Faspons [JULY 20 2023] - Now Monster Pack Compatible!

[faslrn]

Hey faslrn, I stumbled upon this thing, which makes spent Casings and Magazines to disappear in water. Really like it that way, because casings and magazines staying on water really grinds my gears. But it doesn't affect Gore. Think something can be done on your side so that Gore would be affected too?

Think that is something I could add!

[Agitatio]

Have to say faslrn, every time I try to find some new gameplay mods that I'll enjoy and every time I fail and end up coming back to Faspons. It's just so damn good. Maybe some day I'll find time and force my lazy ass to learn some Doom modding and can contribute in some way. But right now I have no more than suggestions and questions.

Bugs:

• Snailbullet makes monsters firing silent. Don't know if there's any other issues with it, but there are some errors popping out when it's loaded.

Suggestions:

• Green leg sprite for kick?
• Chainsaw idle sound loop sounds bad.
• Casings should not make a sound on ejection.
• The Pinky XDeath (Animation that plays when actor dies by taking a lot of damage, did I got it right?) is animated too fast. Look up how it looks in Smooth Doom for reference.

Questions:

• Are you using this as a base when editing sprites?
• The reload button doesn't use default reload function of ZDoom. Wondering why? To avoid conflicts with other mods?

[faslrn]

Have to say faslrn, every time I try to find some new gameplay mods that I'll enjoy and every time I fail and end up coming back to Faspons. It's just so damn good. Maybe some day I'll find time and force my lazy ass to learn some Doom modding and can contribute in some way. But right now I have no more than suggestions and questions.

Bugs:

• Snailbullet makes monsters firing silent. Don't know if there's any other issues with it, but there are some errors popping out when it's loaded.

Suggestions:

• Green leg sprite for kick?
• Chainsaw idle sound loop sounds bad.
• Casings should not make a sound on ejection.
• The Pinky XDeath (Animation that plays when actor dies by taking a lot of damage, did I got it right?) is animated too fast. Look up how it looks in Smooth Doom for reference.

Questions:

• Are you using this as a base when editing sprites?
• The reload button doesn't use default reload function of ZDoom. Wondering why? To avoid conflicts with other mods?

Thanks for the feedback and kind words, it really means a lot to me.

Bugs:

• Snailbullet makes monsters firing silent. Don't know if there's any other issues with it, but there are some errors popping out when it's loaded.

It might be a tad out of date. I can patch it up.

Suggestions:

• Green leg sprite for kick?

Green legs? Totally. Was trying to find a way to make the legs coloured depending on what skin you chose. I think I came to the conclusion it was impossible but I can do green!

[*]Chainsaw idle sound loop sounds bad.

Agreed. I've been working with Somagu to clean up some of the sounds, either by replacing them or tweaking them. This is on the list.

[*]Casings should not make a sound on ejection.

Makes sense. I'll fix this.

[*]The Pinky XDeath (Animation that plays when actor dies by taking a lot of damage, did I got it right?) is animated too fast. Look up how it looks in Smooth Doom for reference.[/list]

You got it right and I can tweak the timings.

Questions:

• Are you using this as a base when editing sprites?

Negative. If I need to make a specific animation (like the double barrel cut-in-half kill on the zombies), I typically find a animation that has a nice falling over base and tweak it in photoshop. Sometimes I want to get a very specific sprite and I typically find whatever I can as a base and mod it (as long as people want it to be modded).

[*]The reload button doesn't use default reload function of ZDoom. Wondering why? To avoid conflicts with other mods?[/list]

I think the reasoning behind this was that since I used Weapons of Saturn as a base, I stuck with however certain controls were implemented. There may be a deeper reason but I can't remember. However, I am currently going through and cleaning up the code to either remove stuff that is useless, can be streamlined, or in the possible case of reloading - redundant when there are already features that take care of this functionality.

[Agitatio]

Bugs:

• Snailbullet makes monsters firing silent. Don't know if there's any other issues with it, but there are some errors popping out when it's loaded.

It might be a tad out of date. I can patch it up.

Think maybe it could become a part Faspons? Hitscans kinda suck.

Have another suggestion. When you take out the shotgun you make a pump. Kinda cool to see and hear that every time you take it out, but doesn't makes sense. Pumping it like that would just release and unspent shell. Yeah, I know that not everything have to be realistic or authentic, especially in Doom. But considering other small details you have in Faspons (like +1 on non empty reloads, different animations for empty reloads and mag drop only on empty reloads) I think it's a reasonable suggestion. Maybe make it do safety unlock sound just like the rifle, but a bit different?

P.S. No need to add linebreaks before and after quotes. It'll look fine and save space.

