Woof! 11.1.4

Bug Fixes

• more fixes for DSDHacked sprites and sounds.

Woof! 11.1.3

Bug Fixes

• more fixes for DSDHacked sprites and sounds.

Woof! 11.1.2

New Features and Improvements

• woofhud: implement centered widgets, avoid collisions with left/right aligned widgets.

Bug Fixes

• memio: init reset_eof field.
• fix automap overlay reset.
• fix DSDHacked crash.
• winmidi: prevent hanging notes when pausing game (@ceski-1).
• woofhud: avoid collisions between very long left/right aligned widgets.
• make cheat restrictions consistent for menu and player input.

Thanks @MrAlaux for reporting most of these bugs!

Woof! 11.1.1

New Features and Improvements

• winmidi: Sync with Chocolate Doom (@ceski-1).

Bug Fixes

• Fix setting EOF in memio, this bug broke most DEH lumps.
• Do not disable Widescreen menu item without Aspect Ratio Correction anymore (thanks @MrAlaux).
• Set display resolution when toggling Exclusive Fullscreen.

Woof! 11.1.0

New Features and Improvements

• Allow bound keys to be unbound in menus by pressing the same key.
• Implementation of the Native MIDI module for macOS (fixed regression after removing SDL_Mixer).
• Add -dumptables command line option to export generated translation tables to PWAD.
• Windows Native MIDI improvements (@ceski-1):
  • Fix EMIDI global looping.
  • Add MIDI compatibility levels. winmm_complevel config option:
    0: Vanilla (Emulates DMX MPU-401 mode)
    1: Standard (Emulates MS GS Synth) (Default)
    2: Full (Send everything to device, including SysEx)
• Distinguish exit with message on error and on success.

Bug Fixes

• Fix memory issues in dehacked parser found with ASan.
• Fix "Smooth pixel scaling" inconsistencies (now it should match Crispy Doom).
• More robust fallback logic for music modules (@joanbm).
• Always print player coords if automap is inactive.
• Eat key if cheat found (e.g. don't switch weapons when typing IDCLEV11).
• Resetting the MUSINFO track after changing the level.
• Add initialization checks to music modules. Fixed crash if sound device not found (thanks to @joanbm).
• Fix initialization with invalid video_display setting (@joanbm).

Woof! 11.0.0

New Features and Improvements

• HUD updates.
  • Introduce new WOOFHUD lump with ability to tweak widgets positions. See the woofhud.lmp example in docs/ and documentation in the wiki.
  • The three-line level stats and player coords widgets have been consolidated into single lines, the FPS counter is now a separate widget.
  • Ability to choose standard Doom font for widgets.
  • Smooth Health/Armor count (@MrAlaux).
  • HUD font patches updates (@liPillON).
• Switch to OpenAl Soft for sound mixing.
  • Massive improvements to sound mixing quality. Fixes issues with sound "clicking" (first room of DBP25.wad), sound overload (Revenants scream) and others.
  • Use libsndfile for SFX and music files loading. Support for a lot of WAV formats, Ogg, FLAC, MP3, Opus and others.
  • Use libxmp for tracker music.
  • Use a linear resampler and simple 2D panning to not differ too much from vanilla sound.
• New video options in General menu:
  • Add framerate limiting (@mikeday0).
  • Exclusive fullscreen mode. Activated only when normal fullscreen mode is enabled.
  • "Smooth pixel scaling" from Crispy Doom.
• Make mouse settings exactly the same as in Crispy Doom. Add mouse acceleration options to the General menu.
• Support BRGHTMPS lump from Doom Retro.
  • Format extension with the ability to set SPRITE, FLAT and STATE brightmaps.
  • De hardcode in-engine brightmaps. See brghtmps.lmp files in autoload/ directory.
• Generate color translation tables.
  • Improve readability and colors of custom fonts in menus and HUD.
  • Always draw demo progress bar with the lightest and darkest color available.
• Textscreen updates (ENDOOM screen and woof-setup)
  • Resizable textscreen windows.
  • Increase the default window size.
  • Render textscreen content to an upscaled intermediate texture. Improve non-integer window size scaling.
• Add a menu for binding cheats to keys/buttons. Ability to bind "Fake Archvile Jump".
• New cheats:
  • FREEZE Stops all monsters, projectiles and item animations, but not the player animations (from ZDoom).
  • IDDKT/IDDST/IDDIT (kill, secret, item) finder cheats from DSDA-Doom.
  • IDBEHOLDH (health) and IDBEHOLDM (megaarmor) from PrBoom.
  • SKILL cheat to show (or change) game skill level from Crispy Doom.
  • List of all cheats available in the wiki.
• Add options to disable certain HUD messages (@MrAlaux).
• Introduce hide weapon cosmetic option (see Weapons menu).
• Implement support for new author field in UMAPINFO.
• Add key binding for "clean screenshots" without any HUD elements.
• Rearrange the startup messages.
• Support monster infight field in Dehacked (taken from Chocolate Doom). Fixes monsters infight in 100krevs.wad.
• Add support for loading old Doom (< v1.2) IWADs. Not demo compatible.
• Complete donut overrun emulation (from PrBoom+/Chocolate Doom).
• Only delete the entire savegame name if not modified.
• Update strings edit in menu. Set cursor position at end of line, Backspace and Del work as expected.
• Play quit sound only if showing ENDOOM (@ceski-1).
• Disable "180 turn" in strict mode (new DSDA rule).
• Config updates. Do not store comments and deprecated entries, sort and group, clean up.
• Check if drag-n-dropped .lmp files could be demo lumps.
• Always interpolate idle weapon bob with uncapped FPS (@ceski-1).
• Add M_VBOX and M_PALSEL lumps from PrBoom+.
• Play a sound if the menu is activated with a different key than ESC.
• Support for QUITMSG1..QUITMSG14 in Dehacked (quit messages in D2ISOv2.wad).
• The demo footer is now compatible with PrBoom+/DSDA-Doom demo autoplay.

