[WIP]Colourful Hell 0.97ccc (+brown Beta )

[Dewzanity]

If green to purple enemy sprites do become a thing, I'd be quite excited to see everything else. I looked at the picture and immediately nicknamed the Blue Mastermind, "The Blue Pencil Leg Mind".

[Poisoncrab]

@HeadgeCactus
Thanks for the reply. I've mentioned in a previous post that I've been trying out the mod with a weapon pack and I've found that the additional enemies are much more fun to fight so HP nerfs don't concern me as much, although some could still use some tweaks with their abilities. I also like that Blue Spider Demon you've shown off and since we are on the topic of new sprites I've got even more suggestions. I did some quick editing in gimp so the images below might not look perfect, and I didn't even edit the whole sprites, I just wanted to give a basic visual of my suggestions.

The suggestions below are mostly visual, if I do have ideas for behavioral changes than I'll list them along with the image


Sources
All from the realm 667 repository (except for the purple zombie), the Fireblue zombie is from the heretic style


White shotgunner (Zardaz) abilities: I'd keep it's speed and attack patterns similar but replace the exploding shotguns and have him fire fast moving projectiles rather than a hitscan barrage.

sources:
green - yellow, realm667 repository (Doom Style), Cyan, Fireblue & White from realm667 repository (Heretic style)


New abillities:
White Chaingunner (Banshee) - her overall behavior and attack patterns won't differ much from the mad scientist, the minions she summons however will.
Banshee Minions - Night Shade (Imp level flying enemy), Lost Spirit (ghostly enemy that can pass through walls and fire projectiles), Spirit Imp (ghostly imp that fires a homing projectile, upon death they release a docile wondering ghost that can sacrifice itself to resurrect fallen enemies)

Sources - all from the realm667 repository, both Doom & Heretic styles


Blue Imp may not look very blue here. A blue tint will likely need to be added with the partial invisibility effect.

Sources:
All but the nightmare Imp comes from realm667 (Doom Style), the nightmare imp is from Doom 64


Gray demon abilities - The abilities that the stone demon comes with are already pretty good and fit in well with the stone like aesthetic of most of your gray enemies

Sentinel - Overall I think it should function the same way as the robot but have it replaced with a more demonic looking enemy, the guarding cubes will surround the Grand Sentinel rather than tiny spherical robots.

Gargoyle swarm - Meant to as an alternative to the bees, they can still function the same way, just replace the bees with a monster that better fits doom

Sources:
Satyr, Stone Demon - realm667 (Doom Style), Gargoyle - Realm667 (heretic/hexen style)
Blue Pain Elemental - Doom64
Sentinel, guardian cube - Hellforged


sources:
blue caco - hellforged
purple caco - Doom 64


sources:
Purple Rev - Hellforged


sources:
green, arachnophytes, arachnorbs - realm667 (doom style)
Blue spider - Doom 64
Brown spider - Hellforged


White Mancubus abilities: I think it could keep the attacks from the greater incubus as they are already powerful. I suggest adding in the ability for the Inkubus to melt itself into the ground and reform itself elsewhere (hens the name Inkubus). The melting ability could be used to surprise the player or retreat when wounded.

Source:
Blue, cyan, fireblue, and white all come from realm667 (Doom, heretic, and other styles)
Purple, & brown - Hellforged
Green - I got this one from a monster expansion for Brutal Doom, it may have come from project brutality originally but I'm not sure of the exact source.


I wanted to have one for purple but I couldn't find a fitting sprite for it

Sources - realm667 repository (doom style)


In hindsight I feel I could have made the armor on the blue guy pop a bit more

sources:
green & blue - realm667 (heretic/hexen style), Afrite - realm667 (Doom style)


White Baron abilities (Baron of Time): My suggestions for the Baron of time are heavily inspired by the Time Imp from realm667, I suggest testing him out so you can get a feel of what I'm going for with the white baron.
Health: 8000
Basic attacks: much like the barons attacks but faster and more damaging
Slow Time: The Time baron slows down time for everything on the map but him, this lasts for 30 seconds
Stop Time: time is force to freeze entirely, this effects everything on the map but the baron, lasts for 3 seconds. This ability is often used to trap the player so he can be pelted by the baron's fireballs
Time Travel: upon death the barons soul will leave it's body and return after a short time (about 25 seconds?). When in this second phase the Time baron will have double the speed but half the hitpoints.

