RDVOX -The advanced Voxelpack for (Q/L)Zdoom & Delphidoom

Nice to see someone attempting a few monster conversions. Lost Soul looks pretty decent.

here's some preview images from the last page of the DW thread:

Here are some screenshots. I have also added 2 videos into the first post

In fact it is a real dynamic light set into the object. But i specially oriented it that way.

/me looks at pinky demon.

So, wait, is the idea to make a voxel model for both the walk/attack cycles *and* the sprite rotations? That's... a fairly ingenious solution to the "every 3D doom model looks like crap because the shading sucks & can't have artificial contrast depth" problem.

Something Like ytat. Actualy the advantage of voxel that i dont need to create "rotations" It is basically volumetric and i need to create only one voxel frame per each letter of the pinky graphics (something near 15 frames) but the problem is that i need to recreate each of them dot by dot manually. It takes a long time. But i dont hurry. I could transform some of frames from ones into another, but i need to create at least one frame looking like sprite PINKY first.

Actually i will split the pack into "monster" and "all other things" sections for those doomers, who do not like voxel monsters.



Well i would like to see voxel support in PrBoom, but nobody wants to add thos support there.. It's pity, but i found another interesting post with powerfull doom-based soft renderer. It is Delphidoom.

sourceforge.net/projects/delphidoom/files/DelphiDoom%202.0.6/delphi-heretic-2.0.6.728-win32.zip/download

Try it if you do nit like the QZDoom or a bit "fresher" LZDoom. Both have great software renderer with 8-bit (classic)and 32-bit (truecolor) modes, but i always prefer 8-bit renderer - it loocs like vanilla doom but with palette-based dynlights and voxels.

github.com/drfrag666/gzdoom/releases/download/3.87c/LZDoom_3.87c_x86.zip

grau, just checked out version 0.40 in Gzdoom 4.6.0 (hardware rendering for now). I see that so far monsters beside Lost Soul weren't replaced, but the visuals are gorgeous anyway, especially the player's plasma shot (in its entirety, from projectile to impact/dispersing) and Lost Soul of course. This is going to be well-suited to be Brutal Doom killer/alternative visual (and performance) wise, kinda realistic kind of stuff, not over the top gore but naturally violent, because detailed. I wonder what kind of texture resolution would go with the voxels best: 2x?

As for BFG secondary impact, it doesn't currently look as powerful/visceral as say a rocket impact, but probably once you voxelize monster sprites, the combination would look visceral sure? Two-shotting cyber is satisfying, though, as always (booted map02 of TimeOfDeath666's ESP2 to check out).

I also tried running this in Delphi Doom v2.0.6.728. There are two exes: doom32.exe and GLDoom32.exe. The first one - the software presumably - refused to run RDDVOX-0.40.zip, while GLDoom32 run it okay, but apparently projectiles have lower resolution than in GzDoom? And fuck... now GLDoom32 refuses to run it again with a similar error to doom32, that is InfoGetSpriteNumForName(): Sprite name "CL" must have 4 characters. Well, doom32 says that about sprite name "S*". Deleting Doom2.GWA seems to fix the problem for GLDoom32 and it can launch RDDVOX again. Nothing can fix the problem for non-GL Doom32 however. Anyway, wish projectiles had same resolution as in GzDoom (cooler), is it engine limitation or actually can be tweaked in settings?

A few newframes from the decoration in progress - looks like 0.41 will be one of the "heaviest" updates since 0.38:

So - i am very close to the release of RDVOX 0.41. This is gonna to be the largest update, after 0,38.
In 0.38 i added all frames of lost soul and it's explode into parts of bones instead of classic death animation and some others. Here i added the large "(zombieman?)body on a stake" decoration, radiation suit, nightvision, and the most interesting - quake-style gibbing for all 4 "junior" monsters - ShotGAy, Zombieman, ChainGay, and the last - an imp.
Now gibs for first two are ready, and an imp head is ready too. I need to make a chainguy head, some chainguy body parts (nay be a hand or a part of torso, and an imp leg - i belive - that will be enough to show which monster was gibbed. Ofc. - there are "universal" meat parts which will be spawned for any red-blooded monster, and i have a zombieman leg, and some kind of human hand for exploded zombs.

Version 0.41 for (Q/L)ZDoom and Skulltag/Zandronum is out! You may get it here:

rdw.xp3.biz/RDVOX/RDVOX-0.41.zip

Or find it on the project page: rdw.xp3.biz

- Added new voxels for item "Infrared" (ampga.kvx, ampgb.kvx)
- Added new voxel for item "HazMat Suit" (Radiation-Shielding Suit?) (suita.kvx)
- Added new voxel for decoration "Dead on a stake" (stakeguy.kvx)
- Improved the voxel for decoration "Hanged Body 3" (hanged3.kvx)
- Implemented quake-style gibs for enemy "Zombieman", "ShotGay", "ChainGay", and the "DoomImp"

I highly recomend to use software renderer of LZdoom wint "Display Options"->"software renderer"->"models" set to "OFF", because it affects on voxels Too and render 'em as tonns of poligons, causing heavy drop of fps:



Delphidoom version is under construction yet, but i plan to port all the changes there till 4 september

You might be interested to know our very own Ketmar has been adding voxel support to K8VaVoom.

Really love to hear that - your work will help delphidoom users to have at least zdoom-compated voxels untill i finish some delphidoom-specific improvements - zdoom ports kind'a can not handle alpha for voxels in SW (any of them but NOT ZDoom itself - zdoom has alpha, and that is really strange for me!)

I will add some extra features for DD version, but i plan to release out this first: