0.9.6.0

0.9.6.0

Features:

• Enable trimming (reduces file size of release artifacts)
• Allow interpolation to finish when game is paused and on level exit for smooth transitions
• Fade sprites into max distance
• Autosave timer that automatically writes a quicksave every x seconds
• Frustum culling for the automap
• Controller gyroscope support (tested with PS DualShock 4, should work with other SDL-supported controllers)
• Emulate boom behavior that let player move out of one-sided lines
• Controller rumble feedback
• Add option for berserk intensity
• Add option to disable crosshair shrinking on target
• Add use command to allow for separate bindings for shotgun/super shotgun [bind x "use shotgun"] [bind y "use supershotgun"]
• Add custom weapon groups similar to the ones found in Woof!, with the added bonus of being assignable to any button.
• Add order independent transparency to fix issues with multiple transparent sprites causing transparent textures not to render
• Support texture filtering with sprites
• Refraction effect for spectres
• Added nearest to bilinear and nearest to trilinear texture filter options
• Updated save game management to read save files on startup to fix load time of the load/save menu when there are a large number of save files to read
• Improved quick save performance to reduce large stutters when saving
• Add Boom RNG method with option to toggle between Boom and Vanilla Doom RNG
• Add save game thumbnails and summary details (kills, secrets, elapsed time) to save/load menus
• Updated styling of save/load menus
• Add sky render modes dynamic and vanilla. Dynamic is the original version and similar to GZDoom. Vanilla to better match vanilla sky drawing

Bug fixes:

• Fix per ammo values for box ammo and backpack amount from dehacked patch
• Fix crash from bad colormaps (Fixes Necromantic Thirst)
• Fix sight and shoot traverse functions to correctly handle resizes (Fixes Junkfood MAP98)
• Fix A_WeaponSound not functioning when called from the flash state (Fixes Junkfood pistol firing sound)
• Fix block player lines blocking friendly monsters (Fixes TWOGERS MAP31)
• Fix generalized crushers to not slow down with fast and turbo speeds to match boom behavior
• Fix two-sided lines drawing in the automap when back and front sector ceiling and floor values match
• Fix allocation issue with automap rendering that could cause slowdown
• Fix friendly enemies in closets not setting target to player even when not in sight
• Fix monsters teleporting from monster closets playing sight sound
• Fix translation flags using incorrect colormap indices (fixes kdikdizd)
• Fix colormaps for transfer heights not setting on two-sided lines
• Fix cases where lines were being marked for automap when they weren't visible
• Fix sprite x offset rendering (fixes small red torch and burning barrel twitching)
• Fix issue with bump use breaking on maps with voodoo dolls
• Fix issue with emulating vanilla behavior that didn't clear velocity when stuck in walls causing issues with slide moving code
• Fix custom map name not taking priority and entertext for changing clusters with mapinfo
• Fix minimum x/y velocity to match vanilla behavior
• Added sprites and sounds for mbf helper dog
• Fix label clear in UMAPINFO
• Fallback to status bar background texture (borderflat) defined in gameinfo
• Fix issue with two-sided middle walls and texture filtering causing edge pixels to render incorrectly
• Fix spawn ceiling being incorrectly applied after initial map start
• Fix ordering to set flags first when something dies before setting the death state to match original behavior
• Fix index check on setting death state to match original behavior. Fixes 0x0.wad spawn fall objects not being removed.
• Fix one-sided walls and flats with null texture rendering (fixes 0x0.wad)
• Fix ranodomization for new map starts starting with the same value
• Fix two-sided boom generic door specials not being trigger by monsters when blocked (fixes Going Down Turbo MAP10)
• Fix flood rendering where flood sides would have gaps
• Fix box segment intersection to check for epsilon. Fixes Going Down Turbo MAP12 red key not falling.
• Fix door compatibility to always allow clipping through floor regardless of vanilla movement physics setting (fixes Going Down Turbo MAP23 Invulnerability not spawning)
• Fix No Rest for the Living to be loaded as a PWAD with Doom 2 IWAD from the IWAD selections screen
• Fix weapon offset interpolation to reset when modifying offsets through dehacked (fixes Doom Zero pistol and shotgun jittering)
• Set SLIDE and INFLOAT flags correctly for MBF21 flag functions
• Fix path reporting of loaded files that were not added with a full path
• Fix not being able to search current working directory when launching Helion outside of it's executing directory
• Fix various id24 skydef rendering for midtexel and scaling. Sky render mode automatically changed to vanilla when skydefs is encountered
• Fix transfer sky specials 171 and 172 to apply Y offset from line
• Fix map options not being set from default map (nojump nofreelook etc)
• Fix issue where moving sectors may not render when inside a misclassified voodoo doll closet
• Fix dehacked weapon ammo use amount
• Fix music changes not persisting through successive save games
• Fix scrolling floors/ceilings stopping when completes a move special
• Fix mouse focus issue when loading/reloading a map
• Fix default intermission background images and music for UMAPINFO
• Fix bex string parsing for mnemonics that have more than two strings
• Fix incorrect dehacked state mapping from cacodemon ball to baron ball (522-526)