After a long period of Development Hell, we’re proud to release ARThings v2.0.
We added support for floating monsters (Lost Souls, Cacodemons, etc.) however v2.0 only spawns Lost Souls. We also added the Chainsaw due to popular demand, so you can saw “Pinkies” to the tune of I Sawed Demons.
Adding the Chainsaw required some changes to the sound effects implementation, so we refactored this code quite a bit. The Vanilla Doom code handles the playing and stopping of sounds, and the unique sound effects of the Chainsaw make use of this, particularly the switching between the idle, attack and hit frames of the Chainsaw. So we had to do some work in the sound code to replicate this same behavior in ARThings. We also updated ARCore to v1.17 in this version.
Anyways below are 2 videos that showcase these features: