If this is done within the intermission code, both intermission and menu will write to the same global variables and destroy their data, this became very apparent when it altered the screen scale for the conversation.
GCC 8 complains that it can't find relevant functions:
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/games/gzdoom/work/gzdoom-g3.7.2/src/m_png.cpp:669:42: error: call of overloaded 'BigLong(uint32_t)' is ambiguous
chunklen = BigLong((unsigned int)x[1]);
^
In file included from /wrkdirs/usr/ports/games/gzdoom/work/gzdoom-g3.7.2/src/m_png.cpp:44:
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/games/gzdoom/work/gzdoom-g3.7.2/src/m_swap.h:212:15: note: candidate: 'long unsigned int BigLong(long unsigned int)' <deleted>
unsigned long BigLong(unsigned long) = delete;
^~~~~~~
/wrkdirs/usr/ports/games/gzdoom/work/gzdoom-g3.7.2/src/m_swap.h:213:6: note: candidate: 'long int BigLong(long int)' <deleted>
long BigLong(long) = delete;
This is on FreeBSD/powerpc64.
The current menu system simply does not work that well with 320x200, rendering the game hard to use at that tiny screen size. This is a clear case where the work required to keep it operational stands in no relation to the benefit.
These can cause highly dangerous recursions and execute play code deep inside the renderer and since the hardware renderer does not have these, there is very little point for the software renderer to retain them.
It should be said in no uncertain terms that OnRegister operates on an uninitialized level so it should only be used for setting up the registering process of the event handler itself and nothing else - not even the event handler's data!!!
There are two options here - one only disables the vertical thrust and the other goes back fully to the original non-z-aware code.
Both options are settable through MAPINFO.
For the compatibility presets, the normal ones only disable the vertical thrust, the strict ones force use of the old code entirely.
Since Google can export this as well it makes a lot more sense here because it is a textual format better suited for version control and does not carry along all the formatting baggage that isn't needed for a string table.
This has to be set in the console, the default is still the regular small font. Mainly added because some mods have really hard to read fonts where it is not easy to decipher the numbers.
Now, all menus will use the same scale, i.e. it only depends on the screen width and a base size of 640. This nearly universally yields better results than trying to make a 320x200 screen fit.
The only exceptions to this are the intermission screens and the level summary. These, unlike the menu need to try to make a 320x200 screen fit, but without all the hackery that was present to adjust the menu display.
Note that since this affects globally visible script variables, both the intermission and summary drawers will not use their own set but instead temporarily override the global setting as long as they run their own code.
Changing the use of variables here might cause much worse problems with menu code so it wasn't attempted
The default was changed to replace graphics if only known content is affected.
This also required blocking the feature for Hacx, Harmony and Action Doom 2 which have no localization yet and would fall back on Doom's texts if not blocked.
src/p_acs.cpp:8719:100: error: cannot pass non-trivial object of type 'FString' to variadic function; expected type from format string was 'char *' [-Wnon-pod-varargs]
* consolidated C_MidPrint and C_MidPrintBold.
* removed some unused code from the console buffer.
* handle console output of centered messages to ensure they get written to the log file and to stdout.
* replaced the non-standard bar strings with simple '-'s. These were making things needlessly complicated when redirecting console output and the new font does not have the characters anyway.
* removed some old code from a time when during console drawing new network events could come and have more text printed. This can not happen anymore with how 2D elements are being handled now so all this code was redundant.
The most important one is the autosave tagging. This was done because the old printout was missing the year and printed the month as a 3 character English string, sabotaging any attempt to sort the autosaves by anything meaningful.
Parts of this menu suffered badly from lack of screen space to convey the intended information due to the oversized fonts. With the new font this is a lot less problematic (unless using 320x200, of course)
Since this needs to do cursor positioning calculations it's the one spot in the entire engine where UTF-8 would simply be to messy, especially when having to deal with double wide characters.
* re-added screen blends for images from the hardware renderer.
* moved all postprocessing of the image out of the renderers.
* cleaned out a large piece of cruft for handling the palette in the frame buffer class. This was all a remnant of the old paletted backend that no longer exists. Nowadays the screen blend is just a postprocessing effect drawn over the 3D screen, there is no need to maintain any of it as global state anymore.
* since the engine doesn't produce paletted screenshots anymore there is no need to have handling for it in the generation code. This depended on otherwise obsolete information so it got removed along with that information.
Unlike uObjectColor2, this is more global state. uObjectColor2 is part of gradient calculation which may later be offloaded to a secondary buffer which already resulted in only conditionally setting it, resulting in broken special colormap application for the software renderer.