ZDoom

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:16 am**

Smooth Doom is a spriting project/general enhacement that adds newly drawn frames to all of DOOM's weapons and actors. What does this mean? Well, the game's pixel art will look much more lush and slick, like a Metal Slug game, or Earthworm Jim, or any game you like that has really elaborate sprite animation. Imagine Perkristian's smooth weapon mod, but applied to the whole of DOOM.

The goal is to continually sharpen the visuals in this way without altering any of the gameplay (save for some optional mutators). Since cross-mod compatibility is kind of a nightmare, I've decided to make Smooth Doom as much of a general enhancement one-stop shop as possible, with snazzy (totally optional) effects including casings, particle effects, and a custom gore system, to name just a few!

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1:1 vanilla faithfulness is the mission statement, but small incongruities do crawl through from time to time. I try to get on these as quickly as possible, but if you do notice anything, be sure to let me know!
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This mod is developed for GZdoom (make sure to use the latest version!), and will not work with other ports such as Zandronum. Cross-port compatibility isn't planned at this time.
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The extra options/goodies are available through the in-game options menu; people often think they're in a separate archive, but they're actually all in the main file! Just press ESC and everything will be in the options menu!

Changelog

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April 14
-Fixed BFG infinite ammo bug
-fixed shotgun muzzle flash BRIGHT tags
-Chaingunner walk cycle redone from scratch
-fixed Cacodemon death bug (Thanks acridAxid!)

June 15
-fixed black pistol always firing casings
-fixed cacodemons always firing fast projectiles
-fixed pinkies not biting fast with -fast tag on
-further tweaked recoil values, cleaned up recoil code
-plasmaball wall decal changed from "impball scorch" back to original
-improved Doom64 Shotgun animation (Thanks, Almonds!)
-reinstated kickback for the Doom64 SSG, as it is in the real port (Also Almonds!)

June 6
-fixed zombieman not dropping rifle when gibbed
-fixed chainsaw/SSG gib options conflicting with each other
-much improved light goggles animation
-smooth Doom no longer replaces keys
-fixed issue with Doom64 shotgun showing PC muzzle flash
-fixed erroneous frame in black SSG firing animation

June 2
-fixed zombiemen dropping two clips
-caco gore now makes bouncy sounds
-fixed cacodemon blood color
-fixed bugged chaingunguy firing

June 1
-better color translation for green gore
-reworked shotgun animation for accurate ticrate and better audio sync
-fixed shotgun decal error
-fixed "monster rebalancer" breaking the pinkies in -fast mode
-fixed wacky zombieman collision bug
-smooth doom no longer replaces STBAR
-fixed black glove SSG having weird frames on recoil
-lowered volume of casings

May 16
-New animations for the following items:
*green armor
*blue armor
*soulsphere
*Arachnotron ball

-"fast pinky" mutator has now morphed into broader "monster rebalance" mutator; this is toggleable mid-game and no longer requires level restart. This mutator changes the following:
*pinkies move faster
*barons of hell now exhibit "Lord of Heresy" attack behavior
*lost soul health reduced by about 30%
*many monster projectiles move slightly faster
*pain elementals explode on death

-total redo of Baron walk animation
-slightly tweaked Pistol animation
-finished shotgunguy walk rotations
-further improvements to particle system
-most particle and gore effects have now been grouped under their own respective toggle switches, to consolidate the features in the options menu and make it easier for users to disable non-vanilla stuff they don't like
-further improvements to gore effects
-fixed bizarre zombieman physics bug
-fixed plasma impact being messed up by particle toggle
-fixed small discrepancy in Pinky pain ticrate
-fixed the black glove shotgun cutting off on certain HUD setups (thanks, Sgt Nate!)
-fixed longstanding issue of baron/knight attack animation being out of sync with their projectile (attack animation still needs second pass)
-lowered intensity of most screen rumble effects
-more accurate Baron/Knight blood color
-removed arachnotron alt death because it looked silly and bad
-removed Duke-style explosions (sorry!)
-added option for chainsaw to gib enemies

April 12
-disabled monster variant skins for now
-added more gore variation (all optional)
-zombieman Rifle mutator now works through a death-state DECORATE check and no longer requires a level restart to change
-fixed "glove toggle" plasmagun error
-fixed "glove toggle" super shotgun error
-fixed super shotgun not properly displaying black gloves when idling
-fixed cacodemon gibs having some red blood
-fixed shotgunguy dynamic lights
-fixed 64 pistol displaying PC sprites when bobbing
-fixed shotgun firing rate deviating from vanilla
-fixed SSG firing rate deviating from vanilla
-improved cacodemon attack animation
-improved BFG firing animation/recoil
-improved Rifle sprites
-spider mastermind now has BRIGHT state when firing

