Isometric GZDoom - Update 12-B 

Oh my god, just imagine Crusader with full mouse+WSAD controls.

Took the words right out of my brain! I literally posted the same exact thing

@@ShinoSarna Glad to see other fans of the Crusader games. I had the demo when I was a kid way back, but I only beat the full game a few years ago. I managed to use joy2key to jerryrig a modern controller to get semi-decent controls working, and it's a lot better than the default controls in both the PC and PS1 versions, but it was still super clunky. A modern remaster with fluid controls and gameplay would be amazing

For real. Its so aesthetic and has rpg potential for story

this is gonna be great for the burgeoning GZ indie scene

OG Fallout isn’t isometric its trimetric

@@ezyto It's not technically isometric but everyone knows that general style of perspective as isometric so it's easier to call it that for clarity

you can write custom attack functions that have limited range and require enemy to move closer to the player to use.

@@SinaelDOverom Yeah, exactly what I meant. And it's best to have a custom attack function, because if you did some code that prevents enemies from shooting when offscreen, that would change the difficulty based on resolution. Which is obviously unwanted.

or just do what Hotline Miami 2 did and say "actually getting shot from random directions by enemies miles away is a feature and it's meant to be hard shut up"

Avoiding use of hitscan enemies would help.

mitigated mostly through level design I assume

Imagine 2d beatemup/hacknslash combat

I think the graphics optimization efforts are all occurring in vkDoom. Check it out. They are also pulling commits from gzdoom, so this should all be possible there too.

@@dileepvr VKDoom optimizes like how you can optimize GZDoom by getting a far more expensive and powerful CPU (In terms of individual core performance). Mostly because it just does so by raising the system requirements, not making anything run any better.

I hope so too! And an experience system with skill trees. 😁

That is awesome Chris. There have been many tools made over the years to extract sprites directly from the shapes.flx file from the original crusader games. They are all shady executables hosted on strange sites. You can find some on echosector.com . Most recently, DasCandy pubilshed the source code to do the same : github.com/dascandy/cnr But you should start learning how to make simple maps for doom using tools like ultimate doom builder. It can be a lot of fun. My code can handle isometric sprites, though I didn't show many of them here, except for the starting room (and the silencer).

That's a pretty good idea. I'll look into how that could be done. Thanks. Distance scrolling is already in.

Thanks! GZDoom allows you to spawn as many camera actors as you want. Switch views between them or show one camera's view in a corner of the screen. The fog of war only works up to subsector level. So while it is possible to add a visibility cone to the player, the changes will not be popular for the general case. You can code in a visibility cone for the AIs for gamplay if you want. It won't affect the renderer.

Of course.

Did it compile? Then zip this repo, rename it as a pk3, and run it as a mod. github.com/dileepvr/DRSGME btw the code recently got merged with the mainline dev build.

You can play any map ever. The mod only affects player camera properties. I was playing the original Doom 2 (MAP03) towards the end there.

@@dileepvr I might do some maps for it then, do you have a discord server that I can join related to the mod?

@@globals1366 Lol no. This is a small project and nearly done. Just the regular gzdoom discord is a good place.

@@dileepvr fair enough, wasn't much active there personally so I left but good to know it's almost done

No. The first track was a cover of an Andrew Sega soundtrack by a group called Music Interpretation Laboratory. The second was a Metal cover of Bobby Prince's actual doom soundtrack by Lashmush.