Agent_Ash

Hello, everyone! The Revised version of RA is finally here (I actually planned to get it here by 31 December, but duh...) Thanks to Benoit Spacher for the new titlepic! I slightly remade it though, but the idea is totally there. 2023 update: In the interest of preservation, the mod has been reuploaded and is now available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zQmWGKFcMa41X6DkHBzbwqPRlkDwo-9C/view?usp=sharing * The mod * Well, firstly, I worked with sprites. Actually, remade them by hand again starting with the initial resources. I'm not going to lie: many frames still have this horrible grey outlining, BUT the sprites are now 640x480 and with much better brightness/contrast. So generally they are 4 times better. And the mod is 4 times larger, of course. The mod concerns only MODERN Russian weaponry, i.e. the weapons currently in wide use in Russia. You will not find here AK-47 (only 74 version), Mosin, PPSh or any other old guns. The weapons in the mod are: 1. army knife 2.1 Makarov Pistol 2.2 OTs-33 "Pernach" auto pistol 3.1 Saiga-12 semi-auto shotgin 3.2 TOZ-34 double-barrelled hunting shotgun 4. PP-19 "Bizon" 9mm SMG 5. RG-6 revolver-type grenade launcher 6. AK-74 7. RPG-7 Again, there are much newer Russian weapons not included in this mod: the mod presents only widely used weapons, not just the newest developments (so you won't find here AN-94, Makarov-Shigapov, or RPG-32). There are also no sniper rifles here, as most Doom levels don't require sniping weapons, while AK-74 is rather accurate in the mod. * Various stuff * Similarly to coming Beautiful Doom 5.1, empty casings and debris disappear after a while when you don't see them and blood finally vanishes on water. BulletPuff/ricochet has improved smoke and spark effects. * Weapon stuff * I removed Fists which were't useful. Now Chainsaw is replaced with a new pistol: OTs-33 Pernach (http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg/rus/ots-33-pernach-e.html), a fully automatic 9mm pistol. If you press fire button not constantly, it'll shoot in single shots. Single shots are more precise than Makarov's, while full auto mode has very large spread, but very high firespeed (the highest of all weapons, 850-950 shots/min). Knife is faster, it now also has an alt.attack: dash-stabbing. Both damage and dash distance increase dramatically with Berserk. RG-6 reload is improved: you should hold down alt.attack button to keep reloading it, thus if you face an enemy and have an empty clip, you can load just one grenade and shoot instead of waiting till the whole clip is loaded. AK-74 now has realistic variable firespeed (about 550-650 shots/min) and slightly increased damage. RPG-7 now has improved smoke effects and a backblast zone: everything in several meters behind you will be damaged when you shoot. Yeah, that's why Russian soldiers try not to shoot it when lying on the ground. Check RUSARSR.TXT and WEAPDESC.TXT for more.

An award for Painslayer was unexpected and awesome. Thanks for the kind words and the wonderful review! I'm quite proud of this project, and it makes me very happy to see the recognition of my favorite community. Expect more fun mods in the future! ;) P.S. I finally updated my nickname from Jekyll Grim Payne to Agent_Ash here. Sorry if this causes any confusion :)

