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From 2013-10-10 to 2013-10-23
2013-10-23
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20:56 Feature #1636: Support for Oculus Rift
- skyjake wrote:
> Oculus Rift is cool and we should have support for it in the renderer.
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14:20 Feature #1636 (Closed): Support for Oculus Rift
- Oculus Rift is cool and we should have support for it in the renderer.
However, having dabbled with stereo 3D, the... -
- We should switch to using Qt 5 when it is stable and full-featured enough for our needs.
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- Thanks for the correction.
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13:16 Bug #613: [InFine] Inadvertent background animation
- Pardon me for interfering, but I am wondering, if Skyjake is misinterpreting the issue here:
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13:07 Bug #613: [InFine] Inadvertent background animation
- In the above situation InFine would opaquely generate a new material variant specific to the context/scope of the scr...
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- I see. From an external point of view (let say in the InFine implementation), one shouldn't have to worry about this ...
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- Ah, yeah. In that case it sounds like he wants a per-surface material scaling factor (XG 2.0?)
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- tolwyn wrote:
> in a def file per sector number
That sounds like a different thing altogether...
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- It does appear to be fixed yes.
On another note; the Ximage command is cool and all, but it can only be used with ... -
- Maybe vermil could then re-evaluate the status of this request?
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- I will add that yes I am aware, that rocket splash damage doesn't trigger XG. I refer to the actual rocket above.
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- What spurred me on these issues was that I made a couple of mods/reimages of other games in the past, that I didn't q...
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- Then we can at most add a compatibility option for enabling or disabling more accurate hit testing for fast-moving ob...
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- There is now a Feature for HDR: #1635.
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- We should consider the role of High Dynamic Range rendering in the next-gen renderer's lighting system.
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- I've raised the priority as this sounds reproducible.
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- Also, bad Skyjake: Wrong wiki :p
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-general/52973-doom-wiki/
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- Given that actual 3D models already exist, I don't think this would be really worth the effort.
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- danij wrote:
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- > Hexen "localized [earth]quake" effect
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- Yeah, a custom, deterministic RNG for each generator should be possible and it sounds like the preferred solution here.
2013-10-22
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- I've just tested the Wyvern battle and after killing the Ettin in the middle it dropped down to the floor and stayed ...
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- I suspect that specific behavior (flying down to the floor) is a actually a symptom of a more general broken flier be...
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- I believe the Death Wyvern's flight AI does have a flaw that can cause it to fly into the middle pillar under some ci...
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- I've seen this happen a few times, though I can't be certain whether its not also present in vanilla (needs testing).
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- While playing through Hypostyle's boss battle (flying dragon thing in big lava room), it got stuck in the base of the...
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- Yep, its certainly not specific to our port.
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- This is actually a carry over from Vanilla Doom.
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- The underlying cause of this is that game rules are not handled correctly, neither serialized properly to saved games...
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- Yes, the two are intrinsically related.
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- Does this have anything to do with #1078?
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- My long term plan for the material system is to allow new materials to be defined on the fly and not just during star...
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- danij wrote:
> As materials are animated automatically, without the game knowing about it there is no way for the ga... -
- Yep, that is precisely the cause. Its a flaw in the vanilla algorithm for detecting crossed lines, which, we can't ch...
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- Perhaps occurs when a missile travels so fast that the hit testing range skips over some line?
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- No, presently the DED parser does not support the "mods" directive on MapInfo definitions (it should...).
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- Is there support for, e.g.:...
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- The issue with using a blank model definition, is that it requires the user to have turned models on.
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- Note that in the past mod authors have used a "null model" definition for this purpose.
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- Is the objective to effectively completely replace a sprite with particles? If so, would this only affect sprites or ...
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- I'll need to retest this but OTOMH this was fixed some time ago, along with the related issues of models facing the w...
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- Perhaps a mechanism that interprets Hexen's MAPINFO data into Doomsday MapInfo definition patches which can be applie...
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- I suspect solving this properly would require a system that fully ties together Hexen's MAPINFO and the Map Info defi...
