Doom Mods

Doom Modlist (PhysixCat)
Last updated: 2019/10/30

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GZDoom stuff:

How 2 make GZDoom's Hardware Rendering not look bad
- Go to Options -> Display Options -> Texture Options -> set Texture filtering mode to "None (nearest mipmap)"
- Go to Options -> Display Options -> Hardware Renderer -> set Sector Light Mode to "Vanilla"

-How 2 make GZDoom's MIDI playback sound good
- Use Emperor Grieferus' SC-55 soundfont, it's the best SF2 imitation of a Roland SC-55 I've found
    https://mega.nz/#!CpMj0SKZ!XK4n8a0faPhU1SewNyvDJuCsN2-ZsPsDgbyhrF5vxy0

- I recommend using the WADSmoosh of all classic Doom entries. It includes The Ultimate Doom, Sigil, Doom 2, No Rest for the Living, The Master Levels, TNT: Evilution, and The Plutonia Experiment. Credit to JP LeBreton for the tool used. You can get it here:
	https://mega.nz/#!ygUVUKZI!KjzLTKFkSxIm9k5Jtj7DPtXVhH4NfLV7qfSAVG_rKDI

>Vanilla+ (Default)

- lights.pk3 (included with GZDoom, enables dynamic lighting)
- Doom 2 Sprite Fix project
    https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/62403-doom-2-minor-sprite-fixing-project-v19-release-updated-12718/
- Brightmaps Plus
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=64299
- Sprite Shadow
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=54992
- DoomSFX (High Quality sounds)
    https://www.perkristian.net/sounds/pk_doom_sfx.zip
- Sound Caulking PC (all demons have unique sounds)
    https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwT8em2c7_BPNVhwd3ZicWloOFk
- Footsteps
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=35388
- Health Warning
    https://mega.nz/#!nxtUwIbQ!XMnkv0sp1_7aUxtXpKqtKODrlGq0BdlVZ7VGPyb314I
- PerK's Smooth Weapons Enhanced
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=32628
- Vanilla Essence
    https://forum.zdoom.org/download/file.php?id=36199
- Fullscreen Statusbar Mod
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=63863
- Damage Direction Overlay
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?t=57576
- DamNums
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=55048
- Target Spy
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=60784#p1057216
- Precise Crosshair
    https://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=64788#p1104858
- Universal Gibs
    https://gitlab.com/accensi/UniversalGibs
- LostSoul_NoKillCount (Restores Doom2 behavior of LS not counting to Kill%)
    https://www.mediafire.com/file/h2irzrd12v2i2ve/LostSoul_NoKillCount.wad/file

They are all very configurable from the in-game menus to fit your tastes.

>Hideous Destructor

- lights.pk3
- brightmaps.pk3 (use stock brightmaps, not plus)
- FancyWorld
- Sprite Shadow
- Footsteps
- Hideous Destructor
- hd_insurgencysfx.pk3
- hd_suppressedsmg
- hd_taunt.pk3
- hd_title
- DarkDoomZ (I only use the Flashlight, I disable the rest of its features)
- AutoAutoSave
- LevelInfo
- UniversalGibs

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- Keep in mind, whenever a WAD has its own custom textures AND it does not have a Sprite Fix patch, it's preferable not to load D2 Sprite Fix or Brightmaps_Plus, since it can result in some visual bugs.
- If using Smooth Weapons on a WAD with a different colour palette, you must convert its sprites to PNG Truecolor (this is an easy point and click process in SLADE) or they will look horrible.
- FancyWorld can cause major slowdowns in maps with very big lava lakes. Avoid unless you know the WAD you're playing won't have huge lava lakes.

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PRBoom+ stuff:
>D1/D2 Sprite Fix (Fixes mistakes for vanilla's sprites)
>Plutmidi (Plutonia MIDI pack) for plutonia
>DoomSFX (higher fidelity sounds for vanilla without being jarring)
>The ZDoom DSSECRET sound
None of the above seem to cause desync issues, they work with recorded demos.

I also sometimes use vsmooth.wad which is a primitive version of Perk's Smooth Weapons Enhanced. It's the only variant of smooth weapon animations that I found for PRB+ that doesn't seem to break demo compatibility.