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Played it a bunch, well, can't say it motivated me to keep pressing on. Some of the architecture is quite nifty, I'll give it that.
Haven't played it far enough to encounter any Doom II enemies though, are they even in?

I noticed that, by tweaking the 'fps' value in .md5anims, the speed of said animation can be adjusted, which is especially great for monsters, since they can be made to walk or attack faster (or slower) that way.

But I can't help but think this isn't the 'proper' way to do it. Quake 4, for example, introduced a 'rate' animation command that can be adjusted, which seems better to me than adjusting the actual .md5anims.

Actually I'd prefer to do this through scripting for a number of reasons

Is this possible?

One of the things on my project checklist is to address the gore, or rather, the lack of it.

Nothing but firmly over the top will do, I'm afraid

What is the best Doom 3 implementation of gore to date?

Instead of linear progression through a series of maps, I'm interested in having the player explore a single, large map, with some required backtracking, akin to a Metroidvania game.

Doom 3 maps can be absolutely humongous, large enough to contain a whole game in, so why even bother splitting the campaign up into separate maps? Considering generous use of visportals and keeping active monster count under control, are there any hard limits I'm eventually going to run into, or is this a bad idea for other reasons altogether?

Hi,

This is the default orientation of the shotgun: (good)



This is the default orientation of the Quake 4 shotgun: (bad)



I would like to rotate the model 180°, so it is in line with the first shotgun.

As I understand it, the rotation is 'hardcoded' in the .lwo file?

I think this one should be possible...

My plasmagun's projectiles has lights attached to them, so that they light up the place whenever you fire it.
This looks great, but it becomes problematic with a high enough rate of fire, especially if the projectiles bounce around and there are a lot of surfaces to bounce the light off of, and objects to cast shadows from.

I do not want to gimp the firerate to keep the framerate under control either.
Is it possible to keep the light but not the shadow casting?

Whenever a monster or NPC is killed and transitions into a ragdoll, it stops projecting a shadow.
Some NPC's do not exhibit this, interestingly. I'm looking at the ragdoll and material definitions but I can't figure out what causes this. Can anyone help?

Hi,

I've been making extensive changes all over the place and I've got many things close to where I want them, but I have neglected this issue that cropped up, and I'm not sure where to start looking :/

In 3rd person view, the upper body of my character is stuck in 'idle fists position'. Changing weapons does not animate, the weapon model just pops up instantly.

Holding the shotgun looks like this:



Firing doesn't animate either.

The legs work fine, though.

Any idea what could cause this? How are the animations usually triggered?

Kind of a stupid question, most likely. Apologies in advance.

I have several different player classes, each with their own set of weapons.

Set up like this:

entityDef player_class1{
   ...
}

entityDef player_class2{
   ...
}

entityDef player_doommarine{
   "inherit" "player_class1"
   ...
}

So I can change the class by editing player_doommarine.

Obviously, this is not ideal - I would like to have the player choose the desired class when playing a new game, with a nice 3D model representation.

So what is the best method to set the desired player class from a GUI?

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Is it glow on last picture?

What D3 engine do you use?

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Hi there,

I've been absent from this place for a while, hard at work on several projects, among them my Doom 3 project.

I'm currently working on this;





These are the rifle and shotgun from Quake 4. I have all the other weapons (blaster, hyperblaster, nailgun, railgun, lightning gun, grenade launcher, and the darkmatter gun) in there too, but they don't quite work yet. There's quite a bit of adapting to be done since the soundshader and material definitions use a slightly different syntax in Quake 4, not to mention Quake 4 doesn't use weapon scripts, it instead handles the weapon behavior in C++ - so I had to write scripts myself (mostly derived from similar Doom 3 weapons, though) - so they don't handle entirely right yet. Also the GUIs have a bunch of extra commands Doom 3 doesn't support.

At any rate, I expect to make a lot of progress the next few days still. If I'm happy with it, I'll look into adding Quake 4 enemies, and content from both Prey and ETQW.

Hi there,

Been a while since I've posted here.

Is it possible to set up a central hub map, and allow seamless transitions between maps?
I'm working on what I hope will eventually become a full-fledged Metroidvania-style game.

Hi,

Due to reasons, I had to put my Doom 3 modding project on hold for a while
I'd like to resume working on it now

Roughly half a year ago (I think), somebody posted a thread about a content pack for Doom 3 that the developer gave away for use in modding projects.

It had all kinds of stuff, such as iron sights for the pistol and tons more.

Anybody know which pack I'm talking about?

Regards

Hi,

I admit I haven't done any extensive Googling on this just yet, but is there any mod out there that has gloves for the player?

I suppose I could just paint them on the skin texture, but that would be the equivalent of using a felt tip marker to draw them on your hands.

Hi,

I have created a custom player class, who is equipped with a pistol, machinegun and a couple of grenades as standard issue. He also runs twice as fast and doesn't make those annoying tippity-tappity footstep sounds

I have two subclasses, one wearing the Doom 3 armor and helmet, and the other the ROE equivalent.

A prominent feature of my mod will be the HUD, which will look like it's projected on the visor. I want it to have a purely functional, fluff-free, military style look.

I also want to implement a metric fuckton of useful features in the thing. For example, it'll be capable of interfacing with your guns.

It'll also be capable of identifying friend or foe,  gauge distances, improve targeting, mark and track encountered enemies.

Currently, I'm able to deploy sentry bots, which scuttle off on their own, looking for monsters to shoot. I would like to be able to mount a camera on the thing, which will be viewable in a small window on your HUD. You will also be able to issue commands to it, remotely.

Anyway. What I'm looking for is a way to show the viewpoint of the sentry on my HUD.

zDoom had a feature called camera textures. I believe Doom 3 has them too, for example when you communicate with someone over a video link (AFAIK they're realtime, not prerendered videos). If you can display it on an in-game monitor, it should be trivial displaying it on your HUD; they're the same thing.

Anybody able to point me in the right direction with this? What GUI file am I looking for, and is it possible to have it display the sentry view?

Maybe he drinks more milk

Hi,

My mod will primarily feature combat against armed human opponents, who may or may not be zombified.

While their default AI isn't too bad (I'm impressed to see how well they understand the map they're in, and how to navigate it), I feel it could do with a few tweaks to make the combat more interesting.

I'm mostly bothered by the fact they never need to reload, and have infinite ammo.
Ideally, they would need to reload, just like you do - and if they'd be really smart, they'd try to find cover first. H

Has this been done before, and if not, how far fetched is this?
As far as I know, their models do not have the requisite animations, but maybe those from Doomguy could be applied to them?

Hi,

This is a long shot - but here goes.

One feature that the original Doom had and Doom 3 didn't was the automap. Given Doom 3's linearity and relative lack of secrets to hunt down, it wasn't really necessary anyway.

However, I'd very much like to have one in my mod - ideally as an overlay, displayed on your helmet's visor. Crucially, the map would only display the areas the player would have seen in-game.

So, how far-fetched is this idea? I've read that, one of the things the dmap command does, is create a simplified, undetailed version of the map the AI uses to navigate it (which does it pretty well, I must say). Maybe this map can be visualized and used?