...just in case someone has enough time on his hands, as it's brilliant:
http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=32445

I have vacation right now, so I might take a look at it... might as well make an unique projectile while I'm at it.

I'm on it already. I've been wanting to make a homing projectile like that for ages.

If you could put together that kind of spikeball projectile, that'd be awesome.

for the spikeball, you can edit the ironlich blue ball in heretic

I tried a different approach and made it a glowing fireball kind of thing, because I never really liked the spikey ball from the original and I thought it would fit better with the glowing hand!
It's not done yet, but I'll upload it here once I'm ready... I can also add those in-between frames where it is holding the projectile in its hand, as you requested over at zdoom.org.

I'll try to make a 2nd version wich stays closer to the original (spikey ball), but that may take a bit



Good idea, that might be a nice base!

Yeah, I'd rather keep its behavior as close to the original as possible.

Also, would you be able to make a purple-y projectile trail?

5 or less minutes on Paint.net
what do you think?

Doesn't look that bad to me

Works for the moment, but I want to see what Vader can come up with, too.

That's a good base, but unfortunately it's not in the Doom palette. I'll try to work with those though!
For the moment, here's what I've done so far:
http://files.drdteam.org/index.php/file ... S/vore.zip

The DECORATE is pretty simple ATM, but I hope it serves as a good base for you Ghastly
In any case, it's propably a good idea to use this wad as a base, because
A. I fixed some purple pixels on the sprites that weren't in the Doom palette and thus appeared translucent and
B. I got the sprite offsets right IMHO and it has been a bit tricky

One question Ghastly, you said that you need an in-between frame where it is holding the projectile;
what exactly does that mean?
Would it suffice to add the projectile to the hand of the first firing frame or do you need a completely new frame between the first and second sprite? The latter could become difficult and I'm not sure if I have the time doing it!

Anyway, I'm off working on the spikey projectile now