Doom 64: Unseen Evil v1.0.3 [10/14/2024] - Prepare yourself for evils unseen!

[DrPyspy]

 

 

 

Doom 64: Unseen Evil is a mod for GZDoom that brings the atmosphere of Doom 64 to the worlds of Doom and Doom II. Everything is entirely overhauled: from the player and their weapons, to the halls and the demons that stalk them.

 

All of the demons that were absent from the original Doom 64 have finally emerged from the deepest pits of hell, including the unsettling Revenant and the sinister Arch-vile. If you're looking for a new challenge, the exclusive Redemption Denied difficulty will bring some of the crueler monster placements from PSX Doom into the vanilla Doom maps.

 

Proceed with caution; there are many evils yet unseen.

 

 

• The full Doom 64 arsenal at your disposal, including the Unmaker

• All monster behaviors from Doom 64 recreated as faithfully as possible

• Missing monsters reimagined in the Doom 64 style: the Chaingunner, the Revenant, the Arch-vile, and the Spider Mastermind

• Quality of life improvements, including new sounds, new weapon animations, and customizable settings

• The Terraformer: a powerful system that comprehensively transforms any Doom/Doom II level into a Doom 64-style level

• Redemption Denied: an exclusive difficulty level that implements monster spawns from PSX Doom (and other surprises) into the vanilla Doom levels

 

 

More screenshots at the official site!

 

 

Unseen Evil fully supports the original Doom and Doom II levels, as well as any community mapset that uses the vanilla texture set. Any textures that are new or replaced by a community mapset are not taken into account by the Terraformer, which can make things a little screwy in terms of visuals. Select mapsets at your own discretion.

 

 

You can find downloads at the official site. Doom 64: Unseen Evil requires GZDoom v4.12.2 (or higher) and a copy of Doom or Doom II.

[NaliSeed]

Definitely following this. 

[NPC_CO8ALT]

If you can pull this off, I believe you may have a Cacoward coming to you in the future. Good luck, sir.

[Immorpher]

I have been seeing Doom 2 mods come out, and they just make me want to use this more! haha

[DrPyspy]

Bringing in some development updates! You can click on some of the images to get a closer look 👀

 

 

Here is the new firing animation I've been working on for the Shotgun! I thought it'd be cool to go for a lever-action animation, since those aren't super common in Doom mods, and since the pickup sprite in Doom 64 resembles a lever-action shotgun.

 

Here is a concept for the Chaingunner! As you might be able to gleam from my other D64 designs, I'm leaning into the whole theme of doubling up the main features of the monsters. Here, the Chaingunner wields twice the amount of chainguns! This won't have any effect on how fast or how much he shoots, so you don't have to worry about a hallway of Chaingunners popping up behind you and eating your ass twice as fast.

 

The model is currently a very early work-in-progress, and he isn't quite where I want him yet visually, but I'm digging the direction so far! He's feeling very distinct compared to his undead siblings. (cameo appearance from the new shotgunner spriteset!)

 

In addition to the Chaingunner, here is my take on the Spider Mastermind! I went for a souped up Doom 64 Arachnotron design, with some elements implanted from the 2016 iteration of the monster, similar to the MetaDoom Spider Mastermind. I considered doubling up her chaingun to match the 'doubled-up' gimmick of some of the other monsters, but I think I'll be sticking with a singular cannon.

 

The texture replacements are coming along fairly smoothly! Texture selections are still tentative, and I'm mostly working through one episode at a time. Doors and switches are being given unique designs to help them stand out more in the darker, multi-colored environments. Brightmapped textures will also make use of special shaders that keep brightmapped areas correctly lit in the Doom 64 lighting system.

 

Certain light textures have been equipped with fancy new shaders as well; rather than having the color of the lights be baked into the texture, these will change their color and brightness depending on the properties of the sector. This was one of the trickier tricks to pull off, but it is very nifty in action!

 

That's all for now!

[Nash]

Got a Discord server or something where I can keep a closer eye on the project?

[Kinsie]

18 minutes ago, Nash said:

Got a Discord server or something where I can keep a closer eye on the project?

Based on the last post in the ZDF thread: You can follow DrPySpy's projects and/or antics on Twitter or his webzone.

[DrPyspy]

10 hours ago, Nash said:

Got a Discord server or something where I can keep a closer eye on the project?

 

I do have a server, actually! However, I don't actually have a channel set up for it yet, was planning on getting that set up at some point today. You can peek in here.

[Rudolph]

I have to say, when I first saw the title, I assumed this would be another custom Doom 64 mapset. :P

 

Still, all things considered, it is a rather clever title!

[Rudolph]

Oh, by the way, is the UnMaker going to be added to Doom 1 and Doom 2? If so, how do you plan doing so?

