ZDoom

ZDoom 2.6.0 is now available, almost two years after version 2.5.0 was released. This release is available in the usual Windows version as well as in a Mac OS X version.

There have been hundreds of bugs fixed since then as well as numerous enhancements:

• Added [wiki]Hacx[/wiki] IWAD support.
• Added text-format Strife conversation system with [wiki]USDF[/wiki] and [wiki]ZSDF[/wiki].
• A textured [wiki]automap[/wiki] is now available; automap graphics are now [wiki=map arrow]externalized[/wiki].
• Rewritten [wiki]menu[/wiki] system, which can now be defined with the [wiki]MENUDEF[/wiki] lump.
• Externalized intermissions to [wiki]MAPINFO[/wiki].
• Externalized [wiki]IWAD[/wiki] detection and gave each IWAD its own independent config section.
• Added [wiki]FluidSynth[/wiki] and [wiki=GUS]GUS emulator[/wiki] softsynths; fixed issues with [wiki]TiMidity++[/wiki].
• Added [wiki]VOC[/wiki] support and enhanced [wiki]MIDI[/wiki] playback with support for alternative formats such as [wiki]XMI[/wiki] and [wiki]HMI[/wiki].
• [wiki]Action specials[/wiki]: Added [wiki]Ceiling_LowerAndCrushDist[/wiki] and [wiki]Thing_SetConversation[/wiki]. Added [wiki]console command[/wiki] to execute specials.
• [wiki]ACS[/wiki]:
  • Increased maximum script number from 999 to 32767.
  • [wiki=Named script]Named scripts[/wiki] allow to avoid script number conflicts altogether.
  • Added [wiki]StrCopy[/wiki], [wiki]CheckSight[/wiki], [wiki]SetActivator[/wiki], [wiki]SetPointer[/wiki] functions.
  • Added [wiki=ACS actor properties]APROP_ScaleX/Y[/wiki] and APROP_Mass actor properties.
  • Added temporary dynamic strings variables with [wiki]StrParam[/wiki].
  • Scripts can now have up to four parameters.
• [wiki]DECORATE[/wiki]:
  • Added [wiki]A_CheckFlag[/wiki], [wiki]A_FaceMaster[/wiki], [wiki]A_FaceTracer[/wiki], [wiki]A_RadiusGive[/wiki], [wiki]A_SetMass[/wiki], [wiki]A_SetScale[/wiki], [wiki]A_Warp[/wiki] and [wiki]A_WolfAttack[/wiki]...
  • Enhanced [wiki]A_AlertMonsters[/wiki], [wiki]A_BFGSpray[/wiki], [wiki]A_Blast[/wiki], [wiki]A_CustomBulletAttack[/wiki], [wiki]A_FireBullets[/wiki], [wiki]A_GunFlash[/wiki], [wiki]A_PainAttack[/wiki], [wiki]A_RadiusThrust[/wiki]...
  • Added an [wiki]actor pointer[/wiki] manipulation system with several new codepointers...
  • Added [wiki=actor flags#DOHARMSPECIES]DOHARMSPECIES[/wiki], [wiki=actor flags#DONTCORPSE]DONTCORPSE[/wiki], [wiki=actor flags#SEEINVISIBLE]SEEINVISIBLE[/wiki] and [wiki=actor flags#INVENTORY.UNTOSSABLE]INVENTORY.UNTOSSABLE[/wiki]
  • Increased [wiki]damage type[/wiki] flexibility in several ways with [wiki=Actor properties#DeathType]DeathType[/wiki] and [wiki=Actor properties#PainType]PainType[/wiki].
  • Added customizable [wiki=Class:ArtiPoisonBag]fléchettes[/wiki].
  • Made [wiki]accuracy[/wiki] and [wiki]stamina[/wiki] accessible through [wiki]DECORATE expressions[/wiki].
  • Added [wiki=Actor properties#ProjectileKickback]ProjectileKickback[/wiki], [wiki=Actor properties#Inventory.RestrictedTo]Inventory.RestrictedTo[/wiki] and [wiki=Actor properties#Inventory.ForbiddenTo]Inventory.ForbiddenTo[/wiki] class-based properties.
  • Backported [wiki=Actor properties#VisibleToTeam]VisibleToTeam[/wiki], [wiki=Actor properties#VisibleToPlayerClass]VisibleToPlayerClass[/wiki] and weapon [wiki=Actor properties#DropItem]DropItem[/wiki] feature from [wiki]Skulltag[/wiki], and enhanced them.
  • Added "Fast" keyword for states and deprecated the unreliable [wiki=actor flags#FASTER]FASTER[/wiki] and [wiki=actor flags#FASTMELEE]FASTMELEE[/wiki] flags.
• Added a [wiki=SECRETS]secret hint system[/wiki].
• [wiki=3D floor]3D floors[/wiki] support.
• [wiki]FraggleScript[/wiki] support.
• [wiki]Voxel[/wiki] support.
• [wiki]SBARINFO[/wiki]: Ammo 1/2 capacities added to DrawNumber, support for color names in colored text.
• [wiki]SNDINFO[/wiki]: Added [wiki=SNDINFO#musicalias]musicalias[/wiki] and [wiki=SNDINFO#attenuation]attenuation[/wiki].
• Compatibility: fixed issues with Eternal Doom, [wiki]Happy Time Circus[/wiki], Phobos, vanilla compat, [wiki]Boom[/wiki] compat, light levels higher than 255, [wiki]Heretic[/wiki], [wiki]Strife[/wiki], [wiki]MUSINFO[/wiki], misnamed UDMF field.
• Fixed loading of [wiki]BMF[/wiki] palettes.
• [wiki=CCMDs:Other#restart]restart[/wiki] console command.
• Added [wiki]PALVERS[/wiki] lump for specifying alternate graphics to use with a paletted render, in case the graphics you really want to use look bad without true color.
• Custom [wiki=IWAD]IWADs[/wiki] no longer need to include a [wiki]COLORMAP[/wiki], as ZDoom will generate one automatically if it is missing.
• Fixed vertical tiling of non-power-of-two textures.

