Weapons Resource Wad

The Tazer is pretty much done. I actually didn't use the WRW Tazer as a base, but the Lameduke one which has one additional animation frame.
Also:

• hitting monsters stuns them (stun doesn't work against bosses)
• no longer creates blood/puffs, but sparks instead (sprites by Laserraptor)
• doesn't work underwater
• new pickup sprite
• added Doomguy hand (cobbled together from various other hand sprites)
• added brightmaps
• added dynamic lights
• added/improved sounds

DL:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XYliKKhOSGkgHATaL0iUCNV1-kk9Okip/view?usp=sharing

edit: fixed a bug with the waterlevel check, forgot to add it to the hold state

OK I found out what makes the thermonuker projectile act strangely. It's GZDoom's sprite clipping feature, I had it on "smarter", so the sprite z height is adjusted on the fly. Same with "always". If I turn it to "smart" or "never", everything looks fine.
Sorry for the confusion, I haven't touched that setting in years, but I remember trying to find the setting that looks best until I found out they all look kinda bad :ouch: So sad that the hardware renderer can't draw sprites like vanilla doom did.

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oooh, quotes are working now, nice.

Gothic wrote:

The tazer is really well made, definitely better than what I had in mind. I found a bug where the blue light is still on the player when you force-deselect:

Thanks, but how did you manage to do that? In any case, I added A_Removelight to the deselect state, and to the ready state just to be sure.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XYliKKhOSGkgHATaL0iUCNV1-kk9Okip/view?usp=sharing

Gothic wrote:

I wonder if you hold the bottle for too long and it explodes in your hand, should it insta-kill you like the TNT, or just damage you like the Aerosol Can in Blood?

Damage you like the Aerosol Can. Molotovs aren't really explosive, it's just a burning liquid. It should burn a while and the damage shouldn't be too high imo.

Speaking of damage, I still think the damage radius of the ground fire is a bit too large, you can easily kill yourself by standing next to the fire, not even in it. Maybe you can make the fire sprite a bit wider instead of making the radius smaller, or both?

Anyway, really impressive work on this one. Very satisfying to use mollies against groups of fodder monsters

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Gothic wrote:

If I grabbed the wrong version of one of your weapons, let me know.

You got the wrong Thermonuker version, latest is from Jan 7 (when I fixed the overlay bug that you reported)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10OzJ0v-5dixHXtZo6ayK3rOqbiXYPsrr/view?usp=sharing

My bad, added the latest version.

Gothic wrote:

Should I make it use ammo? Even considering the recoil and the short range, it deals plenty of damage when you corner an enemy.

It still deals much less damage than a chainsaw and its usage is kinda situational, so unless the damage was higher I'd say no ammo. The defensive nature makes it more of an utility than a weapon anyway.

btw the recoil can be used to launch yourself across chasms or onto ledges, kinda like quake-style rocket jumping without the damage (and a much lower jump height at the current recoil value). With some clever leveldesign this could be a fun way to traverse the map, reach secrets etc.

Every weapon has been uploaded. Here's the updated list:

Captain Toenail:

• Blaster Pistol (done, uploaded)
• Ice Crystal Gun (done, uploaded)
• Insanity Plasma Rifle/Insane Plasma Array (done, uploaded)

Devloek:

• Thermo Nuker (done, uploaded)
• Tazer (done, uploaded)

Gothic:

• Imp Claw (done, not gonna upload)
• Dust Blower (done, uploaded)
• • Gas Blower (done, uploaded)
• Pipe Bombs (done, uploaded)
• Rapid Lazer Rifle (done, uploaded)
• Molotov Cocktail (done, uploaded)