Bug Fixes

• Better automap controls, fix some rotate/follow/overlay inconsistencies.
• Windows Native MIDI fixes.
  • Fix songs with missing "hold pedal off" events (@ceski-1).
  • Update volume after "reset all controllers" event. In certain cases the channel can be audible even if the music volume slider is set to zero (@ceski-1).
  • Detect SysEx "part level" messages. Fixes volume in Valiant.wad MAP30 (@ceski-1).
• Fix stutter in custom weapon switch animations (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix colorized player names in network chats.
• Clip interpolated weapon sprites (thanks to @mikeday0).
• Fix always gray percent / always red mismatch in status bar.
• Fix -dogs default value.
• Fix desync due to randomly mirrored corpses feature (fixes DBP31.wad).
• Add check for wrong indexes in P_LoadSegs() (fixes 1killtng.wad map13).
• ESC key resets a menu item with multiple options.
• Fix crash when trying to send chat macro with key ASCII code < '0' (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Properly center colorized messages (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix alt-tab with exclusive fullscreen on Windows.
• Fix -dumplumps command line parameter.
• Fix puff interpolation on the floor level (thanks to @JNechaevsky).
• Print error and skip PNG patch (fixes practicehub.wad).
• Avoid ZIP file directory name clashes.
• Fix disappearing icon on fullscreen switch on Windows.
• Fix restart MUSINFO music loaded from save.
• Fix a skull in the menu being drawn over the confirmation box when deleting a save (thanks to @MrAlaux).
• Fix crosshair drawn over bezel in lock-on mode (thanks to @MrAlaux).

Miscellaneous

• Static build under Windows, there are no library DLLs in the distribution archive.

Woof! 10.5.1

Bug Fixes

• Fix crosshair lock on spectre targets.
• Fix some menu oddities with automap color and chat macro items.
• Fix midi_player config variable boundaries.
• Fix path length issues in config file parsing.
• winmidi: Manually unset MHDR_INQUEUE flag when hot swapping modules (@ceski-1).

Miscellaneous

• This will be the last binary release to still support Windows XP.

Woof! 10.5.0

New Features and Improvements

• Don't draw the status bar or any other UI in savegame snapshots.
• Add "Walk Under Solid Hanging Bodies" feature from PrBoom+.
• Support face gib animations in the status bar widget as in the 3DO/Jaguar/PSX ports (graphics lumps need to occupy the STFXDTH0 to STFXDTH9 name space).
• Allow COMP cheat to change complevel in-game (report current complevel when entered, expecting two-digit new complevel argument).
• Allow the SSG in Doom 1 if the corresponding assets are available.
• Implement SDL-native sound looping for moving walls (removing clicking noise between sounds).
• Have "Clear Marks" key clear just the last mark in the Automap (by @MrAlaux).
• Limit the number of identical sounds playing at once, based on priority ordering (based on code from Odamex and DSDA-Doom).
• Make color of health and armor count gray in the status bar and HUD widgets when invulnerable (by @MrAlaux).
• Add VGA "porch" behaviour emulation from Chocolate Doom (enabled by vga_porch_flash key in the config file).
• Implement dark automap overlay (by @MrAlaux).
• Support dedicated music (lump names D_E4M1 to D_E4M9) for Episode 4 of Ultimate Doom. Also, support to select these tracks (and the music tracks for UMAPINFO maps) by the IDMUS cheat.
• Implement crosshair target lock-on (by @MrAlaux).
• Increase internal maximum horizontal resolution to 1152. This is meant to add support for non-exactly 21:9 screens, such as 3840x1600 (WQHD+).
• Implement crosshair coloring by target health (by @MrAlaux).
• Windows native MIDI player improvements:
  • Support for SysEx messages.
  • Correctly reset MIDI devices with SysEx messages. Default is GS mode, can be changed with the winmm_reset_type config option (by @ceski-1).
  • The reset delay is configurable using the winmm_reset_delay config parameter. Useful for vintage MIDI devices (by @ceski-1).
  • Implement a "capital tone fallback" emulation that allows MS GS Wavetable Synth, Roland SCVA, Roland SC-55mkII and later devices to work in GS mode without any issues (by @ceski-1).
  • Fix looping timing, various optimizations (by @ceski-1).
  • Add full support for EMIDI, extensions used in Build engine games (by @ceski-1).
  • Implement Final Fantasy and RPG Maker loop points (by @ceski-1).
• No need to restart the program to change MIDI player.
• Ability to select Windows MIDI device in the menu.
• Scan the soundfonts folder and show all found .sf2 and .sf3 soundfonts in the menu.
• OPL emulation output gain. Allows to increase the OPL volume with the opl_gain config option (default 200%).
• Allow parsing of cosmetic items in the OPTIONS lump for all complevels.
• Enable doubled card and skull key display on status bar by default.
• Gamepad analog controls improvemets:
  • The turning/looking speed does not depend on the run key.
  • Ability to invert each axis separately.
  • Separate sensitivities for movement, turning and looking.
  • Possibility to disable the axis (choose "None" in the menu).
  • Do not allow simultaneous use of mouse and controller in strict mode when recording demo (new DSDA rule).
• Unify gamma correction: Both the F11 key and the menu slider cycle through the same gamma correction tables, with positive integers corresponding to the Vanilla tables.

