As some of you may have noticed on Discord, QZDoom devbuilds have begun to roll out recently.
These contain a selected 'batch' of features that have been merged into QZDoom for testing, and they certainly could use it. The sooner they're tested, the sooner bugs can be culled and the feature can be certified as ready for GZDoom itself.
Since they're in batches, not all of them have been pulled in yet to ensure QZDoom can keep up with changes made by GZDoom. This post will continuously be updated with information pertaining to what features are in and how they work. ----- ***NOTICE*** Please bear in mind, QZDoom is an experimental testing ground. Therefor, changes to anything can happen at any given time with each new DRD build being released. This is much more volatile and can certainly break the new features.
I will post updates when something changes and detail all you need to know. ----- Here is what's in so far:
Here is a detailed guide on how each new feature works. ----- Sprite Offsets Adds 1 Vector2 variable and 1 function to Actor.
A_SpriteOffset(double ox = 0.0, double oy = 0.0) Offsets the sprite of an actor by the specified values.
Positive X values shift to the right, Y shifts down. Vice versa for negative values. ----- ViewAngles (Part 1) Adds 3 variables to PlayerPawn and PlayerInfo. Adds 1 virtual function to PlayerPawn.
The variables are ViewAngle, ViewPitch and ViewRoll. These are simply offsets to the player's actual angle/pitch/roll and they do not affect aim. They also do not affect overlays.
The function CalcView() is responsible for transferring the three variables automatically to the playerinfo struct.
NOTE: The playerpawn's variables are merely for transference purposes so if a camera switch occurs, the view angles are remembered. It's the struct's variables that actually change the angles. ----- PSPF_PLAYERTRANSLATED Overlay Flag A flag for A_OverlayFlags, used to colorize the player's overlay/weapon sprites based on the user's color settings. For the ZScript savvy, this is known as bPlayerTranslated flag inside of the psprite class. ----- Clearscope Index() For the ZScript savvy, the Index() functions in Sector, SectorPortal, Line and Side structs have been given clearscope. ----- SetSlot and ClearPlayerClasses Override Introduces a new menu option for SetSlot and ClearPlayerClasses. If enabled, the default behavior applies: keyconf will wipe out all player classes and weapon slot settings. Otherwise, it will only clear out vanilla IWAD player classes, and keep all weapons assigned in keyconf.
If you find any issues or bugs, please make sure to include [QZDoom] in the title of the bug report for clarity.
Last edited by Major Cooke on Tue Nov 26, 2019 10:41 am, edited 4 times in total.
Also just to clarify as some folks have asked me on Discord: Until ALL selected parts have been fully merged or rejected, no new code submissions will be brought in until they're taken care of.
As mentioned in the first post, this is for the safety of QZDoom so maintenance is made easier, especially if people report bugs with some of the features. If sudden changes occur and someone completely redoes their submission from the ground up, this could potentially affect the other submissions and result in conflicts with source control.
