Voxel Doom Tested: id Software Classic Gets A Voxelised 3D Upgrade!

How do you add a 3D upgrade to the original Doom without relying completely on inappropriate Polygon models? The answer is to take the 2D pixel sprites throughout the game and to voxelise them, Minecraft-style. The result is quite extraordinary, as Alex Battaglia reveals in this video.
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[@SDK2K9]

This is what GZDoom VR has been missing, and I'm so glad it finally exist. Playing this mod in VR along side the voxel weapons really completes the experience.

[@yotube155]

Now if we could add ray tracing to the VR version and somehow not explode my computer that would be sweet

[@IzeIzeBaby]

@@yotube155 maybe on pc but the quest 2 would go up in flames xD

[@xsct878]

@@IzeIzeBaby No, unless you're rocking a 3090ti or using the cheapest forms of RT possible, RT is not happening in VR, PC or not.

[@T0asty-]

@@xsct878 dlss my guy.

[@archthearchvile]

@@T0asty- I doubt the GZDoom team would implement DLSS properly and also I'm pretty sure GZDoom is CPU bound (not that I could write a better engine)

[@axolet]

I fucking love it when creators respect the original source material when doing "recreations". Theres a high degree of humbleness and attention to detail required to accomplish such feats.

[@razvanmazilu6284]

Agreed. Personally I will always prefer projects that actually maintain the feel of the original over ones that don't. This goes both for mods and for official remasters. Voxel Doom is both a technical and an artistic achievement in my book.

[@djayjp]

Humility, yep.

[@StuartQuinn]

It's like the "TNG remaster" of doom mods.

[@axolet]

And then you have shit like Disney's star wars where everyone and their grandmother wants to interject their own shitty ideas, ruining the original canon. I still can't believe the whole skywalker bloodline is now DEAD with rey calling herself a skywalker. Rant over.

[@deadfr0g]

This mod clearly has talent, patience, and reverence in spades.

[@ryandietrich8604]

It is crazy how Ken Silverman CONTINUES to leave his fingerprints on the gaming world. Dude was so far ahead of his time.

[@Islandswamp]

I’m playing ion fury right now

[@dmitriivanov7143]

5:53 Love the fact that the zombies are no longer flipping their guns depending on their orientation relative to the player.

[@yurifairy2969]

they were very dextrous considering they were zombies

[@iMernerner]

Yeah. Actually there are some mods for fix that! (Idsoft didn't used all 16 sprites on release)

[@h8GW]

@yurifairy2969 Clearly you must be referring to how much the chaingunner's aiming dexterity can aggravate the player, for being such a low level monster.

[@Tycitron6000]

Yeah there were unused sprites for those missing rotations for the zombies / doomguy/ imps but luckily there IS a sprite fixing mod that fixes this on PC. (Among other sprite fixes as well.)

[@Vile-Flesh]

It is beyond amazing after decades passed how DOOM is still getting these in-depth mods and conversions. I've been playing it since '94 and I STILL get worked up whenever I see a new video about DOOM or hear someone mention DOOM. The shotguns of DOOM will be roaring for decades to come. DOOM is life.

[@Daniel__Nobre]

It’s a game that was clearly done with passion by people who wanted to create and share the type of games they also loved to play. And on top of that they were incredibly intelligent and/or talented. Quite a unique alignment.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Try out my old episodes from 1996! 🤣😂🤣 "Darkhell" and "Blakhell". Hard to believe it's been 30+ years... 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨

[@Vile-Flesh]

@@Novastar.SaberCombat NO WAY.....You're not going to believe this but just in the last two weeks I was thinking about Darkhell, it was one of the very first custom WADS I ever played in '95/'96and it left an impression on me. I was 15 at the time and going by memory I fondly remember the level with the wide upwards spiral, the HUGE wide open 3rd level and the tower level that was an actual tower. I remember the huge open circular level making my 486sx25 struggle even with 8 megs of RAM. Blakhell doesn't sound familiar but I'm going to see if I recognize it. Thank you for creating something that became a happy memory for me. To this day I still play DOOM/DOOM2 on a CRT. DOOM shaped who I am today.

