Blake Stone TC Demo

[Nash]

Get the latest ZDoom build from http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/ and try again

[Enjay]

Yes I'm clicking the exe by the way.

Well, don't. Click the bat.

or maybe

of course, if your machine is still set up to hide file extensions, it may look like an exe.

or maybe

(And, yes, get the latest ZDoom from Nash's link.)

[Ferguson]

I always liked the Blake Stone games, even bought them again a while back on GOG. {My old floppy versions are fossilized}. Enjoying your mod a lot, appreciate all your hard work.

[SyntherAugustus]

Super excited for this. Always wanted to play Blake Stone but couldn't stand the controls in the original game.

[D00mfan]

I'm getting an error after clicking the .BAT. I already have the folder structure .

"Script error, "BStone.pk7:mapinfo.txt" line 194:
Automap: Unknown top level keyword"

[wildweasel]

I'm getting an error after clicking the .BAT. I already have the folder structure .

"Script error, "BStone.pk7:mapinfo.txt" line 194:
Automap: Unknown top level keyword"

Get the latest ZDoom build from http://devbuilds.drdteam.org/ and try again

[SyntherAugustus]

Thinking about doing a stream for this tonight or tomorrow. Stay tuned!

[D00mfan]

Thanks it helped. I misunderstood you, I thought you meant the latest build from the Zdoom website.

[SyntherAugustus]

So I did a playthrough of the first three maps last night. I had fun, but there were quite a lot oddities.

Turrets appeared to be immune to guns that weren't the rocket launcher. Not sure if from original BS.
Orbs that didn't move were in a bunch of places. Again not sure if from original.
Stuck doors.
I had to create a bind to aim up and down to shoot said turrets with a rocket launcher and blow up crates.
Odd hud stuff in the end of levels.

Also note: Many, many, informants died in the making of this video. Some just got in the way D:

[wildweasel]

Regarding the turrets, they're supposed to only be immune to the pistols; the assault gun and dual neutron should be able to destroy them.

[D00mfan]

Some problems I noticed:

-The music has stopped for me at level 4.
-The "informants alive" status bar goes too long off the screen.

[LostSkull]

Aw shit! Now we're talking!

[AFADoomer]

New download available - See first post.

I added a separate download of the core BStone.pk7 file, so if you've already pulled the Resource file down, you just need to download the much smaller core file.

I also have added a link to the most recent changelog.

Fixed:
- Wide-screen friendly handling of Elevator, Brief, and Endgame screens
- Elevator/map stat bars were improperly set and initialized, resulting in overruns
- Added Wolf3D-like movement (toggleable in menus)

Questions from the feedback:

Full screen HUD - weapons do not sit at the bottom of the screen:
I find the options menus quite hard to read. I suggest using the config to darken the screen fade effect and use a colour that contrasts better with the green than the default yellow.

The weapon positioning issue seems to be GZDoom-specific. They are fine in ZDoom. I know I had this problem and fixed it in the Wolf3D TC, I just need to remember what the fix was.

For the background color, are you sure your dimamount isn't set to a custom value? Mapinfo settings won't override defaults if that CVar is not set to -1. (See blackfish's video for how it should look - a dark blue).

- The "Esc to exit" text in the same instruction probably isn't necessary because that will actually open the main menu. The "E to continue" is enough, I think. Disregard if this is how the original game behaved; I don't remember much of it.
- The "Get Ready Blake!" loading bar has a single dark grey pixel on the second bar at the bottom.
- Sometimes I bump into solid invisible actors while running around the map. I don't know what they are.

The 'Esc to exit' string is in the original game

I don't see a grey dot on the loading screen... Is it happening every time?

I tweaked the definitions on my map viewer actor so that you shouldn't be able to run into them. I never had problems, but my machine is reasonably powerful, so maybe there's something else going on. Is the entire viewport freezing, or just your player?

Turrets appeared to be immune to guns that weren't the rocket launcher. Not sure if from original BS.
Orbs that didn't move were in a bunch of places. Again not sure if from original.
Stuck doors.
I had to create a bind to aim up and down to shoot said turrets with a rocket launcher and blow up crates.

The turrets can't be killed by either pistol, as was the case in the original game.

I don't get the stuck orbs, ever... They're moved via a script, so I'm not sure how that's happening. What ZDoom version are you running?

Where are you getting stuck doors?

On aiming, I'd recommend playing the TC with autoaim turned on... Do you have it disabled?

-The music has stopped for me at level 4.

Yes, I need to re-listen through the original game and add the Mapinfo entries to set the music for the other levels. I just haven't sat down and figured out which track goes with which level, yet.

[SyntherAugustus]

Feb 16 build. (459?)

Orbs seem to work in the current gzdoom build. About those doors.
http://imgur.com/USNCFBf,9HbhIOb

Autoaim was enabled (see the video, I tried a console variable "autoaim" and the player setup to no avail). Is there something consolewise that I'm missing?

[AFADoomer]

Feb 16 build. (459?)

Orbs seem to work in the current gzdoom build. About those doors.
http://imgur.com/USNCFBf,9HbhIOb

Autoaim was enabled (see the video, I tried a console variable "autoaim" and the player setup to no avail). Is there something consolewise that I'm missing?

OK, just uploaded a new version with doors fixed... Had to tweak the conversion tool; while I was at it I rewrote and streamlined the main door script, so all doors are better-handled now.

The only way I was able to duplicate your issue with not hitting turrets and crates was by turning autoaim off. Autoaim in the console is a CVar. You have to set it to 5000 for full autoaim, or use the Player Setup menu to change Autoaim to 'Always'.