Removed unused textures.
Fixed missing textures alignment.
Fixed 2 ceiling using wrong flat.
All liquids sectors near techwalls now damage properly.
All secrets now appears on automap.
Fixed one of the DM closets near rockets launcher opening in singleplayer/coop.
for future reference:
d_dm2ttl "Fight for Freedom" by Korp, based on ph-untitled.mid by Tyler "Picklehammer" Pantella
d_intro/a "Horizon's Call" by Korp
d_e3m1 "Intrare In Infernum" by Lola "BlueWorrior" Harvey (E3M1)
WOLF1 grey rocks by AxelMoon, copypasted into WOLF2 through 4 by me.
WOLF9 blue wall by 16BitGuy (Klikach) and AxelMoon.
WOLF10, 11, 12, 18 (steel doors) by SuperDave938.
Hand chain portrait converted by Craneo.
Swordsman portrait converted by AxelMoon.
AGM CEO portrait by Goji and Craneo.
Banners by Craneo.
Star chart by me.
* flats: replace SWATER with fireblu.
This was briefly discussed on Discord a while ago and I'll throw it out here and see if it sticks.
Basically nobody has any use case for that choppy bright yellow and blue animation. It doesn't really look like anything, so it's either:
1. some hazardous undefined pollutant for a hurtfloor
2. some high-contrast dimensional-rift warp sort of deal
Between nukage, blood, brown sludge and lava - heck, even blue water is good for radioactive stuff - we've pretty much got every use case covered. I've actually never seen the current SWATER used this way.
A lot of messed-up dimensional-rift stuff is represented by a combination of hot rock flats and fireblu - in a lot of places where the hot rock flat is pretty obviously motivated by the lack of a fireblu flat.
This proposed change will allow that fireblu to be used on flat surfaces while breaking no actual use case for what it replaces.
I found the line a little distracting and tried doing this, and other people mentioned how they found this looked more punchy than the current (in a good way) so here it is.
I've created a set of replacement textures here for the boss wall heavily inspired by the old texture (using fragglet's replacement as a base).
The metal paneling here is recreated without any of the paneling from the original graphic, with some other parts of the textures using elements of the patches "GRATE", "RW33_2", "W109_1", "W109_2", and "W110_1", alongside "w17_1" from the attic.
In addition it provides some extra PWAD compatibility over the original texture, with "monitor" graphics provided in certain locations for PWADs expecting their placement.
There is no reason whatsoever for the worm to have 8 rotations separately defined on any of its animations.
The tripod unlike the cyberdemon (or large technospider) is fully symmetrical as well.
I'd suggest doing this for the zombieman since no one's going to notice anyway, but I'm not the one who had put the work into those additional rotations.
The metal panneling appears to have been taken from a Hexen wall
texture. I've replaced all of it with chopped-up bits of the W17_1
patch. It can certainly be improved further but for the time being
this will resolve the copyright issue.
Fixes#1158.
PASG
- Palettization left some weirdly brightly saturated green pixels on highlights. Changed them to olive manually.
- Embiggened the arm slightly to better match the fist.
- Darkened the arm slightly on the A frame to better match the mugshot, etc..
- Made the flash a bit brighter in the inside and less spiky at the top, to minimize the impression of a single blotch of red.
DBSG
- Added more contrast to the hand and shells.
- Cleaned up some stray pixels on the right edge.
- Mad the flash shorter vertically and made the peaks a little inward following the path of the guns instead of shooting straight up from just in front of the muzzle.
E1M1
- All the monsters in the trench are now +ambush, so they don't move until you're down there. On easy the zombieman even faces away from the start.
- More monster blockers added to prevent invisi-blocks jumping into the starting room trench or down from the cliffs in the outdoor area.
E2M7
- Armour bonuses still floating on sector 599. They now adorn the side pillars instead.
- The minigun is comically easy to miss - pretty much every passage into that area is designed for you to look the other way or overshoot it jumping in there, and you might go through the next 80% of the map before having any reason to go back into that part of the room. Its platform has been moved to the lower area, with the upper platform being ostensibly a shotgun but the shotgun guy now standing there took it.
E3M4
- Stealth worm 16 stuck on overlapping ledge.
- Changed the St. Pete's cross into a sealed-off fireblu portal.
- Extended the stairs up from that long bridge so that it's more obvious from a distance at low resolution that those are legit stairs up and you're actually expected to backtrack that way.
- Redecorated the exit room.
E3M5
- Jump down into painlord courtyard in the west would be invisi-blocked by said painlords. Monster blocking line added to keep the way down clear. Moved the tree out of the way too, for good measure.
- Addressed #996.
E3M9
- Fixed numerous tutti-frutti textures and unstraightened some unintentional fake-contrasts in some organic areas.
