[minimod][v0.9] 10.5x - enemy number multiplier (+divider)

[m8f]

Spaceman333, thanks!

Also, updates! v0.6 is up. Changes from 0.4:
- compatibility for monster randomizers (duplicate monsters are randomized too!);
- enemies no longer walk through their species when this is not necessary;
- fixed density calculation;
- added enemy health density.

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| Map                          | Density |   Density |
|                              |         | by health |
|------------------------------+---------+-----------|
| E1M1 - Hangar                |   1.000 |     1.000 |
| E1M2 - Nuclear Plant         |   2.724 |     2.644 |
| E1M3 - Toxin Refinery        |   4.517 |     6.822 |
| E1M4 - Command Control       |   2.931 |     5.256 |
| E1M5 - Phobos Lab            |   4.517 |     8.556 |
| E1M6 - Central Processing    |   6.103 |    13.156 |
| E1M7 - Computer Station      |   5.172 |     6.844 |
| E1M8 - Phobos Anomaly        |   1.414 |     7.422 |
| E1M9 - Military Base         |   3.552 |     8.578 |
|------------------------------+---------+-----------|
| E2M1 - Deimos Anomaly        |   1.862 |     4.933 |
| E2M2 - Containment Area      |   3.966 |    10.300 |
| E2M3 - Refinery              |   2.966 |    10.733 |
| E2M4 - Deimos Lab            |   2.759 |    15.767 |
| E2M5 - Command Center        |   4.759 |    18.044 |
| E2M6 - Halls of the Damned   |   4.862 |    20.211 |
| E2M7 - Spawning Vats         |   3.276 |    13.978 |
| E2M8 - Tower of Babel        |   0.724 |     6.667 |
| E2M9 - Fortress of Mystery   |   0.483 |     8.889 |
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| E3M1 - Hell Keep             |   0.897 |     3.367 |
| E3M2 - Slough of Despair     |   2.759 |    11.222 |
| E3M3 - Pandemonium           |   2.448 |     9.967 |
| E3M4 - House of Pain         |   5.552 |    23.933 |
| E3M5 - Unholy Cathedral      |   3.241 |    17.833 |
| E3M6 - Mt. Erebus            |   4.345 |    19.267 |
| E3M7 - Limbo                 |   1.621 |     9.289 |
| E3M8 - Dis                   |   0.138 |     5.333 |
| E3M9 - Warrens               |   3.034 |    20.167 |
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| E4M1 - Hell Beneath          |   2.172 |     9.656 |
| E4M2 - Perfect Hatred        |   3.138 |    31.533 |
| E4M3 - Sever The Wicked      |   5.172 |    17.967 |
| E4M4 - Unruly Evil           |   2.069 |     7.044 |
| E4M5 - They Will Repent      |   3.103 |     8.744 |
| E4M6 - Against Thee Wickedly |   3.586 |    22.778 |
| E4M7 - And Hell Followed     |   3.586 |    16.722 |
| E4M8 - Unto The Cruel        |   4.138 |    24.444 |
| E4M9 - Fear                  |   3.310 |    12.267 |
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| Map                         | Density |   Density |
|                             |         | by health |
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| MAP01 - Entryway            |   0.931 |     1.356 |
| MAP02 - Underhalls          |   3.103 |     3.556 |
| MAP03 - The Gantlet         |   2.690 |     5.167 |
| MAP04 - The Focus           |   1.897 |     3.411 |
| MAP05 - The Waste Tunnels   |   4.276 |     9.533 |
| MAP06 - The Crusher         |   3.931 |    13.833 |
| MAP07 - Dead Simple         |   0.655 |    11.333 |
| MAP08 - Tricks and Traps    |   4.966 |    45.056 |
| MAP09 - The Pit             |   8.207 |    28.300 |
| MAP10 - Refueling Base      |   9.621 |    30.867 |
| MAP11 - 'O' of Destruction! |   2.759 |    15.033 |
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| MAP12 - The Factory         |   3.759 |    22.689 |
| MAP13 - Downtown            |   4.345 |    19.189 |
| MAP14 - The Inmost Dens     |   2.897 |     6.622 |
| MAP15 - Industrial Zone     |   6.103 |    19.511 |
| MAP16 - Suburbs             |   5.552 |    35.133 |
| MAP17 - Tenements           |   4.310 |    17.611 |
| MAP18 - The Courtyard       |   6.138 |    28.044 |
| MAP19 - The Citadel         |   7.172 |    22.811 |
| MAP20 - Gotcha!             |   2.759 |    22.611 |
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| MAP21 - Nirvana             |   4.276 |    14.611 |
| MAP22 - The Catacombs       |   1.931 |     6.589 |
| MAP23 - Barrels O' Fun      |   3.655 |    26.500 |
| MAP24 - The Chasm           |   5.759 |    25.678 |
| MAP25 - Bloodfalls          |   3.586 |     9.478 |
| MAP26 - The Abandoned Mines |   3.483 |    20.789 |
| MAP27 - Monster Condo       |   5.862 |    42.333 |
| MAP28 - The Spirit World    |   4.241 |    37.467 |
| MAP29 - The Living End      |   3.690 |    27.922 |
| MAP30 - Icon of Sin         |   0.034 |     0.333 |
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| MAP31 - Wolfenstein         |   5.138 |    10.611 |
