Odamex

11.0.0

The next major version of Odamex is here! This is a major release with an incredible amount of bug fixes, new features, and quality-of-life improvements. A big thanks to PR contributors @jiffygist (sv_allowfov cvar), @jpernst (console font scaling!), @keyboardcrash32 (fixing Odalaunch crash caused by sorting), @Rudicito (game window initialization bug fix), @FozzeY (fixed coop player starts out of order, special doors desyncing on map restarts, and endianness check on *BSD platforms), and @Acts19quiz (update wad download links).

It needs to be said that @electricbrass and @bcahue carried a majority of the load in this release. They are incredible. Looking forward, they have been helping lead the way toward Odamex 12, along with @cmbernard333 who has taken the reigns on implementing full DSDHACKED support. Look for that in the near future. Please take a chance to thank everyone involved in this incredible release!

For a full list of changes, check out the list below:

Added

• Add support for compressed ZDoom extended and DeePBSP nodes
• Added widescreen asset support
• Added interpolation of:
  • Scrolling Textures
  • Scrolling skies
  • Scrolling flats (floor and ceiling)
  • Weapon bobbing
  • Chasecam
  • Automap
  • Screen wipes
  • Console rising/falling
• ID24 Feature Support:
  • ID24 Inventory Reset Exits
  • ID24 linetypes including:
    • flat offset and rotation
    • scrollers and double sided variants
  • ID24 SKYDEFS support
  • ID24 Interlevel Lump Support
• New and updated cvars and commands:
  • Add sv_allowfov cvar
  • Add lastmap parameter feature to maplists
  • Show powerup effects on other players with sv_showplayerpowerups
  • Add summon cheat
  • Add co_novileghosts to compatibility menu
  • Allow spawning multiplayer things in single player mode via -coop-things or g_thingfilter -1
• New support for new ZDoom MAPINFO features:
  • AirSupply
  • compat_limitpain
  • compat_shorttex
• Added a beautiful Level Stats Extended HUD that displays monsters / items / secrets on screen
• Intermission script support
• Refuse to download of commercial PWADs and renamed commercial IWADs on the client
• Implement basic scaling for console font. Font will automatically scale as default
• Support for world and global arrays in ACS
• Support Skulltag Style Win/Lose Interpics & Music
• Recognize 10/3/2024 versions of Doom + Doom II wads
• Update commercial wad list for Legacy of Rust v1.3 and other wads in the 1/28/2025 update

Changed

• Improve missing spawns warning for horde mode
• Use OLumpName in place of some lump names that use char[8]/char[9]
• Update list of wad download sources
• Changed game window initialization from 640x480 to 320x200
• Explicitly set the size of the Odalaunch search bar
• Fix update to cl_downloadsites when upgrading a config
• Use constexpr where possible
• Generalize gameinfo from hardcoded presets to serialized MAPINFOs
• Minor menu fixes & improvements
• Clean up and update sample server configs for 11.0.0

Fixed

• Add colon and space to map label
• Allow quotes for "wad" command on both client and server
• Various minor control changes and fixes
• Fix pitch in MBF21 Monster Projectiles
• Fix wad command when multiple wads are called
• Fix Boom shootable line specials not being repeatable
• Properly escape text displayed to confirm a skill and set SpawnFilter flags correctly
• Display levelnames specified in MAPINFO on intermission screens
• Draw transparency as black on 1 sided walls
• Fix UMAPINFO par times being 35x too high
• Search for chex.deh when chex.wad is selected as IWAD in GUI
• Maintain sprite offsets when flipped
• Center view when centerview called while the console or menu is open
• Render sprites with y offsets less than 1
• Ignore case for file extensions in G_LoadWadString and detect deh files in boot GUI
• Clean up references to removed cvars + remove some unused cvars
• Don't have singleplayer players telefrag on spawn
• Account for coop player starts stored out of order
• Fix sector types 10 and 14 desync on callvote restart
• Draw MAPINFO "name" field for skills and episodes as text instead of searching for a patch
• Throw error when attempting to spawn object in MBF21 codepointers
• Fix assignments to ACS map arrays
• Show status bar face background as 32bit on 32bit mode
• Fix 7 second delay after initializing animations with speed of 1
• Very large maps no longer disappear in automap mode
• Fix odalaunch crashing when sorting servers
• Use 64-bit fixed point when calculating sprite clipping with height transfers
• Fix out of bounds array access when rendering sky transfers
• Fix floor lowering to lowest adjacent floor for line special 40
• Fix destination height for floor and ceiling lower/raise to shortest texture being incorrect
• Weapons using MBF21 A_ConsumeAmmo no longer consume ammo when sv_infiniteammo is enabled
• Fix the automap not drawing at high resolutions
• Flipped sprites during cast call being drawn offset and stretch
• Dim the help screen's transparent sides
• Draw CWILV graphic from top of screen if its height it 200 (or greater)
• Add offsets to DrawPatch so intermission screens with offsets can be drawn correctly
• Fix vertical texture scaling
• Fix crash when unimplented ZDoom line specials called in certain contexts
• Fix issues when ACS P-codes are outside 0-239 range
• Fix single patch textures rendering incorrectly if patch taller than texture
• Fix damage tint staying green after switching from Chex Quest to another IWAD and vice versa
• Fix FLTK error window when using certain command line arguments, affected starting from Odalauch
• Fix flying monsters getting stuck on players/each other
• Fix errors and crashes when displaying cast call if monster uses multiple sprites
• Fixed a crash caused when setting sv_maxplayersperteam to zero during intermission
• Fixed a crash caused by playing empty Doom format sounds
• Fixed issues caused where out of bounds access to S_sfx when ambient sound is not found
• Fix broken deserialization of DPushers

Build/Compiler Additions/Changes/Fixes

• Update C++ standard to C++17
• Build release candidate artifacts on release/* branch, Auto-generate artifacts for releases, "Push Button Release". Should increase frequency of future releases. In fact, this release was built using it!
• Added Linux ARM64 build job to Github actions
• Add Microsoft Redist installer to the installer and zipped output files
• Changed wiki link
• Move minilzo to a separate library
• Ubuntu buildgen scripts for 24.04
• Build JsonCpp when building the client if USE_INTERNAL_JSONCPP is enabled.
• Update Fedora 28 and Ubuntu 18.04 workflows to Fedora 32 and Ubuntu 20.04
• Bump SDL Mixer to 2.6.2 on Windows
• Improve compiler warnings
• Fix endianness check for *BSD
• Fix Fedora builds
• Update fmtlib
• clang-format updates