January 13
-invincible spectre bug should be fixed
-gore is very slightly gorier
-statusbar is more widescreen friendly
-The full Doom64 weapon skinset is now back in improved form!
-glove colors are temporarily disabled while I get sprites together/clean up code
-rather than maintaining a "monsters only" version (which was poorly maintained anyway), I've clearly commented the DECORATE master file to easily allow people to enable/disable whichever parts of the mod they want

October 17
fixes:
-black-gloved pistol now plays the new animation
-fixed wonky physics on blue/green blood
-fixed several issues in monsters-only version

changes:
-disabled zombieman "jawless" variant because it looks silly
-the "kill all" function no longer spawns monster gibs for performance reasons

October 12
fixes:
-fixed spectre not being gibbed by the SSG

changes:
-added proper pickup message to the Rifle
-changed options menu to "addmenuoption" format

October 10
fixes:
-fixed "64muzzeflash" warning messages
-chainsaw can now properly display black gloves
-rifle can now properly display smooth bobbing effect

changes:
-temporarily disabled weapon skins while I fix up the code and make better sprites (glove color is still an option)
-much improved pistol firing animation
-changed brass knuckles back to classic gloveless sprites
-tweaked chaingunner death 2
-changed chaingunner alt skin from "bone face" to "helmet" (edit from captainj sprites)
-significantly lowered the velocity of casings
-significantly lowered the volume of casing sounds
-gib velocity is now randomized

January 21
-fixed error messages from bad jumpstates in blue/green blood
-fixed error messages from bad jumpstates in BFGflash
-improved alignment on Doom64 flashes
-fixed Rocket Launcher not having 64flash option

January 18
-added option to change muzzleflash style (option created by Almonds!)
-added toggle option for gib effects
-added extra giblet sprites (made by SidDoyle!)
-fixed weird ticrates in black-glove plasma rifle
-fixed Doom64 supershotgun firing slower under certain configurations
-fixed Doom64 supershotgun having some bad state jumps

January 15
-fixed SSG sound not playing in bobstate
-arachnotron plasma now has "sparkly" option

December 3
-new zombieman death animation
-new rifle pickup sprite by Rifle Marine
-blue bloodspots now disappear in water
-undid recent tweak which caused bloodsplat toggle to remove the xblood actor
-fixed glitchy smooth bobbing on chaingun
-fixed 64 SSG sometimes erroneously having black gloves
-megasphere can now cast dynamic light

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 3:35 am**

say hello to new world, mr. thread of victorious future! and again, i'd like to see the mancubus and arachnotron's normal 'n smooth death animations too!

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:17 am**

Very interesting. Really liking the imp death animations! Definitely following this.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 6:51 am**

I'll have to take a look at this. It looked very cool.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 2:16 pm**

I really love all of the changes (excluding the gore bits), everything feels really nice and still feels like good old Doom at its core. I really hope to see more additions. Keep up the nice work!

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 4:55 pm**

I think the flesh popping off the Chaingunner needs to fly off the body faster, even if it means "altering" the animation even more. (Then again, I always disliked the Chaingunner death.)

Also, are you using the sprites from the Sprite Fixing Project as a basis?

EDIT: Took a peek under the hood at the errors.

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Tried to register class 'PerkPistol' more than once.
Tried to register class 'PerkShotgun' more than once.
Tried to register class 'PerkSuperShotgun' more than once.

I don't understand why you're getting these errors. Are you actually loading the Perk smooth weapons file alongside this? Why?

Spoiler:
Spawn ID 85 refers to hidden class type 'BlueCard'
Editor number 5 refers to hidden class type 'BlueCard'
Spawn ID 87 refers to hidden class type 'YellowCard'
Editor number 6 refers to hidden class type 'YellowCard'
Spawn ID 86 refers to hidden class type 'RedCard'
Editor number 13 refers to hidden class type 'RedCard'

Here's why. Here's your code:

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ACTOR RedCard : DoomKey 13 { Game Doom SpawnID 86 Inventory.PickupMessage "$GOTREDCARD" Inventory.Icon "STKEYS2" States { Spawn: RDCK abcdefgh 4 Bright Loop } }

The reason the error is happening is, these need to replace the originals, and they need to be named differently. NewRedCard should suffice, or whatever you want.

Also, it's important to note that as-is, it doesn't work with The Ultimate Doom. Someone really needs to make a "Doom 1/2 compatibility pack" mod...

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:19 pm**

It hadn't even occurred to me to use the sprite fixing project as a base. I certainly try to fix any weirdness where I see it, but I guess that's redundant if someone's already done it for me.

The thing with the chaingunner animation is that the flying gibs are actually supposed to be flung backwards, so they stay in the air a little longer than would seem obvious. I know what you mean, though, for the longest time I thought they were supposed to be flying to the left and it looked weird.

@script errors:
I had tried renaming the cards, but what seems to happen is the name change severs their connection to the appropriate doors, and they cease to open anything.

The perkweapon redundancy just made me slap my face. I had perkweapons in my autoload, then I was running this mod on top of that. SIGH.