[@PhonesAreDumb]

The original Doom could possibly be considered the high point of gaming and artwork, considering how much it's still played and referenced and modded.

[@Barnaclebeard]

DOOM doesn't continue to live because it is so exceptionally good but because it is an exceptionally good benchmark app that is very well written in a portable manner, has a small code base, the code has been published, and it is very easy to bring to life on new platforms.

[@TheAceAttorney]

Just to point out, Voxel Doom will also work with any WADs that only use sprites from Doom 1. So for example SIGIL will work with this perfectly as it only uses Doom 1 assets.

[@metalvideos1961]

you can run it wih doom 2 mods as well. its just that not all Doom 2 monsters are modeled yet. so if you see a revenant for example you will see it as standard 2D. but if you see a shotgun guy you will see it as the Voxel. just a mix from both.

[@SMJSmoK]

@@metalvideos1961 That's actually a really cool piece of info, thanks. I assumed that the game would outright crash so I didn't even try it. It cool that it "partially" works this way.

[@metalvideos1961]

@@SMJSmoK no it does not. so i dont know why he told you that you couldnt run it with doom 2. its literally the same game as doom 1 just a couple of extra monsters.

[@1pcfred]

I have yet to see Voxel Doom work at all, let alone perfectly. For some reason my GZDoom engine can't do voxels. I'll have to look through the config and see if I missed something.

[@SYCZ]

It will work fine with doom 2. Cyber demon and arch vile are the only ones finished though.

[@calebduke2832]

I think this is the perfect way to step the graphics up while being faithful to the art style; I’d love to see someone do this for Daggerfall Unity

[@fensoxx]

Daggerfall needs it. Bad. Imho

[@razvanmazilu6284]

Yeah, that would be awesome. However I imagine Daggerfall has many more sprites than Doom does, so it would be a tough feat to accomplish.

[@davidgarcia1163]

My thoughts exactly. The good thing is surely someone from the community will get right to it!

[@avatarion]

Yes, absolutely, this would be so good for Daggerfall.

[@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517]

OMG PLEASE

[@DarkstarArchangel]

Cheello would be flattered that his mod is now getting the attention of great creators and featured channels on KZbin. It is getting the media-attention that it deserves.

[@donizettilorenzo]

And for Blood Coagulated too! (same project for Blood)

[@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435]

Wow, I'm impressed how it still maintains that 2D feels to the animation!😆

[@OGSnapshot]

maybe its because its a voxel dumbass

[@Demmrir]

It does so because every frame of animation in the original sprites was individually modeled from those sprites, rather than making one model, rigging, and animating it.

[@phattjohnson]

The video itself explains how this was painstakingly achieved! :D

[@alext3811]

@@Demmrir Reminds me of those HD texture packs for retro console (5th and 6th gen, which I still feel weird saying as such, as they're all years older than me), except even more astounding.

[@OGSnapshot]

@@phattjohnson it doesnt

[@phrozac]

This is so cool. I've always loved the look of voxels. They're like the missing link between sprites and polygonal models. It's a unique look. It'd be extra cool if he voxelized the Doom Guy's hands and guns too.

[@GabrielLaFlex]

So I accidentally loaded this for doom 2. I was shocked at how well the voxel doom monsters mixed with the sprite monsters. They weren't jarring in the least side-by-side in action.

[@jimwalton8973]

yeh it runs well with mods like auger zenith and la tailor girl mod too.

[@phattjohnson]

Ahh this is what I wanna hear!

[@af4396]

Wow, looks like the time it takes just to "fix" ONE sprite takes so much time, not to mention artistic skill doing it with those "paint blocks". This is a really cool mod, one that doesn't just put a coat of paint on the game but literally changes its dimensions without affecting the original experience. Coolest mod I've seen yet!

[@BlackV4You]

its surreal!