THIS THREAD WILL NOT BE UPDATED FURTHER. I've posted Beautiful Doom on many resources, and manging updates on all of them is getting too difficult. This thread will still contain the link to the dropbox folder with all updates and the general information about the mod. If you want to participate in the discussion about the mod, head to the mod's ZDoom forum thread. You can also find the mod on the ModDB page. VERSION 6.1.4 is out * FIXED -- Picked-up weapons now give the correct amount of ammo (I was able to track down the issue that was causing ammo errors, thanks Someone64) -- Destructible decorations (lamps, victims, hanging bodies) can no longer be pushed by kicks or Enhanced Shotgun's alt. attack * IMPROVED/SFX -- Added new smoother sprite flames for torches, candles and candelabras -- Candles and candelabras now have a different flame from torches -- Replaced light halos with smoother ones (with less obvious edges) -- Arachnotron's plasmaballs now has a yellowish-green hue instead of pure green. It's more similar to vanilla and also harder to confuse with Baron's fireballs. -- Plasmaballs now have shorter trail and smaller halo so they don't obstruct vision too much -- Small generic pieces of meat now spawn smaller blood while limbs spawn bigger blood -- Objects falling on hard surfaces (like guns dropped by enemies) no longer produce unnecessary hard terrain sounds (they still produce liquid splashes) -- Added special death animations for monsters when they're telefragged or killed via console. Previously they just spawned lots of gibs without any momentum which then fell down; now they show basic gibbing animation and spawn blood spurts, which looks better and doesn't cause that much slowdowns when using 'kill monstes'. * IMPROVED/OPTIMIZATION -- Adjusted light halos and light sources code so that it consumes less memory -- Plasma Railgun's ray is now surrounded with blue halo only for a limited part of its length, so that it consumes less memory when firing over very long distances -- Similarly to blood pools change in previous update, reduced the frequency of checks for the state of Gibs Toggle option which should reduce slowdowns cause by multiple gibs on older systems

[UPDATED POST (originally there was a discussion/questions here)] THIS THREAD WILL NOT BE UPDATED FURTHER. I've posted Beautiful Doom on many resources, and manging updates on all of them is getting too difficult. This thread will still contain the link to the dropbox folder with all updates and the general information about the mod. If you want to participate in the discussion about the mod, head to the mod's ZDoom forum thread. You can also find the mod on the ModDB page. BEAUTIFUL DOOM 6.1 IS OUT! DOWNLOADS * Beautiful Doom 7.x exists on Github: https://github.com/jekyllgrim/Beautiful-Doom/releases * 6.1: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ulachff6zorv95w/AAA3OLR2hApKI9Iwe6WDlBIGa?dl=0 (choose the latest version for the appropriate port) If you've never heard of it — here's a list of features and a trailer. REQUIRED PORT: GZDoom 2.1.1 or Zandronum 3.0 or ZDoom 2.8.1 TRAILER! New 6.1.3 trailer: Older 6.1 trailer: FEATURES: (for those who've never heard of it) Beautiful Doom is a GZDoom mod that remakes all objects and monsters in the game to look more impressive, cool, bloody, you name it, but it RETAINS 100% ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY. It works with ZDoom too, however objects that use 'renderstyle Add' cause some noticeable lag. I recommend playing under this port with turned off debris and fire effects (see 'Beautiful Doom Settings' under Options in the game). It has: * Smoothly-animated weapons with smoke, empty casings, new sounds and stuff that have Doom's original performance * A set of rebalanced weapons called 'Enhanced Guns': they have alternative attacks and provide more tactical variety * HD weapon pickup sprites and hi-res main item sprites * New deaths, animated blood, lots of special effects for monsters * Physically accurate gibs, unique for every 'gibbable' enemy * Interactive decorations: breakable lamps, killable impaled victims, etc. * Light effects, halos, fire, smoke, whatever there is * Footsteps, smooth water, and lots of other stuff

VERSION 6.1.3.1 hotfix || January 12, 2017 *** IMPROVED ******* Reduced the frequency of checks for the number of existing blood pools which should reduce slowdowns on older systems ******* Made the blood pool number checks less glitchy *** FIXED ******* Fixed a bug that caused Zombieman to never drop an extra pistol when using Enhanced Guns ******* Clip starting amount is now 50 (despite what previous version's changelog said, it was still incorrect) ******* Arachnotron now also has BFG death (like Plasma death but with blood) ******* Mancubus now doesn't skip initial frames of BFG death animation

