Thanks for the confirmation, Indie Machine.
In that case, I wish you the best of luck with the remake, and I would love to play it once it's released.
Since you say you are a coder, not an artist, are you rebuilding the game by duplicating the original assets? Or are you remaking each asset to look higher-resolution, and higher detail, and then remaking the game with new functionality?
hi FilmGamerJ,
Np, thats ok. Firstly, thank you for your interest in my project:)
I am not sure, if i understand your question correctly more so, i am afraid i dont have the knowledge to understand what you mean correctly ! But heres what I can tell you,
By duplicating the original assets, you mean i redraw the sprites? During playing, i make a screenshot of the walls, and try refit them to a specific pixelsize. I played around a lot in the past with wall sprites/bgs. I found out for a boomer shooter, the "wall size" that works best, is either 32 x 32 or 64 x 64 pixels. Whats usually easy to replicate due its limitation of said pixels. But back to your question, in Hellwombs case they re kinda huge ( i m not even sure if scumhead used symmetrical walls) so i made them 128 x 128 by now, what is quite big in my opinion for a boomer shooter. The thing with such raycasting games is, in the end it doesnt help much or looks any better, even if you set the games resolution higher. With the scaling in the games itself you always loose an amount of details, thats why low tilesized assets ( 32 x 32 or 64 x64) works best. Sorry if i cant answer you any better.
No i dont think my game will look better in case of the assets, but the resolution of my game is 640 x 360. Thats a low 16:9 display but it scales up correctly to any 16:9 display.
Most older fps have the 640 x 480 or 320 x 240 resolution. My goal is kinda make the remake more user friendly and with modern specifications.
The game itself will have new functionality or a different "feel" simply just because its not the same raycaster/engine!
As for the engine, the original is made in, i have a lot of questions. I think you re the one to do so! And do you know how to play hellwomb in fullscreen or if this engine s resolution can be set? Because hellwomb runs in a quits strange resolution? Something with 576 pixels in horizontal. Thank you
I believe Scumhead used RGM version 5, which uses Textures at 128 x 128 instead of 64 x 64. The Resolution of the game is also doubled as well, compared to RGM version 4. Most games are made in version 4 because that version actually has more features. The developer of RGM didn't finish adding back all the functionality into version 5 before they stopped working on it.
As for Fullscreen mode, I believe you can make any RGM game open in fullscreen if you do the following:
Now, whenever you want to start the game in fullscreen, you double-click on this .bat file instead of the game's Executable.
If any of that was confusing, just let me know.
hi FilmGamerJ, sorry for bothering, i just replicared the first level of ROTT. A few features are missing nut it should be stable build. I changed some things in my engine (path finding of enemies) and some minor stuff (its not that easy to replicate ROTT i found out, but i learned a lot of new stuff!!! The smashing windows were a pain in the a$$ to do!!! in case you wanna try out take a look. Cheers!!! Thanks in advance
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vd2vpj606z2uqour2m4c7/ageRott_01_alphaTest.zip?rl...
