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The screenshots look gorgeous! Keep up the good work and good luck! :D

Looks pretty cool, gives me systemshock 2 vibes. Also the 3D doomguy portrait, although a pretty cool feature, is a little uncanny and unsettling for some reason. Good luck on the project, hope you guys manage to see it all the way through.

39 minutes ago, grouchbag said:

The screenshots look gorgeous! Keep up the good work and good luck! :D

Thank you!

13 minutes ago, Count651 said:

Looks pretty cool, gives me systemshock 2 vibes. Also the 3D doomguy portrait, although a pretty cool feature, is a little uncanny and unsettling for some reason. Good luck on the project, hope you guys manage to see it all the way through.

Yeah, heh, well, I'm a way old school Doomer.  Those newfangled huds that just show health, armor and ammo in little icons and such, just always seemed too else-Doom for me.

And here I am saying 'Else-Doom' when I'm making maps that are else-Doom!  Hee!

But I digress.

I just always liked that old-school status bar.  It was there when I first started playing Doom, yep, back in 93, so it's always gotta be there, and scaled to fit the whole bottom of the screen, or it just isn't playing Doom for me!

Oh and I forgot to mention, we are building this in GZDoomBuilder - UDMF format.

We are making the map to work in either GZDoom or Zandronum.  Gameplay will be mostly focused on the single-player experience, however.  We are designing it to work well in 'Cooperative' play, also.  Deathmatch might be a bit of a tossup.  I prefer to focus mostly on atmosphere and story.  The maps will be able to be played in deathmatch, but they may leave some lacking for a good experience with it.

Some more screenshots.  Progress is being rapidly made!

That is some good looking stuff!

Okay, we're humming right along.  However, the map is starting to become complex enough, that I am starting to worry about maximums.

So here is what I have so far:

Look to the lower right.  It's listing the numbers of things, sidedefs, etc I have in the map so far.  Is there a ceiling I need to be worried about?  Someone in the know please let me know.

Thanks!

More teasers!

On 2/18/2019 at 2:57 AM, Barefootstallion said:

Okay, we're humming right along.  However, the map is starting to become complex enough, that I am starting to worry about maximums.

 

So here is what I have so far:

 

 

Look to the lower right.  It's listing the numbers of things, sidedefs, etc I have in the map so far.  Is there a ceiling I need to be worried about?  Someone in the know please let me know.

 

Thanks!

The limit you'll realistically run into are the number of sidedefs. You can have 65536 unique sidedefs (at least when playing the map in an limit removing engine), so you are still far off of that. Thanks to sidedef compression you can go beyond that limitation. The DB2 family editors will automatically compress sidedefs as needed.

9 minutes ago, boris said:

The limit you'll realistically run into are the number of sidedefs. You can have 65536 unique sidedefs (at least when playing the map in an limit removing engine), so you are still far off of that. Thanks to sidedef compression you can go beyond that limitation. The DB2 family editors will automatically compress sidedefs as needed.

Muchos gracias, senior boris! :D

Just spotted this now. Lookin' good Barefootstallion ... :)

I just wanted to chime in here for a moment. I've been learning a lot while working on this project. It's also nice to have examples to work from. While @Barefootstallionworks on the maps, my tasks are more on the back-end. Scripting, weapon mods, actor mods, etc. It started as just adding a monster or two and then ballooned from there. Once I started to understand DECORATE, ACS, and ZScript, I started to ask myself "What else can I do?" It's tempting to throw everything and the kitchen sink into this, but BFS is helping me to keep it tasteful. :)

Looks pretty cool. I do love that HUD.

12 minutes ago, HAK3180 said:

Looks pretty cool. I do love that HUD.

That's a HD version of the DOOM HUD. It was on the ModDB. We're actually working on a more thematically fitting HUD for this, now that I got my head around SBARINFO.

On 2/19/2019 at 5:23 AM, hawkwind said:

Just spotted this now. Lookin' good Barefootstallion ... :)

Thanks a lot, Hawkwind. :)

Because... Rock!

@Barefootstallion Is the WAD going to include those hi-res textures, or is it a separate thing you're using on your end?

19 minutes ago, KVELLER said:

@Barefootstallion Is the WAD going to include those hi-res textures, or is it a separate thing you're using on your end?

They'll be included. The Hi-Res Doom textures themselves can be found on moddb, but the rest of them will be included in the pk3.

Not in the wad, exactly.  They'll be in pk3 files.  But yes, they'll be included.

Alright, thanks!

And we have the coolest airlock evar!

Oh and as to that weird blue thing down at the lower right, don't give it much mind.  That's just a bit of a HUD we were experimenting with.  That is going to be replaced with something a little more tasteful. :)

As to the airlock, though, you just gotta agree that it's cool. :D

And a video-capture!

This is the alt fire for the plasma rifle.  It is still very much a WIP, especially with the muzzle animation and the like, but it at least gives you an idea of what it does.

