Sourceports that adds modern vibes without lossing the feeling?

[Old-Doomguy]

Hai!

 

I've just now gotten back to Doom, I haven't really played it since the 90s.

 

Anyway I want to be a nostalgia nerd but there are some things I believe could enchance the game, especially for the younger audience (I'm going to have my 6 year old play this soon)

Is there a sourceport that retains original mechanics ie no vertical mouselook, no jump, no crouch etc BUT ALSO ADDS
Dynamic lightning (as good as can be in the engine)
Dynamic shadows (as good as can be in the engine)
Dynamic muzzle flashes
I.E some more modern eye-candy only.

 

Any ideas?

[ETTiNGRiNDER]

The naive answer would be: use GZDoom and turn off the mouselook/jump/crouch/other things that bother you options?  But that depends on whether you consider "original mechanics" to also mean strict demo compatibility or not.  I think every other port that adds eye candy stuff has things like jump/crouch/etc and broken demo compatiblity too (k8vavoom, 3DGE, etc).  Doomsday might not, but I feel like Doomsday has been slowly but surely losing relevance these days much like Doom Legacy did, worth a look if you don't like the other options I suppose.

[D4NUK1]

Vadadoom maybe? It's pretty eyecandy too.

[Redneckerz]

You asked something very similar prior in January.  My garbage post in terms of formatting may help out.

 

49 minutes ago, Old-Doomguy said:

Is there a sourceport that retains original mechanics ie no vertical mouselook, no jump, no crouch etc

Chocolate or Crispy (Crispy brings some visual enchancements)

49 minutes ago, Old-Doomguy said:

BUT ALSO ADDS

Dynamic lightning (as good as can be in the engine)

GZDoom/LZDoom/Vavoom/DoomsDay. Dynamic lights are relatively common in OpenGL based ports.

49 minutes ago, Old-Doomguy said:

Dynamic shadows (as good as can be in the engine)

Depends what one means. Doom3 style stencil shadows are in Vavoom and K8Vavoom. All other high end stuff is GZDoom these days.

49 minutes ago, Old-Doomguy said:

Dynamic muzzle flashes

This is likely not an in-engine visual feature, but it can be done by a mod.

49 minutes ago, Old-Doomguy said:

I.E some more modern eye-candy only.

 

Any ideas?

That would be GZDoom.

[elend]

Check out "Vanilla Essence" for GzDoom. You can customize it (along with GzDoom for stuff like controls) absolutely to your liking and the results look oldschool, yet... updated. Combine that with something like SmoothDoom and SmoothTextures and it looks god damn amazing.

[ketmar]

17 hours ago, Old-Doomguy said:

Is there a sourceport that retains original mechanics ie no vertical mouselook, no jump, no crouch etc BUT ALSO ADDS

eh. i'm pretty sure that any "modern" sourceport has options to turn off all those things. with jumping and crouching it is easy: just don't bind keys to those actions. ;-) vertical mouselook usually can be turned off either via explicit option, or by setting vertical mouse sensitivity to zero.

[ketmar]

16 hours ago, Redneckerz said:

Doom3 style stencil shadows are in Vavoom and K8Vavoom.

lightmapped shadows too! dynamic lights are runtime-traced, with shadows. ;-) but only in k8vavoom. and shadow volumes in Vavoom... just don't. even if you have GPU from the next decade, just don't. ;-)