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}X $(echo -n ${corpse}| tr -s 'A-z') corpse"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}N $(echo -n ${pain}| tr -s 'A-z') pain"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}S $(echo -n ${idle}| tr -s 'A-z') idle"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}W $(echo -n ${walk}| tr -s 'A-z') walk"
echo "//${DOOMNAME}F $(echo -n ${special}| tr -s 'A-z') special"

Input for script would look like:

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./script.sh m538 XYZ

Where m538 is name of sprite in MM and XYZ is three-letter name you want assigned to said sprite in ZDoom (fourth letter reserved for animation type). You can also specify targetdir and destination.

And output will conveniently look like this:

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//DVLA ABCDEFGH atk
//DVLD ABCD death
//DVLX A corpse
//DVLN ABCDE pain
//DVLS A idle
//DVLW ABCDEFGH walk
//DVLF ABCDE special

Additionally, I'm working on Might & Magic monster replacer atm. It will have it's own thread in time.