[@diegog1853]

I think this is actually quite perfect for something like playing doom in VR. The original sprites can really look flat when analysed up close, specially in stereoscopic 3D, but with this you get the most accurate experience possible to the original without feeling like you are just killing a bunch of cardboard cutouts. Brilliant.

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

I love that they mixed parts of the Build engine with Doom to get this running. Can you imagine hearing that back in the 90s?

[@Zoza15]

I love the fact that Doom is still being improved over the years by the loyal community. The voxels of Doom is a welcoming addition. Cheello deserves all the credit here.. I hope the voxels in the future will create more assets and voxelized environments. And if possible some more highly detailed voxel assets. So yeah, the voxels Doom is a bright future.

[@curcumin417]

Also Nash for his contribution.

[@thetruthexperiment]

After watching the whole thing I think adding twice the number of “sprite” walking frames would give doom the real face lift it needs without ruining the old time look and feel.

[@Decenium]

Now I want voxel versions of other classics like Heretic/Hexen

[@dugnice]

I vividly remember being in high school when Doom was released and a few of my school friends having a copy of the game and loading it off of 3 or 4 floppy disks onto school computers to play on LAN. It's just amazing how far game graphics have come along since then and it's interesting to wonder how things would have turned out if something like this was released back then.

[@cheat13]

It's super impressive, I would love to see a Voxel version of Star Wars Dark Forces in the same way!

[@nathantron]

I really want an interview by the original Doom Dev's and see what they think of all this new stuff being done with doom.

[@kloakovalimonada]

That's super impressive - improving the technology while keeping the style

[@DENj121]

That's cool, looks much better than old md2 models from early 2000-th.

[@ItsClodsire]

Those models are all gorgeous and it shouldn't be understated, they are very much labors of love you can just tell. Especially that tree... that tree was beautiful.

[@duality222]

Amazing work by Daniel and really great overview, Alex! Thanks for highlighting a mod like this.

[@wesleybcrowen]

This is like the only 3D model pack for Doom I genuinely love. Can't wait for Doom 2 pack.

[@jimwalton8973]

so looking forward to his completed revenant model.

[@CoralCopperHead]

Not a high bar to clear.

[@timaidley7801]

I would love to see this approach added to the floors and walls as well - the environments would look so crunchy. Ensuring there were no cracks might turn out to be non-trivial, though.

[@Gencoil]

Hey, not a bad idea!

[@jamesbrown1645]

Some voxtures were made a decade ago but OpenGL performance was terrible. Vulkan would probably fare better so it hopefully they try again.

[@kveller555]

@James Brown I think you can already get a similar effect with parallax mapping in GZDoom.

[@whatscheiser]

I was following the development of this and I just think its great that Cheello has gotten so much attention for his work. Its great to see a channel like DF cover community projects like this. Great stuff, guys!

[@ridass.7137]

Big, big ups for all the technical info at the end of the video, you just saved us a ton of time.

[@thorocomments817]

Imagine causing original DOOM to go below 60fps on a 3090. This rules

[@Wobbothe3rd]

See also: Ray Traced Doom. Runs less than 60fps at 1080p without DLSS, lol.

[@bauul.]

In fairness he was running it at 4k x32 multisampling, or in other words an internal resolution of 122,880 x 69,120. That's going to make any GPU choke a bit!

[@deus_nsf]

@@bauul. I wonder if at those extremely high resolutions, the problem isn't such raw compute power, but rather a (legit) lack of bandwidth?

[@FM-kl7oc]

You can do it without these kinds of mods too, check out Karl Jobst's video "The Most Hilarious Doom Speedrun Ever Performed" :D

[@thorocomments817]

@@FM-kl7oc I’ve seen this, lol. Hilarious experiment

[@mrnicktoyou]

As soon as I saw the voxels I thought of Blood and other Build engine games. It looks amazing.

[@Somewhere_sometime_somehow]

I dont think those are voxels tho

[@ghost085]

This same author made a mod for Blood that turns some enemies into voxels too. It's called Blood Coagulated.

