[Duke3D] Alien World Order (v1.55)

[Graf Zahl]

I know EDuke32 has some hardcoded light definitions for several original actor types. The maphacks are to enhance the lighting, they are not needed to provide any lighting.

[NightFright]

Small request:
The first four episodes contained in duke3d.grp are obviously residing in the root directory since groupfiles do not support subdirs. In World Tour, external versions of these maps are used which are located in a "maps" subdir. The groupfile created by my script however only refers to the internal groupfile maps for ep.1-4. This is why I had to add a slightly edited user.con to replace the one from WT so that the maps of the original episodes load correctly.

Would it be possible to have some kind of fallback option to search for maps of the same name in the root dir (or any other) of the groupfile in case maps are not found in the location defined in user.con? This way I wouldn't have to provide an edited con file at all for loading ep.1-4 from duke3d.grp, even though the maps are defined as e.g. "maps/E1L1.map" in WT's user.con.

[Phredreeke]

I'd suggest just using the new maps, hopefully Raze will support the new lights added to them at some point.

[NightFright]

The project is supposed to contain the absolute minimum of files. Nobody will really notice the difference between Atomic and WT without that lighting. Also, it's Alien World Order, not World Tour. New episode only.

Anyway, the solution right now isn't the worst. Can just as well stay as it is. Main thing is everything works in the end.

[NightFright]

Script updated to adapt to the changes in Raze 1.0.2. It now features a fancy installation progress bar and closes automatically. Other than that, it's just to omit files which are no longer needed.

If you have already executed the script, you won't have to do it again. Just delete worldorder.grpinfo and (optionally) open worldorder.grp with 7-Zip and delete worldorder.def.

[SanyaWaffles]

I'm getting an error when I use this.

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Compiling: 'game.con'.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 296) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 299) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 3357) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 3360) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 3363) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * WARNING.(game.con, line 3413) Expected an identifier, got a numeric literal 1.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 4199) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 4207) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 5018) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 5026) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 5725) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 5733) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 6075) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 6083) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 6583) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 6591) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 7203) Parameter 'BOSS2PALSTRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 7487) Parameter 'BOSS3PALSTRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 7563) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 7571) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 8400) Parameter 'BOSS4PALSTRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 8545) Parameter 'ONFIRETIME' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(game.con, line 8553) Parameter 'FIREPAINFREQ' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(flamethrower.con, line 11) Parameter 'FLAMETHROWERAMMOAMOUNT' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(flamethrower.con, line 34) Parameter 'FLAMETHROWERAMMOAMOUNT' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(flamethrower.con, line 44) Parameter 'FLAMETHROWER_WEAPON_STRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(fireflytrooper.con, line 567) Parameter 'FIREBALL_WEAPON_STRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(fireflytrooper.con, line 572) Parameter 'BOSS5_FIREBALL_STRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(episode5boss.con, line 340) Parameter 'BOSS5PALSTRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(episode5boss.con, line 395) Parameter 'BOSS5STRENGTH' is undefined.
  * ERROR!(episode5boss.con, line 396) Parameter 'BOSS5STRENGTH' is undefined.
Found 0 warning(s), 30 error(s).

Manually including user.con from the WT install fixes it

[NightFright]

I only tested it with duke3d.grp from Atomic. Dunno what happens with the groupfile from World Tour. It worked for me so far.

Also note you should uninstall World Tour before using this.

[SanyaWaffles]

I only tested it with duke3d.grp from Atomic. Dunno what happens with the groupfile from World Tour. It worked for me so far.

Also note you should uninstall World Tour before using this.

Weird. I did that and it doesn't seem to work unless, as I said, I copy the user.con from WT manually. It's like the script didn't copy it over.

I did uninstall WT after installing this and am not running it with WT.

[NightFright]

I just tested it and it worked just fine. Even if it fails to copy over user.con, it comes with its own user.con which would replace the original one, anyway.

Did you try v1.0 of the script before? I can reupload it here if needed.

[SanyaWaffles]

I'll try it I suppose. I dunno what's going on my end.

[NightFright]

It's weird that it fails to copy user.con only. The script deletes WT's user.con after it is copied over and replaces it with a slightly modified one in which the first four episodes have their filepath modified. If it doesn't find any user.con, it should still use the renamed new con file. However, if it doesn't find my custom file... yeah, I guess you would end up with a worldorder.grp containing everything but user.con.

*UPDATE*
Find the unchanged v1.0 script in the attachment. I doubt it will make a difference since it works pretty much the same way, just adds two files which are no longer needed.

[NightFright]

Added an option during the initial setup phase to copy over duke3d.grp from World Tour and automatically convert it to the Atomic Edition. This will make sure everyone is using the same groupfile and full functionality is guaranteed.

Note that you can always choose to manually place duke3d.grp into the "data" subdir within your Raze installation folder (especially if you already own the Atomic Edition).

(I had to move the project to Github since the additional binaries required for this update lead to the zipfile exceeding the filesize limits for uploads here.)

[NightFright]

Hmmm... I noticed that some of the pickup messages don't seem to appear. At least not for picking up keycards. Checked in E5L1 with the blue keycard. Maybe it has something to do with the way those messages are defined in WT user.con?

[Graf Zahl]

I can see them, so no idea.

[NightFright]

It doesn't happen in regular Duke3D, but if you use worldorder.grp, the "Access Card" notification doesn't appear when picking up a keycard. It also isn't displayed in the console like all the other messages.

Tried with the red one in E1L1 and the blue one in E5L1. It's weird, so far it seems to be the only message that isn't shown, the rest looks fine. I see the entry in filter\duke\language.txt and language.csv of raze.pk3, so no clue why it's not used.