PrBoom+ 2.6.66 (Jun 20, 2023)

[Trilby Trillion]

8 hours ago, JadingTsunami said:

 

Nice find. Looks like this is because S_ParseMusInfo() called from P_SetupLevel() wipes out the current music structure.

 

Would you like to file an issue?

 

Done and done.

EDIT: So it looks like it had already been reported a while back, whoops!

Edited April 15, 2021 by Trilby Trillion

[SiFi270]

I'm having some strange problems with Cringe. I know it worked fine with earlier versions, but now when I try to launch it there's a seemingly random (but more than half) chance of a signal 11 message before the title screen even appears. If nothing else, it seems I can consistently bypass it by warping directly to the episode via command line. Speaking of, here's my .bat if it helps in any way:

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prboom-plus -iwad .\v1.2\doom.wad -file .\mods\cosmetic\playpal\jovpal\jovpal.wad .\mods\cosmetic\sfx\pk-doom-sfx\pk_doom_sfx_20120224.wad .\mods\cosmetic\full\sprfix\d1spfx19.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cring666.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cringfix.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cringsnd.wad -complevel 0

But I don't suppose it will, because I've already tried changing different parts of it enough to determine that the problem is specifically with cring666.wad, and not the IWAD, the other files, or the complevel.

[P41R47]

6 minutes ago, SiFi270 said:

I'm having some strange problems with Cringe. I know it worked fine with earlier versions, but now when I try to launch it there's a seemingly random (but more than half) chance of a signal 11 message before the title screen even appears. If nothing else, it seems I can consistently bypass it by warping directly to the episode via command line. Speaking of, here's my .bat if it helps in any way:

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prboom-plus -iwad .\v1.2\doom.wad -file .\mods\cosmetic\playpal\jovpal\jovpal.wad .\mods\cosmetic\sfx\pk-doom-sfx\pk_doom_sfx_20120224.wad .\mods\cosmetic\full\sprfix\d1spfx19.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cring666.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cringfix.wad .\maps\doom\cringe\cringsnd.wad -complevel 0

But I don't suppose it will, because I've already tried changing different parts of it enough to determine that the problem is specifically with cring666.wad, and not the IWAD, the other files, or the complevel.

I experience the same with Cygnus IV an old mapset, too.

It crash on Signal11 just when reaching the exit of the first map.

In my case, i don't have anything loaded aside from the pwad and it respective deh patch.

[JadingTsunami]

1 hour ago, P41R47 said:

I experience the same with Cygnus IV an old mapset, too.

It crash on Signal11 just when reaching the exit of the first map.

In my case, i don't have anything loaded aside from the pwad and it respective deh patch.

 

1 hour ago, SiFi270 said:

I'm having some strange problems with Cringe.

 

I tried but couldn't reproduce either of these crashes through multiple attempts.

 

Were any warning or error messages printed?

Would you be able to reproduce the issue with verbose messaging (-cout "ICWEFDA") and show us the output?

[P41R47]

1 hour ago, JadingTsunami said:

 

 

I tried but couldn't reproduce either of these crashes through multiple attempts.

 

Were any warning or error messages printed?

Would you be able to reproduce the issue with verbose messaging (-cout "ICWEFDA") and show us the output?

Strangely, i can't seem to reproduce it, and now it works as it never happened :/

Its pretty strange because i didn't even update to a new dev built in a good while, so i'm still using the last official release, v2.6 version i downloaded a few months ago.
Not only i didn't update, i don't touched the configs settings since i downloaded the last official release, so sorry for wasting your time.

I will continue trying and checking if there is a way to replicate it.

[SiFi270]

8 hours ago, JadingTsunami said:

-cout "ICWEFDA"

Was I supposed to add this to the command line? Because it doesn't look like it's produced anything. As I said before, but maybe not clearly enough, the program doesn't really get a chance to start.

[fabian]

Is this the 2.6um release or a development snapshot? In the past, we had some issues on Windows with WADs containing empty DEHACKED or music lumps, but these have been fixed meanwhile.

[SiFi270]

It's the last version that Never_Again shared on the previous page. I've had another look inside the wad itself and the only empty lumps are the map headers, which I know is normal.

[fabian]

So, I just tried to run ./build/prboom-plus -file ~/CRING666.WAD -iwad ~/cd/src/doom.wad with the Doom v1.9 IWAD and the latest sources compiled locally in an MSYS2 environment and it worked without any problems.

