Doom 3: GX2 Mod - Trailer

The reason I made this video is because I wanted to give you some news about the mod.


Before that, I want to say something about this video in particular . I intended to make a 1080p version for download of it and had everything ready. But for some reason it got messed up each time in the compression.
I had to directly rip it from the moviemaker then with screenvirtuoso. This of course made the quality horrible and the framerate is garbage now.
You can imagine how pissed I am.

Now to the mod itself:

I'm currently trying to get premission form Raven Software and 3DRealms for their textures I've used in the mod.

I dont have much hope for that though. This would however not be the end of the mod.
I'm going to buy some professional texture packs and will use them.
This will make Doom 3 pretty much look as good as Crysis, but at the same time it will of course look nothing like the original anymore and besides that it will require even better hardware than it already does now.

I have a lot of other things planned as well,. I am hopefully going to add background music from PSX and N64 Doom to all singleplayer levels to enhance the atmosphere even more.

I'm very surprised how much attention this little project of mine has gained in such a short amount of time.
I never intended to release that, it was just something I did to keep myself entertained.

The original idea of this mod was to make Doom 3 more exiting, cause my friend is extremely scared of vanillia Doom already and I just love to tease her :P. The graphics came later, so first and for most, this is a GAMEPLAY mod.

Now let me explain that a little bit more.

I did not add totaly new things to the game and tired to make it something that it was never intended to be, like many other so called gameplay modifications do.
I like Doom 3 a lot the way it was, except for one thing.
After 30min you get used to things poping up out of the dark and the game loses that scary feel.

It surprised me that I was actually more scared in FEAR than in Doom 3, even though Doom 3 has way more potentional to be scarrier than FEAR.
I soon realised why. The enemys are much thougher there. A normal soldier in FEAR is absolutley able to kill the player if you dont watch out.

With other words, Doom 3 was too easy.
Not even a Hellknight was really dangerous, you can go up close to them and kill them with the flashligh! And even if they hit you, theres plenty of medkits and armour around and so on.
Well with this mod, that has changed. Even Imps are absolutley dangerous for the player if you dont proceede with causion.

But I didnt just only increase their health and damage, Its minor things here and that have such a big impact on the whole game.

For example you walk slower now but you can run faster, the stamina decreases a little bit faster but also regenerates a little faster.
This will end up that the player is out powered and a bit slow without running. If you dont run in combat you're pretty much dead now.
You see, already that adds a lot of excitment. You will have to plan your attacks carefully and every now and then you will have to take cover and regain stamina.


I died quiet a few times when I was playing this mod in Veteran, that never happend to me with the original Doom 3.
I am much more excited while playing it now.


Ok thats it for now. By the way, dont get all over hyped because of this trailer. I do not know when I will release this mod, theres sitll a possiblitiy that it might never happen.
There are still some bugs left. And I'm not able to fix at least one of them, which I have ecounterd a long time ago. Its just a crash in the second Cave map. (baa i didnt like that map anyway)
But yea, still a lot of work to do and I wont have as much time on my hands anymore.

I'll try my best.

Thank you all for your great support!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Doom
• GX2
• Mod
• Trailer
• Nvidia
• GeForce

[nightmare355]

I wonder if the doom3 engine could have motion blur. Is it possible on the id tech4?

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

Yes it is, I cant get it to work though. I've tried a damn long time.

Same with the soft shadows.

[Crawlerz246]

i didnt catch the mod vs stock doom 3 difference. what the heck is the diff? the music is just in the vid right?

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

god you must be blind if you dont see a difference.

I suggest you play Doom 3 again or watch some of the other GX2 videos.

Everything visual has been improved to what current high end GPUs can handle.

Just look at the Hellknight skin in this video or how the metal shines and reflects light much stronger.

Also the size of the textures has been improved and sharpend, but yo ucant see that very well in a low quality youtube video.

[scizzy23]

Man O Man, I pray to God you will be able to release this mod sometime sooner & not later. Good Luck Bro!!! We'll love to see it if you are able to get it done!!!

[jlaprise]

So cool. you are very good editor with this vid dude..wow! So, 5 *'z...

Peace

[6xSnake6x]

hello, where could I download this from ?

[MrLemonyFresh]

And check out the 'dark mod', a conversion based off the classic 'thief' by looking glass studios. I highly recommend it.

[Crawlerz246]

is it ever going to be finished? in MY lifetime? maybe before doom 4 comes out?!

[DrDoomMusic]

when the download will be possible? and where?

[teddybear530]

Lol this looks interesting.

[erikouwehand]

looks very good only those highlights on the chars don,t look real. looks like hdr error.

[SamusV4]

um YEAH DAR

[unnamednewbie13]

Don't blame people from being skeptical. It's hard to see on low res youtube.

[Crawlerz246]

the armor shine pisses me off sry. but everything else rocks. i got a D3 relief mod that bettered the graphics. no noticeable drop in FPS (on a 8800GTX)... so we'll see... what's the link to this mod?

[Deathklok3]

This looks GREAT!!!! The Mod looks better than any other mod i have seen!

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

No you have to change the settings yoruself in the new graphics option menu. Then yo ucan run a benchmark and see how it perfroms and, if nessecary, change your settings.

[PIKACHU49386]

does the benchmark change the settings to fit your CPU/video card? im planning on buying a visiontek radeon hd 2400 pro to replace my intel integraded chip...

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

You wont be able to play it at its full quality. You need a better video card and your CPU isnt THAT great either.

But I added a lot of graphics options in the main menu, it will let you adjust the game to suit your hardware and you can run a benchmark there too to test it.

[viniciuspais12]

hy my can read this mod? i have a nvidia8500 gt 2x ,2gb of ram and an amd a64 anthlon 3200+

[SpaceBall96]

The song is iron maiden - number of the beast

[Artas1984]

Heck, this Q of 2008 Hexen 3 should be released on D3 engine.

[Luigirocks84]

Very interesting^^

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

Dezember :P

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

You dont need a SDK for Doom. It comes with a level and sound editor. All the resource files can be accessed with a Winzip or 7zip. All the scrips and def files can be edited with the notepad editor. Its so simple, theres really no need for any additional tools to mod any game using ID's engines, no matter if its Doom 3, Quake 4 or Prey. Its all the same engine. You can just create new monsters and weapons with 3Ds Max or Maye, paste them into the pk4 files and write defs/scripts for them.

[JammieBoy07]

Wow dat is a Massive Releif Man! THX! Lol when u said UAC i thought u meant Union Aerospace Corperations :P Like on DOOM 3 XD Hehehe! Yh im like 13 and im quite a Technician i can set up Vista just fine :D Do u hav da DOOM 3 SDK? Cos if u do u can create MODs :) Ur own Monsters, ur own Guns. U can do anythin with da SDK :D Luckily i hav Quake 4 and dat has an SDK. :)

[MIDNIGHTRIDER775]

Yea it works. This mod has been created on Vista. :P

After using Vista for a year I can tell you, almost EVERYTHING works on Vista. Most stuff for me works even better than it did on XP.

People just dont know how to set Vista up, mostly they get in trouble with the UAC ( User Access Controll) of Vista, which sometimes blocks programs or features.

So yea, Vista is not the best OS of all timnes, but its better than XP and Doom 3 works on it.

Cheers