On a related note, it will kill the cyberdemon with two shots.

This project is providing me with a lot of chalenges. I've never done scripting stuff like this before, but it seems like I'm taking to it quite well. I have to wonder though, does anyone else ever feel like the more you learn about something, the less you feel you know? That's what I've got going on. I've also discovered that if I go back and look at the early code I did, I end up refactoring it.

Quick question for anyone with ZScript experience: Can you do Delay commands in there? I tried but GZDoom wasn't happy with it.

Thanks.

On 3/21/2019 at 11:40 PM, Daryn said:

This project is providing me with a lot of chalenges. I've never done scripting stuff like this before, but it seems like I'm taking to it quite well. I have to wonder though, does anyone else ever feel like the more you learn about something, the less you feel you know? That's what I've got going on. I've also discovered that if I go back and look at the early code I did, I end up refactoring it.

 

Quick question for anyone with ZScript experience: Can you do Delay commands in there? I tried but GZDoom wasn't happy with it.

 

Thanks.

Provide an example of what you are trying to achieve (or explain more widely).

Basically, AFAIK, you need to override a Tick() function for you class (pretty much like you'd do this in C++), create class-based variables, and decrease/increase them in Tick() (every tick is 1/35 of a second). And into other functions you should put the code to check for those variables (or reset them), and make something happen when their values has changed from the "delay value" to zero (that will mean the timer has expired).

In A Few Words: Use Tick() func to count portions of time (via a variables), use other functions to check for those variables and make something when the requirements are met. Of course, those vars should be internal & private for the class.

well, it looks wonderful! i hope that weapons and monsters  animation will be smooth too!

On 3/21/2019 at 9:40 PM, Daryn said:

the more you learn about something, the less you feel you know? 

Thats a classic

2 hours ago, elden4 said:

well, it looks wonderful! i hope that weapons and monsters  animation will be smooth too!

Heh, we're going to make things as smooth and as realistic as possible.  However, while I wish I was, I am no artist.  I can make great maps, do some pretty cool stuff in Photoshop, but I couldn't draw anything to save my life!  But we're trying.  We've got a load of custom and remade weapons.  We're putting alternate fire on all the weapons.  We have a thrown grenade.  And... we're doing away with the BFG, and are replacing it with a drone.

The drone is interesting.  It'll be a pickup-able item, collected as ammo, but when you release it, it goes and fights for you.  It's powerful enough, too, to be a hail mary weapon.  Two of them fighting in concert can often defeat the cyberdemon.  Not easily, though.  Three of them will slaughter it.  But sometimes the cyberdemon will prevail against two.

The drone looks like a quad-copter, except with small jets instead of rotors.

Also, we have collected 17 monsters from the 667 archive.  We're remaking most of them, though, so those experienced Doomers in our community will be in for a bit of a surprise.  We're also going to experiment with a Hexen-like mapset.  You'll have to traverse back and forth across the maps to solve complex puzzles.  We're putting a great deal of thought into it, too, so it ought to be a very satisfying experience.

But it's still a work in progress.  It'll probably be several months before we have anything to release.  But it'll be something to look forward to.  We're certainly working to make these maps memorable.

28 minutes ago, Barefootstallion said:

 

Heh, we're going to make things as smooth and as realistic as possible.  However, while I wish I was, I am no artist.  I can make great maps, do some pretty cool stuff in Photoshop, but I couldn't draw anything to save my life!  But we're trying.  We've got a load of custom and remade weapons.  We're putting alternate fire on all the weapons.  We have a thrown grenade.  And... we're doing away with the BFG, and are replacing it with a drone.

 

The drone is interesting.  It'll be a pickup-able item, collected as ammo, but when you release it, it goes and fights for you.  It's powerful enough, too, to be a hail mary weapon.  Two of them fighting in concert can often defeat the cyberdemon.  Not easily, though.  Three of them will slaughter it.  But sometimes the cyberdemon will prevail against two.

 

The drone looks like a quad-copter, except with small jets instead of rotors.

 

Also, we have collected 17 monsters from the 667 archive.  We're remaking most of them, though, so those experienced Doomers in our community will be in for a bit of a surprise.  We're also going to experiment with a Hexen-like mapset.  You'll have to traverse back and forth across the maps to solve complex puzzles.  We're putting a great deal of thought into it, too, so it ought to be a very satisfying experience.

 

But it's still a work in progress.  It'll probably be several months before we have anything to release.  But it'll be something to look forward to.  We're certainly working to make these maps memorable.

wow seems an incredible and wonderful job , make me think about the stronghold mapset but with a consecutive story more than a select your mission from a base .

in later time why don't you think to implement a sort of "horde mode" too ? i think it could be really fun!!

1 hour ago, elden4 said:

horde mode

Horde mode?  What is this?  I must know!