VERSION 6.1.3 is out! *** CHANGED - (Zandronum) Added separate version for Zandronum because certain 6.1.3 features aren't supported even by its development builds - By popular demand the mod file naming convention is changed: it's now BDoom###.pk3, where ### refers to the version number (in this case 613) -- (Zandronum) The Zandronum file is named BDznd###.pk3 - Advanced effects are now controlled via 'Beautiful Doom Settings' menu under 'Options'; can also be changed via custom CVARs (starting with "bdoom_") - Changed normal statusbar: it no longer includes Doomguy's face (as much as I liked it, it looked weird and just blocked part of the weapon sprite) - Added fullscreen HUD (can be seen only if Alternative Hud is off): a simple hud similar to ZDoom's Alternative HUD but with a little more information and with Doomguy's face above health value *** ADDED - The number of existing blood drops is now controlled via a corresponding option under 'Beautiful Doom Settings'; can also be changed via bdoom_bloodnum CVAR - The number of existing debris is now is now controlled via a corresponding option under 'Beautiful Doom Settings'; can also be changed via bdoom_debrisnum CVAR - Ricochet/chainsaw spark sounds can now be disabled under 'Beautiful Doom Settings' in case you find them annoying; doesn't affect animation - Replaced skull cursor in the main menu with a modified Lost Soul animation - Icon of Sin's spawn cubes now leave yellow fire trail behind them and have some additional fire effects on spawning monsters - Arachnotron now also has a black/smoky death (from fire/plasma damage) *** IMPROVED/CHANGED - Enhanced Fist now has a different alternative attack: a kick. It's stronger than the punch but also slower, and is slows you down during the animation (because hard to walk while kicking). Knocks enemies back similar to Hexen's Disc of Repulsion (barefly affects big enemies, though). Kick speed, damage, and pushback effect increase with Berserk. Punching is still faster, easier and more reliable, but have fun playing King Leonidas! -- (Zandronum) For technical reason, in Zandronum version the kick temporarily stops you instead of slowing you down - ((G)ZDoom) When a monster is resurrected, its gibs and most of its blood slowly fade out which gives a nicer effect and shows that the monster is alive again - Improved blooddrop sprites - Enemies leave less blood pools when shot (the amount of blood during gibbing is unchanged) - Light halos are now invisible when the player can't see the light source, which conserves resources - Particle fire is also invisible when outside the player's LOS, so multiple Lost Souls hidden behind walls won't slow down your computer too much -- As an added bonus, this makes Lost Soul dynamic lights invisible when they're behind a wall, like in Doom 2 map 13 - Pinky's head now has a smaller sprite (seemed too big before) - Enhanced Shotgun's alternative attack has been reworked and is now similar to the kick, but generally less effective than the latter; it is still effective as part of the pushback+shoot combo (works well on imps and zombies) - Enhcnaed Shotgun's attack timing has been adjusted, so that primary and secondary attacks can be more effectively cancelled into each other to allow a kind of simple combo - Fist hits the wall with a different, 'drier' sound - The halo of Plasma Railgun fades out more slowly for a nicer effect - Chainsaw initial puff sprites appear lower, closer to the position of the blade - Smoke effcts look slightly more varied (less like a straight line of sprites) - Smoke rising over weapon barrels is now less opaque - Adjusted Column (small floor lamp) sprite position to better align with the light halo (remember that using different sprite clipping modes can still offset the position of the sprites) *** FIXED - The shotgun now has correct vanilla fire rate (used to be 3 tics faster because I screwed up) - Starting amount of bullets is now correctly 50 (was 70) - (Zandronum) Light halos no longer remain after a lamp is destroyed by explosions - All weapon sprites now have unique non-vanilla names, so if the mod is used along with anoter wad which replaces certain vanilla sprites, that wad won't draw its sprites over the mod's frames - Puffs now don't create solid terrain sounds when spawned on flats - Fixed a minor glitchy frame in the Fist animation following the hit - Slightly improved sprites in the chainsaw idle animation - Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause empty casings to spawn even if debris were disabled - Pinky/Spectre heads don't collide so much with actors

The water effects only work for Doom water textures. The effects are tied to specific texture names, so since other PWADs may have their own water textures, there's no way to make the effects appear on all of them. Sad but true. The only thing I can do is try to fix the bug that led to frozen animation.