(Big thanks to Gez for compiling this list of changes.)

Hell. It's about time.

Also downloaded and installed. Wee !

Shit... now I have to actually finish AD2 stuff.

WHAT 3D floors finally in zdoom?! ARE YOU AWESOME OR WHAT!
A lot of super useful new features, it's like a dream come true
Bloody good job!

Dancso wrote:WHAT 3D floors finally in zdoom?! ARE YOU AWESOME OR WHAT!

Uh... Haven't you been following development or what?

Finally new zdoom version Great

Catching up with (and making use of even a small percentage of) all of these features is going to be impossible :O

Still, very glad to see a new version out at long last - definitely going to have fun playing around with new stuff! 3D floors still don't slope, right?
EDIT: Just checked the wiki - indeed they don't. Still need to use OpenGL for that.

Are official Mac OS X binaries likely to be put up on the download page?

Congrats to a new release! I'll check this out, whenever i'll get a windows machine, or are there any plans for linux?

Graf Zahl wrote:Uh... Haven't you been following development or what?

Been living under a rock for a while now. I did hear that 3D floors could someday make their way into software but I didn't know it was this close to the present

It has been in the SVN for quite some time now - the 3D floor code was originally submitted in Dec 2010 and merged into the trunk end of Jan 2011.

It just shows how overdue this release was...

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Dancso wrote:I did hear that 3D floors could someday make their way into software but I didn't know it was this close to the present

At last I have been using GZDoom purely for 3D floors, now my mods will mostly only need "regular" ZDoom. Of course I'll have to revisit any areas using sloped 3D floors, though I can't recall many.

All this new-fangled march of progress. Bah!

I'm sticking with v2.2.0. Period.

Increased maximum script number from 999 to 32767.

wow!!