Revamped Level Select (platter view)
Seriously revamped every level select instance in the game to use a more attractive and easier to navigate platter view, including:
* Game CLEAR! save (Title/Pause menus)
* Secrets Menu (including custom ones)
* Record Attack/NiGHTS Mode
* Server creation (Online/2P)
* MP Pause level select (Online/2P)
As a result, the layout of the last three above menus has been changed to varying degrees of difference.
Also, bonus feature: using level select (or MAP MAPxx without -force) in Co-op multiplayer won't reset your score, will keep any lives you have above the startinglives variable, and will not take away all your emeralds. The -force thing prevents both warping directly to special stages to rack up the emeralds AND ensures there IS a way to start a new game.
Check out <root>/!LatestSRB2Files/srb2win_branch_levelselect.exe with the latest patch.dta to see more.
Also, LF2_WIDEICON lets you do this. https://gfycat.com/MenacingClearAngora
See merge request !68
Suggested default settings
Making a merge request for suggested new default settings, because saying "hey, I think this would be a better default, you guys should try it" in IRC won't actually get people to give you opinions on them ;p
Camera distance is 160 now, height is 25, and speed is 0.3 (previously 128, 20, 0.25, respectively). Mouse sensitivity on both axes is now 12, previously 35. The default move/look/jump/spin keys is Mystic's proposed scheme from the New Player Experiences topic (https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=42095).
Camera settings also now can save to your config.cfg, and they won't try resetting back to the default at every chance it gets. (~~As a side effect, analog mode won't have higher cam_dist anymore. Poor analog mode, no one cries for you.~~ Now increases cam_dist in analog mode by x1.2!) This makes it so everything that's different can be easily reverted back to the older setting.
Test exe in my folder, <root>/TehRealSalt/srb2win_changed-defaults.exe
See merge request !75
Screenshot slots fix
Fix for this bug: https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=42508
The game should now print an error saying all 10000 slots have been used up. It was already there funnily enough, just someone goofed up in the code for finding the next screenshot name to use.
See merge request !170
Level completion emblems
Simple port of something I made for a 2.1 exe mod that Mystic mentioned needed doing on the 2.2 Priorities topic (http://mb.srb2.org/showpost.php?p=790613&postcount=4). Adds emblem type "map", which gives you an emblem upon beating the map it's for.
Var sets specific condition flags on top of normal completion; 1 or ME_ALLEMERALDS for all Chaos Emeralds, 2 or ME_ULTIMATE for Ultimate mode, and 4 or ME_PERFECT for Perfect Bonus. These can be combined with each other, but they do not all need to be done in one shot; an Ultimate + Perfect emblem isn't impossible as they can be done in separate runs. (This can easily be toned back down to a single choice/removed entirely if requested; these were added simply because it was easy to implement for modders.)
Criticism on the way it's coded and/or how it is implemented is highly encouraged. Test wad is <root>/TehRealSalt/levelemblems.wad, pre-compiled exe is <root>/TehRealSalt/levelemblems.exe.
See merge request !74
Analog mode's camera is now x1.2 of your actual cam_dist setting,
instead of being strictly 192. "analog on" seems to reset this modifier
every once in a while, but "useranalog on" prevents this. The wiki
itself says that you should only change useranalog though, so it
shouldn't be too big of a deal.
Camera settings: distance from 128 to 160, height from 20 to 32, speed
from 0.25 to 0.3
Mouse sensitivity from 35 to 12
Default control setup is Mystic's proposed scheme from the New Player
Experiences topic (https://mb.srb2.org/showthread.php?t=42095)
Also, camera settings now save to config, and they no longer try to
reset back to the default at every chance it gets (you can die, start a
new game, or exit, all while still keeping your preferred setting)
Simple port of something I made for a 2.1 exe mod that Mystic mentioned
needed doing on the 2.2 Priorities topic
(http://mb.srb2.org/showpost.php?p=790613&postcount=4). Adds emblem type
"map", which gives you an emblem upon beating the map it's for. Var sets
more specific conditions; 1 for all emeralds completion, 2 for Ultimate
mode completion, 3 for Perfect Bonus completion. (These can be easily
removed if requested; these were added simply because it was easy to
implement for modders.)
