Lizardcommando's mods journal

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Feb 24, 2008 7:13

Well, instead of working on that damned robot enemy which'll be replacing the Baron of Hell, I decided to go ahead and remake the Barney Calhoun Lizard. I'm only on the first set of frames though. It might be a while before you see it in action...

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:24

Hey guys, so I just finished the running animation for the remade Barney Calhoun Lizard. So I'm about halfway done with him.

Ok, so I was going to keep this a secret, but I couldn't hold out any longer. I want to bring back the Silenced Machinepistol and Molotov Cocktails back dammit! All I have to do with the Molotov Cocktail is fix the coding, but that's going to be a HUGE pain in the ass, so that's not going to happen for a long time. The Silenced Machinepistol is going to be drastically different than the previous incarnation.

I have been drawing a bunch of sketches of the gun for a while and now I finally have it drawn in MSPAINT. I couldn't decide which one to use though. I have one version with a tactical scope on it and another version without it. Which one should I use?

Oh yeah, and I am thinking about adding in a new item, something similar to that one item in Strife where you can call in some reinforcements or something. Any ideas on how I would do that?

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 0:00

Blagh. So I decided to use the one with the scope, so I don't need any opinions on that.

I am almost done with the new Barney Calhoun sprites. I just need to do the new death animations and that's it.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 5:34

Hey guys. So I just finished making the Silenced Machinepistol. Now the part that's going to kill me is how to implement it. Should I make it a permanent upgradable weapon that permanently replaces the normal Machinepistol or should this be a separate weapon from the normal Machinepistol? I don't know how I should approach this. Someone want to help me with this?

In the meantime, I just finished making the new Barney Calhoun sprites. It doesn't look as goofy as the old version now. I also changed the Magnum's firing sound from the Half Life magnum to a new one I found from FPSBanana.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:20

Ehh... I decided to just make the Silenced Machine Pistol a brand new weapon and not a permanent replacement for the Machine Pistol. They both look very different now.

Now all I have to do is make the Robot enemy and then I'll release a new demo. I also need to replace the normal soldiers' sight sounds. I need something that sounds Metal Slug-ish.

Post by **Enjay** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:26

lizardcommando wrote:Blagh. So I decided to use the one with the scope, so I don't need any opinions on that.

Dammit, here's my opinion too late anyway.

I think it looks better without the scope. I think it looks smoother and meaner. And, seeing as how the scope is unlikely to actually be used in game (I'm guessing) it's just a lump on the gun taking up more screen space.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:07

Well, the reason why I ultimately chose to go with the scoped Machine Pistol is because it looked more interesting. Without it, it looks a little plain. I never made any weapons that looked like that before and I wanted something different.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:18

After a long time, I finally finished one full rotation sprites for the Robot enemy that I'm creating. Now it'll probably take another three months before I complete the first set of walking sprites...

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 22:25

I just posted up a video comparing the old Silenced Machine Pistol with the new Silenced Machine Pistol. You also get a quick look at the remade Barney Calhoun sprites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKlfzsxZO04

Oh, and here's something I was working on for a bit, but then stopped since I got bored of it and ran out of ideas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8AazDhRJ-k

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:38

There are two things that I want eventually in this mod:

A Custom HUD
Shell Casings

I just want a custom HUD that utilizes the Statusbar face. It's a waste having made the statusbar face and not even seeing unless you use the Automap or use the classic statusbar. I haven't thought of any designs for it yet, once I do, I'll post up the concept art.

As for shell casings, I'm not sure how to even approach this. I was thinking of making the graphics the same size as the icd-lizard ones, but those are really small...

Blarg. I'll put these idea aside for a while.

Post by **wildweasel** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:04

lizardcommando wrote:I just want a custom HUD that utilizes the Statusbar face. It's a waste having made the statusbar face and not even seeing unless you use the Automap or use the classic statusbar. I haven't thought of any designs for it yet, once I do, I'll post up the concept art.

How about this?

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:49

Hey.... that's pretty neat.

I'll use this until I have some concept art and graphics ready for my own custom HUD.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 21:07

Ok, I finally thought up a concept for a Custom HUD.

Just for your information, the Magazine is supposed to represent how much ammo you have in your current "clip" and Ammo is how much ammo you have total in your inventory. The graphics in the magazine and ammo boxes are temporary. I couldn't figure out how to incorporate those into the HUD.

This is just for the classic HUD that would be replacing the old DOOM HUD. The fullscreen HUD is just going to be like the ZDOOM fullscreen HUD, except the Statusbar Face should be incorporated somehow.

So, anyone want to help me out with this? Any suggestions?

Marty Kirra · Post by **Marty Kirra** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 5:32

I think you should add a space for the weapons you've currently collected...probably at the bottom somewhere.

lizardcommando · Post by **lizardcommando** » Mon Mar 24, 2008 6:57

Hmm, you mean something like the one from Doom? Well, here's a new concept I just whipped up right now. This is pretty much what I want it to look like. I could probably make the MAGAZINE and AMMO boxes a bit smaller.

So is this totally doable?