Chex Quest Skulltag mod--is it doable?

[Manny Cav]

With the recent spike in Chex Quest multiplayer popularity, I've been thinking about doing a Chex Quest Skulltag mod. My idea, tough, involves making a Chexified skulltag.wad instead of a Chexified skulltag.pk3. Considering that skulltag.pk3 is an important file for running Skulltag (or the fact that you have to shuffle files around if you replace it), I think it would be more handy to use a modified skulltag.wad, since you wouldn't have to replace any files in the Skulltag folder--you would just have to tell Skulltag where to look for the new WAD file which could be named anything, like "manny.wad". I want to know if remaking skulltag.wad would be practical, that is, would future Skulltag release require lengthy revisions to such a mod, complicate things, etc.?

[Batmanifestdestiny]

Isn't this already being done?

but then again...there were like 5 different CQ3s.

[Manny Cav]

The Slimeinator has allegedly made a Skulltag mod, but I haven't seen it anywhere.

[Batmanifestdestiny]

hmm....I guess that you're right, just about the only thing that I've seen of it is a rainbow assortment of flemoids which I don't understand...

[ChexCommander]

You're right.  I'm waiting for a yellow Maximus.

[Atariangamer]

IDK the link, but its in the Zorchmatch subforum on the old boards.

It really needs to be updated, tho. 3 versions had quite a few changes...

And BMD, thats all Skulltag did! they took the cacodemon (one eyed flying tomato) and colored it orange, black, and lime green to make the extra monsters...and they did that for imps, demons, and the barons.

Plus, what I'd rather have is a wad called CHEXTAG.wad that would replace all the stuff in Skulltag.pk3, skulltag.wad, and DooM2. If the skulltag maps and the DooM 2 maps weren't changed, this could be called doom2.wad, and be a chex quest replacement for EVERYTHING.

That will tage a ton of stuff tho. We'd have to Create a few new flemoids to cover the original monsters, then a whole new set or 3 to replace the monsters for the Invasion mode. Maybe strife could help us with some of the extra zorchers (to say the truth, I don't like the CQ3 rapidzorcher. Or any replacement of the ssg so far. except zorchdude's one, it was okay) Also, there are a few extra decorations to be changed, all the runes, the extra powerups, a few textures, probably the skins, and the music, fonts, hud stuff, and so on and so forth.

[Batmanifestdestiny]

The grenade launcher could be a zorchpak launcher!
and the railgun could be the lazer zorcher!

[Manny Cav]

I've started preliminary work on the mod. I'm going simple right now, working on sprite replacements. The new mod will be called "Chex Quest Arena".

[Atariangamer]

I still have an argument here.
Most servers on ST run DooM2. Slimeinator's IWAD works in someplaces, but in some, it kicks you out.
TNCQG2 doesn't work with the default skulltag maps. I was just wondering what IWAD this will be for...?

[Lucius]

If there were a skulltag version of CQ, I would be so happy. We could get all the maps ported and I would make ZM maps like crazy like I did before.

[Manny Cav]

I still have an argument here.
Most servers on ST run DooM2. Slimeinator's IWAD works in someplaces, but in some, it kicks you out.
TNCQG2 doesn't work with the default skulltag maps. I was just wondering what IWAD this will be for...?

I'm not exactly sure yet. This is going to be a rehashed skulltag.wad (with perhaps bits and pieces thrown in to make further alterations), and I don't know how to operate skulltag.wad exactly. I looked through it, and it didn't appear to contain sufficient resources to be ran as an IWAD, so I assume that it is PWAD dependent. I ran several test servers using TNCQG2 as the IWAD, and it ran as expected with no anomalies, so that will likely be the IWAD unless something else comes along the way.

I've hit my first roadblock. I'm trying to hunt down some way to contact the creator of the Doom mod "S*T*R*A*I*N". So far, I've had no luck doing so. Both emails I sent to two different addresses bounced back with errors. I need someway to contact him or her. Can anybody here help?

EDIT: Also, I'm currently working on the railgun, and there seems to be some sprites that I can't figure out where their places in the railgun weapon animation are. They are:
RLGGB0
RLGGC0
RLGGD0
RLGFA0

Does somebody know where these sprites belong in the animation? I've replaced all of the other sprites except those, but the Skulltag ones that I didn't replace don't show up in the animation.

[Lucius]

Are you sure they're not part of the reloading sequence?

[Atariangamer]

there is a normal frame, a firing sequence, and a reloading sequence...minigun is less....

[Batmanifestdestiny]

It could be like in Wolf3D, they technically have a damage frame, but when you hit the enemy, it just shows the first frame of the death sequence.  I think that maybe they originally planned on having it in, but didn't have enoug time/resources, it could be the same way with skulltag.

[GameMaster]

the new skulltag version uses special encryption on the skulltag.exe file making it more difficult to hack. or is skulltag.wad all that needs to be edited?