Led's Generic Weapon Mod (UPDATED! April 2 2023)

[LedIris]

Video by tuin

Downloads!

Requires the latest GZDoom or LZDoom!

Led's Generic Weapon Mod Updated 2nd April, 2023

Addons! Load these alongside the mod for some new additions!

Voxels pack Replace item sprites with community-made voxels by Voxelbro & Dr_Cosmobyte
Bloody Chainsaw by Neccronixis
Weapons of Saturn Super Shotgun by Fireseth

What is this?

This is a simple gameplay mod consisting of new weapons and optional quality of life changes to vanilla items. All weapons have been overhauled and replaced with more satisfying and powerful counterparts whilst still retaining a strong balance in the game. Every weapon has its use!

I started off by combining code from mods like Faspons and Weapons of Saturn, as well as some code from Patriot1776, faslrn and wildweasel. I've hopefully made something enjoyable for everyone.

Features?

• New weapons, with added punch, casings & smoke
• Extensive options menu to customise many aspects of the mod
• Reloading can be enabled/disabled on the fly!
• Adjustable pickup flashes - picking up important items could actually feel good!

What's new?

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• Unused files removed
• Weapon base has been rewritten in ZScript. This won't affect gameplay and is mostly under the hood (e.g. weapon fire is now called with A_FireLedPistol, A_FireLedShotgun, etc...)
Version 4.6.1 is used to keep LZDoom compat
• Renamed "Pickup Flash Options" to "Item Options"
• Added a ZScript event handler which controls the spawning of vanilla/modified items. This can be customised! You can find these new options in the Items Options menu in Visuals & Performance settings
As an example, if you set Spawn Modified Keys to No, it will spawn vanilla keys instead. Handy for multiplayer
• Individual shell and split medikit systems have been reworked. They always spawn on the ground instead of flying up in the air for a bit
• The delay before quick-punching has been decreased by 1 tic
• BFG will refuse to reload unless you have at least 40 cells
• The color of the Plasma Rifle's altfire has been modified to better resemble the flash
• Buffed Plasma Rifle's altfire damage a bit
• Plasma Rifle's altfire will reload if you have less than 20 shots left
• Plasma Rifle's cooldown sequence after firing can be interrupted by either Quick Punching or switching weapons
• Added a 3 round burst altfire to the Pistol. Spray 3 rounds in quick succession with reduced accuracy
• Rifle and Shotgun have a slightly more powerful firing sound when aiming down sight
• Casing height has been adjusted to better suit default FOV
• Shotgun's pump sound has been split up into pumpback and pumpforward
• Updated Plasma Rifle's firing flash sprite. The sprite was missing some details that were lit up on the brightmap
• Modified Minigun's pickup sprite and voxel, they now both have ammo belts instead of looking empty! You now drop the old Minigun sprite if you die with no Minigun ammo
• Added a menu option which allows the Chainsaw to be automatically turned on when selected
Note that this does alert monsters, but not until the weapon has reached its idle state, so you have some leeway when flicking through weapons
• Added a menu option which allows you to enable/disable the zoom-out effects when firing weapons
• Added a menu option which allows you to turn off the Plasma Rifle's charging sequence when using its altfire
20% damage is lost when enabling this option
• Added a menu option which allows you to adjust the volume of the armor damage sound effect if enabled. It is adjusted in increments of 0.05 with a minimum of 0.00 and a maximum of 1.00. Default is 0.30
• 9mmAmmo has been renamed to PistolAmmo for compat reasons
• Experimental options menu has been removed and the first person death animation has been moved to Weapon & Gameplay settings in the Mod Options
• Fixed a bug where picking up a fresh RadSuit before it was about to expire would not restore protection
• Aim punch will now only take effect when damaged by hitscan/projectiles. It no longer occurs when being damaged by damaging floors
In addition, armor sparks and sound effects are no longer produced by damaging floors or drowning
• Removed voxels from the main file. These are now an addon which you can load seperately
This means the Enable Voxels option has been removed

Credits from WoS:
" SPRITES: Tormentor667, Mike12, perkristian, JoeyTD, CaptainJ, SgtMarkIV

CODE: wildweasel, Ed the Bat, Patriot1776, LedIris, faslrn

Resources have also been taken and modified from the following wads, mods and games:

Beautiful Doom by zer0
Brutal Doom by Sergeant_Mark_IV
Demon Eclipse by Eriance
Accessories to Murder by wildweasel and DoomNukem
Weasel Presents: NAZIS v2 by wildweasel
DOOMRL Arsenal by Yholl, SoloSpaghetti and Sgt. Shivers
Killing Floor by Tripwire Interactive
Return To Castle Wolfenstein by Gray Matter Interactive
Doom 3 by id Software"

