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version:detailed_list_of_changes_in_doomsday_version_1.9.8
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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
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 uninstallfailed to remove the snowberry directory.- launch-doomsday and the .desktop file must use the paths defined in the build configuration.
Changes
Audio
- 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
- Doom and Heretic: added variable game-monsters-floatoverblocking to allow flying creatures to float upwards over things that block their way.
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
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