GZDoom 4.7.1 released

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Mainly a bugfix release

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Download (OpenGLES 2.0 and higher for hardware rendering, Direct3D 9 or later for software rendering)

• Windows 64-bit
• Windows 32-bit
• Linux 64-bit
• Linux 32-bit
• macOS
• Source

Highlights:

• Fixed: SBar_DrawTextureRotated was missing the angle parameter
• treat "materials" as a known folder name for eliminating root folders in Zips.
• GLES: Fix texture MapBuffer and AllocateBuffer create client side memory.
• Fix "out of memory" errors when the vulkan backend is asked to create zero byte sized buffers
• Compat patch for misplaced items in Hexen MAP08.
• fixed some imprecisions in font luminosity calculation. This was still going through the palette which could result in off-by-one errors.
• widescreen assets for all officially supported games. This version adds Hacx, Harmony and Chex Quest.
• Add cvars to control automap line alpha and thickness
• ReadThisMenu / MenuDelegate overriding.

Details

• Fixed: SBar_DrawTextureRotated was missing the angle parameter
• Compat patch for misplaced items in Hexen MAP08.
• fixed some imprecisions in font luminosity calculation. This was still going through the palette which could result in off-by-one errors.
• fixed palette initialization for single lump fonts (FON2 and BMF)
• push sprite shadows a little back for distance sorting
• avoid multiple Dehacked mappings to the same function to fix MBF21 lookup issues.
• disallow changing the line spacing for option menus.
• be a bit more aggressive with the GC when not running the game loop.
• fixed memory leak in DShape2DBufferInfo.
• allow "INDEXFON" as an alias for "INDEXFONT".
• fixed A_Punch having a short attack range (take 2).
• GLES: Fix texture MapBuffer and AllocateBuffer create client side memory.
• Fix "out of memory" errors when the vulkan backend is asked to create zero byte sized buffers
• resolved a VM abort upon morphing while the tome of power is active
• fixed particle processing in the main thinker loop. This may not be guarded by the dynamic light flags, only the light ticking may.
• fixed handling of states with the 'light' keyword.
• Fixed broken V_BreakLines.
• treat "materials" as a known folder name for eliminating root folders in Zips.
  
  
• widescreen assets for all officially supported games. This version adds Hacx, Harmony and Chex Quest.
• Allow WorldUnloaded events to know the next map name (if any).
• Allow map markers to scale relative to automap zoom.
• Add cvars to control automap line alpha and thickness
• PreTravelled virtual for player and inventory.
• Allow customization of pause screen.
• ReadThisMenu / MenuDelegate overriding.

Statistics: Posted by Graf Zahl — Thu Oct 21, 2021 5:54 am — Replies 9 — Views 816

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