Wolfenstein 3D TC (Version 3.0)

[AFADoomer]

It was a bit confusing at first, but like this:

In "Wolf3d GZDoom.bat", I edited the following lines like so:

IF EXIST "zdoom-%username%-Wolf3D.ini" (
REM If so, run normally
start ..\gzdoom.exe -config "zdoom-%username%-Wolf3d.ini" -iwad C:\*Path*\doom2.wad -file Wolf3D.pk3 Wolf3D_*.pk3 Wolf3DGL.pk3 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 %10 "C:\*Path*\1024cla2.zip"


That loads Doom2 as the iwad, and 1024cla2.zip (or wad) as the last pwad. You can just move doom2.wad and the pwad into the wolf3d folder.
Is this is the way to do it, AFADoomer? It seems to work correctly. I haven't tried Doom 1 yet.

Yeah, that works... Alternate way is to just select your PWAD and one of the IWADs, and drag-and-drop them on top of the batch file.

Note that if you try to play through the original levels, you'll need to include a new mapinfo file as well, since the level flow isn't the same as the TC levels, so Doom 2's won't advance, and Doom's won't go to secret levels (or episodes finish, in some cases) properly. Individual maps work fine, though.

[Enjay]

As is customary every now and again, I'm just dropping in to this thread to praise the completeness of feel and quality of this TC. I still think it is utterly amazing just how convincing this is as a "Wolfenstein ported to a modern engine" versus "just" a Doom TC. Personally, I think I'd rather play the TC than NeoWolf.

[NeuralStunner]

Looks awesome still.

... Although the bosses seem a lot weaker (HP-wise) than the originals.

[Skutarth]

Looking good overall. I love the GZDoom pushwalls. I'd like to point out that the episode 1 ending is broken in both ZDoom and GZDoom (but not in the same way). It still ends the level, but the camera/animation sequence is all wrong and there are checker pattern "missing texture" textures hanging in the air. You probably already knew that, though.

I can't wait for somebody to go through and make proper sprites for the 8 directions on all the monsters. Almost all of the normal enemies already have all the directions except for shooting animations and the pain frame. The bosses and the hitler warlock would be the hard parts. Hopefully somebody takes up the task eventually. While from my experience, the gameplay for coop is working near flawlessly, the graphics are a little janky due to the missing frames.

[Xaser]

I think someone actually made rotations for Hans Grosse once (or at least partial ones -- I've seen a set somewhere), though certainly not for all the bosses just yet.

Now, I suddenly feel the need to play this now that I've realized that I've never actually played through the full original game... semi-nostalgia time!

[Skutarth]

I think someone actually made rotations for Hans Grosse once

Was it this one?
http://www.skulltag.com/forum/viewtopic ... 33&p=92160

Honestly, it's not bad at all. It does need a little editing, though. He looks too thin. This would also be useful for the other bosses, I think.

[Xaser]

Ah, that's the one I was thinking of, I believe. It actually looks rather good except for the horrendous hunchback 3-7 rotation. Still, that's only one out of five that need real fixing. I might actually do that myself if I get the inspiration-ness.

[NeuralStunner]

Marty Kirra was working on one, based off the HWD. Sadly I seen anything from him (Marty, not Hans) in a while...

[D2 Mod Player]

AFADoomer, thanks for the update. I believe I missed it because I haven't been working on my HD update for your TC in the last few months. I have yet to make a website to release it, though besides Lost Levels which is still a work in progress, it's mainly completed (I sent you an email in early development about it which you ignored). But that's not what I want to focus on since this is your forum. I just have a few bugs to report now that I know your still actually working on this TC.

Blinking ghost, I think this one was reported before but I'm sure it's due to frames being incorrectly allocated. It's annoying. If you don't fix this I'll make that ghost in my version is partially transparent so the blinking won't be so distracting.

I've converted about 1000 levels from different old sets without code editing and have found a few problems.

