Realistic Forest in Vanilla DOOM

[p0ny><]

greetings, some day I had the idea to create a photorealistic kind of thing in doom.

your attention here - my forest concept-wad in vanilla doom

btw can't make a forest too big w/o hall of mirror effect ( big maps = hof effect for some reason )but I know how to fix it.

 

I posted this just to see what yours opinion of my hobby "vanilla2limit" is and how much sense it makes at all to make ample megawads, and yeah its my first post also. I've only done it for myself and my friends before, but if ya'll like it I'd love to make wads for doomfans like me!

 

Edited December 17, 2023 by p0ny><

[Endless]

[Chainie]

How it looks in action? That's looks like combination of texture and colormap/playpal hackery to me. 

Edited December 17, 2023 by Chainie

[p0ny><]

 

10 minutes ago, Chainie said:

How it looks in action? That's looks like combination of texture and colormap/playpal hackery to me. 

You got me hah, even though there's a lot more subterfuge, for go round spend visplanes and other limits bypasses

i dont use code even more than dehack(if you about ACE-style modding or smth), its like to take roll or do oil paintings for me

Edited December 17, 2023 by p0ny><

[OpenRift]

Question: how did you get the water to look like that? It looks like it has some sort of transparency.

[Uncle 80]

Looks nice! The litmus test is seeing if it holds up in-game ;) Vanilla maps with unique designs and/or tricks always peque my interest.

[DoomGater]

I hate trees. They just suck away all the oxygen.

[Hebonky]

4 minutes ago, DoomGater said:

I hate trees. They just suck away all the oxygen.

Wait we're trees?! I thought I we were people... damn that's crazy!

[p0ny><]

9 hours ago, OpenRift said:

Question: how did you get the water to look like that? It looks like it has some sort of transparency.

howdy, i make a WAD to show this trick 

give an example best way to explain smth

hop this will usefull to u and you will use this cool feature in your wads 

 

edit: stair builder is this:

Edited December 19, 2023 by p0ny><

[Obsidian]

Ah yep, so you're using untextured linedefs to simulate depth in the liquid sector: you could probably take it a step further and have a custom flat that just superimposes a transparent liquid flat onto some dirt or rocks to really sell the idea. It's a little janky-looking in practice (particularly in more modern ports), but honestly that just contributes to the charm. :P

[p0ny><]

1 minute ago, Obsidian said:

Ah yep, so you're using untextured linedefs to simulate depth in the liquid sector: you could probably take it a step further and have a custom flat that just superimposes a transparent liquid flat onto some dirt or rocks to really sell the idea. It's a little janky-looking in practice (particularly in more modern ports), but honestly that just contributes to the charm. :P

sounds awesomeness but we have bypazz 4 do transparent flats? It's just a 4kb file with a set of colours from the pal and if you use import smth with alpha channel its will just paint'd to black :l

 

[Obsidian]

9 minutes ago, p0ny>< said:

sounds awesomeness but we have bypazz 4 do transparent flats? It's just a 4kb file with a set of colours from the pal and if you use import smth with alpha channel its will just paint'd to black :l

 

 

Yeah, actual transparent flats aren't something vanilla can do. Lemme show you what I mean.

 

 

I popped FWATER1 and FLAT10 into Paint.net and set the water layer to 160 opacity. It's not perfect, but it has the potential to create a convincing enough effect in vanilla (with all the required animation, of course).

[p0ny><]

1 minute ago, Obsidian said:

 

Yeah, actual transparent flats aren't something vanilla can do. Lemme show you what I mean.

 

 

I popped FWATER1 and FLAT10 into Paint.net and set the water layer to 160 opacity. It's not perfect, but it has the potential to create a convincing enough effect in vanilla (with all the required animation, of course).

aw, that's clever

[OpenRift]

59 minutes ago, p0ny>< said:

howdy, i make a WAD to show this trick 

give an example best way to explain smth

hop this will usefull to u and you will use this cool feature in your wads 

 

edit: stair builder is this:

Bro really made a whole mini presentation to explain this. You really didn't have to do that, but my god you have my respect.

[Obsidian]

Honestly, same here.

[fruity lerlups]

13 hours ago, DoomGater said:

I hate trees. They just suck away all the oxygen.

theyre rough and get everywhere