| MAP32 - Grosse              |   1.138 |     6.444 |
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| Map                          | Density |   Density |
|                              |         | by health |
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| C1M1 - Outer Prison          |   1.241 |     2.556 |
| C1M2 - Communications Center |   3.655 |     7.867 |
| C1M3 - Waste Disposal        |   5.069 |     7.800 |
| C1M4 - Supply Depot          |   5.655 |     8.822 |
| C1M5 - Main Control          |   7.379 |    11.578 |
| C1M6 - Training Facility     |   9.448 |    17.600 |
| C1M7 - Transportation Bay    |   9.828 |    24.056 |
| C1M8 - Outpost Quarry        |   0.138 |     4.444 |
| C1M9 - Armory                |   5.069 |     8.089 |
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| C2M1 - Ruins                 |   2.862 |     7.322 |
| C2M2 - Power Plant           |   4.414 |    11.233 |
| C2M3 - Archaelogy Site       |   6.345 |    24.367 |
| C2M4 - Sample Holding Site   |   5.414 |    19.856 |
| C2M5 - Fortress 31           |   6.897 |    22.967 |
| C2M6 - Trepidation Site      |   3.207 |     9.922 |
| C2M7 - Quarantine Vessel     |   2.690 |    10.044 |
| C2M8 - Containment Cell      |   0.069 |     8.889 |
| C2M9 - Corruption of Man     |   4.828 |    35.944 |
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| C3M1 - Land of the Lost      |   0.966 |     4.756 |
| C3M2 - Infernal Caverns      |   2.138 |     6.856 |
| C3M3 - Derelict Temple       |   2.276 |     8.389 |
| C3M4 - Sacrificial Bastion   |   6.000 |    25.000 |
| C3M5 - Oblation Temple       |   4.862 |    33.200 |
| C3M6 - Igneous Intrusion     |   2.448 |    20.367 |
| C3M7 - No Regrets            |   4.379 |    27.900 |
| C3M8 - Ancient Lair          |   1.207 |    12.489 |
| C3M9 - Acquainted With Grief |   5.862 |    24.300 |
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| C4M1 - Maintenance Area      |   4.966 |     6.878 |
| C4M2 - Research Complex      |  15.103 |    30.000 |
| C4M3 - Central Computing     |   9.138 |    14.522 |
| C4M4 - Hydroponic Facility   |   7.862 |    16.556 |
| C4M5 - Engineering Station   |   8.517 |    15.867 |
| C4M6 - Command Center        |  10.897 |    20.833 |
| C4M7 - Waste Treatment       |  20.241 |    54.733 |
| C4M8 - Launch Bay            |   5.069 |    38.544 |
| C4M9 - Operations            |  16.103 |    36.056 |
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| Map                             | Density |   Density |
|                                 |         | by health |
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| MAP01 - Hydroelectric Plant     |   0.828 |     0.767 |
| MAP02 - Filtration Tunnels      |   2.034 |     4.822 |
| MAP03 - Crude Processing Center |   3.069 |     7.178 |
| MAP04 - Containment Bay         |   5.172 |    14.056 |
| MAP05 - Sludge Burrow           |   4.069 |     9.778 |
| MAP06 - Gamma Labs              |   2.621 |     6.900 |
| MAP07 - Outer Storage Warehouse |   0.931 |    16.778 |
| MAP08 - Astronomy Complex       |   3.586 |    10.567 |
| MAP09 - Datacenter              |   3.897 |    10.744 |
| MAP10 - Deadly Outlands         |   4.724 |    22.333 |
| MAP11 - Infinite Plain          |   8.862 |    39.322 |
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| MAP12 - Railroads               |   6.966 |    39.656 |
| MAP13 - Station Earth           |   4.517 |    22.489 |
| MAP14 - Nuclear Zone            |   4.000 |     8.944 |
| MAP15 - Hostile Takeover        |   6.276 |    22.789 |
| MAP16 - Urban Jungle            |   3.793 |    19.311 |
| MAP17 - City Capitol            |   2.448 |    22.711 |
| MAP18 - Aquatics Lab            |   4.759 |    20.078 |
| MAP19 - Sewage Control          |   5.793 |    24.644 |
| MAP20 - Blood Ember Fortress    |   4.103 |    21.700 |
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| MAP21 - Under Realm             |   3.310 |    27.022 |
| MAP22 - Remanasu                |   3.414 |    25.233 |
| MAP23 - Underground Facility    |   9.000 |    34.856 |
| MAP24 - Tertiary Loading Bay    |   3.828 |    24.756 |
| MAP25 - Red Works               |   4.552 |    33.389 |
| MAP26 - Dark Depths             |   6.379 |    24.644 |
| MAP27 - Warped Elementality     |  10.483 |   102.678 |
| MAP28 - Grim Redoubt            |   8.138 |    38.178 |
| MAP29 - Last Stand              |   4.931 |    40.033 |
| MAP30 - Jaws of Defeat          |   0.379 |     6.489 |
|---------------------------------+---------+-----------|
| MAP31 - Be Quiet                |   0.724 |    27.667 |
| MAP32 - Not Sure                |   4.241 |    53.633 |
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[Rowsol]

