QuakenDoom 2: First Enemy: Enforcer Crouches!!

[greatmuta2]

just curious will they have multiple deaths like Q2 like when the gunner gets killed his head comes off or he does a backflip? or they keep shooting when they die? even without multiple death poses i think ill like this alot better than the quake 2 tc i mean that was fun too but it didnt have the feeling i get from quake and it really wasnt quake 2 at all except weapons

[Indecom]

I want to do everything i can to utilize every frame of animation for each enemy, as best as i can anyhow. So multiple death poses is highly likely

[Indecom]

Hey guys, i've done some more work on the weapons, minor tweaks and changes, here is a list of some of the things fixed:

Improved bullet puff particles, still not awesome, but better
Bfg ball moves slower
Weapon names changed and keyconf altered to not conflict with other wads
Explosion decals implemented properly
Chaingun firing problem corrected
Railgun Core effect improved
Railgun damage increased slightly (still trying to stay true to the q2 specs)

Here is a link, it's also been added to the first post:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ou2knj

[Blade3327]

AWESOME! I'm seriously impressed. You even have the idle gun movements looping while walking, which some games today don't even do! I played it in GZDoom. Unfortunately, it still has that semi-transparent square issue...

[Indecom]

That's strange, i dont have that problem. i guess i'll have to add a fix in a new update. I'm working on the first enemy at the moment, this bad boy has about 200 frames of animation multiplied by 5 different directions, so thats around 1000 individual sprites for this one character lol. I have my work cut out for me if i'm doing 18 of em!

[Blade3327]

Could it be that I have to run GZDoom with bilinear filtering and up? Don't get me wrong; I'm running it in OpenGL, I just set it so that the sprites and textures could be pixelated instead of blurred.

[Indecom]

No, that's not it i dont think, because i do the exact same thing and i dont get that box at all until i run it in zdoom, so i'll just do another update with that glitch fixed.

[Project Shadowcat]

Make sure you fix the repeating lower loop on the Blaster, too. I posted a quirky bug report on it yesterday.

[Indecom]

Is the looping visible? i never noticed it. I can add a few extra A_lowers in there to get rid of it.

[Project Shadowcat]

Oh.... it's a very interesting bug. It was so bad you may have uncovered an engine bug HERE.

[Indecom]

interesting, i havent used this wad without godmode on. i'll take a look into it and see if i can't fix it on my end.

[Indecom]

so i've been working on the enemy wad for a while, got the enforcer into the game, he's fully playable/killable but he's around 70% complete. He was a pain in the butt, since this mod uses every frame of animation for each charcacter/item/weapon that means for this guy, all 5 directional sprites consist of 206 frames of animation each, all together thats 1030 frames that i had to manually align and rename. Thank goodness i'm a programmer and can make a tool to automate that process, but just to let you know that work i'm doing on this, yea, i renamed and moved around over 1000 images for just this one guy, and he's only facing 8 directions, imagine the work to do 16!! lol

[CaptainToenail]

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Have you considered doing the monsters as 3D models only? It would simplify things a bit, and look way better, but then software users are left out, that's the only problem

[Indecom]

My main goal behind the project is to reproduce quake 2 without using any ripped models at all. a.) ripping copyrighted materials is illegal (lol) and b.) i want to challenge myself to do it and have it look as close as possible while still allowing zdoom users to play it as well.

[CaptainToenail]

Well fair enough, just keep in mind ripped sound effects and even sprite rips are technically illegal too