Release notes from international-doom

International Doom / Heretic / Hexen 8.1 (2025-01-25)

2025-01-25T07:25:04Z

Renderer

Numerous performance optimizations in rendering, drawing, and translucency blending functions (by @pvictress).
Added "Exclusive Fullscreen" mode, available in Rendering Options.
Windows: Changed the default screen scale API to Direct3D 11.

Improvements

Added mouse control for menus (thanks @pvictress).
Added auto-detection for Unity and Doom 1+2 IWAD search folders (thanks @rfomin and @NightFright2k19).
Improved color intensity and saturation handling logic (by @pvictress, with thanks to @MrAlaux).
Implemented contrast adjustment, available in Display Options (by @pvictress).
Local time widget now consistently displays AM/PM, regardless of the system locale (by @pvictress).
Restored grayscale fuzz effect ("B&W"), now resource-independent and mod-friendly (thanks @pvictress).
Applied color corrections to palette flash effects (by @pvictress).
Digital music lumps are now read directly from memory, without needing extraction to the system temp folder (by @pvictress).
Fixed minimal window size behavior: it is no longer affected by rendering resolution, and the window size remains consistent after increasing resolution and restarting the program (thanks @rfomin).
Improved smoothness of "smooth" fake contrast mode on angled walls (by @pvictress).
Added support for drag-n-drop WAD/DEH files onto the executable file on Linux (by @pvictress, with thanks to @fabiangreffrath).

Widgets

Added customizable color schemes for widgets (thanks Uni).
Implemented multiple display formats for KIS stats (by @pvictress, with thanks to Uni).

Automap

Implemented adjustable automap line thickness. Available sizes are: "1x–6x" and "auto" (by @pvictress).

New "Miscellaneous Features" Menu

A new submenu is now available in Options, containing various uncategorized settings. Note: none of these options change existing port behavior. The menu includes settings for:

Accessibility: Options for invulnerability effect, palette flash effects, movement and weapon bobbing amplitudes, and colorblind filters (ported from Chocorenderlimits/CRL, thanks @pvictress).
Autoload: Controls whether WAD and DEH files should be auto-loaded and if PWAD-named folders should be created (thanks @Meerschweinmann).
Menu Settings: Additional fine-tuning options.

Support for remastered music from `extras.wad`

If extras.wad from Doom 1+2 is loaded via -file, auto-loaded, or dragged and dropped onto the executable, the "Preferred Soundtrack" option in the Sound Options menu will allow switching between "Remix," "Original," or "Off." If extras.wad is not loaded, the option will remain forced to "Off" (special thanks to @Meerschweinmann).

Note: this feature does not provide support for TRAKINFO lump.

Fixes

Resolved an issue where the player would unintentionally fire a weapon when loading a save game with the left mouse button while moving the mouse.
Fixed writing incorrect data to the footer during demo recording and level restart (thanks @rfomin and gera).

Library Updates

Updated SDL to version 2.30.11.
Updated FluidSynth to version 2.4.2.

Compiled using Visual Studio Build Tools 2022, version 17.12.4.

International Doom / Heretic / Hexen 8.0 (2024-10-06)

2024-10-06T05:55:51Z

This is a next major version with technical improvements and few eye-candy features.

Compiled with Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022

Kind thanks to @rfomin for a lot of help with Visual Studio and insellium for raising the issue of Windows XP support!

Win64 version: compiled as statically linked executable, so additional .dll files are no longer needed and existing ones from previous versions can be safely removed.
Win32 version: still using .dll dependent approach, but now compatible with Windows XP.
_{Note for XP users: Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable for x86 systems are required. SSE2 compatible CPU is required as well.}

Features

Significantly improved smoothing of "Diminished Lighting: Smooth" in TrueColor rendering.
Added "Palette Fading Effect" feature to make the fading effects smoother. This also affects berserk fade in Doom; Wraithwerge, Bloodscourge and poison palette in Hexen.
Added back "Sound of crushed corpse" feature, but now it's using stock IWAD DSSLOP sound.
"Items are tossed when dropped" gameplay feature now working.
Implemented intermediate brighter gamma-correction levels.
Added -levelstat command line parameter for Doom (thanks @kraflab, @fabiangreffrath and @xemonix0).
Added "Square Aspect Ratio" feature to Automap Setting (shamelessly taken from Woof! Thanks @thearst3rd).