 

Edit: Another test, this time @Never_Again's latest binary release with all the DLLs it shipped in an otherwise empty directory with an empty config, dragged CRING666.wad onto the executable, it worked.

Edited April 20, 2021 by fabian

[SiFi270]

I tried moving my config into another folder so a new one would be made, and now it's starting pretty consistently. I guess the problem is in here somewhere:

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# Doom config file
# Format:
# variable   value

# System settings
process_priority                  0

# Misc settings
default_compatibility_level       -1
realtic_clock_rate                100
menu_background                   1
max_player_corpse                 32
flashing_hom                      0
demo_insurance                    2
endoom_mode                       0x5
level_precache                    1
demo_smoothturns                  0
demo_smoothturnsfactor            6
boom_autoswitch                   1

# Files
wadfile_1                         ""
wadfile_2                         ""
dehfile_1                         ""
dehfile_2                         ""

# Game settings
default_skill                     4
weapon_recoil                     0
doom_weapon_toggles               1
player_bobbing                    1
weapon_attack_alignment           0
monsters_remember                 1
monster_infighting                1
monster_backing                   0
monster_avoid_hazards             1
monkeys                           0
monster_friction                  1
help_friends                      0
allow_pushers                     1
variable_friction                 1
player_helpers                    0
friend_distance                   128
dog_jumping                       1
colored_blood                     1
sts_always_red                    1
sts_pct_always_gray               0
sts_traditional_keys              0
sts_armorcolor_type               1
show_messages                     1
autorun                           1

# Dehacked settings
deh_apply_cheats                  1

# Compatibility settings
comp_zombie                       1
comp_infcheat                     0
comp_stairs                       0
comp_telefrag                     0
comp_dropoff                      0
comp_falloff                      0
comp_staylift                     0
comp_doorstuck                    0
comp_pursuit                      0
comp_vile                         0
comp_pain                         0
comp_skull                        0
comp_blazing                      0
comp_doorlight                    0
comp_god                          0
comp_skymap                       0
comp_floors                       0
comp_model                        0
comp_zerotags                     0
comp_moveblock                    0
comp_sound                        0
comp_666                          0
comp_soul                         0
comp_maskedanim                   0

# PrBoom-plus compatibility settings
comp_ouchface                     0
comp_maxhealth                    0
comp_translucency                 0
comp_skytransfers                 0

# Sound settings
snd_pcspeaker                     0
sound_card                        -1
music_card                        -1
pitched_sounds                    0
samplerate                        22050
sfx_volume                        8
music_volume                      8
mus_pause_opt                     1
snd_channels                      32
snd_midiplayer                    "portmidi"
snd_soundfont                     "Rolandv3.7.sf2"
snd_mididev                       ""
lowpass_filter                    0
full_sounds                       0
mus_extend_volume                 0
mus_fluidsynth_chorus             0
mus_fluidsynth_reverb             0
mus_fluidsynth_gain               50
mus_opl_gain                      50

# Video settings
videomode                         "8bit"
screen_resolution                 "640x400"
use_fullscreen                    1
exclusive_fullscreen              0
render_vsync                      1
translucency                      1
tran_filter_pct                   66
screenblocks                      10
usegamma                          2
uncapped_framerate                1
test_interpolation_method         0
filter_wall                       1
filter_floor                      1
filter_sprite                     1
filter_z                          1
filter_patch                      1
filter_threshold                  49152
sprite_edges                      0
patch_edges                       0

# OpenGL settings
gl_compatibility                  0
gl_arb_multitexture               1
gl_arb_texture_compression        1
gl_arb_texture_non_power_of_two   1
gl_ext_arb_vertex_buffer_object   1
gl_arb_pixel_buffer_object        1
gl_arb_shader_objects             1
gl_ext_blend_color                1
gl_ext_framebuffer_object         1
gl_ext_packed_depth_stencil       1
gl_ext_texture_filter_anisotropic 1
gl_use_stencil                    1
gl_use_display_lists              0
gl_finish                         1
gl_clear                          0
gl_ztrick                         0
gl_nearclip                       5
gl_colorbuffer_bits               32
gl_depthbuffer_bits               24
gl_texture_filter                 0
gl_sprite_filter                  0
gl_patch_filter                   0
gl_texture_filter_anisotropic     0
gl_tex_format_string              "GL_RGBA"
gl_sprite_offset                  0
gl_sprite_blend                   0
gl_mask_sprite_threshold          50
gl_skymode                        3
gl_sky_detail                     16
gl_use_paletted_texture           0
gl_use_shared_texture_palette     0