[@mrnicktoyou]

@@Somewhere_sometime_somehow yeah they are. Blood had voxels for items and weapons back in the 90s.

[@Somewhere_sometime_somehow]

@@mrnicktoyou Yeah your right, i was thinking mostly about the enemies tho

[@cygnus4232]

This is amazing, the amount of work and attention to detail that went into this is incredible. Great job to Daniel and Nash for making this happen!

[@ThommyofThenn]

this is beautiful; i could replay so many wads enjoying these great voxels. i've been on a retro and retro-style fps odyssey these last months so I am really appreciating this.

[@tatwo_]

Saw this earlier. I hardly could see any difference in normal gameplay. But looking at more closely like this it really looks cool.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Try it with 'Darkhell" and "Blakhell" (full episodes)! I'd love to see more footage of gameplay on those. 💪😎🤟

[@Zaptruder]

Honestly, this just looks good. Would buy a modern FPS using voxel and pixel textures like shown. The environment surfaces could probably stand to have some voxelization and depth as well, and PBR could be used to enhance materiality... throw in some modern ray traced lighting and it'll be a beautiful fusion of old and new.

[@DenisKublitsky]

Ion fury has voxels. But can it be considered modern, is the question.

[@JFinns]

Yes somehow merging this and the PrBoom-Plus-RT engine

[@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517]

Voxels.have amazing advantage over polygons and that's destruction physics.

[@CarlMahnke]

Unbelievable, how Ken Silvermans 90s voxel code is still relevant today!

[@pstuddy]

this is AMAZING. i hope they do this for all other fps of that generation, especially hexen

[@TheGameLecturer]

I'd like to be able to mix Voxel Doom with RTX Doom now, it would make so much sense !

[@thiagovidal6137]

Not possible at the moment but Cheello have been in talks with the RTX Doom creator as that version does not support voxels at all and runs on it's own build rather than GZDoom. But it will happen eventually.

[@johnclark926]

@@thiagovidal6137 that’s cool to hear. I’ve been fearing that combining Voxel Doom + path tracing would result in the voxels being shaded instead of flat/no shading, which would imbalance the 3D and 2D aspects and result in the voxel models looking like Minecraft constructions, but hearing that the mid developers in communication with one another makes me hopeful that they can find a compromise.

[@SimonBuchanNz]

It's a weird case, as you need to throw out all the self shadowing and lighting information, any simulation of shine, etc, and just flat shade everything perfectly lit, and then add other layers of material info, normally roughness and metalicity. The extra quirk is that you also need normals, and that's not free when you're using voxels: it's possible it's easier to recreate the models traditionally then voxelize the information!

[@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517]

RTX + give depth to walls and floors as well = my life is complete.

[@Justgarlicbred]

This genuinely looks like it would have been remade from the ground up for the PS1. This is cool I love it. I wish I could install this on my switch. Also I love the fact that he managed to keep the art in such a way that it looks like it honors the original art.

[@yellowblanka6058]

Uh, no, the PS1 would choke trying to draw all those voxels.

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

@@yellowblanka6058 Yeah, the PS1 sometimes struggled to run regular Doom at a playable framerate. Still my favorite version though, thanks to the atmospheric lighting and soundtrack.

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@StraightOuttaJarhois The PS1/N64 versions were at least a huge leap over earlier ports if you didn't have a PC capable of playing Doom. They were very different in tone though.

[@djentslayer]

Glad to see some recognition for this mod. Been following the project since day 1 and it's amazing how far it's come.

[@Netsuko]

Hats off to the amount of work being put into this! I first thought there was some way to somewhat easily port sprites to voxels… but then all being hand drawn… wow!!

[@Bryan-T]

Voxels are very performance intensive. I used to play a mod called D4D that had an option for voxel pickups. There were certain maps that would have 50 or so pickups in a room and with the voxels turned on my performance as in the gutter. I'm sure this mod is no big deal for the standard levels but any slightly slaughter map is going to crush your performance.