Improvements

Better sprite clipping for higher field of view settings and wider aspect ratios (thanks @ceski-1).
Even better precision for patch drawing functions on higher wide screen modes, Ultra-Widerpix854 32:9 wide screen assets now working correctly (thanks @rfomin and @Meerschweinmann).
Added dedicated "Speed On" mouse button, added names for mouse wheels and slightly reordered mouse bindings menu (thanks Dweller Dark).
Fixed sector's sound origin for large levels (thanks @kitchen-ace).
Gameplay Features pages can be scrolled via arrow keys when cursor is placed on < Scroll pages > item.
Improved coloring accuracy of Jaguar automap color scheme.
Other small technical improvements.

Fixes

Path to GUS patches folder now may contain spaces (thanks @mikeday0).
Hexen: fixed possible incorrect save game deletion (thanks @mikeday0).
Heretic and Hexen: fixed incorrect automap line anti-aliasing when toggled in the game menu.

Libraries update

Updated SDL library to version 2.30.8.

International Doom 7.5 / Heretic 7.1 / Hexen 7.1 (2024-06-29)

2024-06-29T09:16:21Z

Controls

Added fast mouse polling for lower lag interpolation at uncapped frame rate (thanks @ceski-1, @mikeday0 and @rfomin).
Mouse movement while the mouse button is held down in the active menu is no longer considered an extra key press.
Player will no longer automatically press use when entering a new level after skipping intermission texts by pressing use.
Added a special bind for toggling the extended HUD, available in the Keyboard Binds / Special Keys section (toggles all enabled on-screen widgets and the demo bar, thanks @Catoptromancy and Aurelius).
Level reload / Go to next level from tally screen now possible.

Video

Improved support for UltraWide screen modes at higher render resolutions. Added 32:9 widescreen mode to the Video Options menu, as it is now properly supported. (thanks @Meerschweinmann).
Improved stability and precision of full-screen patch drawing at higher render resolutions (thanks @Meerschweinmann).
Added "Crossfade" for "Screen wiping effect".

Other improvements

Save and Load menu now shows date and time of save game file (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
Added savegames_path, screenshots_path config variables and -shotdir command line parameter (thanks @liPillON).
Single sided automap lines now appearing last in drawing order (Woof! issue #1665. Thanks @ribbiks, @rfomin and @fabiangreffrath).
"Mark secret sectors" will now always show secret sectors after they've been found on the automap, and optionally before as well (by @kitchen-ace, thanks!).
Extended "Show ENDOOM" to "PWAD only".
Quick load before quick save now possible (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
Updated program icons to 256x256 size.

Doom only

Added back -complevel N command line parameter to emulate a specific version of Doom engine executable. Supported complevels are 0, 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Heretic only

Added back support for graphical startup, available in Video Options menu.

Hexen only

Extra translucency of Quietus' green clouds has been disabled, as they can cause serious framerate drops on point-blank attacks.

Libraries update

Updated SDL library to version 2.30.4 and FluidSynth to version 2.3.5

Compiled using GCC 14.1.0 under MSYS environment.

International Doom 7.4 (2023-03-08)

2024-03-08T06:13:55Z

Video

Improved True color code for better compatibility of drawing graphical patches when PLAYPAL and COLORMAP lumps have different color indexes. (thanks @fabiangreffrath)
Reduced memory consumption of screen border drawing when using bordered screen sizes (thanks @rfomin).

Automap

Automap can be zoomed in/out by using mouse wheel (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Marks properly cleared after finishing the level (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Zooming in/out by pressing + and - interpolated again in uncapped frame rate mode.

New features

Added mouse look option to Control settings (thanks @Meerschweinmann).
Added dedicated bind for toggling vertical mouse movement (thanks @kitchen-ace).
Implemented "On Death Action" feature, available in Gameplay section of Gameplay Features menu.

Other improvements

Y-type actions can be by confirmed by left mouse button, N-type actions can be confirmed by right mouse button.
Starting game in nightmare skill, end game and quit can be confirmed by Enter key.
Added proper support for wide status bar graphics with 0 horizontal offset (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Added support dedicated music tracks for the 4th episode (thanks Horizon).
Fixed possible demo desync when floating powerups modified by Dehacked (thanks @Meerschweinmann).
Empty save game slots now prefilled with map name on game saving (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Improved detection for chex.deh (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Background shading now covers all game menus, blinking no longer happening while active menu and uncapped game state (thanks @NightFright2k19).
Chosen player view no longer resets to first player in multiplayer demo playback.
-warp command line parameter can be used without spaces in Doom 1, i.e. -warp 23 will warp to 2nd episode and 3rd level (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
Monsters forget player after use of notarget cheat.
Vanilla menu strings now have highlighting/fading effect.
Fixed vanilla bug of blinking Tower of Babel level on intermission screen when switching to "Entering" state.