# Mouse settings
use_mouse                         1
mouse_sensitivity_horiz           20
mouse_sensitivity_vert            0
mouseb_fire                       0
mouseb_strafe                     1
mouseb_forward                    2
mouseb_backward                   -1
mouseb_turnright                  -1
mouseb_turnleft                   -1
mouseb_use                        -1
mb_weapon1                        -1
mb_weapon2                        -1
mb_weapon3                        -1
mb_weapon4                        -1
mb_weapon5                        -1
mb_weapon6                        -1
mb_weapon7                        -1
mb_weapon8                        -1
mb_weapon9                        -1

# Key bindings
key_right                         0xae
key_left                          0xac
key_up                            0x77
key_down                          0x73
key_mlook                         0x0
key_novert                        0x0
key_menu_right                    0xae
key_menu_left                     0xac
key_menu_up                       0xad
key_menu_down                     0xaf
key_menu_backspace                0x7f
key_menu_escape                   0x1b
key_menu_enter                    0xd
key_menu_clear                    0xc8
key_setup                         0xff
key_strafeleft                    0x61
key_straferight                   0x64
key_flyup                         0x7a
key_flydown                       0x0
key_fire                          0x9d
key_use                           0x20
key_strafe                        0xb8
key_speed                         0xb6
key_savegame                      0xbc
key_loadgame                      0xbd
key_soundvolume                   0xbe
key_hud                           0xbf
key_quicksave                     0xc0
key_endgame                       0xc1
key_messages                      0xc2
key_quickload                     0xc3
key_quit                          0xc4
key_gamma                         0xd7
key_spy                           0xd8
key_pause                         0x0
key_autorun                       0xba
key_chat                          0x74
key_backspace                     0x2f
key_enter                         0xd
key_map                           0x9
key_map_right                     0xae
key_map_left                      0xac
key_map_up                        0xad
key_map_down                      0xaf
key_map_zoomin                    0x3d
key_map_zoomout                   0x2d
key_map_gobig                     0x30
key_map_follow                    0x66
key_map_mark                      0x6d
key_map_clear                     0x63
key_map_grid                      0x67
key_map_rotate                    0x72
key_map_overlay                   0x6f
key_map_textured                  0x0
key_reverse                       0x7f
key_zoomin                        0x3d
key_zoomout                       0x2d
key_chatplayer1                   0x67
key_chatplayer2                   0x69
key_chatplayer3                   0x62
key_chatplayer4                   0x72
key_weapontoggle                  0x30
key_weapon1                       0x31
key_weapon2                       0x32
key_weapon3                       0x33
key_weapon4                       0x34
key_weapon5                       0x35
key_weapon6                       0x36
key_weapon7                       0x37
key_weapon8                       0x38
key_weapon9                       0x39
key_nextweapon                    0xec
key_prevweapon                    0xeb
key_screenshot                    0x2a

# Joystick settings
use_joystick                      0
joy_left                          0
joy_right                         0
joy_up                            0
joy_down                          0
joyb_fire                         0
joyb_strafe                       1
joyb_strafeleft                   4
joyb_straferight                  5
joyb_speed                        2
joyb_use                          3

# Chat macros
chatmacro0                        "No"
chatmacro1                        "I'm ready to kick butt!"
chatmacro2                        "I'm OK."
chatmacro3                        "I'm not looking too good!"
chatmacro4                        "Help!"
chatmacro5                        "You suck!"
chatmacro6                        "Next time, scumbag..."
chatmacro7                        "Come here!"
chatmacro8                        "I'll take care of it."
chatmacro9                        "Yes"

