both i and he made changes to the bosses... the nice thing is that gzdoom is easily moddable, each object can be altered with simple text...
you can find the changes i made and decide what to keep. if i remember correctly the decoration file is used to tell gzdoom to spawn an altered version of a particular item, removing a line of code here will prevent this mod from spawning an altered version of a particular item.
ac script has a deeper way to alter things, but once a new object is created here, you still need decoration file to tell gzdoom to substitute the unmodded object for the modded object. (here you can usually find what kind of alteration one item has)
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talking about the bosses alteration i made... the last boss works only inside the last level of the official game, it is the same for both modded and original... the modded version is able to execute different traps at the same time. in the unmodded game only 1 trap is triggered at a time, while on the modded game if i recall 2 traps are randomly selected and you get each time a different combo of 2 traps.
heresiarch instead works everywhere, if it is the name of the boss with the rotating dices... he can summon minions more frequently, he gains a blink teleport like effect, his invulnerability has been tweaked to be less annoying, he combines 2 of the 4 tools he has, probably because the original code was: 1 or 2 or 3... if 3 then 3a or 3b (and i said: hell, 3a + 3b !!!)
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in any case remember you can mess with decoration file and select which object you want altered, and you can inspect ac script file and see how an object has been modded, and what is changed (and pick what you like, and customized the modification)
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edit: do not forget to use the fixes for the official game, official expansion... i already included them! they are always useful.
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Now for Hexen i have one favor to ask - will your mod work with https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/106372-hexen-rebalanced-a-subtle-balance-mod-for-hexen-beta-7/ this mod? Particularly, with Modified bosses. I really like how boss battles were redone in this mod.
the nice thing is that gzdoom is easily moddable, each object can be altered with simple text...
you can find the changes i made and decide what to keep.
if i remember correctly the decoration file is used to tell gzdoom to spawn an altered version of a particular item, removing a line of code here will prevent this mod from spawning an altered version of a particular item.
ac script has a deeper way to alter things, but once a new object is created here, you still need decoration file to tell gzdoom to substitute the unmodded object for the modded object. (here you can usually find what kind of alteration one item has)
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talking about the bosses alteration i made...
the last boss works only inside the last level of the official game, it is the same for both modded and original...
the modded version is able to execute different traps at the same time.
in the unmodded game only 1 trap is triggered at a time, while on the modded game if i recall 2 traps are randomly selected and you get each time a different combo of 2 traps.
heresiarch instead works everywhere, if it is the name of the boss with the rotating dices...
he can summon minions more frequently, he gains a blink teleport like effect, his invulnerability has been tweaked to be less annoying, he combines 2 of the 4 tools he has, probably because the original code was: 1 or 2 or 3... if 3 then 3a or 3b (and i said: hell, 3a + 3b !!!)
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in any case remember you can mess with decoration file and select which object you want altered, and you can inspect ac script file and see how an object has been modded, and what is changed (and pick what you like, and customized the modification)
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edit: do not forget to use the fixes for the official game, official expansion... i already included them! they are always useful.