Criticism on the way it's coded and/or how it is implemented is highly
encouraged. Test wad is <root>/TehRealSalt/levelemblems.wad,
pre-compiled exe is <root>/TehRealSalt/levelemblems.exe.
Transparent patch support in TEXTURES
Adds transparent patch functionality for the TEXTURES format.
Duplicates source-to-cache column drawer functions and adds extra functionality which uses trans tables.
Changes how the column drawer is picked so it's done once per patch instead of per column.
See merge request !72
Whitelist HUD graphic changes from isgamemodified
Some people like the italics, some don't, some are crazy and want to do their own thing. In any case changing HUD graphics doesn't do any harm to anyone.
This allows changing the following replacements to work without tripping isgamemodified:
* The Score/Time/Rings text and numbers, colon, period, and minus sign
* The console font
* The "tiny" console font used in a couple places
* The level title font
I also removed some stupid redundant code related to the above in the process, and renamed some of the patches related to score/time/rings because they had inconsistent prefixes.
See merge request !73
Crumble fof
Basic (but kind of WIPish still) support for remote falling of FOFs by linedef execs or Lua. Originally started for Nev3r to use his dark magic on.
Making this MR so people actually remember I was doing something regarding crumbling FOFs, it's been months since I did stuff for this now mind...
* linedef type 446: basic setup is same as the remote shatter one (436), except the FOF of course falls down rather than shatters. By default the FOF respawns
* *No Climb*: the FOF *doesn't* respawn
* *Block Enemies*: respawning ability is determined by the FOF's flags (if it has FF_NORETURN it doesn't return, if it doesn't it does return)
* *Block Enemies + No Climb*: inverted version of above
* EV_StartCrumble for lua, format: `EV_StartCrumble(controlsec, rover, [floating?, [player, [origalpha, [crumblereturn?]]]])`
* *controlsec* is the FOF's control sector
* *rover* is the FOF itself
* (optional) *floating?* does the FOF float on water after crumbling? Defaults to false (NOTE: probably should be set to `rover.flags & FF_FLOATBOB` for best results currently, kind of weird otherwise)
* (optional) *player* is the player that caused the FOF to fall; needed for some effects such as who to award points to if you killed someone =3 Defaults to nil
* (optional) *origalpha* is the FOF's original alpha before crumbling (the thinker for respawning + floating crumbling FOFs tinkers with the alpha for some reason). Defaults to rover.alpha
* (optional) *crumblereturn?* will the FOF respawn afterwards? Defaults to false (NOTE: probably should be set to `not (rover.flags & FF_NORETURN)` for best results currently, kind of weird otherwise)
* the return value of EV_StartCrumble means something I forget offhand now ...it's either true or false though, mind
See MonsterIestyn/crumble-fof on the FTP for a test exe (srb2win-crumblefof.exe), a test map for the linedef, and a test lua script for EV_StartCrumble (which can also be tested in the map).
See merge request !55
Lua more stuff
More new Lua features and fixes:
* Most Lua functions that deal with stuff that exists only in levels now should spout Lua errors instead of crashing the game if you try to use them outside of levels. Likewise, accessing any of the tables that contain level-only stuff (players, sectors, lines, etc etc) spouts Lua errors too outside of levels.
* `userdataType(variable)` now exists: this function simply returns the type of the userdata variable given as a string (e.g. `userdataType(players[0])` returns "player_t", `userdataType(sectors[0])` returns "sector_t"). This also includes "minor" userdata types for array members of other userdata types, such as .powers of player_t variables or .lines of sector_t variables (which would give the strings "player_t.powers" and "sector_t.lines" respectively).
* The Lua hook "MobjMoveBlocked" now exists: functions for this hook are called whenever a mobj attempts to move horizontally but is blocked by a wall or solid mobj (or whatever else can cause P_TryMove to return false, assuming it doesn't remove the mobj). In theory this hook could be very useful for behaviour such as sliding or bouncing off walls without the need of flags like MF_SLIDEME or MF_BOUNCE etc. Format for use is just like most generic mobj hooks: `addHook("MobjMoveBlocked", functionname, MT_OBJECTTYPE)`, where `functionname` is a function that takes a single mobj_t argument.
See MonsterIestyn/lua-more-stuff on the FTP for a test exe (srb2win-lua-more-stuff.exe) and some test scripts for the above changes.
See merge request !67