Double doors don't convert correctly. Where there's supposed to be the second door, there's a wall instead. To solve this in the few places they occur I've edited the original Wolf 3D levels to space out the doors more or remove one door. Then I reconvert them to the TC. Unfortunately I've yet to figure out how to use Doom builder to edit your TC levels so that's not an option. Would appreciate a short and to the point guide on how to do this.

Here's a bug which may never be fixable, due to the nature of 3D models in GZ Doom. So I mainly just call it a missing feature. It's not noticeable in the original game because enemies are on the main not behind pushwalls. In Spear of Destiny and especially user created level sets it's quite noticeable. Pushwalls do not stop enemy guards from spotting you. While they can't do damage to you it makes you aware of the secret area and often times can block the pushwall from opening. They continually fire at you until you move out of their view.

I had to reconvert the original level sets to work properly. Both Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny. Your release probably uses your older version and pushwalls don't work and doors are blocked by walls in later episodes. That's a minor problem since I've solved that on my version.

A very big bug deals with level conversion of episodes 4-6. I'd have to look through my work again to be more specific, but if I recall correctly, it's episode 4 boss levels that often fail to convert. Maybe sometimes episode 5 as well. I'm sure it has something to do with the boss part of the level and how the level is read by the converter, but I don't know what the problem is. Even the Windows version which I don't use due to not fully implementing pushwalls (at least without your specific files for support) doesn't help. On the main I use the command prompt version since that's fully featured.

The main issue with using the level converter is levels being renamed. Thanks to reading this forum I've figured out how to convert those using a hex editor to remove bad data from them.

Thank you again for creating this TC. It's provided me with nearly a year of entertainment while I created textures to replace the whole game. Without it I would have been very bored due to poor health and would have learned nothing.

[Gez]

About pushwalls, by the way, Graf has started work on an overhaul of polyobjects, and once it is finished and merged into the main ZDoom trunk, it'll mean it'll be possible to turn pushwalls into polyobjects. No visual glitches anymore if they go out of their sector or share it with other polyobjects!

[ZDG]

He started working back on GZD? Great!

[Gez]

That's not GZDoom, that's ZDoom.

And he only stopped working on the hardware renderer.

[.+:icytux:+.]

dont know if it makes a diffrence any more but theese sprites are pretty cool for the hans grosse rotations:

made by its nature to die

[D2 Mod Player]

That Hans Grosse is cool. I have a much more finished 512x512 Hans that I reanimated myself that uses Mac graphics from the higher res version (hopefully you guys will see it all completed some day). I then added more frames to make it more detailed like the PC version and put it through some nice filters. So he only faces you just like the original (I'm recreating the original after all with the help of the TC) but looks much better. No more giant pixels. This version has 32 bit blending but still looks like the original, just much better.

OK, so he's working on polyobjects but it's for the software renderer. Strange. I would think that would be a GZDoom specific feature since from what I'm told that's the only version of ZDoom that supports 3D models (kind of the same thing I guess but true solid objects). Anyway, I have 3D models in my version, so no more lousy sprites (except enemies). I redid all the skins to look much more modern and up to date, and to be up to par with the high resolution textures for everything else.

Thanks for the comments guys.

If it ever becomes possible for pushwalls to be almost just like real walls that would be great but I'll wait for the TC author to have his say, I'm sure he knows the difficulties and if it will ever be implemented.

Edit: By the way, I haven't played the new version yet since my graphics update right now is deeply rooted in the old version. As far as I can tell from the report of the update in March, these bugs or missing features are still present.

[Gez]

OK, so he's working on polyobjects but it's for the software renderer.

No, it's not just for the software renderer. When the code is ported to GZDoom, it'll work with the hardware renderer as well.

The reason there are graphical glitches with polyobjects is not one of rendering per se, it's one of inadequate handling of the information to render. Raven Software developed polyobjects in a way which was not exactly correct, as far as the code logic goes, but which had the advantage of being fast enough to run on the computers of that time. The sound way of handling polyobject requires doing some nodebuilding work every tic for them. Today's computers can handle that easily enough, but that wasn't true for a 386!

See this thread for more info.