Doom 89

[Xphoenix]

Yes, they are "monters".

I can't comment too much, I've never played Doom, but compared to your hand, those monsters are...

[frenchcalc1]

[Xphoenix]

Nah, just switch to Firefox and enable the thing where it draws a red squiggly line underneath all unrecognized words.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

well actually the screenshot isnt very accurate - to respond to baorder54's comment, it skips too many frames and i cant seem to change that without the gif running super slow. actually, you see the muzzle flash every time you shoot the gun on the emulator and on a real calc. The sprites look too big to me also, i think i will end up changing that but that isnt really on the top of the to do list right now. i agree they look a bit funky.

In response to Delnar's comment, the shotgun does move a little fast. i'll see if i cant change the delay a bit. all the animations for the guns are in one function so it might take a little tweaking. i have to make sure the muzzle flashes exactly when you shoot, and then have the whole thing slow a little. i'm not sure how that's going to work, because there's really only four frames to the entire animation.

i might just make it pause on the cocking gesture for a split second so it looks like he's reloading the chambers. that would be a simple and hopefully natural looking fix. i'll see how it goes.

the real game has this long reload thing for the shotgun, it's ridiculous how many frames it has, i think it's 11 total. so if you figure 96*96 pixels times two (two gray planes) then times 11 that equals 202,752 bits, or 50,688 bytes. ridiculous, there'd be way too much in just one graphics file. there's already three.

(there's only two for the railgun, but you dont really notice unless you know that. sorry to spoil anything, but that's how it is in the real game also.)

i'm having to work around quite a few limitations due to the engine it's self, so bear with me.

but thanks for the input most definately, i want this to be as accurate as possible.

[Harrierfalcon]

You're doing really well so far.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

thanks. :)

i changed the human looking guys so that they are smaller. i think this is a good size. the barrels look a little big, but that's how they are in the game.

here's the screenshot.

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it may run too fast or too slow depending on your internet browser.

[Delnar_Ersike]

Noticed a bug in the screenshot: when your health decreases from 100 to 99 or 10 to 9, the zero at the end stays, so decreasing from 100 to 99 displays "990" instead of "99"

[AaroneusTheGreat]

yes i've been trying to fix that. i'm not sure how i could get the text writing function to right allign, so that it will automatically remove the extra zero. i dont know if that would fix it either, it could leave a 1 to the right of the 99.

i'm working on it. lol i hope i dont have to do something as hack-ish as what i did with 13ghosts, i had the program paste the display sprite for the logo over the side display every five frames, then write the game info to the screen. bad programming but it worked.

thanks for the tip though.

[Weregoose]

To right-align a number, compute the number of digits with [font="courier new;font-size:9pt;line-height:100%;color:darkblue"]1+int(log(N))

[AaroneusTheGreat]

i fixed it with some strategically placed spaces.

[tifreak8x]

Here is something that would make it funny... instead of changing the size of the monsters, just claim you are a midget trying to escape from the monsters... XD

[bananaman]

Greeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat idea.

That could be the little twist he wanted to add to the game so it isn't just a clone.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

haha no. i think the midget thing might offend some... but i already changed the heights of the human looking sprites, and that took enough time, so i dont think i'm going to change them back. and the big cyborg thing is really huge in the real game so i think i'm going to leave him like he is.

I've been having a problem though, i want the maps for Doom to be stored in a(n) external file, to save ram. does anyone know how this can be done? i'm looking for a way to convert a text file with multiple char arrays in it to an 89y or 92y variable. it doesnt matter which, they will work on any 68k calc because of the client program.

Any help would be fan-friggin-tastic. :)

I added weapon kickback today (when you shoot, the weapon kicks depending on it's strength) and items. the items are things like medkits, small medkits, ammo boxes and shotgun shells. all of the above work.

I'm thinking of adding armor to the game. idk how that's going to work. i'd have to do some distance calculation and have the enemies deplete the health or the armor based on where they are shooting from. idk yet.

Also when you shoot one of the barrels and you are too close, it throws you back and you lose health. ( i thought that was a nifty feature) I'm going to apply the same type of thing to the enemies, so you can shoot a barrel close to an enemy and have the enemy get hurt by it. so far all the barrels do is hurt you. lol not very helpful.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

I added the Imps!

[Fallen Ghost]

That's good news! I was afraid the TI Community would not have it's own good Doom 95ish game

[AaroneusTheGreat]

good is a relative term. this might end up a little hack-ish concerning the maps if i cant get this dang external file system set up.

Otherwise i'm glad some people appreciate the game so far, having not even played it! lol i'll post a demo soon. or now if i get fed up with what i'm doing right now.

who wants to play a demo that has one level and only couple of basic game functions. show of hands? if you all really want to see for yourself what it's like i'll post what i have so far. if not i'll post the demo when i get the external map file stuff working.

[Delnar_Ersike]

Are you planning to add weapons not included in the original Doom series? Like a flamethrower?

To answer your question: TiEmu's not behaving very well nowadays for me.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

well a flamethrower would have to face up to some serious limitations of the fat engine, for instance, if i were to have an animated fireburst, i could either do it in a series of sprites that move from the camera foreward, which would take a ridiculous amount of computing speed, or i could do a series of animated huds,

(a HUD is like the pistol or shotgun image on the screen, pasted above the fat-rendered scene, in case you didnt know) Each hud has a light data, a dark data and a mask data block, each is 96*96 pixels so one complete hud is about 6,912 bytes wide. so for something like the shotgun which has four frames, the whole animation takes up something like 27648 bytes (uncompressed) so, to make an animation that looks like fire and moves like fire, i'd be facing some serious memory issues.

I think a rocket launcher or a plasma rifle or something of that sort would be more reasonable, alas doom already has those weapons. so those might end up in the game depending on their playability and value apposed to their memory and computing power usage.

I am going to add things like the switches in 13ghosts to open certain bay doors and things, and most definately i am going to add the keys.

i dont think it would be doom without needing a blue key or a red key, and getting that annoying message.

I wish i could find the raw data for those nifty doors though, the ones i have right now were originally ripped from quake II

Good thoughts though, i'm definately looking for input.

[baorder54]

Does the fat ngine allow you to make doors that open up vertically? Not a super big deal, and I will search for the door pics.

[AaroneusTheGreat]

Aha! i found a WAD file editor, now i can hack the doom gamefiles! woot woot. i can get all the textures! another milestone in doom89's history.

actually it's supposed to but i cant seem to get that to work and i know how to do it! that's the thing that bugs me the most. perhaps i have an old version of the fatlib. i'll check that out and get back to you, because all the doom doors open vertically so i want that to happen. The same code for opening the doors should work if the doors open vertically. i think they'd open from top down instead of from floor up but thats just a minor thing. i really think that would be cool though.
thanks for reminding me, i'll get on that right away.