[Submission] Wandering Eye

Name: Wandering Eye
Connection: Evileye
Palette: Doom
Summon: Wanderingeye
Ambient Sounds: No
De-/Activatable: No
Destroyable: Yes
Special Effects: None
Brightmaps: None
Actor Modifications: None
ACS: None

Submitted: TheDoomedArchvile
Decorate: TheDoomedArchvile
Sounds: Doom 2, Doom 64
Sprites: JoeyTD
Sprite Edits: TheDoomedArchvile
Idea Base: Population critter fitting for hell or other-worldly areas

Descrpition: A floating eye that wanders the planes of hell. Unlike its more developed kin these eyes typically do not engage with others and simply keep watch over the hellscape.

Note: If a non-warping variation is desired, simply remove the ANIMDEFS.

Wandering Eye

It's ok, maybe the death frames shouldn't warp, but that's my opinion.

What's the idea behind the warping effect? What's it supposed to represent?

I thought they looked well in more magical themed environment just as well as in a hell themed environment and the warping effect was meant to make it feel more magical. I figured a small magical creature that's nothing but an eye would have some visual auras around it, and possible visual-based magics. Perhaps this effect may be more fitting only with magical themed areas?

To me, it gives it a more ethereal or ghostly nature, which makes it better to not be interactive (i.e. can't be shot and killed), in my opinion.

While I do agree to some extent, in my head anyway, I feel having the added transparency is what pushes something into being more ghostly because it adds to the non-interactive nature and look of that thing; where as I feel this wobbly effect alone is something more like an illusion when being applied to a thing. That's just my thought process anyway. With that said, the idea is to have these creatures be physical and interactive. To cause less confusion and to have it more visually clear I have removed the effect from the enemy.

doomedarchviledemon wrote: While I do agree to some extent, in my head anyway, I feel having the added transparency is what pushes something into being more ghostly because it adds to the non-interactive nature and look of that thing; where as I feel this wobbly effect alone is something more like an illusion when being applied to a thing. That's just my thought process anyway. With that said, the idea is to have these creatures be physical and interactive. To cause less confusion and to have it more visually clear I have removed the effect from the enemy.

That's fair enough.

Anyway, I was going to add this, but noticed a couple of minor things:

• In the Vanish state sequence, instead of making it (in)vulnerable and (not)autoaimable, save yourself the trouble and just make it (un)shootable (i.e. use A_SetShootable/A_UnSetShootable).
• A call to A_NoBlocking is missing in the Death state sequence (this only needs to be called once).

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