[Engine] GLOOME / [WIP] Project 67 & Nocturne in Yellow

[Kizoky]

Looks promising. the .wad/.pk3 will be hardcoded into the .exe? This will be a problem to me If I can't look at the source code If I want to learn something new.
The ZDoom stuff (ZDoom.pk3) is hardcoded into the .exe instead, and we can pinpoint which .pk3 or .wad will have to load the engine?

[ibm5155]

There's no need to change the .exe to detect the iwad, the only thing required is to change the iwadinfo.txt inside of engine.pk3 (I think it's zdoom.pk3 inside of zdoom)

Just an example, this is how Gloome detects the cursed maze as an iwad

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{
Name = "Cursed Maze - Portugues"
Autoname = "CursedMazePT"
Game = "Doom"
Config = "Doom"
Mapinfo = "mapinfo/doom2.txt"
MustContain = "CM000", "CMPT0"
BannerColors = "fc fc 00", "a8 00 00"
Load = "CM.wad", "brightmaps.pk3"
}

IWad
{
Name = "Cursed Maze - English"
Autoname = "CursedMazeEN"
Game = "Doom"
Config = "Doom"
Mapinfo = "mapinfo/doom2.txt"
MustContain = "CM000","CMEN0"
BannerColors = "fc fc 00", "a8 00 00"
Load = "CM.wad", "brightmaps.pk3"
}


Names
{
"bfgdoom2.wad"
"cursedmazept.wad"
"cursedmazeen.wad"
"doom2bfg.wad"
"doom2f.wad"
"doom2.wad"
...
}

I just wanted to add an heretic like loading screen, I think I'll just need to change the Game = Doom to Game = Heretic (and also, change alot of stuff inside of Heretic config...

This is the part that makes confuse to me, I still couldn't found how to load that ascii animation, is that hardcoded on the binary code or on the engine.pk3?

[Marrub]

Looks promising. the .wad/.pk3 will be hardcoded into the .exe?

No, what gives you that idea? It uses a pk3 named engine.pk3, which functions just as gzdoom.pk3 does.

This will be a problem to me If I can't look at the source code If I want to learn something new.

You are required by the GPL to distribute the source code with the (compiled) program.

Just curious, what features does this currently have that (g)zdoom do not?

In order of when I (or a contributor) added them:
A_ChangeFlag in ACS (As ChangeFlag), A_GiveScoreToTarget (along with the Score property to add a default to it for that actor and inherited actors).
Cheats are now handled by KEYCONF, instead of being hardcoded. There are some new (and modified) CCMDs for pulling this off. You can do this for iddqd:

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addcheat "god; setplayerhealth 100" iddqd doom

GAMEINFO now has a TICRATE property, you can guess what that does. GetTicRate is in ACS now.
GetActorFloorTexture returns (you guessed it) the floor texture under an actor. (There is also GetActorCeilingTexture.)
Some new CVARs, cl_morphbob (lets the player's weapon and head bob while morphed).
SetPlayerBobMul will allow you to change the player's movement bob in ACS. There is also, of course, GetPlayerBobMul.
cl_facekiller disables (or enables) facing the actor that killed you.
There is a new flag, +PLAYER.NOFALLDEATH, that disables falling down to the ground when you die, allowing you to make custom death sequences with whatever.
PickActor's last parameter is now a bit flag, and it has two flags as of now: PAF_FORCETID (already in zdoom) and PAF_RETURNTID (which allows you to do more with the function).

[TerminusEst13]

I don't remember saying anything about projects being limited to this thread. Just tag it in the title.

I asked you about this a week ago when I asked about the viability of posting GLOOME and related projects here.
If I misunderstood, I deeply apologize.

Looks promising. the .wad/.pk3 will be hardcoded into the .exe? This will be a problem to me If I can't look at the source code If I want to learn something new.
The ZDoom stuff (ZDoom.pk3) is hardcoded into the .exe instead, and we can pinpoint which .pk3 or .wad will have to load the engine?

Nope, the .pk3 you're thinking of is engine.pk3, which contains all of the ZDoom-esque information, such as predefined actor classes, default menu data, icons, default sounds, and etc, and more importantly contains an IWADINFO lump, which people can edit to include whatever extra file they want that contains the game data.



