Gameplay settings won't save / Music Question

[nutter]

Ok, maybe i'm just missing something but in ZDoom I like to disable certain gameplay settings like freelook and jumping and such, but for some reason when I exit and restart it, it goes back to the default settings. It doesn't do this for anything else like control customization or display settings... So is this behavior normal?

Also, I couldn't find anything about this in the wiki but how would one go about using external music files to replace the in game music for Doom like in the Doomsday port? Or is this possible? The reason i'm asking because it would be really nifty if one was able to use Sycraft's most excellent Doom/Hexen/Heretic soundtrack in ZDoom. They were initially made for Doomsday but I favor ZDoom for its unadulterated look. jDoom's great but I'm somewhat of a purist. So sue me.

Anyways, thanks in advance.

[Bio Hazard]

you see? this is how a nice request works, he adressed the people of the forum in a polite manner and he even read the wiki before asking here! props to you mr. nutter person

now for the answers:

1: first go to the gamepaly settings screen and set everything just the way you like it, then you make a note of the things that say "DMFLAGS" and "DMFLAGS2" at the top, next, create a file in the ZDoom directory and name it "AUTOEXEC.CFG". open that up in notepad and write

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set DMFLAGS <number>
set DMFLAGS2 <number>

then when you start zdoom, it will set those flags for you automatically

2: im not quite sure what you mean, but if its just a bunch of files with names that match the entries in doom2.wad, you just need to rename them to .wad and put it in a folder called "skins" in your ZDoom folder

[Lexus Alyus]

Yes, which is proof that not all new people are stupid.

Welcome aboard Nutter... Heh , nice name .

[nutter]

Thanks to the first poster, that fixed it up nicely.

Anyways what i've got here are a bunch of .ogg files as shown below (This is the Heretic soundtrack).

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These were initially made for Doomsday (jDoom/jHexen/jHeretic) But I read that ZDoom had support for mp3s and such so I was wondering if it was possible to use these to replace the midi music you hear during the game. They're basically high quality versions of the original music.

Now initially, the .ogg files shown above were compressed in a file called musichq.zip. And this file would go into the directory Doomsday\data\jHeretic(or jHexen)\Auto, and then you would set doomsday to use external files for music. This way the tracks are automatially loaded when you start the game, and you hear them instead of the midi tracks. The same basically applies to the Doom soundtracks.

So does that make things a little more clearer? Sorry for being so long-winded but I figured I should be thourough.

Well, thanks again.

[wildweasel]

Well, ZDoom won't just auto-load the OGG files like Doomsday does. Your options are to either (1) find out the proper lump names of each song in the Doom/Doom2/Heretic IWAD (using XWE or Wintex), and insert all the OGGs into a new WAD and load that with the usual -file command, or (2) on every level, go to the console and type

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CHANGEMUS "C:\GAMES\ZDOOM\OGGS\HERETIC\MUS_E1M1.OGG"

or wherever you keep those. Unfortunately both are a pain.

[randi]

To use your replacement oggs with Heretic, paste this into your zdoom-<username>.ini file:

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[Heretic.Autoload]
Path=C:\Games\Doomsday\Extras\musichq\Data\jHeretic\Music\*.ogg

For Doom and Hexen, just repeat that step, replacing the word Heretic with the name of the game to load the files for. You can have as many Path= lines as you want, but as long as those are the only .oggs in the directory, you can use just one Path= line.

[nutter]

edit: Spoke too soon.

As you probably know, the Final Doom wads have some original music in addition to using tracks from Doom 2 I think. The problem is that I have replacement tracks for the music for Final Doom as well, but ZDoom won't recognize those tracks. For instance, Evilution has it's own title music, however ZDoom won't play the replacement track I specified, instead it plays the title music for Doom 2.

I've got my files set up like so:


And the following line in my .ini file:

[Doom.Autoload]
Path=C:\Games\ZDoom\Music\Doom\*.ogg

I've got my tracks for Hexen and Heretic in seperate folders and they both run fine.

So am I doing something wrong or can nothing be done?

Thanks again.

[nutter]

No ideas at all?

Seriously I'll leave all of you alone after this