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- This sounds like a caching issue to me.
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13:33 Bug #1631: Doom 2 finale: animation speeds for the Cast
- Is one example of this how you notice the Arachnotron and Spider Mastermind immediately drop down to the side and ont...
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- The first death state of each mobj in the cast call at the end of Doom2 (and Final Doom), appears to be being display...
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- The same mechanism should also integrate Hexen's concept of "hubs" alongside Doom's "episodes". Conceptually the two ...
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- Note that multiplayer map cycling should use the same underlying mechanism as the regular map progression, the differ...
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- See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VHGBxgBitc
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- Please provide more information / links / diagrams / etc. to describe your idea in more detail. As it is, I don't rea...
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- I question whether sharing of a GL-context is possible. Surely, this mandates that both monitors are exactly the same...
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- Proper multi-monitor support implies support for multiple/split game windows. In recent times Doomsday's window manag...
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- We already have issues due to depth buffer precision in large maps, where the sky stops rendering correctly. Before d...
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- The thing to watch out for is loss of Z precision in far distances, though.
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- We do indeed already support using any texture type on any surface. This is implemented opaquely via the Material mec...
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- @danij, do we already support regular textures on planes, and if so, they must tile in a non-64x64 size?
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- For instance, generating a normal map dynamically based on objects contacting the surface: water ripples, etc. Likely...
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- Can you give an example of where such an effect would be used?
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- Particles rendered to textures, for e.g. fire/water effects ala Unreal.
@libgui@ has @GLTarget@ for managing offsc... -
- The texture manager should already support this, yes.
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- I'm not sure if this actually implemented already?
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- Perhaps the translation could be specified with an inline Doomsday Script?
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- Maybe using some sort of palette translation?
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- No, it has not been merged. However, I would now prefer to re-implement this rather than attempt to merge in that old...
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- Has the aforementioned work actually been merged into the master?
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- I believe what vermil was looking for is a way to apply dynamic lightings to a surface that is already "fully bright"...
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- I can't really grasp what is being suggested here; closing.
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- In my opinion this is something I would expect to see in a mod rather than an explicit feature. Once Doomsday Script ...
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- Might be included in the MP game rule set, however requires some new game logic. Perhaps could be done entirely with ...
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- The more important use case here is the portal effects as this enables all manner of algorithms which are presently b...
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- Drawing a client window or any camera view to a texture, for example for security camera's and portal effects.
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- Open question: Should fog "volumes" be defined using map geometry primitives (i.e., lines and vertexes) or via some o...
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- Area based fog, for instance using XG sectors.
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- We need to carefully consider the logically separation between mobj and particle generator. Particles which affect th...
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- Given that Heretic/Hexen's mechanism for splashes is game-side and involves mobjs and sprites not present in Doom, th...
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- Note that Hexen already implements a basic version of this for use with the "localized [earth]quake" effect. The "pro...
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- I like this idea. It is similar to camera vignette in that it brings some extra realism. However, it should be reserv...
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- Can't we seed the RNG used for particle effect randomization? This would mean that provided the same generators are u...
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- While it is not feasible to record all the individual particles into a demo, the particle generator definition and an...
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- To make this appear more similar to vanilla, one would have to fudge the Z values at the floor height because in the ...
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- Closing this; the matter should be dealt with in feature #1458.
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- Shininess/reflections should definitely be handled with shaders and reflection/cube maps.
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- See: "Map update agents":http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title=Map_update_agents proposal
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- Presumably needed for creating billboard-like particle models?
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- Closing this as obsolete. All future effort should instead be put into shader-based shiny/reflection mapping.
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- Could just be a vanilla Hexen bug?
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- The interactive console is intended to be a nice and easy way to modify engine configuration and execute certain comm...
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- InFine is a specialized language for specifying UI animation scripts. It also has some features for interactivity, ho...
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- http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_3:_BFG_Edition
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- Sounds like it would make sense to add a new game mode "doom2-bfg" for this purpose.
