Plumstuf - small collection of chocolate-compatible gameplay & graphic tweaks

[plums]

Here's a small mod of stuff I made and use for casual play. It works in chocolate doom with -dehlump -merge plumstuf.wad, other ports can just autoload it with no problem. All of these things have been posted to these forums at some point, I think. The Dehacked patch is commented so you can remove things you don't like, if you want.

 

Includes some sprites (SSG & baron fireball) from @Revenant100's sprite fixing project.

 

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Changes:

- Pistol is faster and more accurate. I'm glad to see this is being done in a lot of wads; I don't know if I had anything to with this being more popular since I first posted my patch (probably not :p) but it's nice to see it used more anyhow.

- The revenant homing missile trails use a grey version of the baron fireball explosion, to be more obvious and look more like smoke. (image)

- Zombiemen and Cyberdemons light up when firing.

- Arch-viles can't resurrect ghosts monsters from squished corpses. (Squished corpses can't be resurrected at all in fact.) This breaks some maps that use the feature intentionally, and can potentially be exploited, so use judiciously. Credit to @scifista42 for the idea, wherever they've gone...
- Screen gets red but keeps light/dark values on taking damage, instead of being a solid colour. (image) Similar effects for radsuit (which now tints blue) and item pickups.

- Invulnerability colours are bright and gold-tinted.

- Caco corpse is deflated so it doesn't block vision as much, while still looking like a cacodemon. (image)

- Some Iwad skies vertically tile. (Doom 1 skies 3&4, Doom 2 skies 1&2.) Others were too hard to get to look good without changing them significantly. Final Doom skies not included but I think I edited them at some point, so I can dig them up on request?

- The plasma gun sound is slightly quieter.

- The resources for the SSG are included for convenience, because this way you can use it in Doom 1 with cheats in certain ports. (e.g. TNTWEAP9 cheat in Woof & Crispy Doom, `give supershotgun` console command in GZDoom. Or just ID(K)FA.)

 

Feel free to use any of this in your own creations if you want. Crediting me would be nice but I'm not going to get upset if things travel.

Edited September 7, 2023 by plums

[Matt Eldrydge]

Pretty cool! I'll keep this in mind when playing more vanilla-oriented stuff. Keep up the good work!