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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 12:10:13 GMT -5
My flag-ship mod, Aliens the Ultimate Doom has been in beta 9.2 since 2016. Above is an older version from beta 7.0 or so, back when the blood was green. (Though I actually did advance the gameplay mod a bit in 2017 when I re-made Justin Fisher's Aliens (TC).) I had temporarily suspended production, because I used it as the basis to create Aliens Trilogy (UD). Which was later used as the basis for the instant classic by payload4367 , Aliens: Eradication. Which in my opinion the the optimal iteration of the gameplay mod, along with superb maps. In the spirit of Aliens: the Ultimate Doom, there is NO time-restriction. Here is the original development thread on zdoom started back in 2014: forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=45213&sid=2534b436562c13bcbc1f8af047af1122I want this to be the new official development thread. What do I propose?I would like for the community to help me finally complete the project. In addition to the gameplay mechanics, and custom sprites, I had created all original Alien-themed textures and flats found in the file. As I am a man strapped for time, I would like people to help me fix the bugs, improve upon what is there, create original maps! and other ideas and initiatives are welcome too. Again, there's no time restriction, so this will be an easy going project. Here is Aliens TC 2017, from which we can use as a basis to create the next version of Aliens: the Ultimate Doom www.moddb.com/mods/aliens-the-ultimate-doom/downloads/aliens-tc-2017 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 12:19:00 GMT -5
Here is a much better example of the custom textures and flats I created (all original). Unfortunately this map has been lost forever because that PC had died.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 12:53:42 GMT -5
New ideas I have in mind:
-Re-skin Steven Seagal from DBP#48 to become an Android (enemy actor) that uses melee attacks.
-to have a more natural look, have the eggs initially splatter decals of the biomechanical-hive resin in a star formation similar to a blood splatter. Which would probably look a lot better when overlapping on the base textures.
-I want to re-do the Dog alien sprites
-I want to re-do the Drone alien sprites (simple swap of the dome on the ATC 9.5 warrior) maybe scale it down a tiny bit to further distinguish them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 13:35:35 GMT -5
This is actually crazy because I was playing this in the morning today after checking out your other mods. Worked fine for me too, all the decorate stuff is perfectly portable between ZDoom-ports.
Maps I can do.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 13:41:14 GMT -5
This is actually crazy because I was playing this in the morning today after checking out your other mods. Worked fine for me too, all the decorate stuff is perfectly portable between ZDoom-ports. Maps I can do. Excellent! I myself will try to work on the art-side of the project, improving upon and adding more sprites. Some of them deserve a redo imho too. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 13:45:28 GMT -5
I was also thinking we can play with the difficulty to create different modes for actor placement.
"traditionally" Aliens:UD has always used randomized spawners for enemies and pick-up
I propose we create one mode that has set-pieces, and one that has the randomized spawners. I know some people are adverse to random-spawners, but I like them particularly, because it shakes things up.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 14:40:21 GMT -5
Can do, would be good to satisfy both preferences. What is the map format gonna be? UDMF or just generic limit removing maps?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 15:05:10 GMT -5
I think slopes will be a must for the authentic alien corridors, so probably UDMF.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 15:11:43 GMT -5
Here is an older version that had all of the aliens game OSTs as well as alien-esq OSTs from other games. From this version we can pilfer the soundtrack, I don't recommend using it for anything else. Because 9.5 was the latest iteration sans the music. www.moddb.com/mods/aliens-the-ultimate-doom/downloads/aliens-the-ultimate-doom-tc-beta-8Later versions just had the windswept sound repeating. Some of the OSTs sound a bit video-gamey, and not too atmospheric. though some of them are really cool imo. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2022 23:46:31 GMT -5
Having some kind of decent play music would be nice, that windswept sound doesn't work too well when you're on a station or in space  Maybe some generic Alien Trilogy music looping could be a better alternative? Speaking of which, you said 'original maps', for map01 I was thinking to do a modern copy of Alien Trilogy's map01, a kind of entrance and intro. I'm an Alien Trilogy simp lol |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2022 19:34:35 GMT -5
Having some kind of decent play music would be nice, that windswept sound doesn't work too well when you're on a station or in space Maybe some generic Alien Trilogy music looping could be a better alternative? Speaking of which, you said 'original maps', for map01 I was thinking to do a modern copy of Alien Trilogy's map01, a kind of entrance and intro. I'm an Alien Trilogy simp lol I agree, Payload's mod would be a good place for us to retrieve the Aliens Trilogy ost. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2022 13:04:12 GMT -5
I’ll take a look at that then
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Post by superfury332 on Jul 8, 2022 23:47:00 GMT -5
I don't know anything about aliens in the slightest so I won't participate but good luck  I'm only here for 2m2g |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2022 11:27:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2022 14:37:04 GMT -5
A goal of mine will be to add more custom textures. There's already a lot, but I'd like to create even more. Especially if we are doing custom levels.
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Post by payload4367 on Jul 25, 2022 6:54:32 GMT -5
Glad to see you back at it! Let me know if you need any help. I don't have as much spare time these days but I'll help how I can.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2022 8:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2022 11:48:33 GMT -5
Here's a very rough version of Aliens:UD I built out of DBP48, since the 9.2 beta has a lot of replica entries I need to prune out to allow it to save in slade. Though don't judge it based on hold-over assests from DBP48, they're going to be replaced with the proper assets. This is simply to showcase the new sprites. Which in all honesty, don't make a noticeable difference. Nevertheless, check it out, maybe I'm wrong: www.mediafire.com/file/rbk1e4uyugln18j/pseudo+AliensUD.pk3/file |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2022 12:29:41 GMT -5
Btw, I upscaled the Xenomorph Warrior sprites by 300%, and applied a despeckle filter to it. It does look better, but it is relatively unnoticeable. Plus gzdoom already has a feature like that. On top of that, the enemies move so fast, you can't really tell.
This shit took me all day yesterday, all 251 frames. so, I'm going to keep the new sprites and move on. It is an improvement, yes. But not as dramatic as I hoped.
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