How Can I Activate 3D models?

aleksa6

I downloaded this engine to try to play with the 3D models, even downloaded Doom but I can't seem to install it properly. It always uses the 2.5d sprites. The tutorials I've googled seemed completely outdated, too. Is there any proper tutorial?

skyjake

At the moment there is no updated tutorial — the unstable builds are still changing so a tutorial would quickly become obsolete.

Which version of Doomsday are you using, and what is the name of the 3D model pack you're trying to load?

aleksa6

Well, I downloaded both of them today (Doomsday 1.15.8, jDoom Resource Pack 1.01) from this site, but I did manage to get the 3D models running. Although now I can't see the weapon I'm holding.

Nekki

Hi. First thanks for your excellent work in the Doomsday Engine. It is evident you have work for years to keep this project alive. I was looking information about how specifically load 3d models for Doom using the DE2 (I'm using #2047). I was able to run all the .pk3 addons posted in the download section, except the DOOM Resource Pack (jDRP) 1.01, which is in .box version. If I unzip the file, and I try to load individually, DE2 crashes and the frontend is unable to pick the box folder as a whole, as different to the behave in version 1.15.

You may say just use 1.15 instead. However, I'm on a Mac, and DE2 #2047 runs incredibly in my rig (and the new front end is sleek) while 1.15 runs choppy. I'm not a programmer, and I have no idea how convert .box version to .pk3 properly, so all models should load automatically.

Thank you

skyjake

aleksa6 wrote:

Well, I downloaded both of them today (Doomsday 1.15.8, jDoom Resource Pack 1.01) from this site, but I did manage to get the 3D models running. Although now I can't see the weapon I'm holding.

Perhaps you are using a 16:9 display mode and have this (known) problem: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=848&p=5215

To elaborate a little, the old models have an issue where they may be positioned too low and thus not be visible. Try changing the value of "rend-hud-fov-shift" to 0, for example. The default value for this variable is 45.

skyjake

Nekki wrote:

I was looking information about how specifically load 3d models for Doom using the DE2 (I'm using #2047). I was able to run all the .pk3 addons posted in the download section, except the DOOM Resource Pack (jDRP) 1.01, which is in .box version. If I unzip the file, and I try to load individually, DE2 crashes and the frontend is unable to pick the box folder as a whole, as different to the behave in version 1.15.

The correct way to load jdrp-packaged-20070404.zip is to first unzip the contained jdrp.box folder in a place where Doomsday looks for add-ons. It should then be detected as "jDoom Resource Pack (jDRP)" with ID "file.box.jdrp", and that can be selected in games as a package to load.

I'll do a few test runs and see if I can reproduce any crashes when loading PK3s and/or boxes. There may well be still some bugs there...

Nekki

skyjake wrote:

The correct way to load jdrp-packaged-20070404.zip is to first unzip the contained jdrp.box folder in a place where Doomsday looks for add-ons. It should then be detected as "jDoom Resource Pack (jDRP)" with ID "file.box.jdrp", and that can be selected in games as a package to load.

I run some tests and this is what I have. I unzipped the folder jdrp.box into folder addons, and also where I have my wads files, and in none of them DE2 #2047 recognize the folder/addon. Only when I unzipped jdrp.box into the folder runtime located in Users/[MyName]/library/Application Support/Doomsday Engine/runtime the engine pick the addon and run the doom game with 3d models. Just in case, it also displays the ID "file.box.jdrp" as a package, so all 3d models all selected at the same time

Thank you for look into this. Keep this engine alive!

aleksa6

It seems my resolution + FOV was the problem. Thanks!