- Who am I
- Why I doing all these
model updates
- How big really is
my contribution to model pack
- What you should do
if you want to use models from my site for other port and/or modify them
Who am I
Cheb is my nick, not the real name.
I am 28 years old Doom fan, trapped by this game forever - for Doom
never die, once appeared, it will be part of Mankind culture for long, long,
long time...
I am Russian, and live in Moscow all my life. Here I was born, graduate
from (primary+secondary=middle) school, then from Moscow Railroad University
(MIIT), but instead of being railroad engineer, I'm working as junior research
assistant in Macroeconomics Research Institute of Ministry of Economics...
In fact, I'm searching Internet for various information, including e-commerce
standards or foreign R&D legislation.
My hobbies are: programming with Delphi, writing fantasy novels
(now I'm writing my first one, and in next one-two years I'll finish it,
after 10 years of often delayed work), reading books (that are widely presented
in Russian Internet: for example lib.ru contains more than 17,000 books
in free access), and playing various games.
Other stuff about my dog and programming projects you can find at
my homepage.
Why I doing all these
model updates
In fact, I planned to create my own game (and soon I will return
to that way), but because playing Doom is my favorite way of spending time,
I played it often. Original doom, then old (non-accelerated) ZDoom, then
jDoom at last. And when I played, I don't liked models (in general, for their
crude faces and paralytic movement). And when I see something done bad, I'm
itching to correct it...
So my work began: from attempt to breathe new life into cacodemon,
that looked as textured ball, and moved as expressive, as dead fish does.
And now I just can't stop, when hopes of so many Doom fans lie on
my shoulders. So, complement me more often: your praises of my work are
a fuel of my enthusiasm, don't forget this! ;)
How big really is my
contribution to model pack
Many people think that all models here on this site are created
by me - they are wrong.
In most cases I just take model created by other people, and make
it better. (A good idea here is to look at "
Per-model
info" page, where I put detailed information about models, authors,
and what exactly I done with them).
In general, I make from the scratch only things that were not present
at all or were implemented with very low quality - Don't forget that all
models in the initial model pack were very old, planned to use in Quake2
engine on corresponding weak computers, so many models just had too low polycount
to look good. When I getting my hands on model, often all lefts from it
are parts of skin and non-critical body parts, which were implemented with
acceptable (from my point of view) quality. This is also because I'm too
lazy to create from the scratch the things that are already created by other
people - even if I easily can do this.
Initial model pack was created by (as says included readme files):
Monsters, Items, Decor: Edmundo Bordeu (ebordeu@rdc.cl)
SS Guard, spherical powerups: AklashPahk (lfcf@ig.com.br)
Weapon Models, HUD Weapon Models, Doom Marine Player Model: Derived
from the Generations Project.
What you should do
if you want to use models from my site for other port and/or modify them
1. You should contact me to be sure that I'm not planning to change
things that you want to port/alter. It will save you from extra work. Also,
you may need contacting me for explanation how jDoom model definitions work,
and for timely warnings of modification/new version releases.
2. All my work is based on features of jDoom's engine, like animation
frames freely scattered around time axis, interframe interpolation, sub
frames with different properties, fullbright and brightshadow render modes,
multiple skins for one model, animated skins, and aligning models at movement
direction / at player. Most probably, that to use my models in ZDoom, Vavoom
and other ports you'll need to significantly modify their engines.