Do speedrun utilities wads exist?

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Do speedrun utilities wads exist?

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Post by Simk » Sat Jul 07, 2018 10:40 pm

Just wondering if there is speedrun utilities wad with timers (pb) and other various things on a hud. I've seen something like this before but it looks like a PRboom feature I think..

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Does anything like that exist? I assume that it would need some SQL or textfile interaction for keeping track of the PB's?

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Re: Do speedrun utilities wads exist?

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Post by TB-303 » Tue Jul 10, 2018 11:31 am

The video is using prboom, on that engine you can edit the hud via the -PRHUD- lump in prboom-plus.wad .
Prboom+, Crispy Doom, Chocolate Doom & CnDoom are the most used and recommended engines for speedrunning on the main Classic Doom leaderboards if not using vanilla.

On Zandronum, some features can be done with a custom SBARINFO lump, such as an InGame Timer:
https://zdoom.org/wiki/DrawString
https://zdoom.org/wiki/SBARINFO
example of usage: " DrawString SMALLFONT, white, time, 200 + center, 0, 1; "
This can be used on any server by having your custom hud's wad in your skins folder.

There is however a speedrun wad for Zandro that was being developed in 2016: https://zandronum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7418
That one of course will not work via skins folder and needs to be hosted server-side. Supports database to save times.

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Re: Do speedrun utilities wads exist?

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Post by Simk » Fri Jul 13, 2018 2:43 am

This is fantastic and exactly what i was looking for, thanks a lot.

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