[@Osprey850]

When this mod was released, I was on a trip and tried it on my 5-year-old laptop with Intel integrated graphics, which runs GZDoom just fine. The performance was so bad that it was virtually unplayable, like maybe 10fps. I had to wait a few weeks, until I got back to my desktop computer to properly test it out.

[@sinbysin666]

"Maybe you're like me, and you've played Doom dozens of times..." Me: "yeah... dozens"

[@beartackle]

LOL, I practically bought Doom in almost every system, and bought it on PC multiple times. Doom isn't my childhood, it's now me!

[@1pcfred]

Maybe he meant just today?

[@jpaulobiem]

Amazing job from this guys! Thank you Daniel Wienerson!

[@sturat18]

Thanks Alex for making a video highlighting this mod. Excellent stuff.

[@AJBats]

This mod would work really good with the VR mod of Doom

[@thiagovidal6137]

It does.

[@chanze555]

Any fun doom 1 megawads that don't use doom 2+ assets? This mod is so good that I can't play the other doom games until all sprites are 3d.

[@TamarinPamarin]

The best presentation about voxel mod I've seen. Great video!

[@sindobrandnew]

5:26 Now you've done it! Thank you for not messing up original.

[@ScottishAtheist]

I've not been as impressed by a mod in ages, even though there's more visually impressive graphical mods for Doom, what makes this so damn good is that it adds that important 3rd dimension for things like VR (it's great in VR btw) while still retaining the look and feel of the original. Top marks!

[@SimplexPL]

Voxel Doom 2 when? :) Amazing work by the modder and great video by Alex, as always. Aufwiedersehen :)

[@trankzen148]

He's working on it right now with new videos and posts coming out almost every day, got check it out !

[@KingSigy]

You can technically use it in Doom 2, but it is missing the extra monsters. The creator is working on updating the mod for Doom 2, though.

[@proesterchen]

This is awesome! Thanks for covering this mod, Alex! 👍

[@grrinc]

Well done Daniel! Absolutely splendid work! What a great talent.

[@Salty_Bass]

This combined with ray tracing would be the ultimate doom experience imo

[@Somewhere_sometime_somehow]

Thinking alike

[@Schpoo]

With Brutal DOOM...

[@Wobbothe3rd]

...in VR

[@omgawesomeomg]

This looks incredible and it's amazing that this game STILL inspires so much creativity. It's crazy to think we can nowadays play Doom in full 3D and with Ray Tracing.

[@TheBigQQ69420]

Wow, I thought the same thing... in 2016... since you didn't specify, and all the other handful of 3d doom games,

[@Moshugaani]

Cheello has done an amazing job! The voxel models look incredibly authentic to the original sprites, so much so that you barely notice it until you see a model from the side!

[@danpatrick7176]

Been waiting for this! Awesome video

[@360Fov]

I always felt voxels had huge potential to be a game changer, especially with sandbox type games, or anything with destructible environments.

[@Sunnyplayz64]

the teardown in question:

[@CreateConsumeRepeat]

Amazing job. Voxel Doom looks insane. I would kill to see this with ray tracing.

[@KillahMate]

Actually part of why the voxel models look so 'correct' is because there is no lighting applied so they fully match the original sprites. Doom is too old for ray tracing - it was basically a 2D game with some rendering tricks and art direction to make it look 3D. Quake 1 is at least fully 3D and was built with a _sort of_ realistic light propagation so maybe diffuse ray tracing would make sense, but Doom would need to be completely rebuilt and in the end it wouldn't look very much like Doom anymore.

[@cannonaire]

@@KillahMate Digital Foundry made a video on a ray traced version of Doom. I think that if that version used these sprites it would take it to another level.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Yes, it's unfortunate that the RT Doom is in PrBoom, a different sourceport, so there's no easy way to combine the two... yet.

[@tehprimelime1063]

Thank you Daniel for this lovely work!

[@AssailantLF]

This mod is awesome. Love all the hard work and attention to detail that was put in. Clearly a passion project by some very talented people.

