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"Bob Robertson" <brobertson@aol.com> wrote in message news:4119A7EE.1050500@aol.com...
> Marshall wrote:
> > Spent part of the afternoon dinking around with the various mod downloads
> > from happypuppy.com, including one that fixes the shotgun, and also the
> > 'VariLights' one that adds a flashlight beam to the pistol/shotgun/machinegun.
> > Both had good points, but after dinking around with them seperately, I decided
> > to combine and improve them (IMO, of course :).
> >
> > I hadn't realized that the single-barrel shotgun in Doom3 was operating the
> > same as the double-barrelled shotgun from Doom2- it was firing a wide-angled
> > blunderbuss-like spray of pellets, and had a ridiculous 22-degree dispersal cone
> > right out of the barrel. It has the friggin' shot-dispersal of a claymore mine!  ;-)
> > Here's a screenie (109Kb) of the default pattern, after firing all 8 shells at the
> > same spot in the exact center of a door, from 15' away (best guess):
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/6ro69
> >
> > No wonder you can't hit jack with that thing unless you stick it right up their nose!
> > So I twinked the VariLights .def file for the shotgun so that it had the same Doom1
> > style shotgun settings as the shotgun mod had, and ended up with this pattern, after
> ...
>
>
> Hey Marshall - I put the mod pack into the doom3 base directory and
> things worked as you had explained...BUT my game loads were messed up.
> Specifically, whenever I tried to load, it would put me at the beginning
> of the level - not at the exact point in the level where I had saved.  I
> experimented a bit, thinking I had done something else, but only when I
> removed the mod pack from the base directory, was I able to correctly
> load games.  Not sure why this occurred...?

Sorry, forgot to mention that tidbit- loading in a mod like that in Doom3 will always
make you have to start at the beginning of the level you're currently in- so if you want
to keep your previous progress, wait until you get to the beginning of the next level
before installing the mod.
    -Marshall