Isometric GZDoom - Update 12-B

Nearly there.
Engine fork: github.com/dileepvr/gzdoom_is...
Isometric camera mod: github.com/dileepvr/DRSGME
Causeway map: www.mediafire.com/file/aj5qn9...
Soundtracks:
1. Crusader No Remorse: Rebel Base 2 theme Guitar Cover by Santos ( • Crusader: No Remorse -... )
2. Doom 2 OST Countdown to Death by Lashmush (lashmush.newgrounds.com/)
3D model "Shed" by EricAug3D (www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/...)

[@DD64MusicAndGames]

Can't wait for the entirety of both Crusader Games to be remade in GZDoom

[@ShinoSarna]

Oh my god, just imagine Crusader with full mouse+WSAD controls.

[@EnigmaHood]

Took the words right out of my brain! I literally posted the same exact thing

[@EnigmaHood]

@@ShinoSarna Glad to see other fans of the Crusader games. I had the demo when I was a kid way back, but I only beat the full game a few years ago. I managed to use joy2key to jerryrig a modern controller to get semi-decent controls working, and it's a lot better than the default controls in both the PC and PS1 versions, but it was still super clunky. A modern remaster with fluid controls and gameplay would be amazing

[@EuryBartleby]

One of the most promising developments in recent years. The potential is incredible.

[@user-iq6gp8qo8b]

For real. Its so aesthetic and has rpg potential for story

[@jess648]

this is gonna be great for the burgeoning GZ indie scene

[@BlufftonMicrocosmicExperiment]

I could see a great RPG come from this.

[@TheNucaKola]

Facts, this would be a great engine to develop an rpg with

[@MsTatakai]

oh yeah... was thinking of that .... an ARPG like diablo 2 or something

[@user-iq6gp8qo8b]

Imagine an RPG doom game like OG isometric Fallout just like this 🤤

[@ezyto]

OG Fallout isn’t isometric its trimetric

[@catmole]

@@ezyto It's not technically isometric but everyone knows that general style of perspective as isometric so it's easier to call it that for clarity

[@ShinoSarna]

3:24 That made me realize that anyone making a game in this would need to figure out something so enemies don't shoot you from too far off-screen. Then again, answer would probably be manually limiting monsters attack range.

[@SinaelDOverom]

you can write custom attack functions that have limited range and require enemy to move closer to the player to use.

[@ShinoSarna]

@@SinaelDOverom Yeah, exactly what I meant. And it's best to have a custom attack function, because if you did some code that prevents enemies from shooting when offscreen, that would change the difficulty based on resolution. Which is obviously unwanted.

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

or just do what Hotline Miami 2 did and say "actually getting shot from random directions by enemies miles away is a feature and it's meant to be hard shut up"

[@jabberw0k812]

Avoiding use of hitscan enemies would help.

[@Cyberian_Khatru]

mitigated mostly through level design I assume

[@professorfoster6365]

I can't imagine how much you had to fight with GZ Doom's code to get this to work. I can see this opening up the path for a shit ton of new games on the engine. Good work!

[@lQuadXl]

I can see a *LOT* of potential, combined with RPG and/or some kind of turn based mods using this perspective! 🤤 👍

[@Palendrome]

Imagine 2d beatemup/hacknslash combat

[@XCATX25]

The fact that it clearly started as another Crusader No Remorse remake in Doom project it's great

[@Cosmic-Bear.]

I would play the shit out of a Doom adventure game that has slow, relaxing story sections like the start of this demo mixed in with action segments like at the end. Your work is looking amazing.

[@alexaldayLC]

OMG!!! This is Really Cool!!! It reminds me Shadowrun when I was a child and I used to play my old SNES!! Amazing memories, thanks for this. Instant Suscription!!!

[@rodiroddude6204]

Freaking amazing

[@Dethcat12]

My god that is a thing of beauty! That camera rotation and z-level tracking being so smooth blows my mind

[@lPsychoMax]

This would make an amazing horror game with the fog of war. Especially with the doom sounds echoing if there are monsters nearby to add ambience.

[@antonio_carvalho]

This is amazing. Original X-Com vibes, but in our beloved Doom setting.

[@DPedroBoh]

Whoa, this is so much better than i expected. You really did put the work to make it work.

[@Nomadnetic]

This is really cool. Wasn't expecting to see Crusader assets being used.

[@NoExplosionsMcgee]

Nice! Someone should remake Diablo 1 with this and try to adapt its artwork with this camera rotation function in mind. Being able to see Diablo 1's levels in ways you never could because of its fixed camera position would be incredible!

[@Pazuzu-]

Thats looking awesome so far

[@Gamerallday2012]

Looks promising, Good luck!

[@DavidXNewton]

Magnificent :) This has so much potential!