Huh, I never noticed that (and you're the first one to do so, thank you). Apparently, it's another screw up on my part. I'll try to find out why that happened. The second one isn't possible in any reasonable way. The first one, as far as I remember, was done via 3D models. While it looked nice, unfortunately, I'm not planning to include that for many reasons, including performance, full ZDoom compatibility and my own belief it doesn't work with the design idea of my mod.

1. Blimey, you're right! I actually screwed up with this one, and it fires 3 tics faster. Totally a mistake on my part. I'm going to fix this as soon as I can. 2. Yes, it's the same sounds. With perkristian's permission I incorporated his HD sounds into my mod. 3. I'll think about a way. For now you can do this: - Open BDoom_61.pk3 - Open BDoom_MAIN.wad - Open DECORATE - Find a string that says seesound "weapons/ricochet" and replace it with seesound "" - Save all changes inside archives

No, these errors aren't important at all. They appear because Ultimate Doom, Plutonia and Evilution don't have Megasphere in them. They won't affect gameplay or anything else at all. Well, unless you try to spawn megasphere via console, then you'll see that it's invisible, but apart from that you can't see Megasphere in those wads because it only exists in Doom II.

I really don't see what the problem was with Second Infuscomus. It's not that hard, and there's the Easy difficulty which I could easily beat. The reviewer makes it sound hopeless, but it's an interesting concept, even though IMO it requires more work and more space to create the actual "Slenderman-haunted-by-a-monster" feel.

VERSION 6.1.0.2 *** CHANGE: now GZDoom 2.1.1 or ZDoom 2.8.1 are required (earlier versions won't work). Zandronum 3.0 is still fine. *** FIXED - IMPORTANT: gibs used to block teleporting monsters. Now with +ALWAYSTELEFRAG flag they don't. - Hell Knight doesn't show Baron of Hell sprites in one of his resurrection animations. *** IMPROVED - Vanilla Supershotgun's reload animation is more similar to the classic one (you put in both rounds simultaneously)

Well, I don't care about multiplayer stuff because IMO it sucks and nothing can help it, but the singleplayer campaign definitely suggests a sequel, so I guess there's that. I wouldn't mind a DLC for a reasonable price with a reasonable amount of content. Also I'd love to see a real map editor, not that kiddie Snapmap garbage.

Do you mean to say that the gibs themselves prevent monsters from teleporting on top of them? That's very weird. I see no reason why they would. Perhaps it's somehow connected to NOBLOCKMAP flag... I'll try to test it.

I just uploaded 6.1.0.1 where the new status bar only replaces Doom's original status bar while ZDoom's standard fullscreen status bar remains unchanged. You can also use the internal alternative hud. Or open up the mod and delete SBARINFO from BDoom_MAIN.wad. I don't quite understand what you mean by 'modifier for the original SSG reload'. Make the animation like original? I suppose it's theoretically possible, although I'm not sure. But in any case that would take time that I unfortunately do not really have now. And I'm sorry but I'm not especially willing to adapt the mod for everyone's requests. I do listen to requests and suggestions, I try to take them into account, but there's really a lot of them out there and I cannot just work with everything. I think the mod already has really quite a lot of flexibility.

