Realm of the Black Cat - Martin Howe's Offcuts

[CBM]

truly inspired stuff

where would one go to formally release anything these days, be it a single monster, a collection of monsters, a single level, a megawad or whatever the case may be?

[MartinHowe]

Normally the idgames archive at gamers.org. Beware though, that they are much stricter in what is allowed than ModDB and other places. If you are new to this, I suggest asking this question on Doomworld, as it's been a while since I had to do this and there are several other options.

[MartinHowe]

Now you have a way to summon the black cats of Doom!

Each cast of the spell summons between 1 and 3 cats ... but beware:
the godz' asking price for this power is around 4 health points per cat!

[Captain J]

What kind of Black cat Magic is that!!

[MartinHowe]

If Alexa's developers can do it, who am I to argue


The image above is a real screenshot from the Black Cats of Doom mod that I'm working on;
the cats have about 15 sounds that roughly translate into human languages that the 'app' recognises.
Credit to Scuba Steve who pioneered the 'clipboard in hand' weapon trick all those years ago

The article about MeowTalk by Alexa's developers is here (screenshot below).

[MartinHowe]

Bugfix: MaiowSpeak, when translating the Active sound, didn't distinguish between actively hunting enemies
and running around like mad once all the enemies are dead; this is particularly important as real cats often
run around for no (to us) apparent reason until they get bored and sit down. Solved by adding Sound_Scatty
as a SoundID; this has the same sound but is used when all the demons that the cats know about are dead.

[MartinHowe]

The Black Cats of Doom have an improved 'tablet'; apps use overlays so that more than one app can be hosted,
there can be an icon for each app, the players hand appears to press the app toggle or sleep buttons, and
these actions use the corresponding ZDoom menu item sounds so that the player gets meaningful feedback.

[MartinHowe]

Created a project thread as the mod is mature enough for public testing:

[MartinHowe]

Nothing to do with the cats this time, just the lack of authenticity in DOOM2 MAP31 bothering me Use it if you like

The two files can be copied and pasted into text files; best put them in a filter named doom.id.doom2.commercial

MAPINFO

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// Comment for correct icon in Nemo

gameinfo
{
    AddEventHandlers = "M426_DOOM2MAP31_EH"
}

ZSCRIPT

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// Comment for correct icon in Nemo

version "3.7"

Class M426_DOOM2MAP31_EH : EventHandler
{
    private bool destroyMe;

    override void OnRegister()
    {
        destroyMe = false;
    }

    override void WorldTick()
    {
        if (destroyMe)
        {
            if (!bDestroyed)
            {
                Destroy();
            }
        }
    }

    override void CheckReplacement(ReplaceEvent e)
    {
        string checksum = level.GetChecksum();
        if (level.GetChecksum() == "3ff94e27423f91c1585b3396f0c03459") // doom2.wad MAP31
        {
            if (e.Replacee is "Demon")
            {
                e.Replacement = "MBFHelperDog";
            }
        }
    }

    override void WorldLoaded(WorldEvent e)
    {
        destroyMe = true;
    }
}

PS: Did anyone ever tell you I hate stealth monsters

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// Comment for correct icon in Nemo

version "3.7"

Class M426_Personal_EH : EventHandler
{
    override void WorldThingSpawned(WorldEvent e)
    {
        if (e.Thing.bStealth)
        {
            actor thing = e.Thing;
            thing.bStealth = false;
            thing.A_SetRenderStyle(0.5, STYLE_OptFuzzy);
        }
    }
}

[Xim]

Yay, dogs in the Wolf 3D levels! I love it. I was hoping someone would figure out a cool trick like that. Too bad the dogs defeault HP is way higher than the pinkies. Still very cool though. This might open up some potential to some other mods.
It'd be cool to have an add-on to replace the cybie in MAP32 with Hans Grosse too, but that'd require a whole thing since it'd be a new enemy.

[MartinHowe]

Yay, dogs in the Wolf 3D levels! I love it. I was hoping someone would figure out a cool trick like that. Too bad the dogs defeault HP is way higher than the pinkies. Still very cool though. This might open up some potential to some other mods.
It'd be cool to have an add-on to replace the cybie in MAP32 with Hans Grosse too, but that'd require a whole thing since it'd be a new enemy.

Indeed; of course it'd be easy to subclass the dogs with more realistic health and I load it with the old dog sprites in a PWAD; nothing wrong with Nash's dogs per se, they are just not the originals. I understand why the change was made, but disagree with Graf's assessment about them not being a Doom thing nor belonging in zd_extra.pk3 - they are the de facto nazi dogs in Doom since forever (well, since r2wolf mod for Vanilla) and the community has decided that since long before GZDoom existed.