Libraries update

Updated SDL to version 2.30.0.
Updated SDL Mixer to version 2.8.0. This version fixes FLAC music looping critical issue.

International Hexen 7.0 (2024-03-08)

2024-03-08T06:11:20Z

Just like it was done to Doom, this is a next major version, a total refresh. Whole project has been reviewed, rewritten and reassembled, as well as all resource dependency and "bloat" features has been removed.

This project couldn't be possible to exist without @fabiangreffrath, @rfomin, @mikeday0, @ceski-1 and @bradharding, as well as @kitchen-ace, @Meerschweinmann and @NightFright2k19!

International Heretic 7.0 (2024-03-08)

2024-03-08T06:11:52Z

This project couldn't be possible to exist without @fabiangreffrath, @rfomin, @mikeday0, @ceski-1 and @bradharding, as well as @kitchen-ace, @Meerschweinmann and @NightFright2k19!

International Doom 7.3 (2023-12-31)

2023-12-31T07:04:36Z

Improvements

Added support for x3, x5 and x6 rendering resolutions (thanks @fabiangreffrath, @MrAlaux and @Meerschweinmann).
Switching between rendering resolutions and widescreen modes now fast and painless.
Added support for Sigil II (thanks @mikeday0 and @ceski-1)
Brightmaps now applied to translucent and color-translated sprites.
Added dedicated keyboard bind for making 180° degree turn in Movement section (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
Added support for variable FOV, available in the Display Options menu. Available range is from 45 to 135, default value is 90 (thanks @bradharding, @rfomin, @MrAlaux and CacoKnight).
Added support for «SSG in Doom 1» feature (thanks @fabiangreffrath and CacoKnight).
Disabled doom-all autoload for Freedoom.
Small technical and performance improvements.

Demos

Added various enhancements for demo recording from Crispy Doom (thanks @fabiangreffrath):
- Demo info footer.
- Prevention of overriding demos by adding a "-NNNNN" file name suffix.
- Ability to "join demo" (i.e. giving controls to the player and continue recording).
Improved "Special Keys" handling while demo playback:
- Pressing "Restart level/demo" now restarts demo and keeps it playing.
- Pressing "Go to next level" now goes to next level of demo and keeps it playing.
Frame rate no longer forcefully uncapped after using demo warp (i.e. -playdemo demo.lmp -warp 18) if vertical sync is enabled.
IDCLEV cheat code now working in demo playback (thanks @fabiangreffrath). Additionally, it is possible to go previous levels, not just next ones.
Demo warping should be a little bit faster now.
Demo bar colors is now independent from game palette, always showing black and white colors.

Libraries update

Updated SDL to version 2.28.5.

International Doom 7.2.1 (2023-10-29)

2023-10-29T06:36:15Z

Improvements

Gray 0 and 5 are now properly recognized in keyboard bindings and side/extra mouse buttons are now properly recognized in the mouse bindings menu.
IDDQD cheat code: fixed reviving if god mode was already enabled (#1106, thanks @tomas7770).

Source code

Almost the entire codebase has been updated to the latest Chocolate/Crispy Doom code. This includes numerous fixes and stability improvements.
Enabled ASan as a compile-time option (see ENABLE_ASAN in /CMakeLists.txt file, may not work with GCC, need Clang), fixed all remaining "pedantic" warnings in GCC 13.2.0 and 17.0.2, and separated platform-dependent sources at compile-time (thanks @rfomin).

