ChangeLog for EDGE 1.19

Type: Internal version, never released.

Date: MARCH 8th 2000

Bugs fixed:

 - Problem with ammo icons in the status bar.
 - Problems with weapons (especially second attacks) fixed.
 - Player weapons are drawn with correct colourmap when underwater.
 - TrueBSP sprites now work a lot better.
 - TrueBSP will now ignore walls with "-" texture (no more AASHITTY)
 - Fixed bugs in the TrueBSP polygoniser (no more AdjacentSeg errors)
 - Berserk red-ness is better (not sure if 100%)
 - Bug with final cast screen and Pain Elemental fixed.
 - Numerous fixes for non-truebsp extrafloor rendering.
 - Fixed the problem with spawners not spawning (e.g. Pain Elemental).
 - Fixed problem with Imps (etc) failing to shoot fireballs.
 - Fixed the white-text-showing-up-as-red problem.
 - NoClip cheat no longer sinks down when running up stairs.
 - Plasma balls (etc) no longer hit monsters strangely above them.

Features Removed / Changed:

 - removed NO_BRIGHT special in colmap.ddf.
 - removed LUMPEXISTS in lines.ddf and sectors.ddf.
 - removed LINK field in sounds.ddf.
 - COLOURMAP= and COLOURMAPLUMP= in lines.ddf and sectors.ddf
   are gone (use USE_COLOURMAP=[colmap-name] instead).

 - All weapon code pointers lost their "WEAPON_" prefix.
 - WEAPON_SPAWN() code pointer has become EJECT().
 - EJECT_ATTACK= in weapons.ddf sets default attack for EJECT func.
 - The -andymagic cmdline option is currently broken.
 
 - The [] headers in lines.ddf, sectors.ddf and playlist.ddf no longer
   need the colon `:', just the number, e.g. [123].

 - States in attacks.ddf, things.ddf and weapons.ddf have changed.
   Instead of SPAWN_STATES=XXX, the new syntax is STATES(SPAWN)=XXX.
   Thus "CHASING_STATES" becomes "STATES(CHASE)", PAINSTATES becomes
   STATES(PAIN), UPSTATE in weapons.ddf becomes STATES(UP), etc...
  
 - Extrafloors have changed.  There are now three types: THICK, THIN,
   and LIQUID.  The first two are solid, and cannot exist anywhere
   else that is also solid.  LIQUID is just that, non-solid and can
   exist anywhere (e.g. below the real sectors floor).

   In keeping with that, the "FALL_THROUGH" special was removed, now
   you can only fall through LIQUID types (unless WATERWALKER comes
   into play).

 - The LDF file was renamed from "default.ldf" to "language.ldf", and
   the [DEFAULT] entry was renamed to [ENGLISH].
 
 - The DDF file "mission.ddf" was renamed to "games.ddf".

 - The DDF lump DDFMOBJ has been renamed to DDFTHING, and support the
   other names (DDFCNRY, DDFCRTR and DDITEM) have been removed.

 - All DDF files and lumps now need a "tag" near the top, before any
   entries beginning with [].  This tag determines the type of the
   entries.  For now, the tag must coincide with the filename.  These
   are the supported tags:

      <ANIMATIONS>   <ATTACKS>   <COLOURMAPS>  <GAMES>
      <LANGUAGES>    <LEVELS>    <LINES>       <THINGS>
      <PLAYLISTS>    <SECTORS>   <SOUNDS>      <SWITCHES>
      <WEAPONS>

 - New benefit/backpack system.  See the DDF docs for the full
   details, but in summary: the old fields (BENEFIT_TYPE,
   BENEFIT_AMOUNT, BENEFIT_LIMIT, BACKPACK_XXXX) have been replaced by
   a single field "PICKUP_BENEFIT" which contains a comma separated
   list of benefits to give to the player.
 
 - There are now four levels of armour: GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW and RED
   (from weakest to strongest).  Green saves 33% of damage, as before,
   Blue saves 50% of damage, no change there either.  The new ones
   well I need feedback on what their semantics should be.  For now it
   is this: Yellow saves 75% of damage, and Red saves 90% of damage.
 
