[WIP] DoomCraft - Minecraft in ZDoom!

[icelink256]

Damn! This is some impressive code! O_O

...Please tell me you're planning to work on a proper Minecraft Mod, of some sort. Even if it's simpler, and more restricted.

Because I have a few simple ideas, of ways you could procedurally generate some game elements, like trees, using spawn templates.

SLAB6? That's the fancy voxel thing made by Ken Silverman, isn't it?
There should be a pull-down menu of some kind with a paste option, for the different sides of a cube, if I recall correctly. I don't remember too well how the positioning in that thing works, though.

...How well does ZDoom handle voxels, out of curiosity?
Even just a 32x32x32 block map, would be a thing.

[The Zombie Killer]

Please tell me you're planning to work on a proper Minecraft Mod, of some sort. Even if it's simpler, and more restricted.

That pretty much sums up my plans for this mod

Because I have a few simple ideas, of ways you could procedurally generate some game elements, like trees, using spawn templates.

I'm interested.

There should be a pull-down menu of some kind with a paste option, for the different sides of a cube, if I recall correctly. I don't remember too well how the positioning in that thing works, though.

It's all done through pressing the shift key and dragging the mouse, but I can't paste it on all the sides I need because you have to press Page Up/Page Down, and my laptop doesn't have that on its keyboard (as its own key)

How well does ZDoom handle voxels, out of curiosity?

Relatively decently, it's not great, but not terrible either.

[Lisac_the_fox]

Better than first version, but still i can't place block on a block!
Edit: I found a way, just look down.

[Lisac_the_fox]

Imps trying to get intro my castle, they pushing the blocks. Conclusion: I think blocks should have more mass!

[Voxelbro]

Tip about SLAB6: don't do the bulk of your voxel on it. Seriously. I recomend MagicaVoxel, that's what I use
take this voxel https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1iew26z2c8el9/
due to voxel limitations ( all faces must have the same color), it's not possible to be an exact copy

[The Zombie Killer]

but still i can't place block on a block!

That's because of a bug, only the last block placed will be detected by the code and be enabled to have blocks on top of it.
The first version fixed that bug, but then introduced a new bug which made it so it was very difficult or impossible to place a block next to another block.

Imps trying to get intro my castle, they pushing the blocks. Conclusion: I think blocks should have more mass!

I know about this bug, and I know how to fix it, I was just too lazy to fix it at the time
It'll be fixed in the next version.

Tip about SLAB6: don't do the bulk of your voxel on it. Seriously. I recomend MagicaVoxel, that's what I use

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out

[T_Silverwolf]

Hey there,

If you have the cube you attempted to model available (assuming it conforms to 16x16 doom units), I'd be happy to model and UV map another one for you. I've been wanting to mess around with doom's scale but I've been really busy lately so I don't have the time to actually sit down and figure it out point for point.

Brilliant work with the code, by the way. Quite something to see!

[Lisac_the_fox]

Is there anyway to fix the block-on-block problem?

[The Zombie Killer]

If you have the cube you attempted to model available (assuming it conforms to 16x16 doom units), I'd be happy to model and UV map another one for you. I've been wanting to mess around with doom's scale but I've been really busy lately so I don't have the time to actually sit down and figure it out point for point.

Sadly, I don't have the model anymore. It didn't fit exactly into 16x16 units anyway, it was closer to 15.5x15.5

Is there anyway to fix the block-on-block problem?

I've been trying to, but I can't seem to find a way at the moment. I'll figure it out eventually (I hope)
Then I can finally start adding things like monsters and more block types.

[Nash]

The problem with using voxels for the blocks is that if you decide to go serious with this project, modding support would become a little difficult because voxel creation isn't intuitive (and not everyone has experience using voxel editors; they're quite intimidating) and would require a lot of effort just to update the assets. With MD3 models, the user can just drop in their texture replacement images and everything will be propagated on the fly.

However, use MD3s and you'll make the mod unplayable for software renderer users...

Pick your poison. XD

(On a side note, sometimes I'd misread this thread title as McDoom, and can't help but imagine McDonald's...)

[Lisac_the_fox]

The problem with using voxels for the blocks is that if you decide to go serious with this project, modding support would become a little difficult because voxel creation isn't intuitive (and not everyone has experience using voxel editors; they're quite intimidating) and would require a lot of effort just to update the assets. With MD3 models, the user can just drop in their texture replacement images and everything will be propagated on the fly.

However, use MD3s and you'll make the mod unplayable for software renderer users...

Pick your poison. XD

(On a side note, sometimes I'd misread this thread title as McDoom, and can't help but imagine McDonald's...)

Please stay on voxels, my comp cant run openGL, and i will make you blocks and items.

[Ed the Bat]

(On a side note, sometimes I'd misread this thread title as McDoom, and can't help but imagine McDonald's...)

I thought I was the only one!

[Captain J]

need to change the name? why not DoomCraft(or DoomineCraft If it exists)?

[Triple S]

I see this being very useful for Invasion modes. Build a basic fort, obtain points by killing mobs, use points for specialty parts and stronger blocks.

Or even DoomForts! Would love to see SourceForts remade in the Doom engine, especially from back before it was class-based and more limited.

[The Zombie Killer]

GZDoom allows a modder to use both models and voxels at the same time. So I'll probably go down that route.
If anyone can give be a 16x16 UV-mapped cube, I'll love them forever.

Please stay on voxels, my comp cant run openGL, and i will make you blocks and items.

You might wanna get a new PC then if you can't run GL mode
Don't worry though, I'll still have voxels there for software users. If I can get a model they'll be converted from it with poly2vox.

need to change the name? why not DoomCraft

Poll!

I see this being very useful for Invasion modes. Build a basic fort, obtain points by killing mobs, use points for specialty parts and stronger blocks.

Or even DoomForts! Would love to see SourceForts remade in the Doom engine, especially from back before it was class-based and more limited.

I'll probably end up going in that direction for the mod, dunno yet though.