Smooth Doom

The main goal of Smooth Doom is to improve the visual experience of the classic game by adding additional sprite frames to all types of weapons, enemies, items, and decorative objects without changing the base mechanics and balance of the original.

The mod is inspired by Smooth Weapon Animations by Per Kristian Risvik and the visual techniques of Brutal Doom, however unlike the latter it doesn't introduce mandatory gameplay changes. Animations become smoother and more "alive," resembling the style of games with rich frame-by-frame sprites like Metal Slug or Earthworm Jim.

Smooth Doom automatically adds dynamic lighting for rockets, power-ups, lamps and torches, expands the number of death and dismemberment animations for enemies, changes blood colors for individual demons, and enhances visual hit effects. Most opponents can now be torn apart, and the blood and particle effects themselves have become more varied and detailed.

The mod includes an extensive settings menu accessible directly in-game where additional features can be enabled or disabled. Among the optional functions are changing the Doomguy's glove color, using the Doom 64 weapon set with equally smooth animation, shell casings ejection, enhanced recoil effects, screen shake, additional death animation variants, and the ability to gut enemies with the chainsaw. Some features, such as "monster rebalancing," can also be enabled optionally and are not mandatory.