[@KingSigy]

I love voxels anyway, but what really sold me on this mod is how the animations are handled. At times, I thought I wasn't even playing a mod. It captures the essence of Doom's art style so perfectly.

[@Waifu4Life]

The fact that you don't need to aim up and down is the reason I like classic DOOM!

[@DeskoDev]

GZDoom still has autoaim even with mouselook.

[@DeskoDev]

@Sleeping God The point I was trying to make was that it's on by default, sorry

[@AJ-po6up]

you can disable 6dof mouselook in GZDoom, you can make it as classic as you want really, but since GZDoom tries to be a modern source port is obviously going to be on by default.

[@DeskoDev]

@@AJ-po6up Nice PC Cloud pfp

[@Smartzenegger]

That is a lot of good work! Very well done. It's amazing!

[@StraightOuttaJarhois]

I've wished for something like this for a long time, but I never thought it would happen due to the immense work it would take. Cheello had to draw a whole 3D voxel model for every single frame of animation (though mercifully not at multiple angles). Absolute madman.

[@iameod]

it all looks amazing and true to doom except for the nukage barrels, there's something a bit off about them

[@Gencoil]

They look less shiny and, ironically, somehow flatter.

[@SmogginMog]

Something just feels *off* about the art from most angles.

[@papayer]

@@SmogginMog You're just not used to the 3D look.

[@EsoiTheGrumpyMawile]

I think the reason the barrels look off is because it lacks the shine that you see on the left side of the barrel, if a bit more white was used, it might look better.

[@steveafanador6441]

This is awesome. I wish they would release it on consoles.

[@metalvideos1961]

why would any sane person make mods for doom on console lol. get a pc and play doom mods.

[@marcbuhrens6328]

@Daniel and Nash: Excellent, authentic work with attention to detail. Great stuff! Next project: PowerSlave: Exhumed?

[@drygnfyre]

I've only recently learned about this mod, and it's amazing. It's such a dramatic change, and yet it also doesn't touch any of the core game mechanics, so it's not making you rethink or relearn anything. These are the best kind of mods.

[@dissecta]

Awful Dad joke warning… Given Alex is in Berlin should it be Doom with Opels rather than Vauxhalls? God, I’m so sorry for that joke.

[@ErdrickHero]

Could each voxel be turned into a coloured vertex, and then subdivided, to create accurate polygon models?

[@DJ10ROCS]

Fantastic work by the Moddershall!

[@sgtpatton]

wow absolutely NAILED it amazing work

[@dandiaz19934]

That's really cool, and I like it better on some parts but for the most part I think it loses some of its charm. I really like the original's use of 2D sprites in 3D spaces. It's an aesthetic in itself.

[@RageQuittersUKOfficial]

Just need some enterprising modders to make this work with Brutal Doom. I imagine that'll be a lot of work though.

[@guillermo9171]

I thought the same but BD has too huge an amount of new sprites and animations. To the point that it would probably take more work to just voxelize BD assets than the entirety of vanilla Doom

[@BobOfAllTrades]

It’s so well done that I may not have noticed it since I haven’t played this game in nearly 30 years. It’s subtle until you compare 👌

[@nightbirdds]

I love stuff like this because it shows people still love Doom to this day. We've got modern source ports now like GZDoom or prBoom+ that do things the original never could. You can take Doom and play it any way you want it, that's the way you need it, any way you... err, sorry. :) This is an amazing labor of love, no doubt, and does a good job of cleaning up the glaring issues sprites have. Preserving authenticity is important, if you ask me, but I also love mods that just go all out and do things like implement better movement, new, well thought out weapons, and challenging monsters. Not to mention maps that arent afraid to put in as much detail as they can. I'm always amazed at what Doom modders are capable of, and I'm happy to be part of that community and contributing our own work to it.

[@gwenc1371]

This is sooo cool! Imagine doing this with Daggerfall Unity! The 'paper cut out' feel to NPCs feels increasingly out of place as the rest of the world gets upgraded.

