Things about Doom you just found out

[Avoozl]

Marnetmar said:

(image of John Romero)

John Romero is more manly than god.

[LigH]

No surprise. Remember "Dogma"? (Alanis Morissette is God)

[scifista42]

Marnetmar said:

http://beefjack.com/files/2011/05/romero-big.jpg

Now guess the Doom level!

Spoiler

I recognized it, because I was working with that level in Switcheroom project.

[peach freak]

Looks like you can make out E1M7 (which, didn't Romero call that map his best piece of work?) on that editor...

[_bruce_]

Cool pic of Romero - he's always been the healthiest looking of the bunch.
I remember being shocked about how small the average id employees arm size was - never realized that when I was younger.

[Marnetmar]

_bruce_ said:

Cool pic of Romero - he's always been the healthiest looking of the bunch.
I remember being shocked about how small the average id employees arm size was - never realized that when I was younger.

http://edenpop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/John-Carmack-Keynote-QuakeCon-2012.jpg

IIRC Carmack actually used to lift weights back in the late '80s-early 90's.

[Tristan]

_bruce_ said:

I remember being shocked about how small the average id employees arm size was - never realized that when I was younger.

At 5cm ± 0.5cm wide, I should fit right in!
Which wouldn't be a bad thing, I'd love to mod a newer engine. If I had half a clue how to. I should search around for the Doom 3 editor

[Marnetmar]

Sandy Petersen talks about Doom a bit here.

[Avoozl]

Now I know what Sandy Petersen looks like but not during the development of Doom.

[scifista42]

Eris Falling said:

Which wouldn't be a bad thing, I'd love to mod a newer engine. If I had half a clue how to. I should search around for the Doom 3 editor

Doom 3 editor is built in standard Doom3.exe, launch it with a parameter +editor +r_fullscreen 0. Thread from 2004.

[_bruce_]

Marnetmar said:

*vid of mormons on hormones*

Sandy Petersen talks about Doom a bit here.

Ah.. Matt chat...
Sandy is pretty cool, a clever fellow and quite the character.

@Carmack's arm size - he's a total alpha male regardless of arm circumference.

[Tristan]

scifista42 said:

Doom 3 editor is built in standard Doom3.exe, launch it with a parameter +editor +r_fullscreen 0. Thread from 2004.

I have the Steam version, is that still in there?

Also, it's just happened...


Elapsed time since registration - 13 months 1 day
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yay...

[Hellbent]

The hammer weapon idea is awesome! I'd prolly still be playing quake if it had that weapon. Richocheting lightning bolt would have been cool too. They should remake quake with all the things they were toying with originally when they were making quake.

Also, was the computer that the E1M5 demo was playing on a 386?

[Devalaous]

Eris Falling said:

I have the Steam version, is that still in there?

Also, it's just happened...

Elapsed time since registration - 13 months 1 day
Total of posts: 2000

yay...

I've got around 1000, and ive been (registered) here since 2008...

Custom titles, they hide how much time you spend here :D

[marver0PS]

Not exactly doom related,but alien cabal uses a modified doom 2 engine
with rather significant changes

[Lombardi]

I just found out that when you hold the "shoot" button/mouse the marine makes funny face like he's taking a shit. This happens no matter what gun/chainsaw you use.

I've played doom since I was 8 years old(not so regularly but sometimes)
and I never noticed. Just yesterday when I was testing a map.

[Khorus]

Lombardi said:

I just found out that when you hold the "shoot" button/mouse the marine makes funny face like he's taking a shit. This happens no matter what gun/chainsaw you use.

I've played doom since I was 8 years old(not so regularly but sometimes)
and I never noticed. Just yesterday when I was testing a map.

heh, I remember holding down the fire button on the chaingun just for this reason alone.

[Tristan]

Lombardi said:

I just found out that when you hold the "shoot" button/mouse the marine makes funny face like he's taking a shit. This happens no matter what gun/chainsaw you use.

I've played doom since I was 8 years old(not so regularly but sometimes)
and I never noticed. Just yesterday when I was testing a map.

I can add to this one for you then. In the PSX version of doom, only the Chaingun, Plasma Gun and I think the chainsaw do this.
Additionally, the first shot of every chaingun shot is always bang on target, hence the chaingun tapping technique of pressing fire at a certain rate to take down very distant targets. Done me a lot of favours.

[40oz]

just found out.

CEMENT7
CEMENT8
CEMENT9

are new textures in Doom 2 and were not in Doom 1. This never really stuck out to me until I was editing in Doom 1 and realized I couldn't find them.

[esselfortium]

Also CEMENT-related, look closely at the Spider Mastermind's original physical model: http://img132.exs.cx/img132/8479/mastermind2mo.jpg

[_bruce_]

Cool find - never noticed this detail on the spider mom model.

[Dragonsbrethren]

Eris Falling said:

I can add to this one for you then. In the PSX version of doom, only the Chaingun, Plasma Gun and I think the chainsaw do this.
Additionally, the first shot of every chaingun shot is always bang on target, hence the chaingun tapping technique of pressing fire at a certain rate to take down very distant targets. Done me a lot of favours.

Since I've been playing it again recently, the GBA version of Doom 2 removes chaingun tapping. It also gives the shotgun vertical spread. It's strange, I know Doom 2 doesn't run on the Doom engine, but I always thought that was just the rendering side of things, I don't see why they'd make gameplay changes like this.

[40oz]

esselfortium said:

Also CEMENT-related, look closely at the Spider Mastermind's original physical model: http://img132.exs.cx/img132/8479/mastermind2mo.jpg

Yeah I noticed that a while back, do you think the textures are close up photos?

[minigunner]

A while ago, I found out that the shotgun sprites lack color quality in the near-black parts because when they were first implemented (Alpha 0.2), the palette lacked dark colors. That must have been overlooked when the palette did get more dark colors.

[Avoozl]

Didn't know that the chaingun was stuck directly in the SM's body, I used to think it was part of the seat thing.

[Marnetmar]

Avoozl said:

Now I know what Sandy Petersen looks like but not during the development of Doom.

Top left. He really looks about the same, but without the beard.

[esselfortium]

40oz said:

Yeah I noticed that a while back, do you think the textures are close up photos?

They do look like edited photos, from the high contrast and the rough shading and coloring that has more in common with the photo-based mastermind sprites than the more pixeled/digitally-created look of Doom's other textures.

[Hellbent]

I just found out it is possible to kill an untouched lost soul with one shotgun blast. Has anyone else done this?

[Platinum Shell]

Hellbent said:

I just found out it is possible to kill an untouched lost soul with one shotgun blast. Has anyone else done this?

Yeah, and it's a relief when it happens so you can focus on it's mom without having to juggle her children as much.

Apparently the SSG's total damage capability is higher than the rocket launchers (splash and hit combined) by 12 points. Though it's rare.

[Fellowzdoomer]

A secret switch in e4m2