ZDBSP finally released

Post by **randi** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 12:44 am

After having a standalone version of ZDoom's internal node builder sitting on my hard drive for months without being touched, I have finally decided to release it. If you don't want to wander over to the downloads page for it, here are links to the executable and the source code.

The current version is 1.4.

1.2 added the ability to build nodes for maps that did not even contain placeholder lumps for them, such as the output from SLIGE. It also expanded the explanation about polyobjects in its help file.

1.3 fixes a bug that could cause it to write more than one set of GL nodes for a single map. It also fixes a bug where ZDBSP would junk any existing GL nodes in a wad for maps that were supposed to be left untouched when you used the --map option.

With version 1.4, ZDBSP writes correct GL nodes again.

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:15 am

yay downloading now

Zell · Post by **Zell** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:16 am

now, we run this externally correct? will zdbsp be intergrated into zdoom with furture versions?

Post by **Chris** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 5:26 am

ZDBSP was originally developed inside ZDoom. Randy just made the effort to make an external nodes builder out of it.

LilWhiteMouse · Post by **LilWhiteMouse** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 6:29 am

I get this when I try to run it:

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A required .DLL file, MSVCP71.DLL, was not found.

I did a quick search for it but I couldn't find it for download anywhere. Do I need to look harder, or is it something that needs to be done with the program?

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:19 am

Look harder. It should come with Visual C++ 7.0. Or, if anyone is so kind to provide us with it.
Can ZDBSP do Doom and Hexen maps?

http://zdoom.sf.net/files/vc71dlls.zip (827 KB)

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:49 am

Hirogen2 wrote:Look harder. It should come with Visual C++ 7.0

Not everybody owns VC7.0 (I don't) and as far as I know these DLLs aren't distributed with any software I know.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 7:52 am

Yes, that's it. Even MSDN says "applications distribute msvc*71.dll with THEM, and they shall not overwrite any c:/windows/system/msvc*"... (first MSDN page when searched with google for "msvcp71.dll")

Biff · Post by **Biff** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 9:09 am

This is great, thanks Randy, also Hirogen2 for the dlls.

"Can ZDBSP do Doom and Hexen maps?" - It appears the answer is yes after reading the html document zipped with the node builder. I just tried it with a doom2 wad and all is well.

Post by **randi** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:14 am

LilWhiteMouse wrote:A required .DLL file, MSVCP71.DLL, was not found.

Oops. It's been reuploaded now. This time built with Visual C++ 6, so it depends on msvcrt.dll instead of msvcp71.dll.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:35 am

Using the newly uploaded version, this is the opening shot of wolfen_p.wad once run through zdbsp with no options other than the path of the file:

LilWhiteMouse · Post by **LilWhiteMouse** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:46 am

HotWax wrote:Using the newly uploaded version, this is the opening shot of chosen_p.wad once run through zdbsp with no options other than the path of the file:

I assume you meant wolfen_p.wad? I just tried it and it worked fine for me, on both the released versions, and my stock wads.

Post by **randi** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:49 am

Um, wow. It did that for me too. Now I have to fix it.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 10:53 am

LilWhiteMouse wrote:I assume you meant wolfen_p.wad?

Whoops! Yes, that's the right name.

LilWhiteMouse · Post by **LilWhiteMouse** » Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:02 am

randy wrote:Um, wow. It did that for me too. Now I have to fix it.

Heh, I stand corrected. Looks a little different with Gennodes disabled...