[(z)MAPINFO] BotEpisode

[Tiger]

By chance, is the 'BotEpisode' property considered deprecated in Zandronum? I am unable to get Zandronum prompt me with a new Skill Level menu for the bots during my tests; I have tried tweaking TGRDM3 to use it - which fails, and tried SkullTag_Content aswell as some random pwads - which also fails.

Tested on: Zandronum 2.1 && Zandronum 3.0 [Alpha]

[Torr Samaho]

We did not explicitly drop support for this. I did some quick testing with 2.1.2 and it still seems to work: For this I loaded skulltag_actors.pk3 and skulltag_data_126.pk3, and replaced mapinfo/doom2.txt within zandronum.pk3 with its old version from skulltag.pk3. Of course, changing zandronum.pk3 is something you absolutely shouldn't do, I just did it this way to confirm that what was known to work in Skulltag still works in Zandronum. Do you have any mod with a botepisode that worked in Skulltag but doesn't work in Zandronum at hand?

[Tiger]

I did some quick testing with 2.1.2 and it still seems to work: For this I loaded skulltag_actors.pk3 and skulltag_data_126.pk3, and replaced mapinfo/doom2.txt within zandronum.pk3 with its old version from skulltag.pk3

I understand that this is not recommended, but for sake of testing I did it anyways to follow along with you. I followed this exact step, but I was unable to get the Bot Skill Level prompt using Zandronum 3.0. I downloaded SkullTag_Data_126 and fetched the old Doom2.txt mapinfo from SkullTag 98c and replenished Zandronum's version of the file with SkullTag's as-is within the zandronum.pk3 archive data file. I don't have the exact load-order as I dragged and dropped Skulltag_actors.pk3 (came included with the Zandronum build) and skulltag_data_126. I am able to get the standard doom skill level, but not the bot skill menu that comes after it. Is there a step that I skipped?

In addition, and by request, here's a modified version of TGRDM2 that includes BotEpisode property in the MAPINFO lump in the pwad. To be sure, I did a quick test using SkullTag 98c, it works as expected.

[Torr Samaho]

In addition, and by request, here's a modified version of TGRDM2 that includes BotEpisode property in the MAPINFO lump in the pwad. To be sure, I did a quick test using SkullTag 98c, it works as expected.

I get the bot skill selection with your wad, Zandronum 2.1.2 and

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zandronum.exe -file skulltag_actors.pk3 skulltag_data_126.pk3 TGRDM2.wad

I also get the menu without loading the skulltag files, but then the menu graphics for the bot skill are missing.

[Tiger]

I apologize, but I am still unable to get the menu to work in Zandronum 3.0, however it does work in Zandronum 2.1.2. By chance is this a bug with Zandronum 3.0 alpha?


EDIT:
By chance, is this completely valid for Zandronum and bypass the need for SkullTag related pwads?

[Torr Samaho]

I apologize, but I am still unable to get the menu to work in Zandronum 3.0, however it does work in Zandronum 2.1.2. By chance is this a bug with Zandronum 3.0 alpha?

It's quite possible that this is broken in 3.0. When upgrading to ZDoom's new menu code, we had to recreate all of Skulltag/Zandronum's menu additions. Please open a ticket for this on the tracker (if there is no ticket yet).

By chance, is this completely valid for Zandronum and bypass the need for SkullTag related pwads?

Looks fine at first glance.

[Tiger]

Please open a ticket for this on the tracker (if there is no ticket yet).

I'll try to do this soon; there's a few other issues I have found aswell that I should also bring report, I'll most likely report them all at once.


I sincerely thank you for your time and helping me with this :)