One of my favorite light mods for ZDoom has to be The Zombie Killer's GDCC-ACS-based footsteps mod and its ability to provide the effect regardless of player class. I decided to implement something similar in ZScript as a learning experiment. It's far from the greatest code I've written and it doesn't have CVars, but it does the job. It's multiplayer-friendly and SR40/50 aware, meaning that the delay between footstep sounds are clamped. Like The Zombie Killer's implementation, this one runs from what is essentially a key/value thing in a language lump. However, it is not compatible with the definitions in The Zombie Killer's mod. This mod also features a type of "shuffling" that you can hear when walking down stairs of a certain elevation and at a certain speed, an effect that I quite enjoy personally.
Along the way, I had a working prototype that grabbed the LeftStepSound and RightStepSound from the flat's terrain definition, but if you were playing with a mod that had an existing terrain lump it would break compatibility. At some point in the future if I refactor this, I would also like to add CVars, a clause that decreases the delay if you're playing with a faster player class, and landing sounds.
If you include this in a mod, I hope you don't mind just mentioning me in the credits.
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Credits: Valve Software (wood plank sounds), Turtle Rock Studios (the rest of the sounds), The Zombie Killer (the idea even wrt to the implementation like speed-based sound volume)
[ZScript] Global Footsteps Proof-of-Concept
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DenisBelmondo
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Re: [ZScript] Global Footsteps Proof-of-Concept
Hi, I'm trying to implement Zombiekiller's mod. Do you have any advice? I cant get it to work.
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Enjay
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Re: [ZScript] Global Footsteps Proof-of-Concept
How do you mean "can't get it to work"? People will need a bit more than that to go on if they are to figure out the problem.
Is it crashing, not working properly, or not working at all?
What are you doing to try to get it to work? e.g. how are you loading it?
Any other mods that might be conflicting?
Anything else relevant?
Is it crashing, not working properly, or not working at all?
What are you doing to try to get it to work? e.g. how are you loading it?
Any other mods that might be conflicting?
Anything else relevant?