#doom modding

Originally I was going to use a model, but like. I did a billion posts about that not working, you already know I decided not to. So instead I tried doing a 16-rotation thing with the model I was going to use, but realised I would have had to render and then edit almost 600 sprites (37 animation frames, mutliplied by the 16 angles), so finally I changed my plan to just have it be a regular non-directional sprite.

The model is the one of the Guardian of Hell's "Seekers" from Doom 3 (since I have a Blender plugin that can import models, textures and animations from Idtech 4 games, though I have to use an old version of Blender for it to work); I used nodes to make the glow effect red (and upped the contrast to remove the fade-overlay effect and make the glowing brain-wrinkles more visible), and also fiddled with the frame-skip option to reduce the number of sprites that would export from over 100 to just under 40. The reason I chose the Seeker model is that I like Doom 3, and also it was easier than drawing a custom sprite or whatever (even though I am also using Doom 64 and Strife sprites for some of the other new stuff in the mapset, and also a GMod screenshot of the Doom Eternal Hell Knight model).

The tank, which I didn't really show off in the clip, looks like this inside:

However, this is actually. A trick. Because it looks like this in the editor: