[RELEASED] Titan 2

[Phobus]

I thought I'd just bump and say, I'm on MAP10 ATM, and I've been having a whale of a time. This could actually have been made specifically for me to play, as the mix of ammo and monsters is perfect for my playing style.

I've seen a lot of the aforementioned texturing errors, and one or two match-ups that I probably wouldn't use myself, but otherwise this has been great so far, and I anticipate the remaining 4 levels being just as wonderful. Great work

[war ensemble]

I waited a long time for this to come out. Thakns for finishing it.

[Phobus]

Yep, finished my playthrough now - its awesome Last level was easier than the previous 2 or 3 though

[Pinky's ass]

bump
Keys aren't taken after finishing the first five maps. Is this normal?

[Remmirath]

Check the MAPINFO wad for some particular flags.

But i haven't experienced this.

[Pinky's ass]

The first 5 maps act like a hub, don't they?
So why do you find the same keys in all maps without losing them every time?

[Ixnatifual]

Hub? It doesn't have a hub design. It's just one level after the other setup as per normal Doom. You lose all your keys when you enter the next level. What version of GZDoom are you using?

[Pinky's ass]

Hub? It doesn't have a hub design. It's just one level after the other setup as per normal Doom. You lose all your keys when you enter the next level. What version of GZDoom are you using?

I meant that.

The very last one.

[Ixnatifual]

I just tested it out in the newest GZDoom and it doesn't work as intended there. It's like it thinks the clusters are hubs even though I didn't mark them as such. I suggest you play it with GZDoom 1.1.06 as I know it works with that.

The MAPINFO lump looks like this:

---

// MAPS

map map01 "The Pits"
levelnum 1
sky1 SKY2 0.0
music greatwhi
PAR 330
next MAP02
cluster 1

map map02 "Demon's Furnace"
levelnum 2
sky1 SKY2 0.0
music sstalker
PAR 450
next MAP03
cluster 1

map map03 "Tartarus"
levelnum 3
sky1 SKY2 0.0
music doomedfo
PAR 690
next MAP04
cluster 1

map map04 "Goat Mansion"
levelnum 4
sky1 SKY2 0.0
music strangep
PAR 390
next MAP05
cluster 1

map map05 "Cacoastrum"
levelnum 5
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music myisland
PAR 690
next MAP06
cluster 1

map map06 "City of Demons"
levelnum 6
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music stomping
next MAP07
PAR 1080
secretnext MAP10
cluster 1

map map07 "Bowels of Gehinom"
levelnum 7
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music burninfl
PAR 1110
next MAP08
cluster 2

map map08 "Realm of the Unseen"
levelnum 8
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music comawhit
PAR 840
next MAP09
cluster 2

map map09 "Coliseum of the Damned"
levelnum 9
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music warmachi
PAR 660
next MAP10
cluster 4

map map10 "Mineral Storage"
levelnum 10
sky1 SKY3 0.0
music refinery
PAR 480
next MAP07
cluster 3

map titlemap "Title"

// CLUSTERS

clusterdef 4
flat RROCK19
music warmachi
exittext
"AS THE BODY OF THE SUPREME FIEND WHO HAD
ORCHESTRATED YOUR IMPRISONMENT IN HELL
COLLAPSES IN A BLOODY HEAP BEFORE YOUR
FEET, YOU CLIMB ITS NEST TO REACH THE LAST
PORTAL - THE PORTAL LEADING BACK TO EARTH.

AS YOU ENTER THE GATEWAY, THE MASSIVE
STRUCTURE OF THE HELLISH COLISEUM BEGINS
TO FALL APART, THE UNHOLY REALITY FALLING
IN ON ITSELF. YOU EMERGE SAFELY ON THE
OTHER SIDE AS THE GATEWAY SHUTS BEHIND YOU.

YOU OPEN YOUR EYES AND SEE GREEN GRASS,
AND FIND YOURSELF SURROUNDED BY A MASSIVE
CITYSCAPE. YOU BREATHE IN THE ATMOSPHERE
YOU CAN BARELY REMEMBER.

THIS IS EARTH. AND YOU ARE HOME."



clusterdef 3
flat FLAT4
entertext
"THE LIFT GOES EVER UP, AS THE HUMAN-BUILT
SURROUNDINGS MAKES YOU WONDER WHETHER THIS
IS AN ACTUAL WAY OUT OF HELL OR SIMPLY
ANOTHER TRAP.

AS THE ELEVATOR COMES TO A HALT, YOU STEP
OUT IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A CORRIDOR OF
A UNION AEROSPACE CORPORATION MOON BASE.
BUT SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PLACE SEEMS
DISTURBINGLY BOTH FAMILIAR AND UNKOWN."

I don't know if the intention is that your keys are saved when moving between levels in the same cluster regardless of them being hubs or not, but if it is, that didn't work in 1.1.06. Testing it in regular ZDoom the level transitions work fine as well. I'm guessing it's a bug, and it seems to be only in GZDoom 1.2.0 and 1.2.01.

I made a bug report over at Graf's site: http://forum.drdteam.org/viewtopic.php?p=35529#35529
If it's working as intended I'll quickly make a fixed version and upload it to /idgames.

[Xaser]

It's GZDoom at fault, not the wad. Keys are only supposed to be preserved in hubs -- for reference, each of Doom's episodes are defined as single clusters, so if keys were preserved then you would be able to take all the ones you get on the first map and use 'em throughout the whole episode. I'm quite sure that wouldn't work well.

[Enjay]

However, I've just been trying to replicate this problem in other WADs and failed. In all the WADs that I tried, original levels, add on missions, new MAPINFO format, old MAPINFO format, with intermission, without intermission and a variety of exit line types, provided that the levels were not in a hub, keys were always stripped from my inventory.

So, I decided to look in Titan2's MAPINFO (some may say that I should have looked there first ). Anyway, I noticed that a lot of the maps are allocated to cluster 1 or 2. However, as far as I can see, nothing defines those clusters and the only ones defined in the MAPINFO are clusters 3 and 4. I suspect that is where the error is creeping in and perhaps older versions of (G)Zdoom (pre new MAPINFO) are handling this omission differently.

[edit]And, indeed, adding cluster definitions for those clusters fixes the key problem. [/edit]

[Ixnatifual]

Fixed. Implicitly defined clusters were not initialized when being created.

[Pinky's ass]

So we don't need another Titan 2 version?

[Ixnatifual]

I uploaded a new version with some fixes that also works around the bug. So it should be working fine with 1.2+ now.

[Pinky's ass]

Downloaded. Fixings work.