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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 12/08/2026

Justicedickinyamouth lmao

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 16/06/2026

Okay, I'm pretty hyped about this one, getting that conditional reload working was a bit of a pain but SO worth it 😎

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

Bit of an earlier attempt where I took photos of a pistol toy I had and edited them in much the same vein as the classic Dooms did, but that takes a lot of effort to rotoscope and edit after the fact compared to rendering out hand-animated 3D models if you want them to look good, weirdly enough… 🤔

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

Once those are ready, making the weapons work is just a matter of tweaking numbers and timing different events for the state machine - I've written a base class that inherits default weapon logic and adds vars/actions for reloading, so to add new guns I can just set values, add sprites and states. 😗

$The definitions of Weapon States for the Mac-10, not my prettiest work but it does the job! Wall of programming code, reads as follows: states { Spawn: 57W2 A -1; loop; Ready: 57W2 C 1 A_WeaponReady(WRF_ALLOWRELOAD); loop; Deselect: 57W2 C 1 A_Lower(10); loop; Select: 57W2 C 1 A_Raise(10); loop; Fire: 57W2 C 1 A_ConsumeAmmoOrJump; 57W2 B 1 bright { A_FireBullets(2.0, 0.8, 1, 8); A_Light1(); } 57W2 B 1 bright A_Light2; 57W2 D 1 A_Light0; 57W2 C 1 A_Refire; goto Ready; Dryfire: 57W2 C 1 A_PlaySound("m57/weapon/mac10/dry",CHAN_BODY,0.5); 57W2 C 5; 57W2 D 0 A_JumpIfNeedsReload; goto Ready; Reload: 57W2 D 0 A_JumpIfCannotReload; 57W2 D 0 A_Refire; 57W2 E 1 A_PlaySound("m57/weapon/mac10/magout",CHAN_BODY,0.5); 57W2 F 1; 57W2 F 0 A_JumpIfNeedsReload("ReloadWasEmpty"); 57W2 GH 2; goto ReloadFinish; ReloadWasEmpty: 57W2 IJ 3; goto ReloadFinish; ReloadFinish: 57W2 KKL 3; 57W2 M 1 A_PlaySound("m57/weapon/mac10/magin",CHAN_BODY,0.5); 57W2 MN 2; 57W2 O 1 A_ReloadCycle; 57W2 OPP 2; 57W2 Q 1 A_PlaySound("m57/weapon/mac10/bolt",CHAN_BODY,0.5); 57W2 Q 1; goto Ready; ReloadFailed: 57W2 E 1 A_JumpIfCanReload; 57W2 E 4; 57W2 E 1 A_TryAutoSwitch; goto Ready; }$

Base class script variable definitions for custom weapons I'm making.

Wall of programming code, reads as follows:

class M57Weapon : Weapon abstract {
int mag1;
int mag1max;
int mag1rt;
int mag1rg;
int mag1rpc;
int mag2;
int mag2max;
int mag2rt;
int mag2rg;
int mag2rpc;

property Magazine: mag1;
property MaxMagazine: mag1max;
property ReloadTake: mag1rt;
property ReloadGive: mag1rg;
property ReloadPerCycle: mag1rpc;
property Magazine1: mag1;
property MaxMagazine1: mag1max;
property ReloadTake1: mag1rt;
property ReloadGive1: mag1rg;
property ReloadPerCycle1: mag1rpc;
property Magazine2: mag2;
property MaxMagazine2: mag2max;
property ReloadTake2: mag2rt;
property ReloadGive2: mag2rg;
property ReloadPerCycle2: mag2rpc;

default {
self.Magazine 0;
self.MaxMagazine 1;
self.ReloadTake 1;
self.ReloadGive 1;
self.ReloadPerCycle 1;
Weapon.AmmoUse 1;
self.Magazine2 0;
self.MaxMagazine2 0;
self.ReloadTake2 1;
self.ReloadGive2 1;
self.ReloadPerCycle2 1;
Weapon.AmmoUse2 1;
Weapon.BobStyle "Inverse";
}

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

From there, I import the sprites into a WAD editor - SLADE3 is great - and give each sprite offsets for display; stopping there is fine, but to reuse and optimise where possible you can use each graphic as a patch to layer them or use the same one for multiple frames at different offsets.

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

Video demonstrating how a rough estimate of the final look (plus an alt camera for the pickup sprites) shows in a split viewport; a preview result of the pose/animation helps to position everything correctly. It's a bit different making minimal keyframes for in-engine timing, but it's interesting! 😁

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

The raw render is only 320x320 for the crunch-aliased Doom sprite look, then compositing nodes are used to modify and further resize the for output - additional steps are added to get a preview that makes the "transparent" pixels more obvious, only for the viewport to help spot unintended artefacts.

A view of the Blender Compositor node graph that turns the 3D models' animation frames into sprites, ready to export for use in a Doom WAD.

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Squidgy @jenh.uk · 15/06/2026

Been working on weapons for my RAMP2026 entry - the models for the Winchester and Mac10 are courtesy of @anfuny.bsky.social - keyframes hand-animated in Blender by myself, exported with custom compositing to make the sprites fit Doom's aesthetic; those and weapon code were all made this past week 😄

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