[Contest] Doom Mutator Contest 2!

[Jimmy]

Ah, I see.

I was (not any more) considering making it so that the Level 2 skill was ALWAYS selected if it was present in the player's current skills for the selected Omega reserve. My reasoning behind that was that Level 2 is the more ideal skill to start off with as soon as you activate your Omega (since Level 2 skills are invariably more powerful than Level 1 skills), but it also prevents the player from (potentially) harming themselves or draining unnecessary amounts of zeal, that is, if the Level 3 skill was to be selected on activation. Intuitive, but possibly not useful since the player has no control over it.

I guess I can employ some InventoryBar hackery to allow the player to choose which skill they'd like to have selected for them on activation. Would a system like that come in handy?

EDIT: I'll reword the above statement. Which system would work better?

1. The player may change which skill he would like automatically selected, regardless of the currently active Omega.
2. The player may set which skill he would like automatically selected for each color of Omega.
3. Level 2 skill is ALWAYS automatically selected on activation, if it's present in the player's skills for the currently active Omega.

[Xaser]

I feel kinda bad for sniping Jimmy's question, but if it's any consolation, my two bits: I'd say go with 1. #2 seems a bit overkill-ish, and the first is the more user-friendly option of the remaining two.

Anyhow, here's my entry: Parkour -- to quote the trailer, think of it as a "weapon mod you can fit inside a matchbox." It's got little to do with real freerunning, but you can kickjump and airdash.

A few notes:

• Be sure and bind keys for Reload and Parkour Dash, else you'll be missing out.
• There are some new cheats -- look in KEYCONF if you so desire.
• Requires and SVN of some sort. The latest should do.
• The extra jumping and dashing abilities are potentially map-breaking, but then again, so is jumping in general. Rule of thumb: If you're afraid of using it, don't use it. There are guns too.

Unless there are any pressing issues, this'll be the contest submitted release. I'll continue tweaking it afterwards though -- consider this a beta.

[Project Shadowcat]

Where did the grenade graphics and blood splatters come from, Xaser?

[Captain Ventris]

The more I play these, the more I'm considering getting some help and combining Style Mod, Omega, and Parkour into a multiplayer mod with three classes.

Then, just wait for Skulltag to catch up on the necessary features. PROFIT

EDIT: Made a list of what happened when you loaded the 3 mods in conjunction, in different orders.

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Style - Parkour - Omega = crash on game start.

Style - Omega - Parkour = Parkour movements systems and weapons, no Style in sight, Omega items and weapons intact, but no Omegas to pick up or start with. Hud: Parkour Difficulty levels were invisible.


Parkour - Style - Omega = crash on game start.

Parkour - Omega - Style = crash on game start.


Omega - Parkour - Style = Parkour movement systems, Style weapons and Style points but no Style fist, Omega items and systems intact, but there are no Omegas to pick up or start with. Hud: Style

Omega - Style - Parkour = Parkour movement systems, weapons, and items, Style points but no style items or weapons, Omega weapons intact, but no Omegas or items to pick up or start with. Hud: Parkour

No combinations showed the Omega hud elements.

So, no combination gave you actual Omega capabilities.

So, yeah, that gives SOMETHING to start with. I'm going to make this a pet project for the lulz.

[DoomRater]

Can't wait to see that project.

[Jimmy]

Final version of Omega is up.

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[Captain Ventris]

Ahhhh, fudge. What did you change?

[Jimmy]

The most notable change is that there's a new "Change preferred skill" action which changes the skill automatically selected when Omega is activated. Set the keybind in the Customize Controls menu.

There's also been another (slight) clean-up in the ACS lump.

[Xaser]

Where did the grenade graphics and blood splatters come from, Xaser?

The Grenades are in zdoom.pk3 (from Skulltag), since it was decided at some point to halfway implement them. No sounds, though, hence why I had to use DSTINK.

The splats are just POB2A0, cut and pasted into smaller bits. They seem to work, surprisingly, with the slight side effect that crushing 30-ish Cyberdemons at once (aaaa Bad Dream) has a tendency to slow the game... xP

Anyhow, I do hope Skulltag catches up sometime this decade. I want to try these in DM, now.

[Captain Ventris]

The most notable change is that there's a new "Change preferred skill" action which changes the skill automatically selected when Omega is activated. Set the keybind in the Customize Controls menu.

There's also been another (slight) clean-up in the ACS lump.

Okay. I was wondering, since I have successfully jammed it together with Parkour and Style Mod.

I'll just have to update those files. It's going to be unbalanced for a long time, and I'll have to keep classes other than Freerunner to stop walljumping and dashing, and I'll have to find a way to keep classes other than Chaos and Order from seeing the on-screen messages when they accidentally pick up an Omega, but it's functional.

EDIT: Got it. Yeeeaaaaaah

[KILLER2]

[*]There are some new cheats -- look in KEYCONF if you so desire.

What is KEYCONF and how do I look in it?

[Mikk-]

It's a lump defined inside the mod. For defining commands used in the console, and for declaring PlayerClasses also, it was once used for defining weapons.
You need a lump editor to read/view it, though. I suggest SLumPed as that can read .pk3 files.

[Davidos]

Blablabla -Rawrsome mod- blablabla

Now, I'm sitting here wondering how I would get a mod with edited weapons to also accept these, cuz this mutator makes every single thing awesome =.=

[Mikk-]

Create a backup, and remove all traces of playerclass, weapons and the like. Because if something has different sprites, you will get issues, like if you play it with 32inch.wad that wad has a different chaingun sprite and it screws the chaingun up :<

[Hellboy IL]

Final version of Omega is up.

http://jimmy.phenomer.net/wad-files/j-omega.zip

Get it NAO

Skulltag: Latest
I get an error on startup:

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Script error, "j-omega.wad:DEC_YELW" line 116:
Expected ')', got ','.