Viewable Weapons (Now compatible with PerK's smooth anims)

[Kostov]

Yes.



A mod with complex functions to create a simple idea - your player sprite will change weapons when you change weapons. This will only function if you play with an unmodified player class/unmodified weapons from the original game or Smooth Doom with the Smooth Doom compatible version of this mod below.

Download vanilla version

Download version compatible with PerK's smooth animations/Smooth Doom

To play with PerK's smooth anims, you need to load ViewablePkWeapons.wad after pk_anim1.wad or pk_anim2.wad. To play with Smooth Doom, load ViewablePkWeapons.wad after SmoothDoom.pk3.

All the included sprites come from here.

Credits:

Sergeant_Mark_IV's Brutal Doom, which uses the same method as Viewable Weapons does to change the sprite of the player when switching weapons. It is the base of this mod's idea.
Ghastly_dragon for helping me with the code, and giving me a line that would stop Doom from crashing unpredictably with this mod loaded.
A part of the people that made the sprites of Marine Skins. To be precise:

Fist Marine - Sprite by: Mark Quinn
Chainsaw Marine - Sprite by: Mark Quinn and Xenaero
Pistol Marine - Sprite by: Mark Quinn and Grimm
Shotgun Marine - Sprite by: Mark Quinn
Super Shotgun Marine - Sprite by: Xim, Xenaero and The Skulltag Team
Chaingun Marine - Sprite by: Anthony Cole
Rocket Marine - Sprite by: Xim
Plasma Marine - Sprite by: CaptainToenail
BFG9000 Marine - Sprite by: Toke

mallo for adjusting offsets of all the sprites.

[Rustygold]

Thanks! I really needed something like this for my mod of another mod!

[Kostov]

Happy to help.

[Onslaught Six]

Does this work in multiplayer/Zandronum? I'm curious.

[TheMightyHeracross]

There are wads out for Zandronum already for that- they have a Weapon.PreferredSkin property or something like that, so they have it easy.

[TehRealSalt]

Besides, the Weapon.PreferredSkin property is a lot less hacky than the implementation used here, so even if it worked in Zandronum, you shouldn't bother.

[Kostov]

I did this because ZDoom doesn't have a few features Zandronum does, such as a simple line to change weapons.

[Kostov]

Bumping once, since this seems to have been unnoticed at release, and because a version compatible with PerK smooth animations has been released.

[niculinux]

What doom shoul had since 1993! I wonder why not..execcively hurry to relase the game?

[xenoxols]

Probably floppy disk size limitations.

[wildweasel]

Maybe, back in 1993, they didn't think that players would be in much of a hurry to look at which weapon another player is carrying.

[mamaluigisbagel]

if this is ok for a first post, I'd like to point two things out with this mod, but before that, let me say that I've been looking for a mod like this forever, so thanks for making it!

1) Using pk_anim2.wad does not use the black gloves, but this is very minor.

2) Smooth Doom apparently uses pk_animations so the pk_anim compatible version is compatible with Smooth Doom as well! At least, as far as I've tested

[Kostov]

I thought pk_anim2 worked properly. Can you do a second check with only pk_anim2 and ViewablePkWeapons?

[mamaluigisbagel]

ok now it works properly when I do that. tbh I don't even know why it didn't work for me since Smooth Doom was off. Well nvm about that, so flawless so far

[Devianteist]

This will only function if you play with an unmodified player class/unmodified weapons from the original game.

Ironic, considering this won't load because of an error stating "No player classes defined."

Does anyone know why this might be? (I'm also using Smooth DOOM, smooth textures, and pkdoomSFX)?