International Doom 7.2 (2023-10-22)

2023-10-22T04:42:29Z

Improvements

Better color translation from cyan to green (thanks @fabiangreffrath and @liPillON).
Disabled sector special 17 in gameversion 1.2 (#1554, thanks @tpoppins).
Playing demos with multiple levels is now possible with Pistol Start game mode enabled.
Renamed Fake Contrast from "On" to "Original" for better compliance with other menu items (thanks @OpenRift412).
Player movement and camera rotation no longer possible while active game menu in multiplayer game.
Improved messages ticker handling.
"Centered" message of revealed secret will be shown if messages are off, to work with same logics as "top" placement.
Blinking key or skull on status bar now optional and disabled by default to match up default port setting. Feature can be enabled back in Gameplay Features / Status Bar.
Added fsynth_gain config file variable to fine tune the FluidSynth output level (thanks @fabiangreffrath and @Vitoria90).
Improved support for tall skies and it's stretching (#1092, thanks @fabiangreffrath and @kitchen-ace).
Improved support for DEHACKED lump loading from PWAD (#1101, thanks @fabiangreffrath and @kitchen-ace).

Fixes

Fixed possible errors and silent crashes on toggling video options (thanks @MrAlaux).
Fixed possible random silent crash on visplanes drawing.

Demos

Gameplay-unsafe cheats now disabled while demo playing/recording. Safe ones IDMUS, IDDT and IDMYPOS are still allowed (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
An ingame message "Demo recording: demoname.lmp" will be printed right after the start with demo recording.

Available again

Level Name widget (automap only / always). Can be useful while demo watching.

Windows OS only

Added support for drag-n-drop .ini config files onto the executable.
Windows 11: Snipping Tool no longer appears after pressing PrintScreen key (thanks @bradharding). Win+Shift+S combination will work as usual for this case.

Libraries update

Updated SDL to version 2.28.4.
Updated FluidSynth to version 2.3.4.
Updated included MinGW libraries to their actual versions.

Compiled using GCC 13.2.0 under MSYS environment.

International Doom 7.1 (2023-09-16)

2023-09-16T17:37:57Z

Seventh anniversary of the project! 🎂

Improvements

"Translucency" feature extended to "Additive" (current implementation) and "Blending" (more classical look) modes.
"Revealed secret message" feature extended to "Top" (current implementation) and "Centered".
Added "Reset bindings to default" function to mouse bindings menu.
Fixed status bar face hysteresis when player is going invulnerable from pain/ouch states.
Reorder sprites rendering, so that objects with higher map indices appear in front (thanks @fabiangreffrath).
Various small improvements for brightmaps:
- Improved lighting of armor bonus, BFG9000 (world and HUD sprites) and SW2STONE texture for Doom 1.
- Fixed incorrect brightmapping on armor bonuses, explosive barrels and rarely on floor textures in some instances.
- Excluded TNT brightmaps when not using tnt.wad (thanks @kitchen-ace and @fabiangreffrath).
Various small technical improvements (also thanks @rfomin).
Upgraded SDL library to version 2.28.3.

Available again

Color Settings subsection for fine-tuning color saturation and RGB intensity, available in Display Options menu.
Wider status bar modes in wide screen rendering.
Crosshairs are back in Gameplay Features menu, but with fewer options.
"Translucent" style for fuzz effect.

Fixes

Fixed possible silent crash on toggling hires/widescreen modes while demo playing or network game.
Added back fixed sound attenuation on Doom 2 map 8.
Fixed marks drawing on automap in wide screen modes.
Fixed PIT_ApplyTorque when line has no length (thanks @kraflab).
[Windows only] Improved drag-n-drop support of files onto executable.

Compiled using GCC 13.2.0 under MSYS environment.

Release notes from international-doom

International Doom / Heretic / Hexen 8.1 (2025-01-25)

Renderer

Improvements

Widgets

Automap

New "Miscellaneous Features" Menu

Support for remastered music from extras.wad

Fixes

Library Updates

International Doom / Heretic / Hexen 8.0 (2024-10-06)

Compiled with Build Tools for Visual Studio 2022

Features

Improvements

Fixes

Libraries update

International Doom 7.5 / Heretic 7.1 / Hexen 7.1 (2024-06-29)

Controls

Video

Other improvements

Doom only

Heretic only

Hexen only

Libraries update

International Doom 7.4 (2023-03-08)

Video

Automap

New features

Other improvements

Libraries update

International Hexen 7.0 (2024-03-08)

International Heretic 7.0 (2024-03-08)

International Doom 7.3 (2023-12-31)

Improvements

Demos

Libraries update

International Doom 7.2.1 (2023-10-29)

Improvements

Source code

International Doom 7.2 (2023-10-22)

Improvements

Fixes

Demos

Available again

Windows OS only

Libraries update

International Doom 7.1 (2023-09-16)

Improvements

Available again

Fixes

Support for remastered music from `extras.wad`