The WIP Thread

[Viscra Maelstrom]

When I said Fallout in Doom, what I had in mind were more like, weapon mods or monster mods, I didn't think a full open world Fallout when I wrote that. =P But as you've already figured out, real open spaces are out of the question. The most "open" you could get within engine limits is if you were to design your levels like in Strife. I think that's a good compromise for the Doom engine. There will be lots of walls so you have to make up for it by giving the player the ILLUSION that the world is big - slower player speed, many maps inside 1 hub, etc etc. Not open world visually but conceptually.

there's been a lot of gameplay mods that emulates weapon-modification and stats. DoomRL Arsenal comes to mind. i guess if you took the shell of that mod, slapped it into an open-world adventure game, you'd have one hell of a time-waster right there. 'course, getting it to run okay might be a problem.

[TheBadHustlex]

I can not use Hubs, unfortunatly. 60 Maps + BD-Effects + Enemies that need to respawn in order to keep things fresh = Impossible with Hubs. You'd probably run out of memory.

The last big thing you'll see from me in a while, since school is on again.

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A crafting-ACS-system. As shown, use -forward- and -backward- to scroll up and down. Press -jump- to craft, and -crouch- to exit.
If you got a blueprint, it will show it instead of "???". It checks if you got all the items and gives you the thing you crafted successfully. AND it displays a random funny quote everytime you fail or succeed. There will be a bar on the right side of the paper that tells you how many of which items you have, because there are quite some ingredients around there, and having them all in the inventory bar would just stuff it up unnecessarily. Plus, you don't need these ingredients for anything but crafting. It technically works.

However, the actor-names are still the original ones, and not the ones that looks aesthatically pleasing. There are no icons for crafting outcomes yet, and some icons are not getting displayed for some reason at all. And sometimes, the it just says "no".

But hey. I technically have a functioning crafting-system in my OW now. I'm doing my best to fill it with interesting things.

[Ribo Zurai]

Oh man, this wad surely has everything! Better it come with a cooking simulator as well.

[Mikk-]

Ow that font. That's awful to read. You don't suppose you could use a font thats even remotely readable? It also looks particularly hard to read on that background

[TheBadHustlex]

Hm. I'll see what I can do. I'll grab that Font-Generator Tool that I used for this one again. I'll just need a good readable horror/cartoon-like font first. I will see.

[Viscra Maelstrom]

it'd also help if the font on the paper weren't white. if it were a dark color it'd be better. or make the background dark instead.

also, i spy some Swedish in there.

[kodi]

Hm. I'll see what I can do. I'll grab that Font-Generator Tool that I used for this one again. I'll just need a good readable horror/cartoon-like font first. I will see.

My suggestions:

"Jupiter crash" or "xox".

The former is more readable than the latter. Take care to turn off text anti-aliasing in windows before you start the font generator, make sure the pt size you select is an even multiple of the intended one for the font, and that the font generator is actually generating the size you chose (I had to set it to 12 when I wanted 10 for some reason).

also, i spy some Swedish in there.

It's german

[Viscra Maelstrom]

really now? that would explain the spelling of Saphir, but Diamant, Rubin and Smaragd is literally exactly the same way you spell those things in Swedish.

[kodi]

really now? that would explain the spelling of Saphir, but Diamant, Rubin and Smaragd is literally exactly the same way you spell those things in Swedish.

I'm aware of that, being Swedish myself

[abbuw]

Getting close-ish to finishing this area. The ceiling with the two pipes running on it looks really barren and bad, that needs to change sometime!

[Captain J]

ooh boy, i don't know why, but it gives me a dead space feeling! nice map, those grid floors are nice touch!

[TheBadHustlex]

My suggestions:

"Jupiter crash" or "xox".

The former is more readable than the latter. Take care to turn off text anti-aliasing in windows before you start the font generator, make sure the pt size you select is an even multiple of the intended one for the font, and that the font generator is actually generating the size you chose (I had to set it to 12 when I wanted 10 for some reason).

Jupiter Crash looks good. I think I'll take this one. Thanks!
Yeah, I have the weird habit of mixing up German and English in my actor-names. Makes me remember them easier.

[NeuralStunner]

But as you've already figured out, real open spaces are out of the question. The most "open" you could get within engine limits is if you were to design your levels like in Strife. I think that's a good compromise for the Doom engine. There will be lots of walls so you have to make up for it by giving the player the ILLUSION that the world is big - slower player speed, many maps inside 1 hub, etc etc. Not open world visually but conceptually.

That's the problem, though... You can't do outdoor spaces properly. In this case I'd even be fine with a foggy one. (Has Graf ever made an official statement about draw distance limiting?)

Just think though, if we have ZZYZX's portal system, you could have "cells" that are linked and unlinked as needed. You really could make something Elder-Scrolls-like.

I'll PM you some stuff I've been working on soon.

Sounds good.

[Ribo Zurai]

I was trying to figure out how HudMessage worked properly...

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When I got carried away.

[Captain J]

She awakes, she talks and she annihilates. While on her service.