r3875 Change in handling of HUDMessage

[Enjay]

Noticed in my own Marine Assault and Overlord WADs plus a few others I had kicking around my hard drive. (Best to check Overlord because it contains the scripts in the zip - I forgot to include them with Marine Assault).

This:

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hudmessage (s:"Right Marine.\n Here are your orders.\n "; 
			HUDMSG_PLAIN, 3, CR_GOLD, 1.5, 1.0, 3.0, 0.05, 1.0);

Used to put a message on screen that was easy to read. If you try one of the above WADs in the official release of ZDoom, it is still easy to read the messages put up at the start. However, try it in an SVN build of ZDoom and the messages are difficult to see, I think because they are being drawn (very) translucent.

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Zdoom Official


SVN

Look hard - the messages are still there.

Checking the Wiki, this could be my error because I note that HUDMSG_PLAIN doesn't seem to take all the arguments that I have used - but I must have got them from *somewhere*. Curse HUDMessage and its confusing parameters list.

As I said, this is something that has changed since the official versions of ZDoom and GZDoom were released but I'm not sure exactly which version caused the problem. r3863 (the oldest build that I have handy) shows the problem so the change occurred before that. [edit] r3821-3826 look likely. [/edit]

[Blue Shadow]

After holdtime comes alpha for HUDMSG_PLAIN, which is 0.05 as you have it in that code.

Edit: Of course, the alpha was introduced in r3825.

[randi]

Enjay, Enjay, Enjay. What is this world coming to?

Fixed in r3876 by making the alpha conditional on another flag, just because Enjay's probably not the only one who did this.

[Nash]

I was freaking out earlier why my sun flares weren't working anymore, turns out I now need to add the HUDMSG_ALPHA flag. *whew* that was close. :D

[Enjay]

Thanks for the fix.

Were the extra parameters that I used ever valid? I can't figure out why I would have used them if I hadn't seen them somewhere.

[Project Shadowcat]

Thanks for the fix.

Were the extra parameters that I used ever valid? I can't figure out why I would have used them if I hadn't seen them somewhere.

Only if they typed on to the screen, if I remember right.