[WIP] Restyled Weapon Sprites

[gh0st]

Soooo. I have been lurking these forums for many a night. So I guess it was inevitable that I make a post...

So what Im doing here isnt much... Honestly. I've noticed many of the original doom weapon sprites lack much attempt to fake realistic shading. The big problem area being the plasma rifle, shotgun, supershotgun, bfg, and rocket launcher. This lack of shading makes many sprites look as if they are symmetrical, and being a obsessive compulsive, it bugged me. So the goal is, weapons remain retro, but with a restyled look, yet only slightly. Maybe pointless, but meh, gotta start somewhere.

Update: Plasma Rifle screenshots are up.

Screenshoots:

Supershotgun:

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Rocket Launcher (needs more work to kill symmetry):

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Plasma Rifle (tried to mimic shiny metal look, like in reloading sprites):

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BFG9000 (temporarily positioned outward to show more of the work):

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I'll post more as they are completed.

[TheMistress]

Very nice work, I like the sprites. Although,I do think this would rather fit into the resources section.

[juizzysquirt]

The SSG actually looks a bit nicer than original, and I like the spot of blood on RL. BFG looks like it's picked up from an old, dusty warehouse after 20 years though.

Like you said, not much. However, I kinda like the idea for weapons to show some battlescars and such. They've been used for 16 years after all...

[gh0st]

Very nice work, I like the sprites. Although,I do think this would rather fit into the resources section.

Thanks! And yes you're probably right, I just discovered the resources section a bit after this post, I agree it would be more fitting in there.

The SSG actually looks a bit nicer than original, and I like the spot of blood on RL. BFG looks like it's picked up from an old, dusty warehouse after 20 years though.

Like you said, not much. However, I kinda like the idea for weapons to show some battlescars and such. They've been used for 16 years after all...

Yeah, I'm reallllllly not into changing the classic look of the weapons, the SSG had much room for improvement however.

Heres a close-up of the original SSG sprite.

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Look how the pixels around the SSG clash with the black background, and the strange brown shade along the barrel, its just begging for improvement, haha.

[NeuralStunner]

IIRC the SSG was the only weapon drawn from scratch, while the others were all digitized from models and various doodads.

Unlike the other weapon firing/loading animations which were created from digitizing models, the super shotgun's sequences appear to be drawn instead since they lack the light reflections.

[gh0st]

Hmm interesting... leads me to wonder what they made the plasma rifle out of, it looks photographed, I'd kill for an in-depth documentary on the making of Doom, anyone ever heard of one? Besides the one found on the special-ed version of Doom3?

[NeuralStunner]

leads me to wonder what they made the plasma rifle out of, it looks photographed

Here is the Plasma Rifle page on the Doom Wiki, it's pretty interesting reading where they got all of these.

[gh0st]

Hmm... interesting stuff, After reading a few articles I found the old psDoom gib-face. Poor doomguy...

A bit off-topic... But Im curious, has anyone implemented this into our pc doom's?

[phi108]

The PSX Doom TC had that, and I think some custom HUDs.

[gh0st]

I'll have to check that out, thanks!

Also, the plasma rifle restyle is finished and up on the first post.

[juizzysquirt]

I'll have to check that out, thanks!

Also, the plasma rifle restyle is finished and up on the first post.

Cool, now that looks more like a weapon than a plastic toy. A bit shiny for one though.

[gh0st]

Haha thanks, yes a bit shiny, I'll probably go back and work on it.