Untitled Hunting Mod Revived

[kaypee]

That death sprite is a bit too ... mauled, for a trophy hunting game. I think we should edit the gore out.

[CloudFlash]

It depends on your gun. Seeing that Doom has mostly shotguns and chainguns, I'd even say that bear isn't gored enough. Or Doomguy was merciful enough to not shot the face.

[Powergloveninja]

That death sprite is a bit too ... mauled, for a trophy hunting game. I think we should edit the gore out.

Hehe...Same thing I thought when uploading. I can edit the gore out.

EDIT:Less blood one now available!

[kaypee]

It depends on your gun. Seeing that Doom has mostly shotguns and chainguns, I'd even say that bear isn't gored enough. Or Doomguy was merciful enough to not shot the face.

As I stated in the original thread, the weapons would be typical of hunting. It's supposed to be a bit of a simulator, although of all the original Doom elements we might keep for novelty, the Doom weapons are just too unfitting.

[Lollipop]

A version 3 is up, have a changelog, a download link and a necrobump in the same package!

Download link for r3

#Important change
§Change in content
~balance
!bugfix

#Changed format to .pk3 (And it is smaller than the wad from previous version, yay!)
#Animals now spawn as others are killed
#Whole DECORATE structure have been rewamped. Nothing will feel different ingame, but makes it easier to develop.
§New dead bear sprite have been utilized. Credits to powergloveninja.
~playerspeed have been tweaked.
!The bearkiller now have a damagetype.
!Invalid lump file and dublicate texture entries removed.

Please share your thoughts on the changes, what you think should be added and how it all should work!
The more you tell me, the more I have to work with and the faster the development can progress!
(Literally tell me everything you think, it all gives me more to work with, and maybe you tell me something that noone thought I needed to know!)

[kaypee]

A version 3 is up, have a changelog, a download link and a necrobump in the same package!

Download link for r3

#Important change
§Change in content
~balance
!bugfix

#Changed format to .pk3 (And it is smaller than the wad from previous version, yay!)
#Animals now spawn as others are killed
#Whole DECORATE structure have been rewamped. Nothing will feel different ingame, but makes it easier to develop.
§New dead bear sprite have been utilized. Credits to powergloveninja.
~playerspeed have been tweaked.
!The bearkiller now have a damagetype.
!Invalid lump file and dublicate texture entries removed.

Please share your thoughts on the changes, what you think should be added and how it all should work!
The more you tell me, the more I have to work with and the faster the development can progress!
(Literally tell me everything you think, it all gives me more to work with, and maybe you tell me something that noone thought I needed to know!)

Execution could not continue.

Script error, "HUNT_r3.pk3:actors/animals/bear" line 26:
Sprite names must be exactly 4 characters

Sorry, I haven't toyed with Zandronum for so bloody long, is this error supposed to show up? It won't run.

[Lollipop]

I dunno just where that ended up happening, but for some reason I managed to get a / in the code somehow, I quickly fixed it 2 mins ago and should be fixed with a redownload :)

[kaypee]

I redownloaded from that same link, but the error still appears. :^(

[Lollipop]

Fun fact, it was a different error in the same file. (note to myself: always doubblecheck the file right before upload!)
A new redownload should work (yeah, you heard that one before), though it is different this time, because I actually tested it before I just said good

[(Medic)Smoke_Weed]

When I load the mod, it just loads up regular doom, not the hunting mod map like the original wad does, any help?

EDIT: I do get the hunting shotgun but not the map. I've tried loading on various different IWAD's and still nothing.

[Lollipop]

It uses a custom map marker name, called hunt01, if you changemap to that it will work. I will put on my list of shit to get done that I must provide the pk3 with a lump telling it to load that map be default. (I currently do not remember the lumps name)

[kaypee]

It's looking promising, keep it up Lollipop :)

I never thought you could get the fleeing AI to finally work, would you mind explaining how you did?

I've noticed the movement speed has been reduced, but I think the running speed is still so fast that it spoils the scale of the map. If we allow the player to move at the speed of a deer fleeing for its life, the player can't appreciate the broadness of the map. Also currently, the player can effortlessly run from a bear.
I know you've yet to add running stamina, but I reckon the running speed itself should be lowered.

Again, keep it up. Super grateful that you're still working on it :)

[Combinebobnt]

This mod has a minor problem in software

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[StrikerMan780]

If you need sprites for animals, how about Redneck Deer Huntin'? (From the Redneck Rampage Series)

[Lollipop]

Thank you guys for all the replies! :D

I have finally gotten summer vacation (and top grade in biology BTW, so I might be a bit hyper right now), which means I will have a lot of time on my hands for all the things I will be doing in the future!

@Kaypee I know I have a lot of things to tweak here, there is a very hard-fine (a danish term BTW) balance, at which it is it still feels like a doom game, and you are not running up a train, which I have to test way further (as in speaking of at least a few hours of finding the exact correct balance), as to which I also have to find a way as to which I can also implement a running mechanic with stamina, which should be where you actually feel like a doom player (the current speed is still a bit too fast to be this speed).

Actually, I have never seen the big problem with the AI, all I had to do was to make it react to the players direct interaction with it and make the deer aware of players in the line of sight and dimensions of the area around them in which they can hear them (and also the players direct interaction with them (hint: shotgun :P)), which is all done in the A_LooxEx and the pain state :)

I greatly appreciate your advice on this, as you are the original creator of this project, and the rightful "ruler" :)

@Bob I have never actually tested it in software, it must be the way the skybox is handled, it might be that an OGL only feature have been used that is not rendered in the software renderer. I will look into it.

@Striker The main focus of the mod right now is to make it actually work , currently there are many core functionalities that can be done way better (I should dig further into how the deer works to find a more appropiate way to make the bear, it currently behaves rather spastically :P), and I also lack many core functionalities (which I have to research to find out what are in real life, I guess I am going to google buck calls someday :)).
I do appreciate the suggestion though, I will surely take a look at it at some point to find out what I can get from it :)