E4M2
- Got rid of the flat bleed trick in that slime tunnel. It's just a big steady spotlight now - and it doesn't mitigate any nukage damage.
- The secret exit room multiplayer contingency entrance is now opened immediately after the trap-bars are triggered. The trap-bars themselves are no longer crushing, preventing a possible immobilization softlock.
- Said multi-contingency entrance area is remodeled to make it clear it has been jump-proofed.
- Aligned hex textures in secret exit room.
E4M9
- Flagged line 1765 as monster blocking. It's possible for a monster, while that platform is descending, to step right onto that window ledge and get stuck there as the platform continues its movement.
- Added glass to the sides of sector 230 to prevent the player from falling in under certain circumstances.
Map02
- Changed the multi-wallpart elevator so that the middle is the "rungs" that the side "pulleys" are lifting up the platform against.
Map04
- Numerous cosmetic fixes to the starting area.
Map05
- A couple lines on the edge of the stream used the surrounding brown rock instead of the zimmer brown.
- Made the helipad symmetrical and made it look more weathered, including adding a small tree where there would once have been a light.
Map11
- The walk line to open the yellow door switch is now south of the minigun, so those who "know" how it works (without knowing the exact location of the line) don't have to go all the way up to the door to intentionally trigger it.
- Removed some hard-only monsters from the eastern branch, removing some matribites and octaminators and replacing one of the former with a formerly easy-only trilobite and one of the latter with a stealth worm.
- The dock area is now opened up by the same switch that lowers the two platforms, which are now lowered permanently.
- The red skull shootable switches are now located so high up that it's impossible to gamble on a stray SSG shot hitting them from below.
- Addressed #996 in some small gaps in the final arena.
Map23
- Moved all health bonuses around the broken teleporter to look less like mushrooms.
Map26
- Blue skull door trim was misaligned, obscuring the shape of the horns.
- Zombieman 130 stuck inside a monster blocking line.
- Moved all health bonuses around the starting area corpse to look less like mushrooms.
Map29
- Addressed #996.
Map32
- Added a way to climb out of the lava pit.
The long latinate verbs were getting to me. They are now "put on" for armour, "took" for health and "picked up" for ammo.
I think Map11 is the only map in both IWADs that distinguishes skeleton keys from passcards, so it's always the colour that's the most important distinction. There's no way in English to sound natural to put the adjective last, so it has to be in the beginning.
Similarly, "bullet clip" is now "some bullets" so the ammo type name is at the very end like all the other ammo pickup messages.
The 1% pickups are similarly rephrased so the words "health" and "armor" come first rather than second-last. If people find the exclamation points annoying for such a frequent message I can delete them but they feel right to me ingame, at least in chocolate where I can only see one line at a time.
The current Freedoom key messages are already a big improvement over id but they would still benefit from having the required colour stated at the forefront. The "object" language was always offputting and distracting (in game terms it usually makes me think of actors/things not map geometry) so I've omitted it; "for this door" can also be omitted in my view but there's probably some distinction that some map out there actually needs made.
The earnest "Never give up!" seems to be more in line of Freedoom's overall vibe than the more laconic, Doom-like "Not dead yet!".
Removed "small" from pickup messages as it was making the resulting string of text the same size as the large.
Use exclamation mark for mega-armour - something that completely instantly maxes out a stat like that merits it!
My edit of Magnolia's edit of Korp's original bottle sprite. I think this strikes the correct balance of sharing the same symbolism as the other non-Special health pickups while diegetically looking like something fundamentally different enough to justify the different behaviour.
Turns out it's a perfectly functional word for this purpose in Spanish.
The English "device" double entendre, however, is apparently untranslatable. (Please correct me if I am wrong on this.)
The way the part of the sprite right under the flames was evenly lit made it feel like something other than a light source.
I tried making the top of the central column lit on either side but it didn't look right at all so it's a third flame now.
New track "Oxidine" by Korp (based loosely on Jute's previous E1M6 track) slotted for E1M6 replacing "Panic" by Ajanddino.
New track "Hidden Between Spades" by Korp slotted for E1M9.
"Derelict" by continuum.mid moved from E1M9 to E1M7.
"Sewers" by Discoholic and Blastfrog moved from E1M7 to Map12, replacing BobFromReboot's untitled track.
Rationale for posterity:
I really appreciate how Korp managed to take the old E1M6 track and rework it into something that slaps. The current track, while functional and not derivative in a way that would require its replacement, is still very reminiscent of Doom's rock/metal tracks in a way the rest of FD E1's music is not, which just makes the resemblances stick out even more.
"Derelict" has always only marginally worked for E1M9 (or rather it doesn't work, but still works better for it than the current E1M5). The dark, brooding ominous track works *much* better for the antepenultimate level, while the low-key funky riff of "Sewers" works much better for the cluster starter warming up after the intermission text than either "Derelict" or the current Map12 track.
