ZDoom

A long, long time ago, I was a regular here, during the days of ZDoom 2.0.9x, stacked sectors, teleport-based fake 3d floors before GZDoom existed, etc... This was my first thread, introducing this silly fake-voxel technique, and I guess I would have been 18 at the time.

I swear I remember posting a screenshot of this level I was working on at the time with the caption "Bats in Tubes and an Imp", but I can't find the phrase anywhere. Maybe the thread's gone or maybe I'm just crazy.

Anyway, I had this level "Hexxis" I was working on, and over the years I've sporadically messed with it, and added to it. But honestly I've always been more interested in the (G)ZDoom engine as a technical playground than in its gameplay. My interests skew towards aesthetics, technicals, special effects, and general engine pushing, so I never really added much gameplay to "Hexxis" beyond the very bare-bones. I kinda don't really even like shooter gameplay that much, so I don't enjoy the idea of designing enemy encounters and test playing them ad nauseum. But I did do a lot of what I enjoy in "Hexxis", so there's a bunch of effects and weird things from over the years.

Some effects it contains:

Spoiler:

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• Intricate stacked sector/3d floor/glass floor setups
• Waving lava
• Breakable mirrors
• "Modern style" ladders
• Sub-unit-high 3d floors
• FVoxel weapons
• Faked moving spiked wall
• Horizontally moving 3d floors
• Moving glass container on a rail

At this point I've been fiddling with it for ~20 years or whatever, so I figure I should just let whoever might remember it at least see it. I kind of just want to be done with it.

It is completable, in that there's a beginning, a flow of progression of some description, and an exit.

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Screenshot 3

Download:

Here's the zip file.

It's got "Hexxis" and a couple other bonus things I was also working on over the years. I'll let the chips fall where they may.

Nice, welcome back and congrats on the release.

Can't believe I remember that old thread. I was very hyped as a kid in that thread to realize 3d designs were possible in the Doom engine lmao.

I really enjoy the exploration around the unique machine designs with a small bit of combat thrown in.

Are there any screenshots or videos of the FVoxels in action? The links in the old thread seem to be dead. Obviously we have much better tech today, but I love hacky old tech and I'm curious to see what it looked like in practice.

Cool to see an old project revived, especially by the original author.

I broke the gun:

Just getting in the way of the gun seems to make things like this happen (the various bits have separated because some bits stopped moving when I was in the way).

The hexxis map has a lot of really neat, innovative effects.

Caligari87 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:54 am Are there any screenshots or videos of the FVoxels in action? The links in the old thread seem to be dead. Obviously we have much better tech today, but I love hacky old tech and I'm curious to see what it looked like in practice.

I dug around and found the original FVoxel demo wad.

Here's some embarrassing old video I did showing FVoxels in action.

Enjay wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 4:12 pm I broke the gun:
Just getting in the way of the gun seems to make things like this happen (the various bits have separated because some bits stopped moving when I was in the way).

Yeah, there's no collision on the gunbot thing. I was specifically testing just the one effect (many actors following one), so I suppose I just never added collision because I figured it would be easy and didn't need testing, or something.