# Automap settings
mapcolor_back                     0xf7
mapcolor_grid                     0x68
mapcolor_wall                     0xb0
mapcolor_fchg                     0x40
mapcolor_cchg                     0x40
mapcolor_clsd                     0xe7
mapcolor_rkey                     0x70
mapcolor_bkey                     0x70
mapcolor_ykey                     0x70
mapcolor_rdor                     0x0
mapcolor_bdor                     0x0
mapcolor_ydor                     0x0
mapcolor_tele                     0x0
mapcolor_secr                     0x0
mapcolor_exit                     0x0
mapcolor_unsn                     0x63
mapcolor_flat                     0x61
mapcolor_sprt                     0x70
mapcolor_item                     0x70
mapcolor_hair                     0xd0
mapcolor_sngl                     0xd0
mapcolor_me                       0x70
mapcolor_enemy                    0x70
mapcolor_frnd                     0x70
map_secret_after                  1
map_point_coord                   0
map_level_stat                    1
automapmode                       0x8
map_always_updates                1
map_grid_size                     128
map_scroll_speed                  32
map_wheel_zoom                    1
map_use_multisamling              1
map_textured                      0
map_textured_trans                100
map_textured_overlay_trans        66
map_lines_overlay_trans           100
map_overlay_pos_x                 0
map_overlay_pos_y                 0
map_overlay_pos_width             320
map_overlay_pos_height            200
map_things_appearance             2

# Heads-up display settings
hudcolor_titl                     5
hudcolor_xyco                     3
hudcolor_mapstat_title            6
hudcolor_mapstat_value            2
hudcolor_mapstat_time             2
hudcolor_mesg                     6
hudcolor_chat                     5
hudcolor_list                     5
hud_msg_lines                     1
hud_list_bgon                     0
health_red                        25
health_yellow                     50
health_green                      100
armor_red                         25
armor_yellow                      50
armor_green                       100
ammo_red                          25
ammo_yellow                       50
ammo_colour_behaviour             2
hud_num                           2
hud_displayed                     0

# Prboom-plus key bindings
key_speedup                       0x12b
key_speeddown                     0x12d
key_speeddefault                  0x12a
speed_step                        0
key_demo_skip                     0xd2
key_level_restart                 0x5b
key_nextlevel                     0x5d
key_demo_jointogame               0x71
key_demo_endlevel                 0xcf
key_walkcamera                    0x130
key_showalive                     0x12f

# Prboom-plus heads-up display settings
hudadd_gamespeed                  0
hudadd_leveltime                  1
hudadd_demotime                   1
hudadd_secretarea                 1
hudadd_smarttotals                0
hudadd_demoprogressbar            1
hudadd_timests                    0
hudadd_crosshair                  0
hudadd_crosshair_scale            0
hudadd_crosshair_color            6
hudadd_crosshair_health           0
hudadd_crosshair_target           0
hudadd_crosshair_target_color     9
hudadd_crosshair_lock_target      0

# Prboom-plus mouse settings
mouse_acceleration                0
mouse_sensitivity_mlook           20
mouse_doubleclick_as_use          0
mouse_carrytics                   0

# Prboom-plus demos settings
demo_extendedformat               1
demo_demoex_filename              ""
getwad_cmdline                    ""
demo_overwriteexisting            1
quickstart_window_ms              0

# Prboom-plus game settings
movement_strafe50                 0
movement_shorttics                0
interpolation_maxobjects          0

# Prboom-plus misc settings
showendoom                        1
screenshot_dir                    ""
health_bar                        0
health_bar_full_length            1
health_bar_red                    50
health_bar_yellow                 99
health_bar_green                  0

# Video capture encoding settings
cap_soundcommand                  "oggenc2 -r -R %s -q 5 - -o output.ogg"
cap_videocommand                  "x264 -o output.mp4 --crf 22 --muxer mp4 --demuxer raw --input-csp rgb --input-depth 8 --input-res %wx%h --fps 35 -"
cap_muxcommand                    "mkvmerge -o %f output.mp4 output.ogg"
cap_tempfile1                     "output.ogg"
cap_tempfile2                     "output.mp4"
cap_remove_tempfiles              1
cap_fps                           60

# Prboom-plus video settings
sdl_video_window_pos              "center"
palette_ondamage                  1
palette_onbonus                   1
palette_onpowers                  1
render_wipescreen                 1
render_screen_multiply            3
integer_scaling                   0
render_aspect                     0
render_doom_lightmaps             0
fake_contrast                     1
render_stretch_hud                1
render_patches_scalex             0
render_patches_scaley             0
render_stretchsky                 1
sprites_doom_order                1
movement_mouselook                0
movement_mousenovert              0
movement_maxviewpitch             90
movement_mousestrafedivisor       4
movement_mouseinvert              0

