fabiangreffrath/woof woof_10.5.0

Woof! 10.5.0

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New Features and Improvements

• Don't draw the status bar or any other UI in savegame snapshots.
• Add "Walk Under Solid Hanging Bodies" feature from PrBoom+.
• Support face gib animations in the status bar widget as in the 3DO/Jaguar/PSX ports (graphics lumps need to occupy the STFXDTH0 to STFXDTH9 name space).
• Allow COMP cheat to change complevel in-game (report current complevel when entered, expecting two-digit new complevel argument).
• Allow the SSG in Doom 1 if the corresponding assets are available.
• Implement SDL-native sound looping for moving walls (removing clicking noise between sounds).
• Have "Clear Marks" key clear just the last mark in the Automap (by @MrAlaux).
• Limit the number of identical sounds playing at once, based on priority ordering (based on code from Odamex and DSDA-Doom).
• Make color of health and armor count gray in the status bar and HUD widgets when invulnerable (by @MrAlaux).
• Add VGA "porch" behaviour emulation from Chocolate Doom (enabled by vga_porch_flash key in the config file).
• Implement dark automap overlay (by @MrAlaux).
• Support dedicated music (lump names D_E4M1 to D_E4M9) for Episode 4 of Ultimate Doom. Also, support to select these tracks (and the music tracks for UMAPINFO maps) by the IDMUS cheat.
• Implement crosshair target lock-on (by @MrAlaux).
• Increase internal maximum horizontal resolution to 1152. This is meant to add support for non-exactly 21:9 screens, such as 3840x1600 (WQHD+).
• Implement crosshair coloring by target health (by @MrAlaux).
• Windows native MIDI player improvements:
  • Support for SysEx messages.
  • Correctly reset MIDI devices with SysEx messages. Default is GS mode, can be changed with the winmm_reset_type config option (by @ceski-1).
  • The reset delay is configurable using the winmm_reset_delay config parameter. Useful for vintage MIDI devices (by @ceski-1).
  • Implement a "capital tone fallback" emulation that allows MS GS Wavetable Synth, Roland SCVA, Roland SC-55mkII and later devices to work in GS mode without any issues (by @ceski-1).
  • Fix looping timing, various optimizations (by @ceski-1).
  • Add full support for EMIDI, extensions used in Build engine games (by @ceski-1).
  • Implement Final Fantasy and RPG Maker loop points (by @ceski-1).
• No need to restart the program to change MIDI player.
• Ability to select Windows MIDI device in the menu.
• Scan the soundfonts folder and show all found .sf2 and .sf3 soundfonts in the menu.
• OPL emulation output gain. Allows to increase the OPL volume with the opl_gain config option (default 200%).
• Allow parsing of cosmetic items in the OPTIONS lump for all complevels.
• Enable doubled card and skull key display on status bar by default.
• Gamepad analog controls improvemets:
  • The turning/looking speed does not depend on the run key.
  • Ability to invert each axis separately.
  • Separate sensitivities for movement, turning and looking.
  • Possibility to disable the axis (choose "None" in the menu).
  • Do not allow simultaneous use of mouse and controller in strict mode when recording demo (new DSDA rule).
• Unify gamma correction: Both the F11 key and the menu slider cycle through the same gamma correction tables, with positive integers corresponding to the Vanilla tables.

Bug Fixes

• Take into account "smooth diminishing lighting" for "level brightness" feature.
• Set 'fastdemo_timer' to false before warping (by @rrPKrr).
• Fix starting "new game" or "load game" when fast-forwarding a demo.
• Do not switch timer if fastdemo is not enabled.
• Fix midi_player config setting description.
• Fix background drawing on screen size 3 in 21:9 widescreen mode.
• UMAPINFO: Don't show menu for only one episode.
• Fix "Show Demo Progress Bar" being disabled in the menu instead of "Default Compatibility" if the -complevel command-line parameter was used (by @MrAlaux).
• Do not allow autoloading in shareware gamemode.
• An IWAD called doom1.wad is now always checked for its content instead of blindly assuming the shareware IWAD.
• Fix NULL string comparison in DEH parser.
• Fix skull position in the help screen for Doom 2.
• UMAPINFO: Provide a default map progression if neither next nor endpic are set.
• Add the missing OPUS DLLs to the 32-bit build.

Miscellaneous