[@Nicholas_Steel]

Not a huge fan of some items now spinning on the ground in that mod (weapons, health vials, armour helmets, keys, map etc). Did they release a variant that doesn't include that behaviour?

[@vasopel]

Yeah my thoughts exactly,I hope that there are options somewhere on the files to change that.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

I played the mod, not all of the weapons rotare but I agree.

[@NashMuhandes]

We could look into making the spinning effect an optional toggle for a future update to the mod

[@Nicholas_Steel]

@@NashMuhandes Thanks. Ensures the items feel tangible in the world.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Turns out this can be disabled in a text file.

[@claytonwright2416]

As you said the old phrase, "having your cake and eating it, too" I was really eating cake. Thanks for putting a smile on my face.

[@the1ucidone]

This is phenomenal! What an absolutely amazing modification. Kudos to the modder for his unbelievable creation and talent.

[@_evildoer]

My biggest problem with this mod is that the monsters still snap turn at 45 degree increments. A ton of people say they cant even see a difference with this mod because of this. I think it would look a hell of a lot better if the turning was smoothed out with interpolation

[@NashMuhandes]

We plan to add an optional smooth-turning feature for the enemies in an update patch

[@_evildoer]

@@NashMuhandes Fantastic!

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

Having an option to look up and down in DooM is pretty cursed. Not as bad as jumping, but it's extra work for an already smooth experience.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

You can choose not to, that's already a feature of GZdoom, but you can turn it off. Obviously you wamt that feature to show that the mod actually works in this case, but you can play without 6dof mouselook just fine.

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

@@Wobbothe3rd True

[@MetalJody1990]

This mod is amazing. Cheello is very talented. The voxel models look great, even with ambient occlusion enabled!

[@shooterdefronvrps2]

Before playing it what I love the most about this is how it enhance the attack animation of the pinkye/specter, depth perseption really make that bite more dangerous, and how it help when you look up or down to a enemy downhill or uphill After playing with it, is the 3d props,they look so cute

[@luigimaster111]

I'd love for the view models of the weapons to be modeled as well, and an option to alter the view model positioning. I want to see what Doom would look like with the weapons placed on the left side like in contemporary fps titles, and I wanna see how that weapon bobbing looks in 3d.

[@Somewhere_sometime_somehow]

Yeah, this is greqt, but the weapons look seriously flat now

[@VincentFischer]

The vertical aim is not "an assumption". The engine is unable to have two "things" in the vertical plane. There will always only be one thing vertically you can hit, so no need to assume anything.

[@SmogginMog]

Yeah his surface level knowledge of Doom is slightly painful.

[@bauul.]

I'm not sure what you mean by "vertical plane", but you can have multiple targets all within the the same vertical slice of the screen. Imagine standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs and each step has a monster on. All of them are valid vertical targets. Doom's auto-aim is pretty basic though: it targets the enemy physically closest to the player. However, because the horizontal spread of the auto-aim is quite wide (~6 degrees) you can be aiming directly at a more distant monster and have the auto-aim lock onto an enemy closer to you that's a little off to the side. That's what DF meant about it being less than helpful sometimes.

[@VincentFischer]

@@bauul. Because I was unsure of dooms coordinate system (is the Up vector on Y or Z) I tried to circumvent that distinction by saying vertical plane. You can't have multiple entities in the same place "on the ground" just with height differences. What you are describing are entities with completely different coordinates (not just the height) so this is not the situation we are talking about. In your case it will always shoot the entity more close to you. The engine has no concept of up/down, everything is in a 2d coordinate system. the height differences are just an "optical trick" (that's why the doom engine is sometimes referred to as 2.5D engine)

[@Wobbothe3rd]

@@VincentFischer That's not exactly correct, but close. Carmack recently clarified exactly this point in his recent interview. Y values are stored in Doom's engine (ie a Cacodemon coming down, or the position of floors like a staircase), and like Bauul said above Doom's auto-aim essentially just chooses the closest target, which is sometimes a faulty assumption.

