DRD Team

Kappes Buur wrote:MAP04 plays at ca 27 fps at startup, with other portions of the map going up to ca 37 fps, so not too bad.

Eruanna wrote:One thing I will note, however: 7zip files take a lot longer for ZDoom/derivs to load than regular Zip files. On my system, the load time is painfully slow, even with a newer CPU, and I have often found myself converting the project to .pk3 format, instead, despite the significant amount of space increase.

Gez wrote:It's because of solid compression. The zip format doesn't do that, so when you need to extract one lump from a zip archive, you can decompress only that lump. With 7z, on the other hand, you have to decompress the entire archive every time you need one lump from it. Only solution to avoid slow downs would be to cache all of the uncompressed lumps, which is not necessarily a good idea either...

• Imported a new map, START. This is adjacent to Quake and AlexMax's START map.
• All maps now route to START. This is ideal for small netgames and single-player DM games, but not so much for large games. Please use Map List if running this project in Zandronum.
• Music Player will not play in the START map.
• TITLEMAP will now force the player to map 'START', when attempting to access the TITLEMAP when the GameType() is not GAME_TITLE_MAP.
• Redid the map screenshots, they look much better now.
• Purged unused assets.
• Doom2.wad is now the default IWAD; when accessing this PWAD, it will tell (G)ZDoom to automatically include the Doom2.wad IWAD without having to prompt the user.
• When selecting maps from the START map, all inventory and health is restored. Hopefully this resolves any issue with players spawning to a map with absolutely nothing in their inventory....
• Added a script to warn the user if they're not using the OpenGL renderer.
• Added a script to warn the user if they're playing in the Cooperative game mode.
• Provided more randomness to the THING angles.
• Revised the rain spawn size in MAP01
• Fixed a type in the SNDINFO; AMBIENT12 was never referencing to 'World/ElectricBuzzing1' correctly, instead it previously was referencing 'World/ElectricBuzzing'
• Revised secret door delay in MAP08; the delay was 12 octics, now 16 octics.
• Fixed items that were leaking through the floors or various other places; thanks to Kappes Buur for finding the nasty ones
• Weapons no longer show-up above the titlebar, thus also causing the Mug shot to never appear.
• Updated the ReadMe
• Minor fixes and corrections

Eruanna wrote:First thing that comes to mind - for the MAPINFO entry for "START" you may want to include "NoIntermission"

// Teleport Map
// This function will teleport the player to the requested map
// ----
// Parameters
//      mapName <string>
//          Map name to teleport too, for example: "MAP01"
function void TeleportMap (str mapName)
{
    ChangeLevel(
                mapName, // Change to map
                0, // position
                CHANGELEVEL_NOINTERMISSION | // No intermission
                CHANGELEVEL_PRERAISEWEAPON | // Weapons are raised
                CHANGELEVEL_RESETHEALTH | // Reset health
                CHANGELEVEL_RESETINVENTORY, // Reset inventory
                -1
                );
} // TeleportMap()

Eruanna wrote:Also - as a note for amusement - I think you just gave Graf a new mapset for GZDoom benchmarks. My 860M has dipped down to 20FPS in some places.

Tiger wrote:If I remember too, I'll try to push an update on this after I finish with that other project - which is not far away from being finished.

Eruanna wrote:Sitting at 30 FPS at the worst point. 25 with the embedded GPU.

• Documentation updates
• Revised credits
• The script 'CheckCoopGameMode' is now has the 'CLIENTSIDE' flag
• Fixed maps Abandoned Misery and Abandoned Misery [Pretty] were a jumping pad was previously not using the JumpPad script. Thus, causing problems if ThingStop() was to be activated after ThrustThing() call via Sector Thing Triggers.
• Thrashed duplicated credits
• Revised WADINFO to include 'Primary purpose : Deathmatch and Domination'
• Remove outside boundaries and control sectors from the Automap [All maps]
• Railgun no longer reloads; feels too weird
• Reduced the number of Rain Spawners used in the map Dark Stone, but enlarged their area size. This might help with the framerate?
• Thrashed superfluous MAPINFO properties
• Very minor corrections