Did the original version have freelook?

[klappa]

I don't recall being able to look up and down with the mouse or am i wrong? Is there a way to reset all keys including controls as the original had?

[Kenshiro3]

No it didn't. Though you could look up and down with keys, just like doom, heretic, and such.

[Edward850]

Originally posted by klappa:

I don't recall being able to look up and down with the mouse or am i wrong? Is there a way to reset all keys including controls as the original had?

Indeed you couldn't freelook with the mouse. This was changed from the vertical mouse movement being used for foward/backward movement in the original (often refered to as scooping). As scooping is a rather impracticle way to move around, this was changed to camera movement. While you can disable mouse-looking in the mouse options, there is no option to re-enable scoop movement.

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

No it didn't. Though you could look up and down with keys, just like doom, heretic, and such.

Doom did not have freelook, keyboard or otherwise. That was introduced in Heretic.

[Kenshiro3]

Originally posted by Edward850:

Originally posted by klappa:

I don't recall being able to look up and down with the mouse or am i wrong? Is there a way to reset all keys including controls as the original had?

Indeed you couldn't freelook with the mouse. This was changed from the vertical mouse movement being used for foward/backward movement in the original (often refered to as scooping). As scooping is a rather impracticle way to move around, this was changed to camera movement. While you can disable mouse-looking in the mouse options, there is no option to re-enable scoop movement.

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

No it didn't. Though you could look up and down with keys, just like doom, heretic, and such.

Doom did not have freelook, keyboard or otherwise. That was introduced in Heretic.

Derp yeah. I keep forgetting that because Later versions of doom incorporated it as well.

[Matthew]

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

Originally posted by Edward850:

Indeed you couldn't freelook with the mouse. This was changed from the vertical mouse movement being used for foward/backward movement in the original (often refered to as scooping). As scooping is a rather impracticle way to move around, this was changed to camera movement. While you can disable mouse-looking in the mouse options, there is no option to re-enable scoop movement.


Doom did not have freelook, keyboard or otherwise. That was introduced in Heretic.

Derp yeah. I keep forgetting that because Later versions of doom incorporated it as well.

Um... no, it was source ports that included freelooking. What are you on X_X

[Edward850]

Nope,

Originally posted by Matthew:

Um... no, it was source ports that included freelooking. What are you on X_X

Nope. Heretic did[doomwiki.org]. Hexen was built off of Heretic and Strife added it as a matter of course (remember Quake was out at the same time). ZDoom added it because Hexen had it, so it because a Doom mainstay from there.
Doom orignally did have Y-shearing (the function of freelooking in Doom's renderer) in the early alphas with the camera "pitched down" marginally, but moved it back to center later, which is where Heretic & Strife get it form.

[Matthew]

Originally posted by Edward850:

Nope,

Originally posted by Matthew:

Um... no, it was source ports that included freelooking. What are you on X_X

Nope. Heretic did[doomwiki.org]. Hexen was built off of Heretic and Strife added it as a matter of course (remember Quake was out at the same time). ZDoom added it because Hexen had it, so it because a Doom mainstay from there.
Doom orignally did have Y-shearing (the function of freelooking in Doom's renderer) in the early alphas with the camera "pitched down" marginally, but moved it back to center later, which is where Heretic & Strife get it form.

WOW, that is all really interesting actually! Thanks for sharing!

[Kenshiro3]

Originally posted by Matthew:

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

Derp yeah. I keep forgetting that because Later versions of doom incorporated it as well.

Um... no, it was source ports that included freelooking. What are you on X_X

One of which was an official release... Aka DOOM 95. Hence my comment.

[Edward850]

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

One of which was an official release... Aka DOOM 95. Hence my comment.

Actually, no official release of Doom has added freelook, including/especially Doom95 (which was just a Windows port of 1.9 with some slightly extended limits).

... Except maybe Doom Classic on iOS? I can't verify that, though.

[Kenshiro3]

Originally posted by Edward850:

Originally posted by Kenshiro3:

One of which was an official release... Aka DOOM 95. Hence my comment.

Actually, no official release of Doom has added freelook, including/especially Doom95 (which was just a Windows port of 1.9 with some slightly extended limits).

... Except maybe Doom Classic on iOS? I can't verify that, though.

The version I bought from Walmart sure as hell had it.

[Edward850]

Don't know what to tell you, but Doom95[doomwiki.org] never had freelook. Either it was a bootleg using an unoffical source port or you aren't remembering it properly. All official Doom releases are pretty well documented[doomwiki.org].