/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4386960
>>4386975
(pic unrelated, the hissy is mad as hell... caco fireballs have sparkles and an impact reminiscent of a missile explosion)

Yes but you'll have to make a pwad for it since the settings are hardcoded in the gzdoom pak file.

All you have to do is change the renderstyle of the fireballs to: Normal, or Translucent... then change the Alpha value to 1.0

For DIY modding instructions:
Make a DECORATE lump in the pwad you're creating, copy and paste all of the decorate code for the fireballs you want to modify... erase most of the code in the brackets for them, then set the Renderstyle and Alpha as above.

Make sure you rename the actor names for the fireballs and replace the existing ones so that you're actually modifying them.

Actor ModifiedDoomImpBall : doomimpball replaces doomimpball
{
Renderstyle Translucent
Alpha 1.0
}

(in above case, the colon inherits the code from the imp fireball, the keyword "replaces" tells the game to replace all further calls to spawn the imp fireball with This Version instead - and since this object has a different name it wont conflict with the original)


>>4385929
>>4385950
>>4386982
Thats because with a certain threshold of higher quality graphics your brain switches gears and starts looking for imperfections since its expecting "realism" and looking for the ways that it can be improved or where it is not matching up to expectations.

With pixel art, as long as its smoothly and slickly done the willful immersion is complete because This is the way you're expecting it to look.

However when pixel art tries to do things its not supposed to do, like some of the early days of cheesy 3d renderings, it has just as much if not more of a discordant feeling because it is no longer matching its own formula.

> usually has to do with character faces, animated cutscenes, that sorta thing

Since we've been exposed to much better 3d these days, that suspension of disbelief people had back then about it no longer applies.