Images and UI

Yes, it's Doomguy! It's a very early design of him, but recognizable. id Software seemed to have experimented with a more animate face with the idle, active shooting, evil grin, and sidestep "ouch" faces. Each different branch has more expressive frames of animation than the less animate face in the release. And the last one on the lowest bottom right? Well... uhh... Maybe also an "ouch" face...? Who knows.

id Software decided Doomguy should have short brown hair, and applied it to the other sprites (seen from the first sheet) along with other modifications and new faces. The looking animation was also dumbed down a bit, the evil grin and active shooting animations were lengthened, the sidestep "ouch" animation was removed from the sheet, and the presumably and derpy "ouch" face was replaced by the more iconic one. Each frame of animation (minus the "ouch" face) has 5 frames of animation. In the final release, the transition between faces is more abrupt and the looking sprites only have three frames instead of five. However, it looks as if the more "pointed" looking faces were visibly repurposed for a damaged variant of the animation later on.

Frame 2 of looking around, evil grin, and active shooting respectively.

Frame 4. Ditto.

This sheet shows the amount of possible different damage states Doomguy can have. Do note there are six damage states here instead of the usual five in the game. The last one is supposed to be upon death, but the eyes aren't closed... or maybe this sheet wasn't finished and this was supposed to be the column for the seventh damage state (seen next). The third damage state seems to the choice for the default full health state later on, but do note its sprites aren't quite finished, still.

Please elaborate. Having more detail is always a good thing. Specifically: Figure out what the stats marked with (?) actually mean.

To reiterate from the mainline development page, the visor HUD was made to be "realistic" to how the player would see as if they were an actual space marine based on The Doom Bible. There were a ton of active stats on the screen that would change based on the player's health, armor, items, automap, etc.). The stats displayed are:

• The held weapon
• Weapon ammo count
• Weapon damage
• Weapon's rate-per-second (with firing)
• Maximum ammo capacity
• "RNG"
  • Random number generator perhaps, likely related to something like critical strike chance that Terraria would utilize later, or something like that.
• The automap
  • Actively updated where you were at all times, unlike the release's design where you have to manually hit Tab ↹ to access (unless you used source ports which allowed for different automap functions).
• Player stats
  • Speed(?)
    • Likely may be speed because of the other planned powerups the game was going to have.
  • Armor
  • Health
• What weapons are in your inventory
• Active enemy count(?)
• Total enemy count(?)
• DET(?)
• Area number(?)
• PH(?)
  • May be "Player number" but there is limited space to make a "N."
• Degree facing
  • What angle the player is facing.
• Message status display

The player speed, armor, and health stats were given a shine and have icons instead of letters. The shotgun text was changed to the "Missile launcher" for some reason, along with the early UAAF [and not to be confused with the UAC] logo

The weapon sprites for the helmet HUD.

This is a revision of the visor view style of HUD that fits at the bottom of the screen rather than overlapping the view. This style was added in prototype version v0.5.

This is how the HUD would look with the text placed in. It really does look like Wolfenstein 3D. The global yellow font was shifted around a bit, and the logo-stylized 7 was updated to be a little bit bigger.

Divisors were added to differentiate the tabs, along with the addition of the message tab.

Ammo counters addition.

The tab name font was set in stone (ba-dum-psh). The big counter font was detailed a bit more and aligned into smaller cels, along with the addition of a percentage. The message status tab was also cut down partially to align with the weapons and item tabs properly.

Afterwards, id Software went back and added the "ARMS" tab in place of the "ITEM" tab and removed both the item and weapons tabs, along with the small weapon icons from the game, and would remain unused in the game until v1.2 where the graphics were removed. The messages tab would also remain unused in the game until that same update. In the meantime, the item tab was replaced by "FRAGS" for multiplayer. There is also an "ARMGS" tab name, but this might be a sloppy mistake from a developer pasting in "ARM" with the "FRAGS" tab name, as they both share the same spot. The big counter font now has a negative symbol, which is very odd considering it's not possible to go into the negatives on any of the counters either in the HUD or on the intermission screen, unless extremely buggy circumstances cause any of the counters to become negative for whatever reason. Another imperceptible chance with the big counter font is that the text thickness was reduced. Maybe this was so that the text can be read better? Who knows. A bunch of other stuff such as the base keys were updated to the completed sprites, alongside the addition of skull keys. At the inventory ammo count, the "MISS" (missile) counter was finally changed to "RCKT" (rocket), and so was the depleted ammo font added. The floppy disk and CD icons were added, the middle of the HUD was carved out for Doomguy, and two yellow dots were placed near the word "PIC" for some reason.