Oblige Community (?) Build

[dasho]

Hey all, just wanted to share and also get input or requests on a fork of Oblige that I'm plugging away at. It compiles and works on 64bit/32bit Windows and Linux, as well as arm64 (my Raspberry Pi 4 at least). Here is a brief list of changes:

-Strings allowed for seed input (numbers with no other characters still processed as numbers).
-New random number generator based on the Mersenne Twister Engine.
-Updated PHYSFS and GLBSP.
-Added scrolling functionality to Addons List window.
-Added preservation of action specials when converting Hexen linedefs.
-Added library sources needed to cross-compile for Windows using MinGW.
-Minor bugfixes as discovered.

Compiled Windows releases -> https://github.com/dashodanger/Oblige/releases

Linux still needs to be compiled manually for the time being.

[Kappes Buur]

With following add-ons:

ObAddon.pk3
UniversalIntermission.pk3

and default settings I get this:

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[dasho]

I would check your ObAddon install; I've kept all of the same prefabs that were in vanilla Oblige. If you are still getting this message without those addons enabled, let me know and I'll see what's causing it. Thanks.

[Kappes Buur]

Okay, with default settings but without Addons the maps generate without problem.

But, to be honest, if it does not work with ObAddon.pk3 then your version of Oblige is of no use to me. That addon is what makes Oblige worthwhile.

[dasho]

I use the current git build of ObAddon, which I also contribute to, without problems. If you have some logs or debug messages, I will look at them, but it should work with .pk3 addons out of the box.

EDIT: I did notice that an earlier build was tagged as Release, instead of Pre-Release. This is the latest compiled Windows package:
https://github.com/dashodanger/Oblige/r ... ring-Seeds

I removed the Release status from the earlier build.

[Kappes Buur]

I found a newer ObAddon_2020-06-10.pk3.
Now the map generator works okay, although in some spots there are missing textures.

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[dasho]

That might have been a prefab-in-progress. I'm not sure why there hasn't been a stable release in a while, but:

https://github.com/dashodanger/ObAddon/ ... 2021-02-16

This is a build that tracks upstream ObAddon. Doom support should be improved, Heretic support is better but you may get the odd 'missing prefab' message. Hexen support exists but is in a very barebones state at the moment. The ObAddon discord has a changes channel that can provide more info if you'd like.

[Kappes Buur]

With obaddon_2021-02-16.pk3 I get missing and scrambled textures

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[MsrSgtShooterPerson]

With obaddon_2021-02-16.pk3 I get missing and scrambled textures

Did you make sure to set Texture WAD Merge from the Armaetus Texture Pack panel to "Yes"? If you set this to "No", you're expected to load the custom textures package separately from your client. This option is mostly for server owners to stop redundant downloads for the texture pack itself by clients.

[Kappes Buur]

Did you make sure to set Texture WAD Merge from the Armaetus Texture Pack panel to "Yes"? .....

I did.

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[Gamerwarrior117]

so this will be better than ultimate doom builder?

cool.

where do the wads an pk3 files go too?

[Kappes Buur]

so this will be better than ultimate doom builder?

Oblige is not a map editor like UDB.
Oblige is a random pwad generator, from a single map to a complete 32 level map set. It generates files in the wad format.

Oblige has undergone several iterations, from the original Oblige to Oblige v7.7.0 win64 and now this one.

Using this ObAddon or the one mentioned above enhances the maps.

[MsrSgtShooterPerson]

It may be easier to find out about your problem if you have the text log of your last generated map suffering from this problem just to make sure.

[Gamerwarrior117]

so this will be better than ultimate doom builder?

Oblige is not a map editor like UDB.
Oblige is a random pwad generator, from a single map to a complete 32 level map set. It generates files in the wad format.

Oblige has undergone several iterations, from the original Oblige to Oblige v7.7.0 win64 and now this one.

Using this ObAddon or the one mentioned above enhances the maps.

i see. so this is useful for huge map packs.

[Kappes Buur]

It may be easier to find out about your problem if you have the text log of your last generated map suffering from this problem just to make sure.

For example:

PWAD
Logfile