Xeno Cacodemon

Name: Xeno Cacodemon
Difficulty: Easy-Medium
Connections: Cacodemon
Summon: Xenodemon
Melee: Yes
Distance: Projectile
Type: Demon, Alien
Brightmaps: No
GLDEFS: Yes
Added States: No
ACS: No

Decorate: Captain Toenail
Sounds: Doom64, HalfLife, Strife
Sprites: Doom, Doom64
Sprite Edit: Captain Toenail
Idea Base: Xen aliens from Half Life

This is a purple Cacodemon with longer bottom horns that spits multiple smaller projectiles in a row at you (15) in a volly. This is a good quality recolor with slight edits (the horns). In essence, a more "alien" cacodemon. I think he deserves a spot on the repository. What do you think?



http://www.m*diafire.com/file/xcfpa0dc8tz2l2b/XenoDemon.7z

This appears to be the same demon that was submitted back in 2010 by Captain Toenail. I played a little bit of it and it doesn't appear to have any major changes from the original submission behavior wise. While I think it's a decent monster I'm not sure if it will be approved in its current state if not a lot had changed from back when it first came on the forums to now. Though I can't say why it wouldn't have gotten approved last time so I don't know.

Interesting. I wonder why it wouldn't have been approved back then? I think it's a decent monster too so if everyone thinks it needs something more perhaps I can cook up another attack or two for it.

I can't speak for why the original version was not approved, but I can say that I'm not really a fan of the color scheme. The purple/pink is a bit too much, I feel. It would probably look better desaturated, though that would require using a custom palette (assuming it isn't using one already...I haven't checked).

The sprites are .PNG, so I could potentially desaturate it. As a matter a fact, here is a very quick frame desaturated.



Does this look better?

I did some testing with this monster and it seems decent enough to me. The attack is pretty cool and the health/damage makes it a good easy-medium monster.

I do have to agree with what MagicWazard said about the colors though. The png could look better in game I suppose, but it might be a thought to try some other colors to see what works well together. Maybe black?

I'm still going to work on this monster's colors, I just haven't had any time yet.

E: I still want it to give off "alien"-ish vibes. So how do these look?

Out of the two, I prefer the upper. That will definitely need a custom palette, though, and will probably look terrible in software. The lower one looks like more similar to a tier 3 Doom RPG Cacodemon ("Wretched") due to the shades of blue.

What's the status on the sprites?

Sorry, I had a drive failure and completely forgot about this. Honestly I might have to come back to this at a later point. I thought I made a double backup of the sprites but I didn't

You can close this thread if you wish, maybe I'll revisit this monster another day.