Continuation of #1091. Closes#1096. Hopefully addresses #992, subject to better terms from an actual Spanish speaker.
Corresponding changes have been added to Spanish translation using machine translation. All reasonable efforts have been used to try to vet the output so it actually makes sense but it will need an actual Spanish-speaking reader; I've got an alternate version that *only* does the obvious fixes (but will not address #992) if this turns out to be irredeemably bad.
**Obvious Fixes**
- Converts a few stray CxMy references.
- Updates some screenshots that still showed old assets.
- Fixes a lot of miscopypasted alt text.
- Does not claim DBSG to be "twice" as powerful.
- Adds Handgun pickup sprite.
**Terminology**
- Addresses #1096 by restoring abstract references to health and armour.
- Adds distinction between "refill" and "boost" for health.
- Gives pickup messages a distinct verb for each class of item being picked up.
**Clarifications**
- Much more explicitly describes certain monster and weapon behaviour, avoiding excess kayfabe where it may produce misleading descriptions.
- Makes the deceased name appear as the first element in all obituaries, and uses the same term for the "same" weapon where a monster is using an equivalent to a player weapon.
- Rewords some obituaries to better match the Freedoom monsters rather than the id ones.
- Emphasizes that the misconception is that Freedoom is *only* about providing a gratis IWAD, to better avoid the unintentional reading that it is a misconception that Freedoom is being provided gratis.
**Organization**
- Makes new sections for keys and the general introduction to how items work.
- Moves the colorblind section to right after the new key section.
**Putative Target Audience**
- Adds an explanation of what a source port is.
- Adds the "press Enter a bunch of times to start the game without reading anything" trick.
- Adds a warning about Chocolate Doom's savegame buffer overflow emulation.
- Adds a detailed tutorial walking the player through a live example of every type of ingame interaction.
- Rewrites all the controls-related help to presuppose a modern, post-WASD boomer shooter paradigm, doing away with the previous-century assumptions that you only had turn and forward/back and lateral movement was an unusual extra.
Added a rear sight notch.
Made a bigger flash based on the minigun, scaled in proportion to how much space the (imputed) barrel of each weapon view takes up on the screen.
Adjusted the offsets so there isn't quite as much movement with the trigger pull - that weird whole-arm jerk was a mistake from id that we need not emulate, and reducing the movement helps bring out the way the slide actually moves back in the C frame.
Adjusted the shape of the hand so there wasn't that awkward sudden perfectly straight line down the thumb side.
Made the light fade out after each shot instead of just blinking.
Adjusted the minigun's offsets to better center it.
That corridor that got the big reshape was originally using the dark grey flat large brick pattern, with lights inside it.
I can't risk the lights but the darker ceiling definitely looks better.
Also fixed some other textures here and there.
- Centered the edge rivet of every one of those green panels, then moved all of their alignments down by one pixel to fully hide the bottom rivets.
- Marked the smaller yellow door from both sides as a yellow door.
- Changed the fronts of the shiny steps to an aquatext pipe similar to the bronze/brown ones on the other side of this area.
- Fixed the misaligned textures on the big train gates.
- Extended the corridor in front of the main yellow door and made it open instead of a dead end, then extended the windowed building by the tracks to the southwest. This cuts off the view from the corner to the northeast where all that HOM is. Since there's nothing back there for the player and most of the activity is going to be eastwards, the technospiders that spawn in hard generally will not get stuck, though the player does have quite a bit more cover. (Meanwhile, opening up that corridor makes this fight a lot less claustrophobic.)
- Added yellow key indicator on both sides of the main yellow door.
- Simplified the geometry of the northern corridor leading out into the southwest crate area.
- The green panels used to have a big SUPPORT3 section where they touched the lifts. Only some of these remain and they look like accidents. Replaced all of them with warning stripes.
- Made the crates on the southwest near the elevator full height again. There does not appear to be any visplane issue resulting from this.
Map25
- The eastern door of the first hub has a gap large enough that going there will always force you to touch the hurtfloor. I can see the rationale in theory for making this visually distinct, but frankly I never even noticed the difference until getting hurt just now while testing it. That door now has the same platform in front of it as its western counterpart and is marked with skull poles instead.
- On the topic of marking the doors, both shells are now by the door leading to the SSG and both health refills are by the door leading to the surge.
- The stairs leading down to the painlord ambush no longer have anything to the right that can snag you as you try to sweep up all the bonuses (which are now placed slightly closer to the edge of each step so you can't accidentally jump over them).
- The switch lowering the red key now has the player facing the red key. It's nowhere near as visible as I'd like but it's better than before. The same switch also opens the rescue suit closets.
Map12
- Added a secret behind the train. Just a little guy hangin' out.