Bug Fixes

• Take into account "smooth diminishing lighting" for "level brightness" feature.
• Set 'fastdemo_timer' to false before warping (by @rrPKrr).
• Fix starting "new game" or "load game" when fast-forwarding a demo.
• Do not switch timer if fastdemo is not enabled.
• Fix midi_player config setting description.
• Fix background drawing on screen size 3 in 21:9 widescreen mode.
• UMAPINFO: Don't show menu for only one episode.
• Fix "Show Demo Progress Bar" being disabled in the menu instead of "Default Compatibility" if the -complevel command-line parameter was used (by @MrAlaux).
• Do not allow autoloading in shareware gamemode.
• An IWAD called doom1.wad is now always checked for its content instead of blindly assuming the shareware IWAD.
• Fix NULL string comparison in DEH parser.
• Fix skull position in the help screen for Doom 2.
• UMAPINFO: Provide a default map progression if neither next nor endpic are set.
• Add the missing OPUS DLLs to the 32-bit build.

Miscellaneous

Woof! 10.4.0

New Features and Improvements

• Add snapshots to savegames.
• Separate mouse sensitivities for turn/strafe/move/look.
• Add mouse WheelLeft/WheelRight buttons (by @rrPKrr).
• Offer a choice of widescreen ratios (16:10, 16:9, 21:9) in the config file.
• Remove SPEED and TIME prefixes from the level time widget.
• Disable toggles and menu shortcuts when typing on chat.
• Add level brightness feature and ability to disable (or fade) menu background.

Bug Fixes

• Draw par times for IWAD maps and if set by DEH or UMAPINFO.
• UMAPINFO: Draw par times on intermission screen before endpic.
• Fix par time array overflow for Episode 4.
• Check demoplayback when calculating CRITICAL (by @rrPKrr).

Miscellaneous

• Convert main executable to .dll and add .exe and .com launchers.

Woof! 10.3.0

New Features and Improvements

• Add new steam dirs for Unity IWAD and Final Doom.
• Add optional BLOCKMAP bug fix by Terry Hearst. Add a "compatibility breaking" menu category for this and "Pistol Starts".
• Implement player view/weapon bobbing (off, full, 75%).
• Complete "missed backside" emulation and disable it by default.
• Avoid demo lump name collisions (e.g. MAP01.lmp).
• Add rudimentary support for "REKKR: Sunken Land" (rename IWAD extension to .wad), fixes unwanted colored blood.
• Add reverb/chorus settings for Native MIDI.
• Let exit lines blink on the Automap as well if "blinking keyed doors" are enabled.
• Add smooth texture and flat scrolling.
• Synchronize animated flats.
• Remove the "STS" prefix from the Level Stats widget.

Bug Fixes

• Skip response file in M_CheckCommandLine(), fixes network games initiated from the setup tool.
• Fixes for netgame demos and automap (fix playback skipping and progress bar for netgame demos, fix angles and interpolate other player arrows in automap, allow restart level/demo in deathmatch).
• Try loading a song again if SDL_Mixer couldn't detect it, fixes playback of some obscure MP3 files.
• Fix binding the mouse wheel to any action, excluding movement (forward/backward, turning and strafe).
• Fix Windows native MIDI level transitions (by @ceski-1).
• Remove SDL version check for Windows 11 "freezing" issue.
• Fix printing of timing demo results.
• Fix an issue with caching zero-sized lumps.
• Fix blood color setting (resp. unsetting) in DEH.
• Fix brightmap of the COMPUTE1 texture (by @JNechaevsky).

Miscellaneous

• The code base has been made compatible with Clang 15 and now requires a C99 capable compiler.