Edit: How about replacing Medkit icon on the HUD with a Berserk icon when you pick up Berserk, instead of writing BSRK?
Edit(2): Made some tweaks to health and armor numbers in SBARINFO. Red(0-25), Yellow(26-50), Green(51-100), Blue(101+).
Thinking about tweaking HUD from time to time. Maybe finding some place for a Mugshot and doing same coloring to ammo. What do you think? Maybe I should just send you edited SBARINFO when I have more stuff done, instead of posting bits every time I change something?
Edit(3): I'll just send you PK3 with tweaked SBARINFO when I'm done and you'll decide what to do with it.

[faslrn]

Bugs:

• Snailbullet makes monsters firing silent. Don't know if there's any other issues with it, but there are some errors popping out when it's loaded.

It might be a tad out of date. I can patch it up.

Think maybe it could become a part Faspons? Hitscans kinda suck.

Have another suggestion. When you take out the shotgun you make a pump. Kinda cool to see and hear that every time you take it out, but doesn't makes sense. Pumping it like that would just release and unspent shell. Yeah, I know that not everything have to be realistic or authentic, especially in Doom. But considering other small details you have in Faspons (like +1 on non empty reloads, different animations for empty reloads and mag drop only on empty reloads) I think it's a reasonable suggestion. Maybe make it do safety unlock sound just like the rifle, but a bit different?

P.S. No need to add linebreaks before and after quotes. It'll look fine and save space.

Edit: How about replacing Medkit icon on the HUD with a Berserk icon when you pick up Berserk, instead of writing BSRK?
Edit(2): Made some tweaks to health and armor numbers in SBARINFO. Red(0-25), Yellow(26-50), Green(51-100), Blue(101+).
Thinking about tweaking HUD from time to time. Maybe finding some place for a Mugshot and doing same coloring to ammo. What do you think? Maybe I should just send you edited SBARINFO when I have more stuff done, instead of posting bits every time I change something?
Edit(3): I'll just send you PK3 with tweaked SBARINFO when I'm done and you'll decide what to do with it.

The shotgun pump was added to flair up the raise animation as I had some previous ideas but they turned out... terrible. BUT, now that some time has passed and I've learned a few things, I actually have a few other spicy weapon raise ideas in mind. I'll try a few out to see if I can make them look good.

Thanks for the help with the hud as well. I'll take a look at it once you send it over!

[Agitatio]

Thanks for the help with the hud as well. I'll take a look at it once you send it over!

Here's the changelog. I'll update it as I go. Here's a preview of what I currently have:

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I have more plans like having a mugshot on Fullscreen HUD, adding grenade counter to Status Bar, moving Adrenaline Bar on Status Bar behind mugshot (inspired by FINAL DOOMER BFG Ammo Bar) and etc.

[faslrn]

Thanks for the help with the hud as well. I'll take a look at it once you send it over!

Here's the changelog. I'll update it as I go. Here's a preview of what I currently have:

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FasHUD.png

I have more plans like having a mugshot on Fullscreen HUD, adding grenade counter to Status Bar, moving Adrenaline Bar on Status Bar behind mugshot (inspired by FINAL DOOMER BFG Ammo Bar) and etc.

That looks really nice! Keep on going!

[Agitatio]

That looks really nice! Keep on going!

New Riot Gun animation is rad man! Maybe tweak some timings, but otherwise really good. Think SSG needs a new one too. Kinda weird how you fold it every time when you take it out. Maybe make it look like you take it out form your left. Animation would look like a reload but in reverse and without reloading part.

[faslrn]

That looks really nice! Keep on going!

New Riot Gun animation is rad man! Maybe tweak some timings, but otherwise really good. Think SSG needs a new one too. Kinda weird how you fold it every time when you take it out. Maybe make it look like you take it out form your left. Animation would look like a reload but in reverse and without reloading part.

Which riotgun animation? The reverse deselect or the one where he swings the gun from the right to left? I am pushing a few changes to fix bugs.

[Agitatio]

Which riotgun animation? The reverse deselect or the one where he swings the gun from the right to left? I am pushing a few changes to fix bugs.

The new one. Select animation. Where he pulls it out and grabs a pump.

[faslrn]

Which riotgun animation? The reverse deselect or the one where he swings the gun from the right to left? I am pushing a few changes to fix bugs.

The new one. Select animation. Where he pulls it out and grabs a pump.

Ah okay. I've been tweaking it a fair bit and pushed another change for the animation (which is just the reverse of the deselect now) but that is because I felt the animation you were talking about felt a bit unfinished. I will tweak the heck out of this and try to get it Stg. Shivers smooth.

[Agitatio]

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[faslrn]

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I would of never thought to put the bar behind the mugshot. That's a great idea, seems so obvious now that you did it!

[Agitatio]

I was thinking about Minigun reload. Maybe make it act like every other weapon? If you try to fire while it's empty and you have NATO ammo, it reloads itself? Thought about it after wasting hours on trying to make that damned reload hint look good.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

I do not exactly know when you changed most weapon sprites, but i dig this A FUCKING LOT. The RL wasn't a surprise since i saw it on BDJ, but that SSG and that Chaingun... God.

I love this mod. Thanks a bunch.