[Project] "Knee-Deep in ZDoom"

cyber-menace · Post by **cyber-menace** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:49 pm

Ack, so many missing words in replies... anyways... I agree on the subject of something well done being more important than something being done on time, but nobody can really argue Tormentor's point because it is a very good point indeed.

EDIT: Looks like I started this page Risen.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:05 pm

hmm, that PSD is a little different than i had hoped...

ZDoom's PNG support can handle translucency can't it?

impClaw · Post by **impClaw** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 11:05 pm

Can't you make a convertion for e2 and e3, or maybe doom II.

Post by **NiGHTMARE** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 3:09 am

impClaw wrote:Can't you make a convertion for e2 and e3, or maybe doom II.

http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=3920

Also, see discussion earlier in this very thread.

Lexus Alyus · Post by **Lexus Alyus** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:54 am

Risen wrote:Weren't you supposed to have music for us before Christmas?

Urm, I said I'd try to do it if and when I had a computer that worked... I still don't have a computer that works...

It's irritating that I can't do a simple task as re-doing the intermission music, but then, life does suck. I'd love to attempt it, but as my computer is imcapable then it's not gonna happen... When I have a computer that will run my software, everyone will know about it, trust me

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fuzzyfireball 1 · Post by **fuzzyfireball 1** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:45 pm

TheDarkArchon wrote:How about an intepretation of the manual's story as a TITLEMAP. That would be sweet.

Spoiler: For those of you who don't know the story
You're a marine, one of Earth's toughest, hardened in combat and trained for action. Three years ago you assaulted a superior officer for ordering his soldiers to fire upon civilians. He and his body cast were shipped to Pearl Harbor, while you were transferred to Mars, home of the Union Aerospace Corporation.
The UAC is a multi-planetary conglomerate with radioactive waste facilities on Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos. With no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin' dust and watchin' restricted flicks in the rec room. For the last four years the military, UAC's biggest supplier, has used the remote facilities on Phobos and Deimos to conduct various secret projects, including research on inter-dimensional space travel. So far they have been able to open gateways between Phobos and Deimos, throwing a few gadgets into one and watching them come out the other. Recently however, the Gateways have grown dangerously unstable. Military "volunteers" entering them have either disappeared or been stricken with a strange form of insanitybabbling vulgarities, bludgeoning anything that breathes, and finally suffering an untimely death of full-body explosion. Matching heads with torsos to send home to the folks became a full-time job. Latest military reports state that the research is suffering a small set-back, but everything is under control. A few hours ago, Mars received a garbled message from Phobos. "We require immediate military support. Something fraggin' evil is coming out of the Gateways! Computer systems have gone
berserk!" The rest was incoherent. Soon afterwards, Deimos simply vanished from the sky. Since then, attempts to establish contact with either moon have been unsuccessful. You and your buddies, the only combat troop for fifty million miles were sent up pronto to Phobos. You were ordered to secure the perimeter of the base while the rest of the team went inside. For several hours, your radio picked up the sounds of combat: guns firing, men yelling orders, screams, bones cracking, then finally, silence. Seems your buddies are dead.

It's Up To You. Things aren't looking too good. You'll never navigate off the planet on your own. Plus, all the heavy weapons have been taken by the assault team leaving you with only a pistol. If only you could get your hands around a plasma rifle or even a shotgun you could take a few down on your way out. Whatever killed your buddies deserves a couple of pellets in the forehead. Securing your helmet, you exit the landing pod. Hopefully you can find more substantial firepower somewhere within the station. As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/38280 Just browsing the internet and found this.I thought it was pretty cool.

Post by **Kirby** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:00 pm

Hmmm, interesting

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:10 pm

there's also a game with it http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/58822

fuzzyfireball 1 · Post by **fuzzyfireball 1** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:22 pm

That zombie part where he wakes up was preety cool.

be cool if you could do that in zdoom.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:23 pm

You probably could with alot of ACS

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:43 pm

the TITLEMAP will be more than just an animated version of that pic torm sent me...

Nmn · Post by **Nmn** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 1:46 pm

Bio-can You plz show the pic?

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 2:02 pm

lets see, at the current rate of production (secsofvid = (DBminutes/50)) i should be done in about 12 hours

and then i get to do the part you all know im doing (which should take another 12 hours)

so expect it in 2 days max

Nmn · Post by **Nmn** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:08 pm

Now I'm all for the Intro to the game, done the real way. There are many reasons why we should have a decent story in some way

-The re-made levels posses much greater ammount of reality
-A story builds up the atmosphere in a better way
-Doom's story, altough bland, has been in many mods, meaning it is somewhat classic
-we are remaking Doom, so why not the story?
-would only attract more attention and hype

Now there are several ways of implementing the story, altough which one would be the "best" is a puzzle. Here are my proposals of the method of implementing the intro of KDIZD:

1. Make it via Doom's engine-marines, smart-ass scripting, and such. This one is presumably the easiest methods, altough not as effective as anything else, because being it's hard to come up with something very realistic with a bunch of sprites. We would have to do it in a very moody way ..

but so we did with all maps.

2.Pictures. Since I am improving in art I could draw pictures of marines fighting their way trough the installation and stuff, then Taggart finally approaching the base and such, place them on doom-screenshots (which I would also remake, like let's say-shadows, details, specs and reflections, or heck, I could draw them from scratch. Why I *could*? Because at the moment the ammount of studying I have (not only in art

is overwhelming. It would take almost 2-3 weeks to do this stuff, plus, there would be a lot of showing the pictures off to recieve all comments from You people. The implementation would be dead-easy (just hudmessages). The biggest "vacation from studying" starts on 14th February

so it's not an option.

3.Photos or CG-this is as obvious as it sounds. You could either force Your younger brother to dress as a marine and capture photos and put the marines on Doom screenshots as Backgrounds-that way we would use the method ID would use for 80% if they wanted to make an intro this way-cuz that's their way-photos and photoediting-that's the way they done most texs and weapons. CG is simpler-someone could use the Doom Marine from Quake 3 as a base, rip, put on screenshots and voila.

So? Any toughts?
We would also need Lexus to make us some moody intro-tunes and some voice actors and puff-KDIZD is more than legendary.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Jan 08, 2005 5:16 pm

how about you let me finish what ive got before getting someone else to make another intro