The DL link points to v0.1.

[m8f]

Fixed. Thanks for the heads up!

[Nems]

Possibly a bug (?): monsters killed by the divider can't be resurrected by the Arch-Vile. The Arch-Vile will stand there and indefinitely try to resurrect the killed monster, which will come back to life before dying again. It pretty much makes an endless resurrection loop unless you attack the Arch-Vile so it'll focus on either the player or move to another monster.

I'm not complaining, mind you. Arch-Viles are already a pain in the ass. Still, I thought it was worth reporting just in case this behavior isn't intended.

Really enjoying the mod so far, by the way. I'm using the divider with Journey to Hell v2 and it makes what's already a highly-populated slaughter megaWAD more manageable. Definitely a must have for such megaWADs that slow GZDoom down due to high monster/actor count. <3

EDIT: The above issue does seem to make performance drop if the monster the Arch-Vile is endlessly resurrecting is one of the three zombiemen since they drop weapon pickups which are also actors, especially if they're in a monster closet. This could prevent Arch-Viles from spawning too.

[m8f]

Nems, thanks for reporting!

Fixed in v0.7: https://www.mediafire.com/file/p3croa3l ... 7.pk3/file

Resurrection of auto-killed monsters is fixed (no infinite loop now), and is disabled by default as not intended behavior. If anyone prefers it, they can enable it by setting x5_raise_divided CVar to true.

[Rowsol]

So, I just loaded up 0.6 and noticed setting it below 1.0 wouldn't affect anything. I came here and noticed an update so I grabbed it. Now it immediately crashes upon loading a level. If I delete the settings from the .ini to reset the mod levels will load but if I move the slider at all they continue to crash. I'm using gzdoom 4.2.3.

Okay, so I just updated to 4.2.4 and the crashing went away. I still can't get it to reduce the number of enemies though.

[m8f]

Do you restart the level after slider change?
If you play with mods, does this happen with other mods and without mods?

[Rowsol]

Of course.
The first thing I did was remove all mods from the load order. Just now I deleted the .ini to start completely fresh and it's the same. Monsters won't be reduced. Is it working for you?

[m8f]

Yep. Here, x 0.5, haven't fired a single shot:


GZDoom 4.2.4, x10.5 v0.7.

[Rowsol]

Wow, I'm a putz. The monsters don't die until alerted.

[m8f]

Small update: v0.8.

Fixes:
- enemy health density displays correct value even with monster randomizers;
- projectiles fly through emitter species (if multiplier is > 100%).

[Rowsol]

Would it be possible to give them a random thrust when spawning? I like the mod I just wish they weren't always perfectly stacked on each other.

[m8f]

Small update: v0.9: https://www.mediafire.com/file/n39zz9ca ... 9.pk3/file

- added initial thrust to cloned monsters (controlled by x5_thrust CVar).

Rowsol, thanks for that suggestion!

[Rowsol]

I noticed that only sometimes will their projectiles pass through each other. It seems that it works fine if the projectile has a second to move before colliding with a monster but if it's spawned on top of one it'll just hit the monster. It's easy to notice if you add DOHARMSPECIES to them.

[vapidscum]

Obligatory Nuts3. Kinda embarrassed this was my second thought and not my first.