ECWolfEngine/ECWolf 1.4.0

ECWolf 1.4.0

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Source code: https://maniacsvault.net/ecwolf/files/ecwolf/1.x/ecwolf-1.4.0-src.tar.xz

Change log

• LAN multiplayer for up to 11 players.
  • Actors now track their current target instead of assuming the one and only player.
  • Visibility for attacks is determined by geometric checks instead of renderer feedback.
• The "DoomEdNum" has been deprecated and all places where they were used now accept actor class names directly.
• Support for BILLBOARD flag for "3D sprites", compared to Wolf4SDL the angle of the actor is used allowing arbitrary angles.
• Added parallax skies compatible with ROTT through sky1 in MAPINFO/Map definition (mostly incompatible with LZWolf's parallaxsky definition)
• Added support for Wolfstone 3D and Elite Hans: Die Neue Ordnung.
  • Added pageindextext to MAPINFO/Gameinfo.
  • Added $musicalias to SNDINFO.
• Added Super 3-D Noah's Ark MIDI->OPL code (Thanks NY00123).
• Fading has been reworked to allow overlaying fades over game play.
• Support for blend and alpha mixing in TEXTURES.
• Support for colormaps with 64 light levels like Blake Stone.
• Partial support for Blake Stone map meta data.
• Support for Blake Stone's level name strings as LEVELDSC.
• Support for Macintosh Wolf3D's MAPLIST.
• Added support for offset() in DECORATE states.
• Pickups support Hide state to allow spent pickups to be visible.
• Added Idle state for actors to return to if they lose their target.
• Files can be autoloaded though ecwolf.cfg.
• Added game based content filtering for PK3s from ZDoom.
• Default FOV can be changed through DesiredFOV in ecwolf.cfg.
• Added Pushwall_MoveNoStop line special which allows moving pushwalls through walls like Mac Wolf and ROTT.
• Added Teleport_Relative line special which works similarly to ROTT elevators without the theatrics.
• Wall and plane drawing has been modified to generally have better precision.
• Added trackhighscores property to MAPINFO/Gameinfo.
• Added resethealth and resetinventory to MAPINFO/Map definition.
• Enemies can now accept health items.
• Added A_Wander.
• Added SmartAnimation actor to support Blake Stone's "smart animation" system.
• Added --foreignsaves option to force saves to load even if game data check fails.
• Added --skill option to select skill level by number particularly for when more than 4 skill levels are present.
• Added ROTT style tall walls and ROTT's map height marker with feature flag "planedepth".
• Actor z-heights are now rendered and can be set in info plane with "zheights" enabled in map translator (compatible with ROTT).
• ROTT map loader no longer synthesizes a third plane but instead relies on the map translator flag "globalflat".
• Support for ROTT's song numbers in map translator
• Partial support for booting Macintosh Wolfenstein 3D, Blake Stone: Planet Strike, and Rise of the Triad.
  • Includes support for several new data formats most of which have no practical use outside of loading vanilla compatible data.
  • Macintosh Wolfenstein 3D data is supported through macbin format.
  • Feature is hidden behind ShowPreviewGames in ecwolf.cfg as they're not yet supported or fully playable.
• Improvements in holowall support.
• Fixed some long standing minor memory leaks.
• New icon/logo by NeuralStunner.
• Support for more ultrawide aspect ratios.
• Automap panning speed is now dependent on zoom level.
• Fixed crash if no sound device was present.
• Fixed cases where adaptive frame rate would fail and game would run too fast.
• Vendored SDL dependencies updated to SDL 2.26.2, SDL_mixer 2.6.2, and SDL_net 2.2.0.
  • Customized SDL_mixer is still suggested but no longer required for full functionality as the only feature missing is support for alternate spelling of LOOP_START and LOOP_END tags.
• Steam and GOG support updated to support new releases.