That would be the exact thing I said he can't get away with in such places.DoomRoll wrote:However, I'm curious if he could make the changes and save all the changed resources in a pwad that can be played with the original titles and modify them accordingly. I'd kinda like to see that. Lol
I see. I must not understand... could he not create a patch wad that will simply point to all the necessary places once it's launched with the iwad? Otherwise be useless... Or would the map HAVE to be copied in order to have a place to point to...edward850 wrote:Because a copy of the maps is still a copy of the maps. That is still the part that's copyrighted, even if it's not the entire IWAD. Keep in mind it slides into the "minimum effort quota", in which the theory is in a work you upload, a majority of said work should really be your own. Nothing expressly says this, but it's pretty safe to assume that's why /idgames put the rule in place.
Keep in mind my point here is not that he can't do that (it's not actually against the Doom EULA, as long as it does need the IWAD to run), but rather keep in mind that where he can post such work would be rather... restricted.
It is certainly possible, and has been done in a few mods, but bear in mind that this requires some ACS and Decorate working in concert. The typical method involves replacing the usual weapon pickups with "fake" ones that handle the actual pickup logic (giving the weapon, applicable ammo, and adding a flag that indicates that its slot is full). You can see working examples of such code in my old, somewhat unfinished mod, Magnum Opus, where I've commented some portions of the code to hopefully help you out.DoukDouk wrote:Would it be possible for the player to have a limited inventory? As in only be able to hold a weapon in a certain slot at one time? Like if he were to see a weapon on the ground, he would be required to press E in order to either pick it up or switch it with the weapon that currently takes up that number slot.
Thanks, this fits the bill perfectly.wildweasel wrote:It is certainly possible, and has been done in a few mods, but bear in mind that this requires some ACS and Decorate working in concert. The typical method involves replacing the usual weapon pickups with "fake" ones that handle the actual pickup logic (giving the weapon, applicable ammo, and adding a flag that indicates that its slot is full). You can see working examples of such code in my old, somewhat unfinished mod, Magnum Opus, where I've commented some portions of the code to hopefully help you out.DoukDouk wrote:Would it be possible for the player to have a limited inventory? As in only be able to hold a weapon in a certain slot at one time? Like if he were to see a weapon on the ground, he would be required to press E in order to either pick it up or switch it with the weapon that currently takes up that number slot.
Yeah, I understand all that, I had no intention of releasing something like that for the public since it's prohibited. This is mainly for personal modification and personal use only. I wanted achieve the PSX atmosphere with the original levels mainly because the PSX version takes out so much.edward850 wrote:And there's the critical detail: The original Doom maps aren't in a format that support BEHAVIOR lumps, and thus, no scripts. You need to convert them to one that does.
However, another thing is there are polices around uploading commercial content. There are several places that wont allow you to just upload a bunch of slightly modified Doom IWAD maps (/idgames doesn't allow it at all, I believe the rule here is on a case by case basis).
It would thus seem to me like a better idea to make something original instead.
