Looking for alternate death/gib animations

[Ghastly]

Holy crap, thanks! One thing, though, the eyes in the first frame look a little too wide, and they turn red in the third frame. But otherwise really awesome.

[Enjay]

and they turn red in the third frame

Look again.

The eyes do not turn red. The red is blood or possibly the start of an explosion. The blue eyes are still there but smaller because they are either closing or because the face is pointing more downwards.

[Blox]

Yeah, they're both closing and getting pressed into what 'could' be a cheek.


Tried to fix it there.

[Ghastly]

Look again.

Oh, derp, you're right.

Anywho, I'll throw these in a wad real quick so we can try it out in-game.

Edit:

ArachnotronAltDeath.zip

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How's this? I suppose the only thing I think can be improved on is that the explosions. They look sized-down. It might work better if explosions that fit the monster's size better were put on?

[Blox]

I think the best solution would be to make it less dramatically slowed down.
Because we're not watching a boss die now, are we now.

[Enjay]

I agree it could be doing with being a bit quicker. Also, I suggest making a new death sound that is basically the same but which also has an explosion sound or two mixed in just to match up with the more explodey looking graphics. And I also agree that some size-constant explosions would look better than the scaled down ones.

I tested on MAP07 and the exit step didn't rise so I assume that the A_BossDeath pointer wasn't used.

Still, as Ghastly said, it was just put together quickly for testing purposes so these (and any other points) could still be addressed.

[Blox]

Would this sound fit in?

Edit: The boom comes a bit late, let's see if it's fixable.. (mwahaha)
Don-e.

Guess kinda like this.

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Code: Select all

Actor Arachnotron2 : Arachnotron replaces Arachnotron
{
  States
  {
  Death:
    BSPI Q 10 A_Scream
    BSPI R 8 A_NoBlocking
    BSPI S 6
	BSPI TU 6 Bright
	BSPI V 5 Bright
	BSPI WX 4 Bright
    BSPI Y -1
    Stop
  }
}

[Enjay]

Sounds pretty good to me.

[Ghastly]

ArachnotronAltDeathTakeTwo.zip

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Here it is with the new delays and sound. The ending of the explosions seem a little quick, but it's a bit better.

[Enjay]

I'd say that it was much better.

[Blox]

Looking good, now all it lacks is GLDefs for the explosion.

[Tormentor667]

Cool

[Ghastly]

Looking good, now all it lacks is GLDefs for the explosion.

Simple copy/paste/edit from the Mastermind's. But I was going to code things like this after collecting enough animations. I just threw together the Decorate for this to show how it looks.

I still feel like the explosions look like they've been sized down, but I guess it's okay for now. We can clean it up sometime later.

[Minigunner]

There is a problem with the legs. There is no blood on the legs and boots, the pants are a bit bright, and the boots should be black. Also, the hands should be less red.[/nitpick] Here's the shotgunner for a comparison:

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[Ghastly]

Would someone be willing to take care of that? The falling-forward Zombieman death has the same issue.

ZombiemanAltDeath.zip

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