Edited April 18, 2023 by Rudolph

[DrPyspy]

1 minute ago, Rudolph said:

Oh, by the way, how do you plan on integrating the UnMaker to Doom 1 and Doom 2?

 

In my other mod Doom Delta, the Unmaker of that mod would usually spawn in place of a BFG if you already had a BFG in your inventory. I might do something similar here, although I will need to consider how to handle the Demon Keys. Doom Delta's system for spawning in new unique monsters/powerups is pretty flexible, so I could pull something similar off here.

[Rudolph]

1 minute ago, DrPyspy said:

In my other mod Doom Delta, the Unmaker of that mod would usually spawn in place of a BFG if you already had a BFG in your inventory. I might do something similar here, although I will need to consider how to handle the Demon Keys. Doom Delta's system for spawning in new unique monsters/powerups is pretty flexible, so I could pull something similar off here.

Maybe the Demon Keys could start spawning in place of the BFG too once the UnMaker is acquired?

 

And what about the music? Are you going to use Aubrey Hodges' Playstation soundtrack or Doom 64 soundtrack?

[DrPyspy]

30 minutes ago, Rudolph said:

Maybe the Demon Keys could start spawning in place of the BFG too once the UnMaker is acquired?

 

And what about the music? Are you going to use Aubrey Hodges' Playstation soundtrack or Doom 64 soundtrack?

 

Spawning in place of the BFG is good, but I would like to explore additional options for the spawn handler to handle in case there's only a couple BFG's in an entire mapset. That'll definitely be one of the options, though!

 

At the moment, the music is divided into PSX tracks for Doom 1 levels, and 64 tracks for Doom 2 levels. However, I do want to include a couple other music settings as well, such as a custom ordered playlist and a randomize/shuffle setting!

[Azuris]

This looks really promissing :)

[Sixty-nine]

Looks dope.

[Xim]

9 hours ago, DrPyspy said:

 

In my other mod Doom Delta, the Unmaker of that mod would usually spawn in place of a BFG if you already had a BFG in your inventory. I might do something similar here, although I will need to consider how to handle the Demon Keys. Doom Delta's system for spawning in new unique monsters/powerups is pretty flexible, so I could pull something similar off here.

 

I'd definitely like to have the Unmaker. It became one of my favorite guns after not liking it, before I discovered it's potential with the demon keys. Maybe you could have the demon keys appear in secret sectors after obtaining the unmaker.

[Rudolph]

On 4/6/2023 at 11:05 PM, DrPyspy said:

I'm interested in seeing what other fellas would like to see improved upon!

I would suggest fixing the blood color discrepancies for  and giving monsters unique idle and pain sounds à la Sound Caulking.

[Immorpher]

2 hours ago, Rudolph said:

I would suggest fixing the blood color discrepancies for  and giving monsters unique idle and pain sounds à la Sound Caulking.

Doom CE has created a sound caulking for Doom 64, so that could be a start!

[Superjustinbros]

Looking forward to giving this a try once it's ready for release.

[TasAcri]

I really like this Revenant.

[tatsu91]

This is exactly what i am looking for following this and hoping it goes smoothly

[Rudolph]

On 4/19/2023 at 1:41 PM, Immorpher said:

Doom CE has created a sound caulking for Doom 64, so that could be a start!

There was already a Doom 64/Playstation version of the Sound Caulking mod - which, I might add, gave the Hell Knight an unexpectedly terrifying idle sound! Are you saying that Doom CE created its own separate mod?

[Immorpher]

4 hours ago, Rudolph said:

There was already a Doom 64/Playstation version of the Sound Caulking mod - which, I might add, gave the Hell Knight an unexpectedly terrifying idle sound! Are you saying that Doom CE created its own separate mod?

It gathered sounds from various sources as part of a sound caulking idea. I am not sure if its using parts of the one you are thinking of or not.

[JimFlasch]

Any idea when this will be released? I'd really like to check it out.

[Purple781]

Sick. Hope it goes well.

[JimFlasch]

Yeah, looks good, but would like to see it released sometime soon!

[Gifty]

This looks flipping awesome!!

[,,,]

Wow this is really exciting. Will this be compatible with Doom CE? It has a "Doom 64-ifier" of its own but it's mainly for playing PSX (Final) Doom CE levels with Doom 64 CE assets and doesn't work too great when used on PC Doom maps.

[Lila Feuer]

I've been wanting something like this since forever ago, looks extremely promising! I like D64 but don't always want to play its campaign so this solves that.

 

A separate version of the Terraformer that just modifies maps but leaves things (monsters, weapons, decor etc) alone would do wonders for modularity also.

[hexagonopus]

this rocks omg