Ultimate Doom compatibility has been weird since the beginning. I figured out that the revenant/chaingunner sprites don't play nice for some reason; if you just delete their sprite folders it's all good. I'd just post up a version without them, but I'm holding onto this idea that there should be a simple way to make it work without deleting anything.

Posted: **Tue Mar 25, 2014 10:46 pm**

The reason it doesn't work is you have partial sprites for them. Ultimate Doom doesn't have those sprites but ZDoom doesn't care about that (it basically treats Doom 1 & 2 as the same game) so it spits out an error because it goes, "Hey, there's some Chaingunner sprites here but not all of them, and there totally should be."

The easy fix is to, of course, just include all the Chaingunner anims that you don't have in the mod. This is a messy solution and breaks a few generally accepted "rules" about how you're "supposed" to do things in a mod (although Xaser's 5th Episode had the Mancubus and Revenants in Doom 1 verbatim). Mind you, if/when you get around to doing a Smooth Animated Chaingunner, the problem will disappear.

Most of the Sprite Fixing Project is stuff like fixing offsets for monsters (a lot of them seem to have been automatically generated; makes a lot of sense but doesn't exactly make them look as good as they could be) but also there's some minor stuff like, for example, Baron and HellKnight hooves change colour from frame to frame sometimes. I'm not sure if the error is present in your versions.

I dealt with some of the key problems you're mentioning when I made a small personal mod to replace the skull keys with some rune keys from Quake. (I'm doing a side project with Quake bullshit.) I wanted to keep map compatibility, just replace the skull keys with the other keys, but I wanted to redefine them instead of just replacing the sprites.

The solution you're looking for is in a lump that you wouldn't otherwise normally touch called LOCKDEFS. Check the Wiki:
http://zdoom.org/wiki/LOCKDEFS

My solution was simply to use ClearLocks at the start of my LOCKDEFS file and then basically redo the original Doom lock defs with slight differences.

So for example, here's the default RedCard lockdef:

Code: Select all • Expand view: Lock 1 Doom { RedCard Message "$PD_REDC" RemoteMessage "$PD_REDCO" Mapcolor 255 0 0 }

All you need to do is, after using ClearLocks, define this new lock:

Code: Select all • Expand view: Lock 1 Doom { NewRedCard Message "$PD_REDC" RemoteMessage "$PD_REDCO" Mapcolor 255 0 0 }

The Doom locks are already tied to the numbers ("Lock 1" etc.) so by re-defining them with your new actors (NewRedCard) it'll work perfectly with almost all existing maps. (The only ones it'll conflict with are, for example, ZDoom levels with their own LockDefs lumps. But that's a given, isn't it?)

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:45 am**

While I like the concept of higher quality animations for doom, the approach you are taking for the enemy sprites is just detrimental to the feel of them. For instance regarding the baron and chaingunner animations in the OP: they suddenly have no weight to them. The chaingunner gibs are just floating down, at a constant speed seemingly unaffected by gravity (the original has this problem, too, but it is disguised somewhat by the lack of frames) and the baron swing is completely unnatural.

It just takes some thought put into how the movement would actually work: quick movements should be over a short amount of frames, long movements over more frames. The natural instinct is just to add in frames between all the others, but your time would be better spent on specific areas of the animation, and using timings to improve snappiness and weight.

The animator's survival kit would be a super valuable read for anyone contributing to this project, it explains all these things I'm trying to so much better.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:11 am**

Ok, why does this not work with Ultimate Doom.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:12 am**

read what Onslaught Six said before, please.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:27 am**

Ok I don't understand what he's saying. So let someone else sort it out

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:38 am**

sdk2k9 wrote:Ok I don't understand what he's saying. So let someone else sort it out

Basically the Chaingunner sprites are incomplete. So in doom2 it doesn't matter since the frames can be found in the IWAD. However UDoom doesn't have them.
Thus, i suggest opening the mod with SLADE or somesuch, comment out the chaingunner definition (and the other doom 2 enemies), and save it as a separate wad. Then load this instead of the base mod when you play Ultimate instead of 2.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:49 am**

terranova wrote:
sdk2k9 wrote:Ok I don't understand what he's saying. So let someone else sort it out

Basically the Chaingunner sprites are incomplete. So in doom2 it doesn't matter since the frames can be found in the IWAD. However UDoom doesn't have them.
Thus, i suggest opening the mod with SLADE or somesuch, comment out the chaingunner definition (and the other doom 2 enemies), and save it as a separate wad. Then load this instead of the base mod when you play Ultimate instead of 2.

Right I got it working. What I did was open the mod up with 7zip (You can also open it with WinRaR) and deleted all the stuff that had anything to do with the Doom 2 enemies. I could upload it for other people having trouble.

Posted: **Wed Mar 26, 2014 10:03 am**

Ok new problem. What the hell happened here? I was playing Ultimate Doom, when I saw this.

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