Hey, guys. I decided to finally upload version 6.1.0.0. Sorry it's been so long. I wanted to release it along with the updated trailer, but I simply don't have enough time right now and I can't get around to doing it. So no updated trailer for now :( But the mod has been updated. Nothing major, mostly cosmetic and bug fixes. I think I'll now also upload it to Doomworld. VERSION 6.1.0.0 *** FIXED - In 6.0.9.9 Enhanced Guns still worked in Deathmatch because I made a mistake in the script. Now they don't. - Dual Pistols don't spawn in Deathmatch games - Fixed a bug where Shotgun Guy would stay mirrored (walk backwards) after being resurrected by an Arch-Vile - Fixed a bug where Imp would show incorrect resurrecting animation after one of the 2 possible "plasma death" animations - Cacodemon now shows corret resurrection animations depending on which death animation was used - Enhanced Shotgun melee alt. attack doesn't alert monsters anymore - Arachnotron's plasmaballs leave proper green decals, not blue ones - Missing dynamic lighting when firing a weapon - Decorative blood spawned by hanging dead bodies now properly disappears when landing on water - Decorative dead bodies now never spawn blood if Advanced Bleeding is off - Missing sprite in Cyberdemon's death animation *** ADDED - When connecting to a deathmatch game having selected Enhanced Guns you will see a message telling you they won't work, after which you'll be switched to Vanilla Guns - Alternative death animation for Chaingun Guy, similar to Smooth Doom, but with improved blood graphics (and less smooth, to correspond to the original sprite rate) - Sprite variations for decorative marine corpse *** IMPROVED - All scripts connected to toggling special effects were moved to the MAIN wad, so that now there's only one section of controls related to turning on/off the SFX in 'Customize Controls' - Decorative dead bodies don't spawn decorative blood as often - Changed the font and the position of the SFX-toggle on-screen messages - Added improved HD sprites for Medikit, Stimpack, Berserk, Health Bonus, Green Armor and Blue Armor

Maybe. Although IMO they wouldn't have that familiar feel that Doom III and Hexen sounds do.

Something similar to the chainsaw death has been done before. I think something very similar appeard in Zero Tolerance. But I drew the sprites myself. As for the Rocket Launcher I'm not sure which sound you mean. There's the drawing sound, the firing sound, the on-fly loop sound and the explosion sound. Personally I enjoy all of them. As far as I remember, they're all taken from Doom 3 rocket launcher, not from the Revenant. What's so bad about them?

Well, it actually has never been silent. You know, because it was implied to be mostly used for kickback attacks while you're already fighting. But it's a valid point, perhaps I should make it silent since the fist already is...

VERSION 6.0.9.9 *** ADDED - FINALLY, PLAYER'S ALT. DEATHS AND GIBS! All the same that zombies have: fire, green fire, plasma, BFG, chainsaw deaths and advanced gibbing with unique gibs - Secrets and kills counters to the statusbar *** IMPROVED - Health, armor and ammo counters on the statusbar now change color depending on the amount - Steampack, Medikit and Berserk HD sprites are slightly improved - Enhanced Guns now don't work in Deathmatch (although the player class can be selected, you'll still get vanilla guns) *** FIXED - Possible bug when SFX would turn back on when entering a new level even if you'd turned them off before that - Removed unnecessary TEXTURES lump from BDoom_Monsters.wad that may have caused some errors - Enhanced Shotgun alt. attack doesn't leave holes on walls anymore - Zandronum: Replaced CheckClass command with a different one so that the mod works in Zandronum - Zandronum: changed rocket's damage type so that it doesn't trigger fire deaths anymore (seems like in Zandronum rocket has damagetype "Fire" internally)

Well, currently Vanilla Guns use vanilla sounds and Enhanced Guns use new sounds. But you should try it and you may actually be pleased; note that by 'vanilla sounds' I don't mean actual vanilla sounds but rather perkistan's HD sounds version, which is essentially standard Doom's sounds but of higher quality, and it makes them sort of different. I actually quite enjoy using them. Thanks :) Updated version (that will also work properly with Zandronum) is coming soon.

I finally got myself Zandronum and testing now with it as well. I found issues with version 3.0 in certain checks (doesn't seem to recognize CheckClass command) and it's going to be fixed in the new version. Stay tuned!