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This is an update to the conversion of Spiff's Astrostein mod I did last year. Much like my "Halten Sie" update, this adds higher resolution graphics, floor/ceiling textures, light levels, and many other updates! There are two versions - one has 64x enemy sprites (from the WolfenDoom version) and the other has 128x enemy sprites (from the original Mac version). Check out the txt files within the pk3 for more info!
Spoiler: CHANGES FROM ORIGINAL
Deleted doubles of graphics, using DECORATE to replicate Giftmacher and Officer
Added extra "disintegrate" sound effect during death
new HUD graphics and title screen and such! This wasn't possible when this was originally released!
Extra music from Spear of Destiny and Blake Stone!
Bruce Ryder's shitty enemy sprites replaced with Laz's much nicer ones (64x version from WolfenDOOM, 128x version from Mac version)
Nicer walls!
Floors!
Light levels!
Weapons from the Mac version! (I've hidden the 2 extra weapons in random secret places)
Beef
Spoiler: CREDITS
Wolfenstein 3D by iD Software
ECWolf by Braden "Blzut3" Obrzut
Astrostein originally created by Laz Rojas
Original 3-Level PC Demo by Bruce Ryder
Levels by Spifferaneous, edited by AstroCreep
Fonts from Tech Demo by Executor
Walls originally by Laz Rojas and edited by AstroCreep
Sprites from Mac version by Laz Rojas and HD Pack by CeeJay, edited by AstroCreep
Floor textures from Blake Stone and Doom
Sounds from Doom, Astrostein (Mac), Astrostein (WolfenDOOM), Astrostein (Spifferaneous)
Conversion to ECWolf by AstroCreep
128x versions of RoboSchabbs and Colonel Welder by AstroCreep
All other graphics by AstroCreep
Also can you change the sprite for the officer cause it shares the same sprites that of the the guard cause it is quite confusing coming up on a guard not knowing if its a officer.
Unfortunatley I'm not going to do that for two reasons - A: That is how it was in the original mod. I do not aim to drastically change this, only enhance it. The only thing I wanted to do spritewise was update it to the WolfenDoom sprites, because Bruce Ryder's sprites are complete garbage. Laz was a much better sprite artist. B: I do not have a pc style officer sprite that doesn't use chainguns. I could change it in the mac version, but the pc officer replaced the doom chaingunner, so those sprites use a chaingun instead. I have tried making pistol sprites, but I just cannot get them to look the way I want them to. So that will stay the same way that it is. Don't worry - After NOAHPAK is finished, I have some sort of Astrostein-themed short mod planned, and I definitely do not plan on using recycled sprites at all.
As for your bug that you reported, I happen to be using the SVN version of ECWolf and still haven't discovered any crash. I need more details. Run ECWolf from a command prompt and copy what the text says when it crashes. I need to know what exactly I need to fix. "It crashes" could mean damn near anything is causing it, from sprite doubles to typos in the decorate scripts. Gotta narrow it down to fix it
AstroCreep wrote:Unfortunatley I'm not going to do that for two reasons - A: That is how it was in the original mod. I do not aim to drastically change this, only enhance it. The only thing I wanted to do spritewise was update it to the WolfenDoom sprites, because Bruce Ryder's sprites are complete garbage. Laz was a much better sprite artist. B: I do not have a pc style officer sprite that doesn't use chainguns. I could change it in the mac version, but the pc officer replaced the doom chaingunner, so those sprites use a chaingun instead. I have tried making pistol sprites, but I just cannot get them to look the way I want them to. So that will stay the same way that it is. Don't worry - After NOAHPAK is finished, I have some sort of Astrostein-themed short mod planned, and I definitely do not plan on using recycled sprites at all.
oh ok lol its a good mod i was just saying it gets confusing coming up on an officer who has the same sprite as a guard lol
Last edited by armymen12002003 on Sun May 01, 2016 9:00 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I agree, and was considering replacing it at one point, however the lack of sprites prevented me from doing so. Spiff took most of the sprites from Bruce Ryder's demo, and created a few, but it seems he didn't want to go through the trouble of creating an officer sprite, probably because it has a lot more frames than the simple boss sprites he created.
Theoretically. Tried making them but I couldn't get them looking the way I wanted them to. Not sure why, I made a few of the Mac GFX bosses and the firing frames for both the Mac GFX 2nd guard and all of the WolfenDoom characters. However those were all simple copy and paste stuff. Maybe I can look through a few of Laz's other WolfenDoom mods and see if there's some stuff I can piece together, if not for this mod, at least for use by me or someone else in the future. I do have a shit ton of Astrostein resources here
Yes. The difference is the coloring of the shirt and the hat. The flat white color of the officer makes it difficult to easily recolor in photoshop. It is possible by hand but would be a long process, especially if I wanted to do turning frames. Maybe in something like the Portal wolfendoom mod, I think those ones were brown, which would make it easier to recolor, just a tweak in hue and saturation.
