Zandronum PWO

[ZZYZX]

Not sure if this is right subforum for such modifications, but it's best match.

Everyone who played ZDaemon or Odamex knows that Zandronum PWO is retarded. Now, here's a way to fix it!

I made a patch that enables you to set weapon priority by hand. Though ATM it only works for vanilla weapons and weapons that replace them (like WBSuperShotgun or WBShotgun) it's possible to add literally any weapon there.

Screenshots:


When you pick up a weapon, a check is made whether that weapon is more or equal priority to currently selected; and if yes, then you are automatically switched to your new weapon.

Currently supported games are Doom, Heretic and Hexen. Strife is supported, but doesn't have any configuration files — I don't have it to test.

Download (Windows build): http://zzyzx.adminix.com.ua/zandronum.rar
Source code (a little desync with above build, contains only PWO stuff): https://bitbucket.org/CircuneiZ/zandronum-pwo/

Note that picking up weapons by PWO will still not work on servers that disable it with compatflags.

ALSO: This patch allows you to go singleplayer on Spak City servers. Woohoo!
ALSO #2: This patch allows you to cycle prev/next weapons using PWO. See weapprev_pwo and weapnext_pwo or their corresponding options in Controls menu.

[one_Two]

Wow nice, I always find this a problem. Will your zandro exe show up as the normal thing when playing? I dunno how that works.

[ZZYZX]

Wow nice, I always find this a problem. Will your zandro exe show up as the normal thing when playing? I dunno how that works.

Not sure what do you mean, but it should work OK with any Zandronum 1.0 server.

[Catastrophe]

Thank you this is awesome

[HeX9109]

Cool.

[ZZYZX]

Update: made WBUILD skipping optional, controlled with CVar called cl_skipwbuild.

If you experience any problems while playing on Spak servers using this executable, type this in your console:

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cl_skipwbuild false

[Konar6]

/me likes this

[The Toxic Avenger]

This is actually a really smart idea and I wouldn't mind seeing this in a future Zandro build.

[Qent]

If this were to get into Zandronum, I would like to have some way to use it with arbitrary DECORATE weapons.

[ZZYZX]

Three ways I see to add arbitrary weapons:
1. Parse DECORATE objects and get weapons that can be used from there (may cause unexpected bugs).
2. Add entries to DECORATE definition that control PWO behavior (Weapon.PWOName, Weapon.PWODefaultOrder).
3. Add new lump called ORDERDEF that contains definitions for weapons specific WAD adds, like following:

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[DoomDefault]
Game Doom
Weapon Fist "Fist" 0.1
...
Weapon SuperShotgun "Super Shotgun" 0.9
...
Weapon BFG9000 "BFG-9000" 0.7

[HereticDefault]
Game Heretic
...

[MyNewCoolMod]
Game Any
Weapon BFG2407 "BFG-2407" 1.0

And then combine this method with DECORATE parsing (for weapons that are undefined in PWO, but have SelectionOrder).

[Catastrophe]

Ultimate solution: Allow users to modify weapon priority in decorate without getting kicked off the server.

[ZZYZX]

Update: moved all PWO-related definitions to ORDERDEF lump (or orderdef.txt in PK3 files).
Added Skulltag weapons.
Added ORDERDEF for vanilla weapons (also serves as an example of how to create such definitions).
Changed used CVars to follow PWO.<Game|Any>.<Weapon> template.

To add new weapons user may create a WAD or PK3 file with his own ORDERDEF that will either replace (if the lump begins with Clear directive) or add to existing info and put it into some autoload directory (I used skins/ in my build).

Replaced weapons will still use their parent PWO setting unless explicitly defined as new weapon.

Update #2: Moved source code to Bitbucket fork. PMed Torr about it.
Update #3: Added weapprev_pwo and weapnext_pwo (to switch to next/previous weapon by PWO, as you can guess). There's no way to set order of weapons that have equal priorities. Not recommended to use like that.

[ZZYZX]

If we make something like switchonpickup=3 option, then switchonpickup should be moved to PWO menu and PWO weapon cycling should be made independent of it (currently it will not work if cl_forcepwo is set to false).

Good point. I propose that we ask for feedback in your thread on how exactly to handle this.

Whether to add one more SwitchOnPickup value and move "Switch on pickup" option to PWO menu or leave it as it is (separate PWO variable that partially overrides SwitchOnPickup)?
Also, should "always-switch" compatflag that is commonly used on OS servers affect PWO weapon cycling?
Feedback please :)

P.S. I personally like SwitchOnPickup variant more — integration is good; and "always-switch" compatflag IMO should disable PWO weapon cycling because of it's purpose — to make weapon handling same as it was before Zandronum. If I will not have other opinions at some point it will be implemented like above.

[Torr Samaho]

Thanks a lot for your patch! I look forward to integrate it once we have ironed out the last details (we already PMed to get the technical issues sorted out).

I personally also prefer to add switchonpickup=3 to let a player activate the PWO system. An important question though is whether switchonpickup may influence the weapon change behavior for anything not-pickup related. Shall we add a new option for this like use_pwo_on_weapn_switch?

[ZZYZX]

An important question though is whether switchonpickup may influence the weapon change behavior for anything not-pickup related. Shall we add a new option for this like use_pwo_on_weapn_switch?

I don't think any event other than weapon attach (pickup) should be processed by PWO; static SelectionOrder is enough for weapons that run out of ammo and maybe other possible cases I don't know about.

[Torr Samaho]

In that case I'd say we should simply remove cl_forcepwo and activate the PWO controlled switch on pickup with "switchonpickup 3". EDIT: And the PWO menu option should be moved from the options menu to the weapon setup menu since switchonpickup is selected there.

[ZZYZX]

Build update:

1. Merged PWO and generic weapon preferences.
2. Removed some obsolete [according to Torr] weapon settings.
3. Moved "Weapon preferences" menu out of "Player setup" into root Options menu.
5. Moved PWO setting from cl_forcepwo to switchonpickup==3

[Torr Samaho]

Why did you move the weapon setup from the player settings menu to main options menu? I'd say everybody is used to find the weapon setup menu under the player settings since it's been there for at least half a decade.

[Zakken]

Cool stuff.

[Catastrophe]

Yeah keep it at the player setup page. Since, y'know it sets up your players PWO !!!