Doom Builder 2.1.0 released

[Ceeb]

Hey CodeImp, novel idea for a plugin which I doubt would be too hard. Sequential tags when you select a bunch of things/sectors/lines. You can choose to mass-tag at once, or you can specify a number to start tagging at and give each selected item an incremented tag from the last one.

[CodeImp]

That indeed would not be very hard to make.

[Caligari87]

That would be amazingly useful, I second that idea!

[chopkinsca]

Related to sector tags: how about a hotkey/button that gives all selected sectors a new tag. Also, when you click "new tag" in the sector/lindef edit box, it takes the focus away from the 'ok' button so enter can't be used to get out of the window.

[cq75]

Doombuilder crashed yesterday because two script editors got opened at once, which is weird... the script editor button usually just brings up an open one if it's there rather than starting a new one.

I didn't keep the error message, though. If it happens again I'll post it.

[cq75]

Unrelated to the above problem...

I updated my configs to the set found here http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=24807

it made doombuilder start extremely slowly, but I figured that was because I had too many configurations in the folder.

I took out a few, but it still started up really slowly.

Then, I took out all configurations except one - Skulltag: Doom in Hexen (unmodified, not my modifed version) and it was still very sluggish. It crashes on my custom config.

Doombuilder always started up really quickly for me, any ideas as to why it changed in speed?

[NeuralStunner]

Toss out your custom config and redo it, being obsessively mindful of braces, quotes, and semicolons. Do a little at a time and test with each.

[cq75]

it was really sluggish even with only the standard Skulltag Doom in Hexen config in the directory

It takes about five seconds to load the config at startup, and five more seconds to get ready after I select the config and the map name/IWAD

EDIT - I reinstalled it, and now it's moving fast again.

[NeuralStunner]

It's always like that for me, sadly. DB2 goes through a LOT of data in those configs... Also I wasn't referring to the slowness but the crashing.

It's quite picky (in particular, capitalization, or rather the lack thereof). For instance, adding a section called "Monsters" will not merge correctly with one called "monsters".

[cq75]

That makes sense, though, since it's probably built on C++ or C#. The string "Monsters" is drastically different from "monsters" or "mOnSters"

The only case insensitive language I know of that's powerful enough to do this program would be Visual Basic, and it's rather uncommon.

Doom builder 2 has been very good about crashing for me, it only failed a couple times


EDIT - I reinstalled and put the latest configs in, and it works, a bit slowly, but not as slowly as before

however, things 9077 and 9078 aren't showing up, although linedef action 57 is

http://zdoom.org/wiki/Stacked_sectors

The program still crashes if I try to load my configuration every time.

I think it has something to do with the updated skulltag configuration.

I'm tempted to just go into my configuration and just add linedef action 57... this is too complicated. Why don't the standard configs work?

EDIT 2 - I just added linedef action 57 to my custom config... and, it works fine. I'd like to integrate it with the standard skulltag config eventually, but it seems like there's a major memory leak with that configuration, because mine loads quickly, whereas the skulltag one takes forever.

[CodeImp]

The original configurations that come with DB2 load fast. I know some other peoples configs load extremely slow, but that doesn't have to be. It really depends on what you're doing. If the original configurations are missing something, you should let me know by reporting it and I'll add your changes.

[Ceeb]

You should only load configs you plan to use. If you don't intend to make maps for Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Harmony, and Urban Brawl, don't add those configs.

[Kappes Buur]

The original configurations that come with DB2 load fast....

Indeed it does.
With the original DB2 configurations DB2 loads in about 1 sec.
With Gez's configurations (the 7 GZDoom configs) DB2 loads in about 4 secs. I attribute that to the numerous Includes.

[CodeImp]

I have just released version 2.1.0.1356. This fixes some critical bugs, so it is wise to update. Also future plugins may need this version.

• Updated ZDBSP to fix some critical nodebuilding issues (which you noticed only in-game when testing).
• Fixed crash that occurred when sectors had insane amount of sidedefs.
• Fixed some DECORATE support issues.
• Added a bunch of features for plugins.
• Proper compiler and syntax highlighting for Vanilla Hexen scripts.
• Some minor Game Configuration updates.

LINK TO DOWNLOAD PAGE

[Kappes Buur]

I had to resume the download about 20 times because the connection timed out every few seconds.
I wonder if it's just happening to me for some reason or if that is experienced by everybody trying to download the file.