Changelog

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Changes in 1.1.5

Buttons and actions

  • Added getButton method.

Episode recording and replaying

  • Added isRecordingEpisode and isReplayingEpisode methods.

GameVariables

  • KILLCOUNT counts all kills, including multilayer kills.

Labels

  • Added appending "Dead" prefix to label's name when actor is a corpse.
  • Added bounding box information to Label object in x, y, width and height fields.
  • Added objectAngle, objectPitch, objectRoll, objectVelocityX/Y/Z fields to Label object.

Windows specific

  • Fixed problem with building on Windows 8.1 and 10.
  • Added scripts for downloading freedoom2.wad and assembling Python packages.

Changes in 1.1.4

Automap

  • Added am_scale CCMD.

Scenarios

  • Fixed KILLCOUNT GameVariable for ChainsawMarine in defend_the_center and deathmatch scenarios.

Python specific

  • Ported Python binding to pybind11 as a replacement for Boost.Python.
  • Fixed problems with pip install detecting Python interpreter, includes and libraries from different Python versions.

Changes in 1.1.3

Rendering options

  • Added setRenderScreenFlashes and setRenderAllFrames methods.
  • Added viz_ignore_render_mode CVAR which disables overriding rendering settings.

GameVariables

  • Added ANGLE, PITCH, ROLL, VELOCITY_X/Y/Z GameVariables.

Missing config keys

  • Added support for DEATHCOUNT, USER31 - USER60, PLAYER_NUMBER, PLAYER_COUNT, PLAYER1_FRAGCOUNT - PLAYER16_FRAGCOUNT, POSITION_X/Y/Z GameVariables in the config file.
  • Added support for ALTATTACK Button in the config file.

Java specific

  • Fixed makeAction.
  • Added missing POSITION_X/Y/Z Game Variables.

Python specific

  • Added manual GIL management for better performance when used with Python threads.

Windows specific

  • Fixed building for Windows 10.

Changes in 1.1.2

Multiplayer

  • Added isMultiplayerGame method.
  • Added viz_respawn_delay CVAR, which allows controlling the delay between respawns in multiplayer game.
  • Added viz_spectator CVAR which allows connecting to multiplayer game as a spectator.
  • Maximum number of connected players raised to 16, PLAYER9_FRAGCOUNT - PLAYER16_FRAGCOUNT GameVariables added.

Missing methods

  • Added isRunning, isDepthBufferEnabled, isLabelsBufferEnabled and isAutomapBufferEnabled missing methods to Python and Lua bindings.

Changes in 1.1.1

GameState

  • Added tic field.
  • GameVariable.DEATHCOUNT fixed.

Lua specific

  • Fixed crash when calling getState in a terminal state.

Python specific

  • Fixed minor memory leak
  • Fixed crash when calling getState in a terminal state.

Changes in 1.1.0

Buffers

  • Depth buffer is now separate buffer in state and ScreenFormat values with it was removed - is/setDepthBufferEnabled added.
  • Added in frame actors labeling feature -is/setLabelsBufferEnabled added.
  • Added buffer with in game automap - is/setAutomapBufferEnabled, setAutomapMode, setAutomapRoate, setAutomapRenderTextures, AutomapMode enum added.

GameState

  • getState will now return nullptr/null/None if game is in the terminal state.
  • imageBuffer renamed to screenBuffer.
  • Added depthBuffer, labelsBuffer and automapBuffer and labels fields.

Rendering options

  • The option to use minimal hud instead of default full hud - setRenderMinimalHud added.
  • The option to enable/disable effects that use sprites - setRenderEffectsSprites added.
  • The option to enable/disable in game messages independently of the console output - setRenderMessages added.
  • The option to enable/disable corpses - setRenderCorpses added.

Episode recording and replaying

  • The option to record and replaying episodes, based on adapted ZDoom's demo mechanism - recording filePath argument added to newEpisode, replayEpisode added.
  • The option to replay demo from other players' perspective.

Ticrate

  • The option to set number of tics executed per second in ASNYC Modes.
  • New ticrate optional argument in doomTicsToMs, msToDoomTics.
  • doomTicsToSec and secToDoomTics added.

Paths

  • Paths in config files are now relative to config file.
  • setting vizdoom_path and doom_game_path is no longer needed - they default to location(installation) of vizdoom.so.

Others

  • ZDoom engine updated to 2.8.1.
  • Basic support for multiplayer in PLAYER and SPECTATOR Modes.
  • Improved exceptions messages.
  • Bugs associated with paths handling fixed.
  • Many minor bugs fixed.
  • Possibility to change scenario wad during runtime (only first map from WAD file).
  • Added viz_debug CVAR to control some diagnostic messages.

C++ specific

  • A lot of overloaded methods turned into a methods with default arguments.
  • getState() now returns GameStatePtr (std::shared_ptr<GameState>) instead of GameState.
  • Buffers are now copied.
  • GameState's buffer has now BufferPtr (std::shared_ptr<Buffer>) type - Buffer (std::vector<uint8_t>).
  • GameState's gameVariables are now vector of doubles instead of ints.

Lua specific

  • Lua binding added.
  • Support for LuaRocks installation for Linux and MacOS.

Java specific

  • GameState buffers type changed to byte[].
  • Performance improved.
  • Java exceptions handling fixed.
  • Few functions fixed.

Python specific

  • Consts added to Python.
  • Aliases for doom_fixed_to_double - doom_fixed_to_float added.
  • Support for pip installation for Linux and MacOS.