Gritty Doom mod

I love this mod when I combine it with ketchup smooth doom patch, however many death animation corpses randomly disappear, I hope to have this fixed, although I imagine you aren't too interested on working on the mod anymore.

I stopped using Trailblazer for the time being and have noticed that one of the cacodemon deaths causes the body to disappear shortly after the animation starts. I tried this out while only having this mod set to load and can confirm that the issue is within the mod itself.

Anyway to get a version that only changes monsters but leaves weapons alone? I'm playing this with Trailblazer but shotgun guys phase in and out while walking. Other than that this mod is Really great!

Hi there. So, as I asked, I took at the mod. I must say, this is one of the most impressive collections of death animations I've seen. I've seen plenty of those, but there are several deaths I've never come across before.

However, in my personal opinion, this mod doesn't work that well as a Smooth Doom modification. It does work as just a mod, but not as a Smooth Doom mod. The reason is very simple: the framerate of the new animations almost never matches Smooth Doom's framerate.

Most new animations have been drawn by people who had Doom's original framerate in mind (which, very roughly, is around 4-5 tics per frame in death animation), and that's why when they exist next to Smooth Doom's animations they look noticeably more jaggy. I see you tried to alleviate it by simply shortening the length of the new animations' frames, but that actually makes things worse, because most of them now look simply unnaturally fast compared to how the monster is generally animated.

Can this be fixed? Yes! But that would involve lots of back pain and working in a graphics editor. Look at how most Smooth Doom's frames are made: it's mostly Doom's original frames but with some parts moved about. So basically you take the animation, duplicate all frames and then take every odd one and move things about so that it doesn't look exactly like the previos frame. Sometimes you'd need to partially merge parts of the next frame to the previos frame and then move things about. Basically, if you want the mod to look comparable to Smooth Doom, you'll have to do this for all animations.

It was actually mainly because of that that I didn't do smooth animations for Beautiful Doom. Partly because I'm simply not a fan of the smooth look.

There is another issue: palette mismatch — the bane of many sprite artists. It happens for some additional animations. Like in the falling-to-the-side Shotgunguy's animation his clothes are apparently too dark, so when he dies it looks like he's suddenly changing color a little. I recommend looking at some of the Baron's animations as well.

Also you could save some space by using A_SetScale(-1.0,1.0) function (it mirrors the sprites horizontally) instead of actually including mirrored copies of sprites. Just don't forget to put A_SetScale(1.0,1.0) at the beginning of the Raise state if you do.

Also, one more thing: the Cacodemon's animation, the one where it is split diagonally, was actually made by me years ago. So, I'd like to be credited, and also I highly recommend replacing it: it's quite horrible. It uses like two shades of blue :) I updated all my animations in the Beautiful Doom 6.x, so you can find the updated animation there.

Likes!

Keep working on it!
I'd love to see ketchup or droplets or simple gore mod worked in somehow! I'd ask the creator of beautiful doom about it.