Also, gonna be honest ibm, extremely worried that you have something to go already after only three days of development with the engine. Hopefully it's something that you've put a lot of work into already, last thing we want is for the public's first impression of the engine to be for low-effort cashgrabs.

[Scuba Steve]

Action Doom 2 is almost perfectly playable. There are rendering errors (software hacks) in some places, but it everything works.

[jpalomo]

A_ChangeFlag in ACS (As ChangeFlag)
GetActorFloorTexture returns (you guessed it) the floor texture under an actor. (There is also GetActorCeilingTexture.)
PickActor's last parameter is now a bit flag, and it has two flags as of now: PAF_FORCETID (already in zdoom) and PAF_RETURNTID (which allows you to do more with the function).

I'm not sure about the other features, but these could possibly be added to ZDoom.

[ibm5155]

Also, gonna be honest ibm, extremely worried that you have something to go already after only three days of development with the engine. Hopefully it's something that you've put a lot of work into already, last thing we want is for the public's first impression of the engine to be for low-effort cashgrabs.

Cursed Maze started the development in 2012, the main idea was to do as much thing by myself, I ended up doing voice acting, sound effects, monster sprites and even some part of the map 02 music.
Also it was a challenge to make an iwad using gzdoom and being as much correct as possible (not stealing people work or using copyrighted stuff [Every dud over credits got emailed asking for permition to use their resources...])

And now that there's Gloome, I decided to give it a try, two days to try to compile it and also two days to adapt some things (and also to replace a copyrighted music)...

Also if you want some big guy to Market, talk with wadaholic, he already saw your engine and he actually liked (total chaos guy)

Cursed Maze is not an amazing Project, I actually dislike the voice acting, I may reworkg it, but the Idea is to be an idie like game, where you may have just one map for fast gameplay
Example of People playing it...

And also I need to fix some stuff, like the ghouls heartbeat are Always loud at higher distancesin gloome, maybe openal has some stuff not well implemented yet...

At last I can tell, Cursed Maze isnt a generic made unity game with missing textures and bad models animation

[ibm5155]

Double post :S

Will GLOOME comes with freedoom or it may come with another new iwad?

[Marrub]

Double post :S

Will GLOOME comes with freedoom or it may come with another new iwad?

Neither. It will be, as usual, up to the user to provide or make an iwad.

A_ChangeFlag in ACS (As ChangeFlag)
GetActorFloorTexture returns (you guessed it) the floor texture under an actor. (There is also GetActorCeilingTexture.)
PickActor's last parameter is now a bit flag, and it has two flags as of now: PAF_FORCETID (already in zdoom) and PAF_RETURNTID (which allows you to do more with the function).

I'm not sure about the other features, but these could possibly be added to ZDoom.

I'd hope, but I'd rather not clog zdoom with pull requests

[Zeberpal]

Yeah, Gloom came out just in time for Total Chaos, considering that amount of work Wadaholic've put in it, to be cash rewarded. Does that mean, it's possible for Gloom projects to pass in Steam Greenlight in theory? (dreams dreams dreams)

[XCVG]

I've been looking at doing something like this for a long time, but you've beat me to it. I do have some developer-specific features I want to add, though, so I might still fork it.

[raymoohawk]

will those developer specific features include normal maps for sprites ?

[Kinsie]

will those developer specific features include normal maps for sprites ?

What effect or point would this have in an engine without any "real" lighting?

[XCVG]

I didn't realize this thread had more pages and I thought I was bumping it a lot more.

I'll see if I can dig up the Pulsar design document, but from the top of my head:
-Implementation of the controversial ConsoleCommand function and possibly some other insecure or unsafe functions.
-New startup screen options (including a proper image one with/without loadbar and silent startup)
-GAMECONF file that defines which files to load and which features to enable
-Ditch aspect ratio correction across the board (it looks like this can be made configurable now)
-Eventual removal of game-specific code and game-specific resources in base package

This is the first I've heard of GLOOME, and it looks like its goals line up closely with Pulsar. The biggest difference is that I planned to wait for a stable release of GZDoom 2.1, fork that, and forget about keeping the codebase in sync after that point.

[raymoohawk]

will those developer specific features include "real" lighting ?