 - The format of the GIVEARMOUR RTS primitive has changed, it is now:

       GIVEARMOUR  [type]  [amount]
   or
       GIVEARMOUR  [type]  [amount]  [limit]
 
   The [type] is one of GREEN, BLUE, YELLOW or RED.  The limit is now
   optional, it defaults to 200 when absent.
   
 - For the HEALPLAYERS RTS primitive, like above the [limit] is
   optional and defaults to 200 health points.  BTW, let me know if
   100 would be a better default limit.
 
 - The SECTORV primitive in RTS has changed, but only when used on
   ceilings.  The old way would subtract the value from the ceiling
   height.  The new way adds the value to the ceiling height, it is
   now consistent with floors.
 
 - The initial ammo and ammo-limits for players is not longer fixed, the
   new method works just like the PICKUP_BENEFIT field, like this:

       INITIAL_BENEFIT = [benefit] , [benefit] , ... ;
 
   You can give ammo and set ammo limits this way (used in things.ddf
   for the player things), but it is not limited to just ammo stuff
   (e.g. keys, powerups, more health/armour could be given too).
 
 - The initial weapon of a player is no longer hard-coded to "PISTOL".
   It will be the weapon with FREE=TRUE in weapons.ddf, and which has
   the highest priority.  If there are no free weapons, you begin the
   game with no weapon at all.
 
 - The PALETTE_REMAP field of things.ddf has changed, it is no longer
   a number, now it is a colourmap name within colmap.ddf.
 
 - The VOLUME= field in sounds.ddf used to only be used with the
   now-defunct LINK feature.  But now VOLUME= controls how much softer
   than normal the sound is played.  255 is normal value, 128 is half
   as quiet, and 1 would be barely audible.  Values greater than 255
   will make the sound louder than normal, but only upto a point.
   (Totally untested, no sound support in Linux yet).
 
 - In lines.ddf and ceilings.ddf, the fields that begin with "FLOOR_"
   and "CEILING_" (e.g. FLOOR_TYPE) now must begin with "FLOOR." and
   "CEILING." (e.g. FLOOR.TYPE).  The dot is a separator, for example
   "FLOOR.TYPE" means the field `FLOOR' and the _subfield_ `TYPE'.
   It's hard to explain, the main benefit is to make our code smaller
   and more robust.

 - In levels.ddf, the fields that begin with "END" or "PRE" (e.g.
   PRETEXT) now have a dot after the END/PRE (e.g. PRE.TEXT).  Same
   reason as above.
 
 - The following DDF fields have been renamed:

   anims.ddf:
     TICS -> SPEED
     ISTEXTURE=0 -> TYPE=FLAT
     ISTEXTURE=1 -> TYPE=TEXTURE

   switches.ddf:
     SWITCHON -> ON_TEXTURE
     SWITCHOFF -> OFF_TEXTURE
     SWITCHSOUND -> SOUND

   games.ddf:
     BACKGROUND -> INTERMISSION_GRAPHIC
     BACKGROUND_CAMERA -> INTERMISSION_CAMERA
     MUSIC -> INTERMISSION_MUSIC
     SPLAT -> SPLAT_GRAPHIC
     YAH# -> YAH#_GRAPHIC
     TITLE_PIC -> TITLE_GRAPHIC
     GRAPHIC_NAME -> NAME_GRAPHIC

   levels.ddf:
     GRAPHIC_NAME -> NAME_GRAPHIC
     ENDPIC -> END.GRAPHIC
     PREPIC -> PRE.GRAPHIC
     ENDPICWAIT -> END.GRAPHIC_WAIT
     PREPICWAIT -> PRE.GRAPHIC_WAIT

  - Default RTS scripts are now in the `edge.scr' file in the same
    directory as the DDF files.  (i.e. no longer in edge.wad).

New features:

 - Able to accelerate the text stage of the final final.
 
 - Able to have no weapon at all, you just run around with nothing in
   front of you.

 - Flats drawn in OpenGL version :).

 - SPIT_SPOT= field for things.ddf, which defines the thing type where
   the SHOOT_TO_SPOT attack shoots to (for the MAP30 brain shooter).