SLADE v3.0.2 final Released

[disposable_username2]

My suggestion needs much less time to implement, which is why I'm requesting it as a temporary solution.

[Enjay]

Is there any way to get SLADE to show FraggleScript lumps?

Reference this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33490 (there is an example there).

Fraggle Scripts are held in the map header. Normally the map header is just a marker called MAP01, MAP02 etc. However, FraggleScript uses this lump to hold the script data (ie it is a text lump containing the scripts). If a map with a Fraggle Script MAP** header is opened in SLADE and the MAP** lump is selected, SLADE shows a map preview, not the data contained in the lump.

Could there be a "view as text" button added that appears when map headers with data in them are selected? Even better (if it isn't already possible) could SLADE offer the ability to edit such lumps?

[Gez]

You mean you don't see the "Edit level script" button?

[Enjay]

Correct. I do not see that button. Could it be because the map also has a behavior lump?

This is with the example I posted above loaded.

Spoiler:

[Gez]

No, I have this button with Hexen maps too. It's something I added in r1299, so use an SVN build.


Note that even with an older version, you can right click on the map header and select view as -> text lump. This has been around forever and can be used with every type of lump, even those that aren't text. (Though the "text view" will get cut at the first null byte encountered.)

[Enjay]

That'll be it. I was still using r1270. I now have rLEET and the button shows up just fine. Thanks.

[Enjay]

I have been having difficulty setting up a soundfont so that SLADE can play midi files. This has been with all the versions of SLADE that I have tried, not just the current one. I have also tried a few different sound fonts. I go to the preferences and navigate to a sound font. When I press either OK or Apply, a blank script editor window pops up (no idea why) and then a windows "SLADE has stopped working" dialogue appears. It happens whether I have a WAD loaded or not.



As a matter of interest, why does SLADE need a sound fount to be specified? I haven't had to do this for any other program that plays midis (even ZDoom using FluidSynth).

[sirjuddington]

What soundfont are you trying to load? Have you tried opening a different one?

[Gez]

FluidSynth needs a sound font and cannot do anything without one. ZDoom has some fancy code to find for Creative's standard soundfont if one isn't explicitly set, but SLADE doesn't have such code.

[Enjay]

What soundfont are you trying to load? Have you tried opening a different one?

I have also tried a few different sound fonts.

The above crash was screen shotted after trying to load Weed's SF but I have tried a few different ones - all with the same result.

FluidSynth needs a sound font and cannot do anything without one. ZDoom has some fancy code to find for Creative's standard soundfont if one isn't explicitly set, but SLADE doesn't have such code.

I do have a Creative X-Fi card and that is why ZDoom+Fluidsynth works. What about all the other programs though: various media players etc, even programs like DeePsea? What do they do that SLADE doesn't (I'm guessing they access some sort of internal Windows midi output) and would it be feasible for SLADE to have a similar ability? Working or not, I can't be the only one who would rather not have to get and configure a sound font to allow SLADE to play midis.

[sirjuddington]

(I'm guessing they access some sort of internal Windows midi output)

That would probably be it. SLADE does support using it, but only when compiled to do so. I could probably make it optional though.

Personally I'm finding fluidsynth more trouble than it's worth, in windows at least. If there was anything better that supported soundfonts I'd dump it pretty quickly.

[Enjay]

More sound related stuff.

I keep getting this:



When I click on ogg lumps inside a WAD or PK3 (example http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=16447 )

As far as I can tell, the oggs are oggs and Media Player Classic certainly plays them but even after clicking "yes" SLADE cannot play them.

[sirjuddington]

I doubt windows media player can play them, though (which is what it falls back on if sfml can't open the audio). That said, sfml is supposed to support ogg, so not sure why they won't play.

[Enjay]

I'm pretty sure that it has happened with every ogg that I have tried in SLADE. I take it that you have no problems with ogg playback?

[edit] I probably should have mentioned that I am running Win 7 64 bit ultimate with a Creative X-Fi Titanium soundcard. [/edit]

[sirjuddington]

The ogg music in that wad plays fine for me yeah. It might have something to do with the svn build. I'm not sure if gez is still compiling with sfml 1.6, but if so, that could be the problem. Ogg should still work with 1.6 either way, so maybe it was broken somehow when I added the sfml 2 support.