Weapons Resource Wad

I think almost all of the enemies from the monster resource wad made it onto the Bestiary in some form already.

LilWhiteMouse's monsters stand out to me as being very unique and interesting, the Scorpion Mastermind

Hellhound and Hell's Battery. The mastermind sprites would need touching up however. I remember being fascinated by the Hell's Battery - wish I'd used it in a project.

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Neat. I'd say I'm 75% positive it is one of their sprites, looks like their style.

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I finally found some time to work a little bit on my version of the Nuker.
Got rid of the grenade projectile, but added some more frames to the big fireball which is now the main projectile.
Added some rudimentary brightmaps and dynamic lights. Rewrote much of the code, now Altfire cycles through different powerlevels. A higher powerlevel increases damage and AoE, but decreases fire rate.

Todo: sounds, proper brightmaps and dynamic lights, balance for damage and ammo consumption, hopefully fix some overlay pixel shifts if that's even possible (watch the green lights while cycling through powerlevels to see what I mean)...

If anyone wants to give the current WIP version a try:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N6orjU3-i2v1yxJ2dtzyaMO9GMsDpvlt/view?usp=sharing

The LazerRifle beam slows down the game in software mode, otherwise, amazing work on all of these.


I am currently working on revamping the goofy and broken Insanity Rifle.

Some further progress on the Nuker:

• weapon renamed from Nuker to ThermoNuker (to set it apart from the original Hacx Nuker)
• ammo renamed from Molecules to Hydrogen
• reworked ammo sprites
• added ammo consumption
• added sounds
• added decals
• improved dynamic lights

Depending on the selected powerlevel, lights and decals will change size and explosion sounds will change pitch. Also higher powerlevels consume more ammo.

Todo:

• add better brightmaps to fire frames
• add smoke emissions while firing (one of the fire frames suggests that the weapon emits smoke)
• fix the overlay pixel shifts

DL:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ZVfIjbNY0o0aMt9UOgwcAjP9mjF0OlO/view?usp=sharing

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• Have you considered recoloring the HUD sprites so it's not just a straight rip from Hacx? Something like black or red?

Actually the first thing I did when I started working on the nuker was to make some simple recolors, but tbh the orange original still looks best in my eyes. Also there aren't too many weapons with an orange color scheme out there... but I'll consider another color once I'm done with my todo-list.

• I changed the sprites of the dust clouds to something that looks more like air

Speaking of which, do you know by any chance where the original dust clouds are from? I might use them as a base for the smoke emissions I talked about earlier.

• If nobody else is working on it, I want to give the LameDuke Tazer a try.

The Tazer was next on my list after the Nuker but since I currently don't have as much time as I used to have it'll still take a while until I'm done with that one, so please go ahead. I got plenty of other things waiting in queue, like the 2 weapons from Osiris.wad and a few monsters I've been working on and off for the past couple months.

If you want to work on the tazer go ahead, you guys are more versed with zscript so I'm sure you'll come up with something more interesting than what I can do.
I'll take the Molotov Cocktail instead.