[Add-On] DoomKrakken's Monster Randomizer (V4) FINALLY.

[4thcharacter]

Come to think about it, using the power of ZScript it'll be possible to make it mod aware too. I for one have been thinking about a simple addon to D4D that could allow dumping of almost any monster into it such as, for example, any realm667 monsters.

Dude, this is something up my alley. Remember my most recent post in the Project Ideas thread? I had a dillemma involving thinking about the compatibility w/ Realm 667's monsters. Something like this could be really useful. Give me some pointers if this happens, you two!

[DoomKrakken]

Well, if you know, so it's some form of masochism, I suppose, or what? Tried to fix it or that shit likes everyone?

To be honest, I never considered it to be a bug. I just knew that was a thing that always happened in the Doom Engine. If you want it fixed, I don't see how I can fix it, as those explosion trails all spawn the same actor.

I suppose if it really bothers people, I could turn down the volume on the explosion sounds... that'd probably ruin the immersion, though.

[Brohnesorge]

You know, $limit in SNDINFO is a thing. That would fix the issue super easily.

[Spaceman333]

You know, $limit in SNDINFO is a thing. That would fix the issue super easily.

$limit soundname <amount> [limitdistance]

Specifies that at most <amount> instances can be played at once. A value of 0 means no limit at all. Defaults to 2.
limitdistance specifies how far the limit takes effect. It defaults to 256, as in, two sounds further than 256 units apart can be played even if $limit would cause them to be evicted otherwise.

https://zdoom.org/wiki/SNDINFO

Handy.

[Major Cooke]

Dude, this is something up my alley. Remember my most recent post in the Project Ideas thread? I had a dillemma involving thinking about the compatibility w/ Realm 667's monsters. Something like this could be really useful. Give me some pointers if this happens, you two!

Oh don't worry. I'm going to make an example out of Colorful Hell for D4D to show you an idea.

[4thcharacter]

Dude, this is something up my alley. Remember my most recent post in the Project Ideas thread? I had a dillemma involving thinking about the compatibility w/ Realm 667's monsters. Something like this could be really useful. Give me some pointers if this happens, you two!

Oh don't worry. I'm going to make an example out of Colorful Hell for D4D to show you an idea.

Oh, yes, please!

[DoomKrakken]

You know, $limit in SNDINFO is a thing. That would fix the issue super easily.

$limit soundname <amount> [limitdistance]

Specifies that at most <amount> instances can be played at once. A value of 0 means no limit at all. Defaults to 2.
limitdistance specifies how far the limit takes effect. It defaults to 256, as in, two sounds further than 256 units apart can be played even if $limit would cause them to be evicted otherwise.

https://zdoom.org/wiki/SNDINFO

Handy.

Never saw that before... thanks!

Dude, this is something up my alley. Remember my most recent post in the Project Ideas thread? I had a dillemma involving thinking about the compatibility w/ Realm 667's monsters. Something like this could be really useful. Give me some pointers if this happens, you two!

Oh don't worry. I'm going to make an example out of Colorful Hell for D4D to show you an idea.

Oh, yes, please!

Seconded.

[Major Cooke]

Relevant.

It should mostly work. You can try it with your randomizer but know this, the only thing I can balance around right now is monster health.

I intend to resolve this by next installing a check for how much D4DCash the actor has. I'll get that set up for you here soon so you can get that established on your monsters. It'll cover crates and credits along with blacklisting entities that shouldn't have anything D4D-related dropping from them.

[DoomKrakken]

OHOHOHOHOOOO... HELLS YEAH.

Do I need to use the latest alpha/GZDoom to use this? I'm still using GZDoom 2.4 because of issues with sound lag.

[Major Cooke]

You'll know when you try it. Aka idk.

When was the last time you tried D4D?

[DoomKrakken]

Too long. Haven't really kept up with updates. Remember when I was talking to you about the D4D Upgrade Menu over on Discord? The latest version I had was a stable version released some time in November of last year... and at the moment, it still is. XD

[4thcharacter]

Relevant.

It should mostly work. You can try it with your randomizer but know this, the only thing I can balance around right now is monster health.

I intend to resolve this by next installing a check for how much D4DCash the actor has. I'll get that set up for you here soon so you can get that established on your monsters. It'll cover crates and credits along with blacklisting entities that shouldn't have anything D4D-related dropping from them.

Oh, yes. Something like this would be also definitely helpful for some other mods.

[Gideon020]

I forgot if this was asked before, but is this mod compatible with Heretic/Hexen?

[DoomKrakken]

It is not. It did at one point in time have monsters ported straight from Heretic/Hexen, but those are "commented out" of the RandomSpawners, mainly because many of them just didn't fit in the spaces where the monsters that they replaced were located.

[Dutchygamer]

Will the compatibility patch for Guncaster be updated for the new GC release? Currently it crashes if run with GC, failing on the bloodfiend's WeakCorpseblastProjectile. These are the messages I get when trying to run with GZDoom 3.4.1:

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Script warning, "DKMR Guncaster Patch (v4).pk3:decorate/cauterizerzombie.txt" line 60:
Unknown class name 'ThunderBall' of type 'Actor'
Script warning, "DKMR Guncaster Patch (v4).pk3:decorate/cybruiser.txt" line 71:
Unknown class name 'ThunderBall' of type 'Actor'
Script warning, "DKMR Guncaster Patch (v4).pk3:decorate/vulgar.txt" line 345:
Unknown class name 'GumpopItem' of type 'Inventory'
Script error, "DKMR Guncaster Patch (v4).pk3:decorate/bloodfiend.txt" line 367:
State WeakCorpseblastProjectile.2 links to a state with incompatible restrictions.