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- This is definitely in progress, however no one has had the time to actually try to collect 64-bit versions of all the...
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- In Doomsday 2, this sort of things should be possible to do via scripting. Even so, some native functionality may be ...
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- It makes sense that if a weapon name is defined, it should be used in all the places that refer to that weapon.
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- I must say that during my recent playthrough of Hexen, I did not notice this at all and thus I wonder if it is very b...
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- This is because the Attack control is not implemented as an impulse (which does not have a time duration component), ...
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- Doing this would entail slightly rewriting md2tool with dynamic arrays etc.
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- > Question : Is jDoom capable of understanding ACS?
Not presently; see #1252.
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- This should be considered in the larger context of the lighting system for the next-gen renderer (#7).
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- Sounds pretty easy to implement though (provide a patch?).
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- On a general level, this is important for realism of sound effects in a 3D setting. Fortunately, FMOD should provide ...
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- Closing as obsolete.
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- Could simply be a flag in the InFine definition (pause when game paused).
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- It is not ideal that game menus are completely hard-coded into the game plugins. Also, implementing the game menus di...
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- On a general level, it would make a lot of sense to have InFine draw the map title, however this requires serious upg...
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- Thanks to Qt's built-in mechanisms for this, the new UI framework is already going towards this direction. However, t...
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- "Standard definitions" are the ones included in the official Doomsday distribution packages.
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- XG 2.0 needs to include the vanilla types in the standard library of XG line/sector types.
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- I have a feeling XG 2.0 will not retain the chain mechanism as-is, however thanks to scripting there will be proper d...
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- To do this correctly, one would have to save the time elapsed since the start of the music and then after loading, se...
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- Closing this as obsolete. @libdeng2@ already has the ability to treat .zips just like ordinary folders, and resource ...
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- Maybe in Renderer Settings → Developer popup?
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- The Audio Settings dialog should contain a toggle for stopping overlapping sounds from the same origin. In the origin...
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- This can be done with @"sound-overlap-stop 1"@.
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- Closing as obsolete, since one can now use fluidsynth with a suitable soundfont to produce similar end result on Linu...
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- This composite issue has been split into separate ones under Issue #7.
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- Instead of a simple flat surface with a couple of triangles, a surface could be created using a mesh which could be s...
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- Bump/Specular/Enviroment/Reflection/Procedural mapping for models/walls/flats.
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- Support for vertex and fragment shaders for surfaces, objects, and UI.
@libgui@ already implements the basic suppo... -
- We should replicate the original games' depth shading as closely as possible.
In practice, the depth shading gradi... -
- This is partially implemented in the form of @WidgetActions@. In @ConsoleWidget@, we could capture non-text inserting...
2013-10-21
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- I personally think this should be ignored because it would result in dependencies between the playsim and graphics sy...
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- In practice this would require the particle logic to make hit tests against mobjs, which may be difficult to pull off...
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- Actually that would probably be a better solution anyway, given that mobjs can be reanimated (e.g., Archvile in DOOM).
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- Might be more elegant to set a scope condition (or some kind of selector) that says the target must be a mobj with he...
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- The request is a bit vague, but it sounds more like an idea for a mod than something we should do in the engine or th...
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- While the example case is a bit outdated, I fully agree a scoping mechanism must be consistent in syntax and semantics.
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- It is true that this information is already available, however accessing it easily would not hurt.
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- Maybe this should just be merged into Feature #7?
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- The basic idea is good and should be elegantly addressable with Doomsday Script expressions and longer scripts embedd...
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- Closing this as obsolete, as (Scripted) Info will be used as a basis for definitions in the future.
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- This is already almost possible with a Map Info definition that executes a bunch of spawnmobj commands. The caveat is...
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- There should be a way to specify the map/hub progression in a completely unlimited way using definitions.
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- The "done" portion refers to the existing logic for doing this sort of tuning of objects (statues, torches).
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- Not enough information.
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- Also, shaders should be supported.
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- Some conditions (e.g., scopes) can only be determined at runtime as the game world is dynamically changing. This mean...