[@EpicTyphlosionTV]

If you're able to do all this to GZDoom, you should be able to optimize the hell out of it

[@dileepvr]

I think the graphics optimization efforts are all occurring in vkDoom. Check it out. They are also pulling commits from gzdoom, so this should all be possible there too.

[@inkoalawetrust]

@@dileepvr VKDoom optimizes like how you can optimize GZDoom by getting a far more expensive and powerful CPU (In terms of individual core performance). Mostly because it just does so by raising the system requirements, not making anything run any better.

[@akurasubject9617]

Combined with obsidian level generator this becomes truely isometric doom rougelike.

[@vladde]

woah this is pretty cool! nice work :D

[@zsascsforever4155]

I congratulate you this is great!!

[@RaTcHeT302]

THIS IS LIKE DIABLO WITH TOO MANY STEPS

[@GoodmansGhost]

Truly impressive stuff.

[@darkwanderer9328]

Keep working on this man, it already looks great. Hell, I mean it would be even more awesome if you could expand this outside of the reigns of just GZDoom. For a while I've been thirsting for an easy to use and straightforward game-engine specifically designed around easily making isometric games like Baldur's Gate, the first 2 Fallouts, or even Diablo 1 and 2, and there really aren't many options, and what there is usually isn't in any sort of active development and hasn't been worked on in years. Would be great to see your project move forward into being something like that.

[@JayJohnaJackJJJ58]

That Fear and Hunger pit wouldve worked wonders if you had Natures Call enabled

[@whoelsebutmeofcoursei]

I can't wait to play this

[@massimodambrogio]

Very very cool, well done! 👏🤘

[@almall4042]

I WANT to replay DOOM with an ideally optimized implementation of this!

[@powerdude_dk]

interesting to see where this is going!

[@danyukhin]

thank you for your work

[@ArchaicTear8x]

Game looks awesome! Thought the music was a cover of Iron Maidens These Colours Don't Run for a sec.

[@nexxusx]

Love this work. Keep it up!

[@syluxman-dc6je]

this is really cool.

[@Romanian901]

this looks great

[@wadgamer93]

this is insanely good, imagine a fallout game like the originals in this engine

[@nmn5550]

Great job! Excellent potential right heer!

[@DexiazFantom]

Godlike. This is awesome.

[@lukevincent4256]

I think I'm in love

[@ldcgfx8710]

very interesting, it could motivate me to play Doom again

[@NTAD]

I can't wait to watch Zero Master -try and- speedrun this.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

Awesome - Doom: No Remorse

[@ApernosOffical]

man, fallout 1/2 modding scene be looking good! (/j, i know this is doom)

[@inkoalawetrust]

Let's hope this time it gets merged into GZDoom. Also, maybe add a flag for preventing sectors from rendering in isometric view? Since in the second example map the polyobject sector is visible, and I presume other types of control sectors are visible too.

[@Jaundice__]

Someone sure chopped up “Pull me under”.

[@davidmartin1312]

perfect for recreating POSTAL 1 with Doom

[@evilmicah]

reminds me of Crusader: No Remorse - classic game

[@marcosviniciusoliveirameir1027]

OMG! Is amazing!

[@flashn00b]

Seeing this makes me wish voxels were still rendered as particles like the now-discontinued ZDOOM. Next best thing would probably be low-fidelity 3D models, but I could see basic 3D visuals and the your isometric mod being used in projects emulating Tiberian Sun's visual artstyle

[@map04wormhole]

What an achivement!

[@jabberw0k812]

Oh man, a Crusader TC would be so cool.

[@aurorafox1283]

Very cool!

[@youdonegoofed]

Can't wait to replay Diablo in Doom one day.

[@AnnCatsanndra]

Yooooo so cool!!

[@logananderon9693]

It's like a Remorseless Crusader

[@yrop6188]

unbeliveable

[@Thesavagesouls]

It's super cool

[@Datario64]

This is pretty cool overall I like how it gives off a old isometric horror game feel to it. Even though I know it would be better if I said a Crusader feeling because That was the guy I saw at the start and it is similar to the game but with better controls.

[@Leon_Portier]

Amazing

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

Can't wait for the Alien Shooter mod.

[@sompret]

Gone full circle and made Alien/Zombie Shooter prototype in GZDoom

[@_zproxy]

nice. can we also have diablo tristram level1

[@lQuadXl]

I hope so too! And an experience system with skill trees. 😁

[@Madd_o]

This is definitely reminds me of Doom: Fall of Mars

[@rorychivers8769]

Baldur's Doom II : Demons of Amn

[@MadsonOnTheWeb]

Crusader 🤤

[@mr.daggersirl]

If only Crusader controlled like this.

[@Werewolf64lol]

Doom modded are crazy!