# Prboom-plus OpenGL settings
gl_allow_detail_textures          1
gl_detail_maxdist                 0
render_multisampling              0
render_fov                        90
gl_spriteclip                     2
gl_spriteclip_threshold           10
gl_sprites_frustum_culling        1
render_paperitems                 0
gl_boom_colormaps                 1
gl_hires_24bit_colormap           0
gl_texture_internal_hires         1
gl_texture_external_hires         0
gl_hires_override_pwads           0
gl_texture_hires_dir              ""
gl_texture_hqresize               0
gl_texture_hqresize_textures      0
gl_texture_hqresize_sprites       0
gl_texture_hqresize_patches       0
gl_motionblur                     0
gl_motionblur_min_speed           "21.36"
gl_motionblur_min_angle           "20.0"
gl_motionblur_att_a               "55.0"
gl_motionblur_att_b               "1.8"
gl_motionblur_att_c               "0.9"
gl_lightmode                      3
gl_light_ambient                  20
gl_fog                            1
gl_fog_color                      0x0
useglgamma                        4
gl_color_mip_levels               0
gl_shadows                        0
gl_shadows_maxdist                1000
gl_shadows_factor                 128
gl_blend_animations               0

# Prboom-plus emulation settings
overrun_spechit_warn              0
overrun_spechit_emulate           1
overrun_reject_warn               0
overrun_reject_emulate            1
overrun_intercept_warn            0
overrun_intercept_emulate         1
overrun_playeringame_warn         0
overrun_playeringame_emulate      1
overrun_donut_warn                0
overrun_donut_emulate             0
overrun_missedbackside_warn       0
overrun_missedbackside_emulate    0

# Prboom-plus 'bad' compatibility settings
comperr_zerotag                   0
comperr_passuse                   0
comperr_hangsolid                 0
comperr_blockmap                  0
comperr_allowjump                 0
comperr_freeaim                   0

# Prboom-plus launcher settings
launcher_enable                   0
launcher_history0                 "doom2.wad"
launcher_history1                 ""
launcher_history2                 ""
launcher_history3                 ""
launcher_history4                 ""
launcher_history5                 ""
launcher_history6                 ""
launcher_history7                 ""
launcher_history8                 ""
launcher_history9                 ""

# Prboom-plus demo patterns list. Put your patterns here
demo_patterns_mask                "demo_pattern"
demo_pattern0                     "DOOM 2: Hell on Earth/((lv)|(nm)|(pa)|(ty))\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad"
demo_pattern1                     "DOOM 2: Plutonia Experiment/p(c|f|l|n|p|r|s|t)\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|plutonia.wad"
demo_pattern2                     "DOOM 2: TNT - Evilution/((e(c|f|v|p|r|s|t))|(tn))\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|tnt.wad"
demo_pattern3                     "The Ultimate DOOM/(((e|f|n|p|r|t|u)\dm\d)|(n\ds\d)).\d\d\d\.lmp/doom.wad"
demo_pattern4                     "Alien Vendetta/a(c|f|n|p|r|s|t|v)\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|av.wad|av.deh"
demo_pattern5                     "Requiem/r(c|f|n|p|q|r|s|t)\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|requiem.wad|req21fix.wad|reqmus.wad"
demo_pattern6                     "Hell Revealed/h(c|e|f|n|p|r|s|t)\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|hr.wad|hrmus.wad"
demo_pattern7                     "Memento Mori/mm\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|mm.wad|mmmus.wad"
demo_pattern8                     "Memento Mori 2/m2\d\d.\d\d\d\.lmp/doom2.wad|mm2.wad|mm2mus.wad"

# Weapon preferences
weapon_choice_1                   6
weapon_choice_2                   9
weapon_choice_3                   4
weapon_choice_4                   3
weapon_choice_5                   2
weapon_choice_6                   8
weapon_choice_7                   5
weapon_choice_8                   7
weapon_choice_9                   1