Sources - all from realm667 (doom style)


Hell mother abilities:
I think the hell mother (white spiderdemon) should be a powerful summoner, spawning large amounts of demons to attack the player, think of her as a miniature and more mobile Icon of Sin. The hell mother prefers to keep her distance and not engage the player directly but if push comes to shove she is very capable of defending herself with powerful projectile attacks. I'd put her health at about 12000

Sources:
purple - Hellforged
Fireblue - Realm667 (doom style)
White - While it's based on the motherdemon from doom64 I used an altered sprite from Brutal Doom


White abilities - I'd keep it's attack patterns similar to the white cyberdemon that's already ingame, although maybe not have it launch itself in the air as that ability may look rather silly with the new sprite.

Sources:
green, purple, fireblue, red - Realm667 (Doom Style)
blue & black - hellforged
white - edited version of Korax from Heretic

[SpacemanStrife]

This is my opinion, but I feel that every new skin should be based on the original sprites, otherwise it will be too difficult to tell which monster belongs to which class. The current bestiary being simple recolors of the vanilla monsters has a certain charm to it, and I'd argue that it's what separates this mod from other monster randomizers, but I wouldn't mind the addition of slight differences in appearance as long as they're readable as the same monster. Think of it as the monster changing outfits and/or upgrading their equipment with each tier.

In fact, if done properly, I think unique skins for each tier can actually make it easier to tell how dangerous a monster is at first glance. My suggestion would be something like this:

- Use the vanilla monster sprites as a base for Green and Blue tier, giving them only minor cosmetic differences such as the Blue Mastermind's new legs. Same goes for the optional tiers (fireblu, cyan, gray, etc) since the colors of these tiers already stand out so much.
- Use the Hell-Forged monster sprites as a base for Purple, Orange and Red tier, again adding only minor differences with each tier upgrade. For extra style points, keep the armor color the same and change only the monsters' skin and eye colors.
- Black and White could have more dramatic differences since they are bosses; If they're the only ones that have unique appearances not resembling any vanilla Doom monsters, then it will be an immediate warning to the player about what they're going to face.

EDIT: Here's a rough concept of what I mean, using the Revenant as an example...



Each tier is easily readable from a distance as a Revenant, and you can see a clear progression in visual appearance so that even without the colors in place, higher tiers look more threatening. If every monster type follows this visual progression, it should preserve the visual consistency that makes Colorful Hell stand out among the crowd.

[Poisoncrab]

This is my opinion, but I feel that every new skin should be based on the original sprites, otherwise it will be too difficult to tell which monster belongs to which class.

- Use the vanilla monster sprites as a base for Green and Blue tier, giving them only minor cosmetic differences such as the Blue Mastermind's new legs. Same goes for the optional tiers (fireblu, cyan, gray, etc) since the colors of these tiers already stand out so much.
- Use the Hell-Forged monster sprites as a base for Purple, Orange and Red tier, again adding only minor differences with each tier upgrade. For extra style points, keep the armor color the same and change only the monsters' skin and eye colors.
- Black and White could have more dramatic differences since they are bosses; If they're the only ones that have unique appearances not resembling any vanilla Doom monsters, then it will be an immediate warning to the player about what they're going to face.

I like your idea of having only small cosmetic changes with Green & Blue then from Purple - red they slowly begin to change their appearance more and more; I was just trying to add as much variety as possible to spice things up more. As for the extra tiers like brown, fireblu etc I think having drastically different designs actually works quite well with them, and the mod is already sort of going in that direction. The optional tiers are separate from the mods basic tier line up and act more as unique encounters and extra challenges so having more variety with their designs seems fitting.

[whatup876]

Don't some CH enemies already have existing sprites like the female zombies and cyber Pinkies?
I guess at least those get to be restricted to some enemies when new sprites come.
I think a possible issue can be the actual names of the spritesets.

[AvzinElkein]

If you're wondering how to make Colorful Hell enemies Guncaster-compatible, take a peek in the code for Mikk's Champions mod.