Lippeth - Weapons of Saturn. Permission granted to use resources. (thank you, dude)
Faslrn - Feedback, testing and code. (with permissions. Big thanks to him for the testing and support of the mod )
Captain J - Sprites, testing & feedback (big thanks to J! )
Dr_Cosmobyte - Voxels, testing & feedback
Minigunner, David G, Perkristian - fist sprites
Voxelbro - Voxels
Magmacow - Dumpster fire vol I and II (under the stance "go ahead just give credit")
Raven Software - Soldier Of Fortune II, Heretic/Hexen (sound effects)
2015, Inc - Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (sound effects)
Valve - Half-Life 2 (sound effects)

If I've missed any credits please let me know.

[LedIris]

Updated! I've replaced the chaingun with an assault rifle, still need to try balancing it a bit. Right now, it has a high rate of fire & damage at close range, with a lot of horizontal recoil & not very good damage at long range. It has great accuracy if fired in single shots. I would like to try finding beefier sounds for it, but I think they're fine at the moment.

[faslrn]

Updated! I've replaced the chaingun with an assault rifle, still need to try balancing it a bit. Right now, it has a high rate of fire & damage at close range, with a lot of horizontal recoil & not very good damage at long range. It has great accuracy if fired in single shots. I would like to try finding beefier sounds for it, but I think they're fine at the moment.

What are your plans for the others weapons ATM?

[LedIris]

Updated! I've replaced the chaingun with an assault rifle, still need to try balancing it a bit. Right now, it has a high rate of fire & damage at close range, with a lot of horizontal recoil & not very good damage at long range. It has great accuracy if fired in single shots. I would like to try finding beefier sounds for it, but I think they're fine at the moment.

What are your plans for the others weapons ATM?

I still haven't quite thought that out. I was thinking of replacing them with WoS weapons, but made more satisfying and more fun to use, kind of like how you did with Faspons. Another idea is to replace them with smooth vanilla-like weapons. The way I'm making this is really unprofessional and sloppy, but I've been testing out different weapons and seeing how they fit with the aesthetics of the other weapons. I wanted to get the weapons that are already in at a stage where they are balanced, but fun to use, and fit for different purposes.

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

Looks great so far! The individual shell system is marvelous! The sounds are great as well. Have you ever played Crossfire? Is a Counter Strike copy that has many cool weapons and sounds. I suggest you take a look. I have them, but not in a good quality.

Pickup flashes are a reliever! I wasn't used to them.

Loved the MOH sounds! And all the other ones actually.

I'm waiting for updates! Keep up the good work!

[LedIris]

Looks great so far! The individual shell system is marvelous! The sounds are great as well. Have you ever played Crossfire? Is a Counter Strike copy that has many cool weapons and sounds. I suggest you take a look. I have them, but not in a good quality.

Pickup flashes are a reliever! I wasn't used to them.

Loved the MOH sounds! And all the other ones actually.

I'm waiting for updates! Keep up the good work!

Hey! Glad you liked! The individual shell system still needs tweaking, and it was actually really easy to code I've played Crossfire before, some sounds in it are very cool. Pickup flashes are a cool, very subtle effect IMO, and I think looks quite nice.

[faslrn]

Updated! I've replaced the chaingun with an assault rifle, still need to try balancing it a bit. Right now, it has a high rate of fire & damage at close range, with a lot of horizontal recoil & not very good damage at long range. It has great accuracy if fired in single shots. I would like to try finding beefier sounds for it, but I think they're fine at the moment.

What are your plans for the others weapons ATM?

I still haven't quite thought that out. I was thinking of replacing them with WoS weapons, but made more satisfying and more fun to use, kind of like how you did with Faspons. Another idea is to replace them with smooth vanilla-like weapons. The way I'm making this is really unprofessional and sloppy, but I've been testing out different weapons and seeing how they fit with the aesthetics of the other weapons. I wanted to get the weapons that are already in at a stage where they are balanced, but fun to use, and fit for different purposes.

Don't worry about the sloppiness Let me know what you think of for each other weapons, would love to see what will do with them

Looks great so far! The individual shell system is marvelous! The sounds are great as well. Have you ever played Crossfire? Is a Counter Strike copy that has many cool weapons and sounds. I suggest you take a look. I have them, but not in a good quality.

Pickup flashes are a reliever! I wasn't used to them.

Loved the MOH sounds! And all the other ones actually.