[@000adrianelpiola000]

It is not a limitation, it is a complete and intentional feature.

[@zarnox3071]

This vaguely reminds me of Jupiter Hell.

[@jaodasilva7993]

1:10 Schutzstaffel!

[@gamesthatiplay9083]

Whatever this project is looks really cool. I especially like the full 360 degree camera. Is there anything to set the camera? Like if I wanted to do a trick to look at a door? If there isn't a visibility cone for the player, would you think about adding it? Seeing it in action is fantastic. Better than I thought it would be and I thought it would be great.

[@dileepvr]

Thanks! GZDoom allows you to spawn as many camera actors as you want. Switch views between them or show one camera's view in a corner of the screen. The fog of war only works up to subsector level. So while it is possible to add a visibility cone to the player, the changes will not be popular for the general case. You can code in a visibility cone for the AIs for gamplay if you want. It won't affect the renderer.

[@groomerkiller3947]

We need a fan made PSX version of "Project Overkill" mod

[@stefansuch1588]

What mighty doom shouldve been

[@ExplosiveDisregard]

I played Crusader as a kid and it really stuck with me. I thought it would be amazing to get a remake in the style of The Ascent. I'm learning aseprite for pixel art and literally drew that dude last night. would love to learn how to make stuff in this format.

[@dileepvr]

That is awesome Chris. There have been many tools made over the years to extract sprites directly from the shapes.flx file from the original crusader games. They are all shady executables hosted on strange sites. You can find some on echosector.com . Most recently, DasCandy pubilshed the source code to do the same : github.com/dascandy/cnr But you should start learning how to make simple maps for doom using tools like ultimate doom builder. It can be a lot of fun. My code can handle isometric sprites, though I didn't show many of them here, except for the starting room (and the silencer).

[@MadsonOnTheWeb]

Would be great if possible to change it dynamically in a line def or something

[@gyaloza]

Wow! Great work, really. But is the camera turning by buttons? In my opinion it would be cool if you can press RMB and turning camera with mouse instead, it would be more smooth. Also need camera distance scrolling. Good luck with this

[@dileepvr]

That's a pretty good idea. I'll look into how that could be done. Thanks. Distance scrolling is already in.

[@meyers0781]

need a way to convert all items to inventory items (and of course an inventory screen) so it could be viable.

[@wilburcobb8990]

hel yea

[@barrettkepler7618]

Almost like jupyter hell

[@rj.ferreira]

This is amazing! Please, try with Voxel Doom! This could turn Doom into a whole new game!

[@NOLNV1]

Brb doing all lf Baldurs Gate in this

[@emoboy2008]

One could theoretically port og fallout games into that

[@LazarheaD]

I want Alien Shooter GZDoom!

[@hubertmitura2587]

Could be combined with Chello voxel sprites?

[@dileepvr]

Of course.

[@EnigmaHood]

I really hope someone can remake both Crusader games using the GZDoom engine one day. The originals are good, but have super clunky controls.

[@rikiorikio9368]

This is just a mod for Crusader for PS1 and PC

[@franzpattison]

I'd play it

[@ar_xiv]

any ideas for room over room? (or does gzdoom already support this??)

[@AaronMorrisTheSteamFox]

There are multiple ways of doing room over room in GZDoom.

[@ar_xiv]

@@AaronMorrisTheSteamFox but I feel the normal tricks might not be ideal for this perspective. I genuinely don’t know much about gzdoom

[@inkoalawetrust]

I don't see why 3D floors wouldn't be ideal with the isometric view, portals used for ROR might not, but IMO it's not really how you should be doing ROR most of the time to begin with.

[@johnryan1292]

Doomablo when

[@user-st2ti4wy1w]

Gzdoom. Half-life.

[@philipejeuceoututkache]

Diabloom :B

[@charlymacias5369]

Why does the music feel like early Black Sabbath?

[@globals1366]

hey is the mod able to run custom maps or do you NEED to use maps made for the mod?

[@dileepvr]

You can play any map ever. The mod only affects player camera properties. I was playing the original Doom 2 (MAP03) towards the end there.

[@globals1366]

@@dileepvr I might do some maps for it then, do you have a discord server that I can join related to the mod?

[@dileepvr]

@@globals1366 Lol no. This is a small project and nearly done. Just the regular gzdoom discord is a good place.

[@globals1366]

@@dileepvr fair enough, wasn't much active there personally so I left but good to know it's almost done

[@robertdobbs4156]

WICKED

[@rf2gw354]

What the first song from?

[@dileepvr]

Check the description.

[@null_and_void__]

gzdoom crpg when?

[@Justforvisit]

DiablOOM?

[@whoelsebutmeofcoursei]

There will be custom doomguy?