[@stupidstormy36]

This is pretty neat. Got it running on my Linux machine. As for the renderer, HW works fine, just with SW, it had to be in true color for it to display properly. Otherwise some pixels would display in completely black.

[@_thresh_]

They look so good that it's sometimes hard to notice that they are voxels instead of sprites!

[@zipobob1]

Is it possible to combine this with Doom ray tracing upgrade?

[@RyanCoomer]

at a buffet, i personally sneak corndogs into the buffet so others can enjoy them. I hide 6 corndogs in my jacket pockets. it then, is a joy for me to see other patrons of the establishment eat my corndogs thinking they were part of the buffet.

[@atquinn1975]

Wow, brilliant work!

[@pschroeter1]

THIS and true 3D environments would be the Doom sequel I've been waiting decades for. Doom III and beyond have been Quake with Doom style monsters.

[@KoeiNL]

The weird thing about Doom is that I mainly remember all the sound effects and not really anything gameplay related :D

[@FM-kl7oc]

1:53 The reason it shoots below or above you, is because Doom technically is a 2D game -- height/elevation is just trickery. It's the same reason why you cannot have rooms/corridors stacked vertically over one another. Or why you cannot stand on top of or jump over the head of enemies below you. If you open the minimap in Doom, what you're seeing is something more truthful to how the Doom game engine actually operates -- in 2D.

[@bauul.]

There are always a few people who pop up on Doom videos spouting stuff like "Doom is really 2D" with absolute confidence, when it's objectively not true (mostly because they watched an ill-informed Game Theory video from years ago). Yes, Doom has limitations on the height axis, but no, this doesn't mean it's a 2D game. Those things you mentioned are not "the reason" why Doom is 2D, they're the small number of limitations on the Z height axis which stop it being (arguably) "full" 3D. But that's not the same as it suddenly being entirely 2D. All the ways in which it is properly 3D (full 3D positions for all entities, full 3D movement within the game space, proper gravity implementation, independent height values for all surfaces, full 3D line-of-sight checks, etc. etc.) don't suddenly stop applying just because there's a couple of places in the code where the Z axis is ignored.

[@FM-kl7oc]

@@bauul. Then make me a WAD with vertically stacked rooms, and also please add perspective correct rendering while looking up and down. I'll wait. PS. I don't know Game Theory, but the "Make Your Own Raycaster" series by 3DSage is my preferred demonstration of raycaster engine limitations.

[@bauul.]

@@FM-kl7oc The lack of vertically stacked rooms is one of the specific limitations of the Z-axis I talked about. The other is solid Thing collisions. These two things alone do not make Doom a 2D game. The incorrect perspective rendering (Y-shearing) is also not a limitation of the engine's third axis, that's simply an issue with any software rendering. The Build engine had the same problem. However, the fact you seem to think the Doom engine is a raycasting engine might explain your confusion. It's not, you're thinking of the Wolfenstein 3D engine. The Doom engine (aka idtech1) is a BSP engine, which allows for much greater 3D geometry than a basic raycaster.

[@Wobbothe3rd]

Doom engine does keep track of a Y-axis for certain things. Just because you can't build a room over a room doesn't mean there's no y-axis AT ALL or the game would be much less interesting, like Wolfenstein3D.

[@shanekelley3064]

Been playing this on my stereoscopic 3d monitor. It looks amazing.

[@karloz2722]

I subscribed to Cheello's channel long time ago because I really appreciate the work and effort he puts on this. I think he nailed the balance between updating Doom and keeping what made Doom special in the first place.

[@BlueMaxxW]

This is the best graphics mod for Doom I have seen since the source code released. I have wanted something like this for decades and they nailed it.... NAILED IT!

[@Schizm1]

This is freakin amazing! One of the most faithful remasters I've seen aaaand it's fan made!

[@RenegadeC]

Chillo/Cheello also did the main character model for my WIP game featured on my channel.

[@hi-friaudioman]

Wow, just wow! This is what GZDoom has needed. Huge props to the people who created this! You rock!