Utterly Mad

[Doubleposting Intensifies]

Meanwhile, got the rifle guard sprited up finally. Also fixed some inconsistencies in the sprites I was using. I basically stole them from Reelism because they include rotations for the attack sprites. I ALREADY had to throw out the included pain sprites because the rotations for them were poorly done, used the vanilla-style ones from Wolfenstein 3D TC. So then I had to deal with the fact that whoever was spriting for Reelism colored the guard and officer's pistols blue in the rotations, but left them grey in the existing attack sprites. And also was very inconsistent about whether to have the firing sprites retain blue eyes (Wolf3D-style) or have them flash red (Doom 2 style).

Now I've been working on the HUD. Instead of a straight copy of the Wolfenstein 3D status bar, and instead of retaining the Doom-style status bar, I mocked up a Wolfenstein 3D-style status bar with Doom-style info listed. The changes are the use of a Wolf3D-style weapon icon and an "alert" indicator in place of Doom's ammo numbers on the far right.

I want to try and figure out a script so the alert indicator changes from a white question mark to a red exclamation mark, anytime an enemy on the map is in its see state.

Oh that is indeed sadistic. Or I could add in Strife-style alarms that'll also trigger the "you fucked up" indicator. Though that would make lone guards bad to leave sneaky-breeki.

Also, already got it so that they make footstep noises when moving. Though if I figure out patrol points, that won't be a dead giveaway of having alerted enemies.

That would be evil. D:

Granted, I already don't yet know how to trigger this alert effect, so I might reserve it for if an alarm is set off, and add some way to make officers path to an alarm panel if alerted by sound rather than sight.

I know you're looking for generic stones, but why not turn your eyes towards gemstones? Some of them are acceptable for the task. Opal was once used to make blades and arrowheads, and the Chinese once used jade in the same way.

The problem with that is the need to either add a reaction to turn them into boulders, or a reaction to accept gems as input.

Maybe if I added a category for gem weapons/ammo...

Take a look at Dark Ages II. It has reactions in it that allow dwarves to make weapons and armor using large gems. They aren't very effective, as I've seen myself, but they are cool.

ah ok. I see then.

True. I'm almost still on the fence regarding whether to outright make ahistorical stones unusable for weapons, versus just making historical ones the better option.