NLOWZSP - Requires Help

[Llewellyn]

I can help with any complicated Decorate or ACS hacks if ya want.
I've just been making random experimental gamemodes for the past couple days using gross hacks because of just how feature-incomplete modding is in the grand scale of things. It seems that any cool effect or object literally REQUIRES a horrible hack of some sort.

[Conmon]

If anyone can help think/code a way to keep the game from getting laggy, that would be very helpful - maybe spawning/removing zombies (except like boss fight characters) depending on where players are in relation to it. Also, I need to change the zombie spawners - they should be all over the place, but they shouldn't spawn as much as they do. There needs to be plenty of zombies during the day, none spawn at dusk, they spawn a lot at dark, and hardly at all at dawn. As it is right now, they spawn nonstop throughout the whole day, and by night I can't imagine anyone surviving with what little ammo there will be ingame. (Unless you used cheat codes!!! ... which I did..)

[Llewellyn]

If anyone can help think/code a way to keep the game from getting laggy, that would be very helpful - maybe spawning/removing zombies (except like boss fight characters) depending on where players are in relation to it. Also, I need to change the zombie spawners - they should be all over the place, but they shouldn't spawn as much as they do. There needs to be plenty of zombies during the day, none spawn at dusk, they spawn a lot at dark, and hardly at all at dawn. As it is right now, they spawn nonstop throughout the whole day, and by night I can't imagine anyone surviving with what little ammo there will be ingame. (Unless you used cheat codes!!! ... which I did..)

Basically what you should do is place the spawners around the map and categorize them by TID (the ones in this area are 10000-10100 etc) then you can have the script figure out which areas players are in and spawns zombies accordingly in those areas only. Assign spawned zombies with TIDs that have to do with the area they spawn in. Then when players leave certain areas, you can slowly kill off the zombies with certain TIDs until a maximum is established (like 10 or whatever in each area) so that way if a player runs into an area there isn't ZERO zombies, and zombies can start spawning again.

Have the script that does your day/night time set a global variable like "Time = 5" the higher the number more zombies will spawn. So Afternoon would be 0, midnight would be 5.
Then your zombie Spawner script will change the maximum number of zombies in each area like this or something:

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for (int x = 0; x < NumberOfAreas;++x)
if (AreaHasPlayers(Area[x]))
	ActiveZombies(Area[x],5*Time);
else
	ActiveZombies(Area[x],2*Time);

[Dark-Assassin]

They both look like they need more work, the angle seems off on shovel and on bottle... his thumb seems to have "gotten into" that bottle, somehow.

I agree, but my skills aren't there yet.

but the thumb is just twisted magically around the neck :33

See?

But yeah it's not that good.

The thumb isn't twisted, it's missing.
That is a finger.

[Conmon]

I'm not sure I like that bottle too much anyways... I can make some sprites myself - I was thinking of using a less saturated version of the Action Doom 2 whiskey bottle.

[Ænima]

New idea: Item combination.

Example: If a player has in his inventory a bottle and a gas jug, he can make a molotov. (It's assumed that he tears a piece of cloth from his shirt, and he's a smoker/toker so he always has his trusty lighter with him.)

Btw I mixed a few sounds for you to use. I noticed that most of the guns share sounds (bad ones too). I'll send those when all of them are ready.

[Conmon]

New idea: Item combination.

Example: If a player has in his inventory a bottle and a gas jug, he can make a molotov. (It's assumed that he tears a piece of cloth from his shirt, and he's a smoker/toker so he always has his trusty lighter with him.)

So, would it be automatic? Like as soon as you pick up the bottle it makes a molotov? Or do you have to find a workbench to make one?

Btw I mixed a few sounds for you to use. I noticed that most of the guns share sounds (bad ones too). I'll send those when all of them are ready.

Alright!

[Ænima]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/drf8u3

Thereya go.

[Conmon]

Alright, it's been effing forever, but I'm finally back on my Doom computer, and I've started mapping again. About 10-15% of the map is done! Also, I've changed the player walk/run/sidestep speeds to more realistic values, and fixed the machete so it actually has range now (before, the range of the weapon was about 25, now it's 65).

[Frits]

You should get some better sounds for the zombies as well. In the sounds the zombies make in the topic video are rather funny instead of scary.

Except for that bitching, looking nice.

[Mentlegen]

Alright, it's been effing forever, but I'm finally back on my Doom computer, and I've started mapping again. About 10-15% of the map is done! Also, I've changed the player walk/run/sidestep speeds to more realistic values, and fixed the machete so it actually has range now (before, the range of the weapon was about 25, now it's 65).

.....holy...crap......MORE MAP.......WOOOO!

[BoxcarRacer]

Alright, it's been effing forever, but I'm finally back on my Doom computer, and I've started mapping again. About 10-15% of the map is done! Also, I've changed the player walk/run/sidestep speeds to more realistic values, and fixed the machete so it actually has range now (before, the range of the weapon was about 25, now it's 65).

That's really awesome!

[Virtue]

You should get some better sounds for the zombies as well. In the sounds the zombies make in the topic video are rather funny instead of scary.

Except for that bitching, looking nice.

I have some decent zombie sounds, well, they are readily available, theyre from Diablo II and a half life mod called They Hunger (a zombie mod)

[Tosen]

I dont want to be an unoriginal idiot by telling you to rip sprites, but these sprites might be useful to rip:


http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/30646
http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/30721
http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/43193

Theres probably tons of other sprites you can find on that site.

[Conmon]

I dont want to be an unoriginal idiot by telling you to rip sprites, but these sprites might be useful to rip:


http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/30646
http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/30721
http://spriters-resource.com/pc_compute ... heet/43193

Theres probably tons of other sprites you can find on that site.

The first one if I remember correctly is already in NLOWZSP - not as a zombie but as one of the psychopaths you encounter in the city. I might put the second one in as like a forest zombie or something, but I don't know how I feel about that last one...

[Tosen]

Like I said those are just a few I pulled off that site theres probably tons more lying around there