# Music
mus_e1m1                          "e1m1.mp3"
mus_e1m2                          "e1m2.mp3"
mus_e1m3                          "e1m3.mp3"
mus_e1m4                          "e1m4.mp3"
mus_e1m5                          "e1m5.mp3"
mus_e1m6                          "e1m6.mp3"
mus_e1m7                          "e1m7.mp3"
mus_e1m8                          "e1m8.mp3"
mus_e1m9                          "e1m9.mp3"
mus_e2m1                          "e2m1.mp3"
mus_e2m2                          "e2m2.mp3"
mus_e2m3                          "e2m3.mp3"
mus_e2m4                          "e2m4.mp3"
mus_e2m5                          "e1m7.mp3"
mus_e2m6                          "e2m6.mp3"
mus_e2m7                          "e2m7.mp3"
mus_e2m8                          "e2m8.mp3"
mus_e2m9                          "e3m1.mp3"
mus_e3m1                          "e3m1.mp3"
mus_e3m2                          "e3m2.mp3"
mus_e3m3                          "e3m3.mp3"
mus_e3m4                          "e1m8.mp3"
mus_e3m5                          "e1m7.mp3"
mus_e3m6                          "e1m6.mp3"
mus_e3m7                          "e2m7.mp3"
mus_e3m8                          "e3m8.mp3"
mus_e3m9                          "e1m9.mp3"
mus_inter                         "e2m3.mp3"
mus_intro                         "intro.mp3"
mus_bunny                         "bunny.mp3"
mus_victor                        "victor.mp3"
mus_introa                        "intro.mp3"
mus_runnin                        "runnin.mp3"
mus_stalks                        "stalks.mp3"
mus_countd                        "countd.mp3"
mus_betwee                        "betwee.mp3"
mus_doom                          "doom.mp3"
mus_the_da                        "the_da.mp3"
mus_shawn                         "shawn.mp3"
mus_ddtblu                        "ddtblu.mp3"
mus_in_cit                        "in_cit.mp3"
mus_dead                          "dead.mp3"
mus_stlks2                        "stalks.mp3"
mus_theda2                        "the_da.mp3"
mus_doom2                         "doom.mp3"
mus_ddtbl2                        "ddtblu.mp3"
mus_runni2                        "runnin.mp3"
mus_dead2                         "dead.mp3"
mus_stlks3                        "stalks.mp3"
mus_romero                        "romero.mp3"
mus_shawn2                        "shawn.mp3"
mus_messag                        "messag.mp3"
mus_count2                        "countd.mp3"
mus_ddtbl3                        "ddtblu.mp3"
mus_ampie                         "ampie.mp3"
mus_theda3                        "the_da.mp3"
mus_adrian                        "adrian.mp3"
mus_messg2                        "messag.mp3"
mus_romer2                        "romero.mp3"
mus_tense                         "tense.mp3"
mus_shawn3                        "shawn.mp3"
mus_openin                        "openin.mp3"
mus_evil                          "evil.mp3"
mus_ultima                        "ultima.mp3"
mus_read_m                        "read_m.mp3"
mus_dm2ttl                        "dm2ttl.mp3"
mus_dm2int                        "dm2int.mp3"

 

[fabian]

@SiFi270 copied your config over, still couldn't reproduce. Could you try using a different snd_midiplayer?

[SiFi270]

It seems to work when set to "SDL", but a lot of tracks don't sound quite right.

[fabian]

Looks like we could nail it down to the "portmidi" music backend. Could you confirm @P41R47?

[SiFi270]

It's not just portmidi, I tried all the others as well. SDL was the only one that made a difference.

[Andromeda]

Could be a problem with that specific soundfont (Rolandv3.7.sf2) perhaps?

[SiFi270]

Seems it was. There wasn't actually a file by that name in any directory I knew of, and deleting it so there's nothing between the quotation marks seems to have done the trick.

 

EDIT: Dang it. Spoke too soon, it's still happening.

 

EDIT: It seems to work when I have a valid .sf2 file in there, even though it's not actually being used.

Edited April 20, 2021 by SiFi270

[fabian]

The soundfont is only ever read by the fluidsynth backend.

[P41R47]

7 hours ago, fabian said:

Looks like we could nail it down to the "portmidi" music backend. Could you confirm @P41R47?

Nope, i can't reproduce it nor in portmidi nor in sdl.
Cringe666.wad and cignusiv.wad with cignusiv.deh work without problem...at least the first map of both mapsets.

Strange as it happened to me two time in a row and now i doesn't happend at all :/

Edited April 20, 2021 by P41R47

[Daerik]

13 hours ago, SiFi270 said:

Was I supposed to add this to the command line? Because it doesn't look like it's produced anything. As I said before, but maybe not clearly enough, the program doesn't really get a chance to start.

 

Does it work if you use the same config file that was having issues, and passing -nomusic as a parameter? Seen a few reports of people having issues with music depending on their midi player.