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- XG 1.0 is quite limited and contains plenty of hard-coded functionality. It needs to be integrated with Doomsday Scri...
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- As mentioned in #1319, having massive amounts of objects on the screen will make it difficult to draw all as 3D objec...
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- Changed title to more accurately describe what is being discussed here.
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- Stereo sound effects are a bit problematic in a 3D setting like Doom where the left and right channels are mostly det...
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- Marking this as "in progress" because some work has been done toward multiple simultaneous viewports and separate bin...
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- Closing as incomplete (request is just a question).
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- This might have some value as a compatibility feature, assuming the lump was being used for some Doomsday-specific ni...
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- Given a scoping mechanism is in place, I don't see any need for a map-specific definition set. All such a feature wou...
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- > If this lump is found then obviously the Wad Interpretation Conditions should not be used.
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- This is should be taken care of via feature #1264 and related features.
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- In practice, libdeng2's @Record@ could play a major role in resolving these scopes. Similarly to how Doomsday Script ...
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- Often it is necessary to limit the effect of some definition or variable to a specific map, episode, game, global var...
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- Essentially there should be a mechanism that enables one to set up a trigger condition and then start various effects...
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- Creation of an external definition to govern the visual effects of power-ups, damage, killed etc.
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- Fading the projectiles away should be a suitable solution here.
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- > selector for sprites
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- I don't know if this is appropriate to post in this issue, but it might also be interesting to see the selector mecha...
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- _(suggested by vermil)_
It might also be interesting to see the selector mechanism of models extended to sprites...
2013-10-20
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- This use case requires runtime evaluation of condition expressions instead of the basic load-time execution that @Scr...
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- Floor/ceiling (or other) planes that have a freely chosen normal vector.
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- I believe FMOD takes care of this with 3D sounds and the appropriate speakermode option (-speaker51).
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- This sounds like something that's perfectly doable with InFine and demos.
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- There is a related proposal: "Input drivers":http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title=Input_drivers
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- This is actually quite important because users sometimes rely on --help/-h and --version/-v to query basic usage info...
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- This is partially done now: one can select specific interfaces with command line options.
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- Closing as obsolete (see #1614).
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- I closed this old RFE because it was worded more like a support request. The presented idea itself is now essentially...
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- My apologies, I now see that yourself is trying to consolidate a list of features for the new demo recording system u...
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- Apologies for interfering, but why close what could still be considered an RFE for the new demo recording system in f...
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- The old demo recording implementation will be replaced, so this is now obsolete.
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- The demo recording and playback system needs to be completely revised.
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- There is also the anomaly of the 'chgun' sound def in Doom's sounds.ded. I'm not sure if it was in Vanilla Doom or no...
2013-10-19
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- "Doomsday Script":http://dengine.net/dew/index.php?title=Doomsday_Script_reference should be integrated into all rele...
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- There should be a way to reset any settings to defaults.
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- _(original issue reported by vermil)_
Not version specific (i've tested it in 1.8.6 and beta4).
Not so much a b... -
- This is effectively implemented by @SettingsRegister@, for instance the renderer appearance profiles are "global", i....
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- This one?...
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- Changed priority to Low because the OpenGL version check must be manually disabled for this situation to occur.
2013-10-18
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- Interpreting the rule set as a hierarchy would seem to be the correct solution here. In fact I wonder whether game ru...
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- Hmm, in the context of MP it makes more sense than in 1p to have the map cycle as part of rules...
Maybe this coul... -
- Should a map cycle be incorporated into the game rules?
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- All the game plugins have a number of cvars that affect how gameplay behaves (either in 1p or MP). Instead/additional...
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- I'd prefer to have actual HDR rendering...
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- This plugin is also far from feature complete. It was built by extracting the DOOM64 specific logic from the Absoluti...
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- The doom64 plugin has been kept around and compiles fine, but likely needs plenty of fixing.
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- The implementation of menu scrolling definitely needs improvement, but so does the entire game-side UI mechanism. Ult...
