About freedooms zandronum edited sprites

[RonLivingston]

I also wanted to make sprites for freedoom based off everything from skulltag a.k.a zandronum

[GreyGhost]

Most of those are edits and/or re-colours of Doom2 sprites, so it will take more than a bit of editing to render them eligible for a Freedoom-compatible license.

[RonLivingston]

I Believe these minigun sprites would be useful (skulltag minigun)



And would the old chaingun be a placeholder for the weapon pickup?

[Da Werecat]

Original art good. Frankensprites bad.

Bad frankensprites worse.

[RonLivingston]

Here's a sheet of the Worm representing the blood demon from zandronum's engine as its freedoom counterpart



And The face with the doomsphere eyes as well.

[Catoptromancy]

So you want to use freedoom stuff to make into zandronum powerups? Sounds cool.

[Blastfrog]

I'm confused. Are you trying to submit to Freedoom, or are you asking for permission to use them in your own Zandronum mod? Or something else?

Da Werecat said:

Original art good. Frankensprites bad. Bad frankensprites worse.

Not only that, but Freedoom already has a new minigun made from original material.

[Catoptromancy]

Some zandronum sprites are edits of id's and would be better to have modified freedoom ones if freedoom iwads are used. This is actually a good idea.

[RonLivingston]

Yeah I had made those back in 2011, so. I thought we could rename the zandronum minigun as an MP-40 since freedoom already has a minigun made from original material, I may would use todays minigun for its zandronum counterpart and replace the previous one.

[RonLivingston]

Here's 2 new zandro frame sheets I did based off the new orb monster and there projectiles, first the cacolantern

[RonLivingston]

And here's the next one. the abaddon.

[raymoohawk]

the zandronum monsters probably need new sprites rather than recolors...

waiting for Soda to say everything should be an edit of the same sprite :p

[RonLivingston]

Yeah, I even do have a combat slug and pain lord as the Belphegor and hectebus so, i think the combat slug re-color seems kind of low Quality i seen the red pain lord with a blue jet-pack before so. i think the hectebus needs new sprites.

[RonLivingston]

Here's another sheet featuring the frames for the new and old sprites for zandronum as there freedoom counterparts, (the red armour is blue since the mega armour is red) I know we already have the doomsphere turbosphere and guardsphere that eriance made.



I don't know if these impaled marine frames would look good, and I might do a new impaled minigun zombie and pistol zombie heads.

[Nikita_Sadkov]

RonLivingston said:

I don't know if these impaled marine frames would look good, and I might do a new impaled minigun zombie and pistol zombie heads.

I think it should be more gory, closer that:


But over-the top gory, with intestines popping out, etc... The impaling angle could higher too.

and the skin color is too fresh for a dead marine.

[RonLivingston]

Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. thanks

[RonLivingston]

Here's a concept of zombieman heads on sticks that I made.

[RonLivingston]

I did a zandro minigun representing freedooms new minigun from the original material.

I don't know why freedoom has 2 miniguns now, I think we should rename the zandro minigun as the mp-40 or double chaingun etc.

I also forgot the attic, if that pistol sound looks good for zandros minigun (double chaingun or mp-40)
https://github.com/freedoom/attic/blob/master/julian/sounds/dspistol.wav

[AxelMoon]

You could probably call it a Mini Gatling Gun or so, but it would obviously be quite inaccurate to the weapon sprite. I don't know, but it's worth a shot.

[RonLivingston]

Yes, the gatling Gun sounds like an okay name for zandro's minigun. still I think some frames need alittle resizing and maybe we would come up with any ideas for the railgun and the grenade launcher.

[Da Werecat]

I'm sorry, but it's still a crude frankensprite. You just slapped a different chaingun onto the rocket launcher.

[AD_79]

Yeah that sprite does look pretty terrible.

[RonLivingston]

oh I understand, I guess i'ill find or make different concepts this time

[TheMightyHeracross]

The chaingun got replaced... so maybe yse the old one?

[RonLivingston]

hmm. I think I might do that, I could also use ebola's chaingun as a placeholder until further notice

[RonLivingston]

Here's a concept made from ebola's chaingun as the zandro minigun (a.k.a the double chaingun) I actually hope there not frankensprites btw.

[MrFlibble]

I felt like giving the minigun frankensprite a try:


The shading isn't very consistent, and the transition areas could be polished more I guess.

[RonLivingston]

ah excellent idea, thanks for the frankensprite revamping, ofcorse I did have to make the old chaingun pickup sprite smaller so I thought I add a picture too it.

I should also make the retro firing frames large again

[MrFlibble]

Updated version:


This uses a different Missile Launcher recolour which I think is a bit more accurate:


I've also darkened the chaingun a bit to reduce the contrast between the two parts.

[Edit] Since I'm still not satisfied with the results, I decided to do this the lazy way:


The handle can be on the other side as well:

[RonLivingston]

very interesting recolor, I think this time we should come up with any ideas for a freedoom based railgun. also, I could use one of eriance's weapons as a grenade launcher, still I had to cover up this uac nonsence