[Demion]

Hey! Is there a way to add the number of map you're playing to the stats or automap info? I see the name of the map but it'd be great to have which number it is. Sometimes I can't remember in which map I'm at. This often happens when I stop playing a megawad for a while, or when I play many maps in a row. I know, maybe it's kinda silly to ask for this, but I would be very greatful if you do it. Thank you, and keep up the good work for this fork!

[JadingTsunami]

1 hour ago, Demion said:

Hey! Is there a way to add the number of map you're playing to the stats or automap info? I see the name of the map but it'd be great to have which number it is. Sometimes I can't remember in which map I'm at. This often happens when I stop playing a megawad for a while, or when I play many maps in a row. I know, maybe it's kinda silly to ask for this, but I would be very greatful if you do it. Thank you, and keep up the good work for this fork!

 

Typing "idclev" will show the current map number. See this issue for background.

[Demion]

6 hours ago, JadingTsunami said:

 

Typing "idclev" will show the current map number. See this issue for background.

Oh, I didn't know about this. Thank you!

[Daerik]

In the interest of making this port friendlier for new users, one of the biggest things I've seen people mess up is complevels. Instead of deferring to the default complevel setting, how about throwing a prompt that lets them choose one when they to launch without specifying one, or links to a resource on how to use parameters?

 

Basically anything other than the current implementation, where someone can be playing through a set on the wrong settings and never know because it defaulted to -1.

[fabian]

I don't think that throwing a prompt each time you start up prboom-plus without a -complevel parameter will help anyone, mostly because starting it without a -complevel parameter probably means that you don't care. Let's not forget about the occasional players who just want to play a round of Doom and don't even know (or care) about the differences between the different emulated engines. The expectation is pretty much that as soon as you care about complevels, you learn how to use them. I agree, however, that this is unfriendly to new users and that the README.compat document should get more advertising.

 

[Spectre01]

37 minutes ago, fabian said:

mostly because starting it without a -complevel parameter probably means that you don't care.

I always use the launcher to pick a wad and then change the complevel using the menu.

[fabian]

7 minutes ago, Spectre01 said:

I always use the launcher to pick a wad and then change the complevel using the menu.

 

So it should rather be possible to set the complevel from the launcher, right?

[Daerik]

1 hour ago, fabian said:

I don't think that throwing a prompt each time you start up prboom-plus without a -complevel parameter will help anyone, mostly because starting it without a -complevel parameter probably means that you don't care. Let's not forget about the occasional players who just want to play a round of Doom and don't even know (or care) about the differences between the different emulated engines. The expectation is pretty much that as soon as you care about complevels, you learn how to use them. I agree, however, that this is unfriendly to new users and that the README.compat document should get more advertising.

 

 

I heavily disagree with the notion that it's because they don't care. Atleast from what I've seen and who I've talked to, it is more often than not simply because they don't know better, or don't know how to launch it using a command line/write a bat file to pass the required parameters. Launchers help, but why do people need to rely on external methods to?

 

I have recently watched @Austinado try and play through sunder using prboom-plus, didn't specify a complevel, and ran into obvious issues with pain elementals hitting a lost soul limit, but didn't know why. He knew enough to know it was broken, but not why it was happening, and then had to be walked through using a batch file to launch the game properly.

[Spectre01]

52 minutes ago, fabian said:

 

So it should rather be possible to set the complevel from the launcher, right?

That would certainly be convenient.

[fabian]

18 minutes ago, Daerik said:

I have recently watched @Austinado try and play through sunder using prboom-plus, didn't specify a complevel, and ran into obvious issues with pain elementals hitting a lost soul limit, but didn't know why. He knew enough to know it was broken, but not why it was happening, and then had to be walked through using a batch file to launch the game properly.

 

Hm, I have mostly seen it from an occasional player vs. demo recording player perspective. But if you can run into problems even as an occasional player because you didn't set the complevel right, I agree that's a problem.

[HackNeyed]

Hi @fabian

 

While playing around with Woof (really digging it!) I noticed the Ouch Face was fixed as well as the SSG flash animation and since the transparency settings have been decoupled from the complevels in PrBoom-Plus anyway I think it makes sense to do the same for the Ouch Face. There is already a compat menu option for using 'buggy Ouch Face code' that could be used to toggle this if people don't like it. But seeing as every other port I use (Crispy, Woof, Eternity, GZDoom, Unity!) seems to have a working Ouch Face and a fixed SSG flash it feels like PrBoom-Plus is missing out a bit.

 

Just a thought/wish. Thanks!