I'm waiting for updates! Keep up the good work!

Hey! Glad you liked! The individual shell system still needs tweaking, and it was actually really easy to code I've played Crossfire before, some sounds in it are very cool. Pickup flashes are a cool, very subtle effect IMO, and I think looks quite nice.

I had a thought about the new shell system: in Faspons, I have it where shotgun guys have the potential to drop a 4-pack of shells and I thought "what if shotgunners here died and spread 4 shells around that you could pick up?". I don't know if would look cool or play out but could be something to tinker with.

[LedIris]

Don't worry about the sloppiness Let me know what you think of for each other weapons, would love to see what will do with them

I had a thought about the new shell system: in Faspons, I have it where shotgun guys have the potential to drop a 4-pack of shells and I thought "what if shotgunners here died and spread 4 shells around that you could pick up?". I don't know if would look cool or play out but could be something to tinker with.

I actually did tinker with that. I made a test shotgunner that dropped the individual shells, and it actually worked pretty well! The shells dropped were randomized, so they all looked different every time, and it looked pretty cool. I don't know if I'll be implementing this in the mod or not, but it was a pretty cool looking effect. I think in the next update I'll replace the SSG, then move on to the Rocket Launcher. I've been testing offset animations to see how they look on WoS weapons, and they look real nice, so I'll be adding them in.

[LedIris]

Updated! I've added the Rocket Launcher in, as well as pickup sounds for the Berserk, Shellbox, Ammobox, Rocket and Rocketbox. The Berserk also has a pickup flash now. I had to remove the offsets that were put on the Rocket Launcher's original reload as they would leave a pixel gap just below the weapon.

[LedIris]

Updated! I've added the Super Shotgun in now. You can single fire it twice with primary fire, or you can fire both shots with a secondary fire. I've tried to make the animation look nice.
How is the balance on the weapons? I would like to know, so I can work on it a bit more.

Hotfix: Fixed the Super Shotgun being picked up with no ammo

[LedIris]

Important update: I fixed the Yellow Skull key (previously when picked up it gave a Blue Skull instead)

[Dr_Cosmobyte]

What i like most is the attention you give to fix errors as fast as you can to bring better material on.

I'll edit this post here soon with feedback!


EDIT: Well, i think it's a good idea to make separate ways. Mainly for compatibility reasons.

Everything fires, feels smooth, and norths the gameplay to a faster rhythm.

There's only one thing. The Rocket Launcher reload calls a sprite that spawns something weird. Just keep looking to the left upper part of the weapon to see what i mean.


Keep up the good work! Now we just need these cell weapons to disintegrate them!

[-Ghost-]

What's different between this and your other gameplay mod? Seems like it'd be easier to merge them together.

[LedIris]

What's different between this and your other gameplay mod? Seems like it'd be easier to merge them together.

The other gameplay mod is a mess - it's code is all over the place, there's a lot of unused content taking up space and I felt like starting again with all of it. As well as this, the fact that it had it's own gore system probably turned off people who are fond of using Ketchup or Droplets. Not everybody likes tracers, either, as they make WADs that use switches activated by gunfire harder. (Fragport is an example) I'd like to make something that appeals to a bigger audience.

With this mod, I have tried to make the code a lot easier to read, as well as accomplishing the same tasks that my other gameplay mod did, only organized a lot better. This mod doesn't have tracers, custom monsters or gore - it's purely a weapon/item mod, so it's more compatible with HUDs, Ketchup and monster replacement mods, things like that.

I've also improved a bit with DECORATE since my other gameplay mod, and I've been attempting to make the weapons feel a bit more satisfying than in the other gameplay mod. (Like getting involved with offsets to make the weapons look much better when firing)

[LedIris]

What i like most is the attention you give to fix errors as fast as you can to bring better material on.

I'll edit this post here soon with feedback!


EDIT: Well, i think it's a good idea to make separate ways. Mainly for compatibility reasons.

Everything fires, feels smooth, and norths the gameplay to a faster rhythm.

There's only one thing. The Rocket Launcher reload calls a sprite that spawns something weird. Just keep looking to the left upper part of the weapon to see what i mean.


Keep up the good work! Now we just need these cell weapons to disintegrate them!

Hey! Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I am trying to improve on vanilla gameplay a bit. The "something weird" is actually supposed to be an empty rocket magazine, kinda like how the Rifle also drops an empty magazine. It looks really strange, might have to try finding new sprites for it.
I have a decent idea for the cell weapons, still not sure on the Chainsaw yet though.

Also, your comment on what you like most made my day.