Watch out for dopes ("work" in "progress")

[KynikossDragonn]

A stupid dance certainly would make sense for the "worlds tiniest violin" weapon if that's still going to be kept as a idea!

Since the hats go flying off when defeated, are they just going to be decorative or items you pickup? It would be amusing to think of those as the "armour bonus" considering those were apparently small helmets that Doomguy wears multiple copies of on his head somehow.

[bimshwel]

yes indeed the dropped top hats initially replaced the armor bonuses and still do, presumably the winter hats will do the same unless I make one of the weapons a hat launcher.
I had never heard the phrase "world's tiniest violin" when I made that, I am uncertain if it will be kept around since it is impractical to aim. Although as an area effect confusion weapon it might be more practical.

[KynikossDragonn]

I saw in the release thread for GZDoom 4.8.0 the cutscene system from Raze was introduced, and this was when I noticed not only is there a Smacker (a rather dated 256 colour video format) decoder, but libvpx (the VP8 and VP9 WebM codecs) as well.

I suppose this would mean you could have your flash animations as videos to playback during certain parts of the game?

[bimshwel]

That would certainly be more convenient than what I was expecting to have to do at some point, import every movement frame individually and point an in-game camera at a 2-sided linedef showing them in front of any necessary backgrounds. Though I verified that it is possible to "roll" the camera view, which would have been helpful for one brief section. I often end up having to do things in an outmoded hacky stupid way regardless of new features.

[bimshwel]

yeepeldfloat.gif

did they change how image attaching and linking works in the past six months? oh nope I just forgot the S in https.
eh whatever the case, yes, I am still at this, when I have time to be at it.

[JoeyTD]

Gonna be real here, if you can replace all of the copyright'ed assets with custom ones you could turn this from a TC to a full on game.

this is dope just for a doom TC.

[bimshwel]

thank you! although, it is watch out for dopes!
certainly I, personally, THINK of it more as a self-contained work than an add-on, but I can't control what anyone else calls it. The idea is to not use borrowed material, so I can try and unload it on people who don't necessarily play doom without them needing to download and install additional objects. Though that may be a flawed expectation. But I have never finished or been close to finishing anything big so I do not know how I would regard and treat a finished version.

[bimshwel]

I still have at least two and a half old monsters to redraw, but theoretically there is more of that in the past than future now. Although if it is true that is still the only component of this mess for which that is the case.

[Gez]

Is that a lost soul-like monster? In that it charges through the air, bumps its fat had on you, then lash with its tail?

[bimshwel]

the presently implemented version functions like a basic caco-demon sort at the moment (although in regular levels for whatever reason I had it replacing pain elementals), launching 6 beam-like objects straight ahead from its tentacloids, and striking more rapidly up close, but i expect to have it moving at different speeds and hopefully have a less generic form of offense later. The bloating is for when it takes damage. I do not remember why, but I used the old version as a guide regardless. I suppose it COULD be an attack also, or instead.

[bimshwel]

I plan to have a non-rotating puddle sprite appear amidst the mess because a rotating one would look bad. or possibly I can have a flat model appear once I look into implementing that.

the tentacloid I am not sure if I need to do that with or not; i considered that since this isn't nearly as wide i might not need to dissolve and replace its blemish. though since six of these would be launched at once, i need to check on if they look too uniform on the ground, even at different angles. i may have them randomly stop on a different frame of the sequence

hopefully isn't too creepy in practice. but I might make this stuff collectible so it isn't around for too long.

I don't know how this will look, but it won't look as bad as the old version,

which didn't look THAT bad. It only had one angle so i didn't launch tentacles from it. It did however launch bits of its filling, which I have not yet determined how best within my power to re-sort out.

[bimshwel]

[youtube]https://youtu.be/tpb-I5TpmGI[/youtube]
eh I suppose that only works once per topic-thread. But the link should be pressable you are terribly curious about anything else I did last year.
the introduction to my 2022 retrospective video is made from this project's data, though how much of it I will leave in these is uncertain. Only the I, O, and 2022 have custom, though somewhat incomplete explosions, the rest are recycled yeep parts. I also cheated, having f and l borrow I's explosion, while G shares o's, since all the launched junk was making so much lag on my system while the video capturer was also capturing. And that STILL wasn't enough but at some point it stopped making sense to be spending extra time in 2023 to optimize an inconsequential part of my 2022 summary.

[Amuscaria]

Really digging the art style in your spritework.

[bimshwel]

Thank you for digging! I will hopefully be able to put my effort toward more obvious advancement after so many headaches related to bad planning and implementation of the extremely large sprites held that up last year.

[Gez]

eh I suppose that only works once per topic-thread.

You need to only put the video id in the tag, not any of the base youtube URL.

So many forgotten video game characters. I never expected to see Zool (well, Zooz in this case) again. Or that scene where Cosmo rescues Duke Nukem.