Z-Kart discussion

[Dreadopp]

I believe the story is something like "Imagine if Doom and Doom 2 were a combat-oriented kart racing game."

Heh, fair enough.

What about episodic end screens with text (much like in Ultimate Doom)? I suppose they wouldn't be totally necessary in the end.

[mallo]

I believe they are placeholders

[scalliano]

Archie's done.

Where do i click to join this? ^^

Sign up on the Projects thread with whatever contribution you'd like to make. There's one map slot left and a decent whack of sprite work still to be done at the moment. Resources are still under discussion.

[Dreadopp]

I've completed the Undead Warrior kart and attached it here. If you want to quickly see what it looks like in-game, summon h_undeadwarriorkart.

[scalliano]

Quick update to Cybie to fix a couple of issues. Arm cable was missing from the D rotations and there were a few stray green pixels here and there.

[Athel]

Hi,

Not sure if this post will make me an idiot, but are you still taking maps? I can try making a ZDoom Kart map. And is this GZDoom compatible?

*awaits the "you're an idiot, look xx posts before yours!" Posts*

[Caligari87]

Good grief, you're such an idiot, look 22.35 posts back and it'll answer all your questions. And read the forum rules about useless bumps. God, it's like people can't even be assed to use the search box anymore.

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Didn't want to disappoint you

[Athel]

That, um... doesn't answer the question

[GooberMan]

No, but the project thread does.

[Ringman]

Quick update to Cybie to fix a couple of issues. Arm cable was missing from the D rotations and there were a few stray green pixels here and there.

Speaking of which, there are several art bugs I noticed in some of my sprites and of others. For example, my mancubus has some transparent pixels in some spots that he shouldn't and some frames parts of his wheels aren't turning. I noticed the Hell Knight has some issues with one of his back frames where he appears to "bump" up and down. There is still some issues with the rotation frames of my Arachnotron, that I did correct before, but have never made it in to any updates. Correcting them would be easy, but I don't want to keep posting updates to the pk3 and have some fall through the cracks. Its probably really hard to manage all these different versions of individual character pk3s. So, I suggest we wait until all the main character art is finished, and then comb through the sprites and look for little glitches and bugs, and correct them all in one go with one update. Most could be fixed by a single artist unless there's something grossly wrong that would require some serious redrawing, but I'm certain we would've noticed that.

Thoughts?

[GooberMan]

One thing I want to highlight is the size difference between all the karts. The big ones like the Arachnotron is alright, but then the Lost Soul is bigger. Er.

[NeuralStunner]

I would think the "heavy" racers could be physically larger, so even though their starting speed is slower, other racers would have to steer wider to avoid bumping them.

[diegomula]

Wow this project looks so amazing. I was thinking in a racing game mod for Doom but not at all like this. Actually I'm a zandronum user because it's easier to host servers on it than the other ports, so, I don't know how many players can play in Zdoom simultaneously. Just imagine a 32-players full armored karting last man standing, in a map like Dead Simple. Absolutely awesome.

The idea of making maps is not too good for me. I would have preferred to use the original maps or megawads like Alien Vendetta or similars, and make our own circuits with a checkpoint system, displayed in spectator mode. Just an idea.

Anyways, I aprecciate all the dedication of this project, and can wait to play it with my friends. Excellent work guys.

[raymoohawk]

should I change the size of the pinky and baron? i think they do look a bit small in game

[scalliano]

Nah, they're fine as-is. The characters were always going to be smaller anyway.

One thing I want to highlight is the size difference between all the karts. The big ones like the Arachnotron is alright, but then the Lost Soul is bigger. Er.

Also, there might need to be a little bit of manual tweaking of the Lost Soul's DECORATE lump as the flames don't animate until it starts moving, which looks a bit awkward. Might need C and D frames (alternate flame/tyre anims) to look decent ingame. But, yeah, as a (I'm assuming) featherweight class a la Toad in SMK it could do with being scaled down a bit.