[Autoload] Must-haves (now with full list!)

[Tormentor667]

Auoload Must-haves?
Just out of curiosity, what kind of things do you have in your autoload folders? I mostly think about game enhancements that are must-haves in your opinion, like improvements of the original game or things like that. Share them, let's see what you guys really always use to play

List of things so far!

• HUD Ammo Counter (by Jimmy)
  Adds a overview counte for all the stock doom ammo types to the fullscreen hud
• Bloodfix (by Cyanosis, Download)
  Adds different blood colors for different monsters who need it (Baron, Caco, etc)
• Cleanrender (by Dragonsbrethren)
  Disables decals and translucency in Doom, corrects them in Heretic/Hexen
• Smooth Weapon Animations (by Perkristan)
  Addes "in-between" frames to the hud weapons making the animation smoother
• High Quality SFX (by Perkristan)
  Improves the quality of stock Doom sounds by replacing them with HQ-versions of the originals
• Jukebox (by Jimmy)
  Plays the music that you want to listen to
• PalPlus (by Sigvatr)
  A PLAYPAL variant with a higher contrast and desaturated colors
• Mousewheel Scoping (by Professor Pants)
  Self explanatory,

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  AddKeySection "Zooming" scope
  
  AddMenuKey "Scope" +scope
  alias +scope "r_drawplayersprites 0; set herp 1; set derp 1; set zoom 80; fov $zoom; mouse_sensitivity .9; bind mwheeldown zoomout; bind mwheelup zoomin"
  alias -scope "r_drawplayersprites 1; set herp 1; set derp 1; set zoom 90; fov $zoom; mouse_sensitivity 1; bind mwheeldown weapnext; bind mwheelup weapprev"
  alias zoomin "eval > $zoom 10 herp; eval - $zoom * 10 $herp zoom; fov $zoom; eval - $mouse_sensitivity * .1 $herp mouse_sensitivity"
  alias zoomout "eval < $zoom 80 derp; eval + $zoom * 10 $derp zoom; fov $zoom; eval + $mouse_sensitivity * .1 $derp mouse_sensitivity"
  

• Autosave Utility (by The Ultimate Doomer)
• AmmoHud (Doom) | AmmoHud (Heretic) (by The Ultimate Doomer)
• GreenKey Replacement (Doom) | Red Key Replacement (Heretic) (by The Ultimate Doomer)
• Mugshot/Max Ammo HUD (by TheDarkArchon)
  A modified ZDoom fullscreen HUD that shows the mugshot instead of the medikit for health and the ammo count shows both current and max ammo.
• Medec's Crosshairs (by Medec)
  Additional hud crosshairs[/quote]
• Alternate HUD (by TheDarkArchon)
• Smooth Shawn HUD (by Jimmy)
• Revenant Sprite fix (by Revenant100)
• MIDI soundfont menu (by Gez)
• Ketchup Gore (by SeargentMarkIV)
• Doom Metal Soundtrack (by SeargentMarkIV)

...more hopefully to come

[Jimmy]

At the moment, just my own thing that adds an ammo counter to the fullscreen status bar.

EDIT: Oh, my mistake - I also have Shane Strife's hqmusicd2.pk3.

I think it might be worth having a stickied thread dedicated to this sort of thing, though - that everyone can post their stuff to.

[Blue Shadow]

The only thing I have as an autoload is for Plutonia, which contains a replacement for the first chapter's sky.

[Enjay]

I don't have much: a few skins I think and perhaps something else. However, ZDL is usually set to the -noautoload parameter for me because I probably do more testing of stuff than anything else and -noautoload helps me keep things clean so that I know any particular problems are nothing to do with something autoloading that I may have forgotten about.

[Chex Warrior]

I use Cyanosis' bloodfix mod, I don't know why but I find it very important to have correct blood color.

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=29495

[jpalomo]

I usually use a slightly modified version of the Skulltag expansion pack, but I can't seem to find a link for it anymore. Anyone still have version 1.2? If not I think I can revert it back to normal and post a download link for it.

[wolfman]

This.

[Tormentor667]

I find this very interesting, lots of useful stuff, looking forward to even more of it.

BTW, in my .ini I have the following area:

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# Wad files to automatically load depending on the game and IWAD you are
# playing.  You may have have files that are loaded for all similar IWADs
# (the game) and files that are only loaded for particular IWADs. For example,
# any files listed under Doom.Autoload will be loaded for any version of Doom,
# but files listed under Doom2.Autoload will only load when you are
# playing Doom 2.

[Doom.Autoload]

[Doom1.Autoload]

Is there a way to automatically load each file from a certain directory? Something like...

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Path=$PROGDIR/autoload/*.*

?

[Tormentor667]

Just two more things I've just found which are of use:

Perkristan's Smoother Weapon Animations:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-editin ... -released/

Perkristan's High Quality Doom SFX:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/wads-mods/4 ... -01-08-10/

[Tormentor667]

Updated the list, looking forward to more of them

[Jimmy]

Is it worth adding Jukebox to the list? I don't autoload it myself but I think it's pretty much usable as an autoloadable anyway. (And the WIP version 9 that Worst and I are working on should be even more so.)

I promise I'll stop spamming the thread with my own stuff now.

[Tapwave]

Is it worth adding Jukebox to the list?

Yes. Yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes.
Yes.

[Jimmy]

Heh.

I'm also going to suggest Sigvatr's PalPlus palette that makes Doom look a lot moodier.

[Enjay]

Can't say I'm a fan of that palette. On my monitor the zombies have a very orangey look to them, the dark browns and greens tend towards grey too much and the increased contrast that is supposed to be a positive feature makes some things look almost MSPainty IMO.

[Xtyfe]

enjay's splashes and whatnot!