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- In the future, as more and more options are brought under @SettingsRegister@'s control, reseting to defaults will be ...
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- This might already be doable by binding different things to "down" and "up" key events.
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- Added relation to #1604 because the game rules define who is a friendly and who is the enemy.
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- We should try to figure out what changed between 1.11.0 and 1.11.2 that might affect performance in this case.
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- Closed because in any realistic view, Duke Nukem 3D is outside the scope of the project. Besides, there already are s...
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- On the first launch, or afterwards if requested, the user should be guided through a short tutorial.
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- If provided a manual IP, the master server should ensure that there actually is a Doomsday server running at the prov...
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- Closed because the reported issue relates to UI that has since been removed.
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- The new UI framework being built for Doomsday 2.0 (UI migration started in 1.11) will be scriptable through Doomsday ...
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- With carefully manipulated map data, the original DOOM engine could be tricked into rendering special effects like de...
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- * add "map-title" cvar to enable automap title specifically
* make display of map number optional
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- Doomsday should have an internal package manager for managing the installed addons and for accessing online repositor...
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- Doomsday should not need a separate launcher once the Home screen (Ring Zero GUI) has been improved enough to support...
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- There are actually two, separate limits:
* Doomsday's own logical sound channels, controlled with "-sfxchan"
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- It is my understanding that if a user tries to launch Dday with a number of sound channels greater than what their sy...
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- Should the default number of audio channels be set to maximum available? (In Snowberry also.)
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- There could be factor similar to "settics" that controls how long game world ticks are. Pausing everything would be a...
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- A tiny little thing that affects all games in modern Dday.
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- I would like to challenge this being ignored, as it seems to actually be a symptom of another issue.
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- Strange vertical view-bob behavior when running into walls (bob delta differs for vertical and horizontal walls?)
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- Psprites are positioned slightly too low (8-10 virtual pixels) (dependent on display aspect ratio; positions correct ...
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- A message or a notification should be displayed when dengine.net cannot be reached due to a network failure.
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- Now that the Build Database is available on api.dengine.net, query unstable and stable builds separately. Add an "RC+...
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- There is a superflous extra state in rocket explosion that breaks some DEH patches.
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- With HUD 3D models, the weapon lower animation briefly restarts.
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- Fully overlapped map geometry is not always split when building the BSP (partial overlaps are split correctly).
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- Once dismissed the autocompletion popup can't be reshown until cursor moves: pressing Tab again completes rather than...
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- On Windows 7, icons for the main window and Add/Remove Programs are missing.
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- The color of the autocompletion popup indicator is not visible enough on the inverted background.
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2013-10-17
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- I'm closing this as it sounds more like an OpenGL driver issue related to texture compression.
Texture compression...
2013-10-16
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- Indeed I expect this can be implemented by removing the regenerating and instead updating lumobj properties if/when n...
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- For the new lens flare drawing code, it is quite important that luminous objects are tracked across frames. I suppose...
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- As of 1.12 luminous objects are now owned by the de::Map instance. However they currently cleared and regenerated at ...
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- Sorry, I meant to write 'stream', not 'steam', in reference to the Phoenix Rod above.
2013-10-11
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13:08 Bug #1137 (Closed): [Deathkings] Inventory navigation
- In Hexen Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
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- At least in Heretic and Hexen, line spacing in blocks of text does not match the original games, causing the text to ...
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- The objective is to make the engine always run in client/server mode, even locally in single-player games.
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- The 3D model renderer is a relatively isolated component in Doomsday. It should be possible to add a new GL2 based mo...
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- Doomsday's renderer in version 1.9 was fully based on OpenGL 1.4. There was no support for shaders, for instance.
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- The old lens flares & halo renderer should be replaced with one that draws the flares using the new libgui GL2 classe...
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- The old multiplayer connection UI is accessed via the game's main menu. Additionally/instead, the task bar should pro...
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- This issue tracks the status of the UI renovation from old version 1.9 engine UI to 2.x and beyond.
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