Lynn's Mods

A (mostly defunct) blog for my Doom mods and maps. 24, Panromantic Asexual, they/she.

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New pinned post!

Hey, I'm Lynn Beck! I make GZDoom mods and maps sometimes, though I often get distracted and never end up finishing them. This used to be a Minecraft modding blog, but I stopped because I found making them stressful compared to Doom.

For more videogame stuff, check out @lynnbecks-gaming-sideblog!

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Bleh. If anyone knows anything that can fix this, uhhhh let me know

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Forgot to post this here, but uhhhhh I made a post in the ZDoom forums about it, if anyone knows what's happening. Let me know

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Bleh. If anyone knows anything that can fix this, uhhhh let me know

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Oh god oh fuck I'm actually doing proper planning for like. A game I might make

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Like I did a quick test in UZDoom earlier to see if one of the mechanics I plan on using would work, and. It does.

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Ok actually you know what. To motivate myself, if I don't get my room clear by the end of the month, then I will force myself to go in-depth on what the game's premise is, which has historically not gone well for my other game/mod projects.

If I do get my room clear by the end of the month, then I will reveal the premise when I've got a working prototype done (which will just be a basic test room with placeholder textures and graphics, and demonstrations of some of the mechanics).

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Update: I have made the test level, though it isn't finished yet, and a test-PK3 with prototypes of some of the mechanics I intend on using. And a random 3D model of some coral.

(This doesn't count as revealing the game's premise since I don't intend on using this model in the game, also the actual game won't be a Doom mod, it's just that I don't want to start making the game so I'm just using pre-existing assets and mechanics from Doom for the prototype, and then the actual game will be made from scratch as a UZDoom-based game)

In terms of room stuff. Uhhhhh I'll get back to you* on that.

*That's a nonspecific "you".

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Oh also I will probably make a sideblog for development updates when I start making the actual game. Either that or I will just repurpose @lynns-mods.

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Haven't posted here in months (not counting that last reblog), anyway uhhhhh yeah I'm working on something new, but I won't like. Post about it until I've done the first four maps (technically eight; you'll see).

Which won't be for a few months, so for now I'll just be using this blog to post clips of random Zscript and ACS experiments I guess.

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Apologies for the brief period of inactivity, Tumblr flagged this blog* as spam for. Some reason? So uhhhhh yeah. Hopefully that won't happen again.

*and also @lynns-mods, @lynns-bonkle-blog and @lynnbecks-superheroau

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(it's especially weird for this blog, given I haven't posted here in months)

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Hey does anyone know why the GZDoom "FIRETEXTURE" AnimDefs thing doesn't seem to exist in the software itself. Like it's in the patchnotes for 4.13.0, and the wiki lists it on the AnimDefs page, but typing "firetexture" doesn't highlight it like other AnimDefs keywords, and I get a "bad syntax" error when I try running my map with the FIRETEXTURE section in the AnimDefs file.

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Also I tried looking it up, but then the "looking up stuff about GZDoom" curse happened and gave me a bunch of completely unrelated stuff.

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Hey does anyone know why the GZDoom "FIRETEXTURE" AnimDefs thing doesn't seem to exist in the software itself. Like it's in the patchnotes for 4.13.0, and the wiki lists it on the AnimDefs page, but typing "firetexture" doesn't highlight it like other AnimDefs keywords, and I get a "bad syntax" error when I try running my map with the FIRETEXTURE section in the AnimDefs file.

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mfw i got the minecraft arg autism instead of the good at math or science autism

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This but with Doom modding.

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An experiment with 3D floors, namely making a layered ground-fog effect! In theory, it could also be modified to make shallow water (and other liquids too).

More information on how it works below.

Basically, it uses normal 3D sector implementation (an out-of-bounds sector "casts" an inverted version of itself into a tagged sector via a line-special), with specific properties set:

"Type 7" means it's non-solid (type 3) and is set to render both the inside and the outside (type 4). Meanwhile, "Type 64" makes the sector use additive blending. Then the opacity is set to half. This is like half of how it looks the way it does.

The other half is the texture and the scrolling. The texture used is FLAT5_7 (grey cobblestones), which pairs well with the additive blending, since it's a fairly dark texture (though I still reduced the opacity because it was way too bright). And then it's set to scroll in opposite directions north and south, with a more subtle scroll east and west. And then the sector's floor and ceiling heights are set so that the top layer is 8 Units above the ground, while the bottom layer is 4.

