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This article lists the important changes in 1.9.8.

Fixed bugs

Audio

  • Hexen: Environment Wind sounds (e.g. Map01). There was a sound prioritization issue at map start.
  • Priorities defined in Sound definitions are used to determine when a sound can stop a previously playing sound from the same emitter (e.g., Cyberdemon and Mastermind alert sound is not cut off by their footsteps).

Console

  • Brackets can again be typed in the console: { }
  • rend-dev-wireframe should not be written to game config file.

Gameplay

  • Heretic: Flying creatures would sometimes get stuck. 3495787
  • Hexen: disallow warping while dead to prevent zombification.

Graphics and resources

  • Detect support for non-power-of-two OpenGL textures and don't try to use them if support is not available. Fixes the problem of the game UI/infine background textures being fully white, while the console is drawn ok.
  • Detail texture contrast normalization is now taken into account when rendering. 3496778
  • Hexen: The demo IWAD was not being recognized. The buggy version of the demo IWAD is now supported as a separate game mode.
  • Hexen: crash when rendering particles. 3496963

Input

  • Added variable input-sharp: all input events are processed only on the “sharp” 35 Hz ticks to comply with the behavior of the original games.
  • New and improved input device axis position/delta filtering. Replaces the old mouse filter (input-mouse-filter has been removed).
  • With the Sidestep (strafe) control, mouse/joystick axis positions were interpretered incorrectly. 3510109

Multiplayer

  • Hexen: setclass should not be immediate, now only takes effect after respawning.
  • Fixed crash when using items from the inventory. 3496874
  • Hexen co-op: weapons for all player classes should be spawned. 1572194

UI and menus

  • The game's main menu should never scroll up and down.
  • Shift+Esc would not always open the Control Panel, sometimes only the Menu: now Shift alone does not activate the game menu.
  • Deleting the default Return binding of “menuselect” is no longer allowed in the Controls menu.
  • Changing the binding of the Delete key is not allowed any more in the Controls menu.
  • The auto aim menu option was changed to “disable autoaim”.
  • In the menu, sound effects were played twice simultaneously when toggling “yes/no” options.
  • Hexen: title in the skill level menu is way over to the left.
  • HacX: skill level menu goes off the side of the screen.

Unix

  • make uninstall failed to remove the snowberry directory.
  • launch-doomsday and the .desktop file must use the paths defined in the build configuration.

Changes

Audio

  • Use audio interfaces from multiple audio plugins. E.g., SFX from FMOD and Music from winmm (for MIDI). See isfx, imusic, icd.
  • Added variable sound-overlap-stop (default: 1) that allows only one sound to be emitted at a time by a sound source (to comply with original Doom engine behavior).
  • Default reverb strength is now 0.5 (previously 1.0).

Console

  • Console half/fullscreen mode is now toggled with Alt-Tilde. (The ~ character can be typed with Shift-Tilde.)
  • New command apropos_cmd that summarizes all information containing a specific search term. Looks up variables, commands, aliases and games. For instance: apropos sound
  • New commands setwinres and setfullres that set resolution and window mode at the same time.
  • If shutting down during startup, don't write config files if they haven't been read yet.

Gameplay

Graphics and resources

  • Qt-based window management.
  • Game window can be resized dynamically (in windowed mode).
  • Default binding for F11 is to toggle fullscreen mode.
  • Built-in support for detecting and changing display modes.
  • Optimized resource subsystem performance for a faster engine startup.
  • Removed fixed upper limit of 768 defined models in use.
  • Added variable vid-vsync: enable or disable vsync. Also available in the Control Panel.
  • Added variable vid-fsaa: enable or disable full-scene antialiasing. Also available in the Control Panel.

Multiplayer

  • Saving during a multiplayer game is disabled. This feature will be restored in a future release.
  • Removed fatal error causing server-game-coop-nothing that was preventing spawning of players.
  • Dedicated servers conserve CPU when no clients connected (if noinput is being used to run a background server).

UI and menus

  • Control Panel's video mode list shows the actual display modes supported by the system.
  • FSAA and Vsync can be toggled in the Control Panel under Video settings.
  • Variable game-pause-focuslost: auto-pause when the game window loses focus.
  • Command releasemouse: releases the mouse pointer. By default bound to Alt-F11.
  • Added a new binding context called “global” for bindings that are always active and override all the other binding contexts.
  • Frontend: updated Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Platform-specific

Windows

  • Numpad Divide key and the forward slash are now considered to be two separate keys.

Mac OS X and X11

  • Not using SDL any more for setting/getting display color transfer table (gamma ramp).
  • System-level configuration_files /etc/doomsday/paths and ~/.doomsday/paths can be used for specifying the basedir, libdir, and iwaddir.

Unix

  • Snowberry can be excluded from the build.

Contributors

  • vvv1 qmake changes: Snowberry installation; X11 testing/debugging
  • NTI: updated Brazilian Portuguese translation for Snowberry
version/detailed_list_of_changes_in_doomsday_version_1.9.8.txt · Last modified: 2017-03-23 06:42 by skyjake