Zandronum 1.0

[Llewellyn]

So what is this GAMEMODE lump and what do I have to do to get some documentation?

[Warfare]

I can smell some others players now?

[Cutman]

Level master? :D

Eff yeah

[Catastrophe]

Level master? :D

Eff yeah

Yes! I miss that mod!

[HeX9109]

Congrats on the great release guys! So far everything is looking very solid :)

[Torr Samaho]

I assume I'm still cool to bundle this with the next MM8BDM (when it's ready)?

Of course! Actually I would greatly appreciate if you'd switch to 1.0 so that all players can easily play MM8BDM and everything else with one Zandronum installation.

So what is this GAMEMODE lump and what do I have to do to get some documentation?

I think the only documentation I ever wrote on this died with the Skulltag forums, so I'll sketch how this works here. Would be nice if somebody adds this information to the wiki.

The hard coded game modes internally use a bunch of flags to configure certain stuff and to share code. The GAMEMODE lump allows you to alter the flags a game mode uses so that you can combine game mode traits. The syntax for the lump is as follows

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GAMEMODENAME {
  removeflag FLAGNAME1
  addflag FLAGNAME2
}

The possible game mode names are

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COOPERATIVE
SURVIVAL
INVASION
DEATHMATCH
TEAMPLAY
DUEL
TERMINATOR
LASTMANSTANDING
TEAMLMS
POSSESSION
TEAMPOSSESSION
TEAMGAME
CTF
ONEFLAGCTF
SKULLTAG
DOMINATION

The flags are

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COOPERATIVE
DEATHMATCH
TEAMGAME
USEFLAGASTEAMITEM
PLAYERSEARNKILLS
PLAYERSEARNFRAGS
PLAYERSEARNPOINTS
PLAYERSEARNWINS
DONTSPAWNMAPTHINGS
MAPRESETS
DEADSPECTATORS
PLAYERSONTEAMS
USEMAXLIVES
USETEAMITEM
MAPRESET_RESETS_MAPTIME

For instance, if you would like to have teams in coop, the lump needs to be

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cooperative {
  addflag PLAYERSONTEAMS
}

For AlexMax's Capturestrike idea

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teamlms {
  removeflag DONTSPAWNMAPTHINGS
  addflag USEFLAGASTEAMITEM
  addflag USETEAMITEM
}

would be a good start.

Most combinations are untested (that's why the change log calls the experimental ;)).

EDIT: Fixed the content of the flag boxes.

[mistamontiel]

Does the installer add the announcer and skins ?

Everything should just be archived. I don't wish for automatic shortcuts nor unnecessary registry entries

[Llewellyn]

-Lots of flags-

I think you have your flags mixed up, you have some random things in Gamemode, and you have some random gamemodes in flags.

[Ænima]

GAMEMODE lump?

HOLY SHIT THAT'S AWESOME! Now you don't have to spend 2 days writing ACS and building a custom gamemode from a hacked version of another game mode! You can just do it in 10 seconds. :D

[Neewbie]

The possible game mode names are

PLAYERSONTEAMS


For instance, if you would like to have teams in coop, the lump needs to be

cooperative {
addflag PLAYERSONTEAMS
}

Yes you did mix up flags and game modes d:
I fixed it on the wiki sir

[X-Ray]

Congratulations on the Awesome release torr.
Zandronum's gameplay is very nice, i love it. (HELL YEAHHHH!) "lol"
Hope more people come to Zandronum to play some nice games can't wait.

[Lord_of_D:]

like the new features doodes, good job :D

[Torr Samaho]

Does the installer add the announcer and skins ?

It includes the announcer, but no skins so far.

Everything should just be archived. I don't wish for automatic shortcuts nor unnecessary registry entries

Then use the core version. It's a zip that just contains only Zandronum itself.

I think you have your flags mixed up, you have some random things in Gamemode, and you have some random gamemodes in flags.

Oops, I mixed up the two boxes (fixed now), but everything else is correct: COOPERATIVE, DEATHMATCH and TEAMGAME are indeed also flags. For instance COOPERATIVE is a flag that distinguishes the coop modes COOPERATIVE, SURVIVAL and INVASION from the other game modes.

[[D_A]Kherr]

Possibly found another bug, submitted it here.

[Torr Samaho]

This is not a bug. You need to load skulltag_actors.pk3 (and possibly also skulltag_data.pk3) to use some Skulltag mods with Zandronum.

[[D_A]Kherr]

Where can I find skulltag_actors.pk3, because I don't have a hard copy on my computer anywhere.

[Torr Samaho]

Zandronum 1.0 comes with this file, it should be in the same directory as zandronum.exe.

[GhosTDoomer]

And can a ST IDE instead specify a path to Zandronum and he wakes to work for a place in ST?

[Torr Samaho]

And can a ST IDE instead specify a path to Zandronum and he wakes to work for a place in ST?

Yes, it should.

[Nati46]

Where is the Zandronum.ini file (Configuration settings file)? I can't seem to be able to find it.