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This is unrelated to UMPIG, but uhhhh here's a quick thing I slapped together in like a minute to test a concept I have for an "alternate ammunition" mod", namely drunk rockets! Zscript thing below not that it's particularly interesting since it's just a three lines of code that are just the default Doom rocket spawn code with A_Weave added.

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For the record, in the mod they'd actually be mini-rockets that split off from one of the alternate rocket types as a sort of "cluster-rocket" concept.

Every weapon type has three to four potential alternate ammo types (not counting defaults) so far, though if I even make the mod, only two of them will be in there at launch.

Bullet weapons (Chaingun and Pistol) have Armour Piercing rounds (deal 1.75x damage against enemies, but has a lower firerate and the player can only carry up to 75 at a time), Ricocheting rounds (use custom Puff magic so that bullet impacts spawn another Hitscan shot that targets the nearest monster), Darts (do 0.1x damage per shot, but inflict poison), and Gyrojets (instead of a normal hitscan, the weapons fire projectiles at a lower firerate; the projectiles start out very slow and very weak, but gain speed and damage as they travel)

Shell weapons (Shotgun and Super Shotgun) have Incendiary shells (work in a similar way to the Legacy of Rust flamethrower), Slugs (fire a single bullet that does a lot of damage, but the player can only carry up to 12 at a time) and Flechette shells (do 0.5x damage, but each pellet has a chance of damaging enemies behind the target).

The Rocket Launcher has Homing rockets (fucking guess), Cluster missiles (already explained), Grenades (work like the Grenade Launcher from Quake I), and Shrapnel bombs (don't explode, but instead shatter into damage-on-contact metal shards, kinda like when you use the Rocket Launcher's altfire in Metadoom).

Cells are more complicated, so I'll describe the BFG and Plasma Rifle's respective alternate ammunition effects as separate bullet-points. Both have Cryo, Dark Matter, Solar and Argent cells.

Plasma Rifle stuff: Cryo cells turn it into a freeze-ray, Dark Matter cells reduce the firerate but vastly increase the damage, Solar cells slow the projectile speed but the projectiles can bounce off walls and the floors and explode after a few seconds, and Argent cells turn it into a beam-based weapon that deals low damage very rapidly and makes targeted enemies explode.

BFG stuff: Cryo cells make it fire a projectile with an AOE freeze effect, Dark Matter cells make it fire a projectile that works like the AR2's alt-fire from Half-Life 2 where it bounces around quickly and deals large amounts of damage, Solar cells turn it into a "murder-camera" that deals 1000 damage to every enemy within the player's field of view but turns the screen fully white for a few seconds after firing, and Argent cells make it function like the Doom 2016/Eternal version but uses half of the maximum amount of Argent cells per use.

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This is unrelated to UMPIG, but uhhhh here's a quick thing I slapped together in like a minute to test a concept I have for an "alternate ammunition" mod", namely drunk rockets! Zscript thing below not that it's particularly interesting since it's just a three lines of code that are just the default Doom rocket spawn code with A_Weave added.

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Hey uhhhhhh I recently made the first map for my current Doom mapping project and I need feedback for it I guess!

Also I have a Tumblr community for Doom modding and stuff, go check it out :D

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been having theme park game brainrot for the past month or two, played theme park world and RCT1

and recently a couple of code ideas came to mind for gzdoom, wondered if those ideas would actually work

well, so far yep, and now i find myself making a theme park gzdoom side project game thing lol

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Doom Mappers and Modders I Guess • Community on Tumblr

Do you make Doom maps? What about mods? Then uhhhh post about them here I guess!

I've made a Tumblr Community for Doom mappers and modders! I'll be a lot more active on there.

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Doom Mappers and Modders I Guess • Community on Tumblr

Do you make Doom maps? What about mods? Then uhhhh post about them here I guess!

I've made a Tumblr Community for Doom mappers and modders! I'll be a lot more active on there.

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I just realised that the GZDoom logo is the same as the ZDoom logo but with the side part mirrored, so that it's a D on the ZDoom logo and a G on the GZDoom logo.