Swp updated.

[ProAsm]

Originally Posted by heebijeebi

all the non-shareware-levels have the same music when I play with the last swp version....

Are you refering to Music or CDMusic ?
If its CDMusic then is the SwCustom.txt file in use or not because the 'old' SwCustom.txt had all that tracks as 4.

Also !!!
These are ALL the same music:

KOTOKI12.MID
NIPPON34.MID
SANAI.MID
YOKOHA03.MID
E1L03.MID
EXECUT11.MID
HOSHIA02.MID
KOTEC2.MID

These are the default Non Shareware levels and their music:

level 5 - yokoha03.mid
level 6 - nippon34.mid
level 7 - execut11.mid
level 8 - execut11.mid
level 9 - sanai.mid
level 10 - kotec2.mid
level 11 - kotec2.mid
level 12 - yokoha03
level 13 - nippon34
level 14 - kotoki12.mid
level 15 - hoshia02.mid
level 16 - hoshia02.mid
level 17 - None
level 18 - sanai.mid
level 19 - kotec2.mid
level 20 - None
level 21 - None
level 22 - None



A Senario !!!

Regarding a saved game.
You save a game with Music or CDMusic ON.
Next time you play, you decide to switch Music and CDMusic OFF.
You now decide to load that game you saved.
Does the music play as you saved with music ON, or does it remain silent. ?

[heebijeebi]

Originally Posted by ProAsm

Also !!!
These are ALL the same music:

KOTOKI12.MID
NIPPON34.MID
SANAI.MID
YOKOHA03.MID
E1L03.MID
EXECUT11.MID
HOSHIA02.MID
KOTEC2.MID

ok lol that explains everything

[Hendricks266]

I just thought of something else. Could you add the CDDevice and PlayCD options into the in-game menu if they aren't already there?

[ProAsm]

I did look at that and its awkward.
I have made quite significant changes which effects both the SwpSetup and SwpStartup in that up to now to disable music you set MusicDevice=-1 but that screwed up the Savedgame stuff as well as the CDDevice, so I have now enabled the MusicOn in the [Options] and now leave the MusicDevice and CDDevice to their respective settings rather.
Devices can only be set in the setup applications but the MusicOn and PlayCD could now both be done in menu.
Only problem is if MusicOn has a major effect on PlayCD but not the other way around.

[ProAsm]

Swp update 3.8.7

The Theme song music has changed a little to incorporate the different bosses - just made life easier.
Themes covering cdatracks and midi music (songs) have been changed in the SwCustom.txt.

theme 1 // game startup menu
{
    song "theme.mid"
    cdatrack 2
}
theme 2 // bonus screen
{
    song "endlev3.voc"
    cdatrack 3
}
theme 3 // serpent boss
{
    song "serpent.mid"
    cdatrack 13
}
theme 4 // sumo boss
{
    song "sumo.mid"
    cdatrack 13
}
theme 5 // zilla boss
{
    song "zilla.mid"
    cdatrack 13
}
theme 6 // endgame sequence
{
    song "ending.mid"
    cdatrack 14
}

Music Logics:

Normal play.
CD Music has priority.
If you have Midi Music enabled and CD Music enabled but forgot to put in your CD, midi music will be selected.
Saved Game.
Saved games will use the music they were saved with most of the time.
If you load a saved game and it was saved with CD music but there is no CD in the drive, midi music will be selected.
If you saved the game with midi music and you currently have CD music enabled, CD music will be disabled and midi music will play.
When saving a usermap the chances are you will not have the same music as was saved with the map as SW selects a random music.
However if you had a mapname.mid to go with the map, then that midi will be used.
On the next level, after any saved game, settings will revert back to what they were before the saved game was loaded.
Games that get saved that have Bosses in them will not have their themes saved simply because the routine does not know if there is a Boss in the level
So any saved games with Bosses will have the current default cdatrack or midi music played.

Up to now in Sw and Swp, the MusicDevice has been set to -1 if Music is disabled.
This caused havoc in the loading of Savedgames if sound was enabled when saving.
Sw does have an option for this which is used in the menu if you disable Music, yet it was never used in any of the setup applications.
This 'MusicOn' found in the [Options] is now in use in both SwpSetup and SwpStartup, making previous setups incompatible with Swp3.8.7
This also helped the Music on/off work better in the game menu.

CD Music
Added a CD Music option to Sound Menu.

Mapname
The mapname has been added to the Game Paused display.

Bug (maybe)
Currently if you disable Midi Music in the Menu or during a level, you cannot enable it again in another level.
It will show its enabled but the music will not play and you need to restart the whole game.
The rest however seems to work quite well now although needs lotsa testing

http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Swp38_7.zip

[TerminX]

Instead of all this midi shit, it might be good if you tried to fix things like the broken viewscreen in the first level, et cetera. Just a thought.

[ProAsm]

LOL thats fixed, well sort of, the red control now steers the yellow car with the silver key
I know.. I know.... its a hack, and a bad one... but it does the job until I can get it right

[0815Jack]

the new version works great for me......thx ProAsm

only one issue: if you load old savegames with the new version then you will experirence strange game behavior .... but that was expected to be happening

EDIT: an ingame volume control of the CD music would ne nice.....if possíble

[ProAsm]

When CD Music is selected it auto uses the Midi Music volume but I see your problem.
Yes old saved games will have issues as they did not have the extra CD music saved and I had to put that slap in the middle of the file, just the way it works.

[ProAsm]

Swp update 3.8.8

There was a small bug in that if using midi music, it would sometimes dissapear during a F9 quickload.
This has now been fixed.

A 'Load Saved Game' command has been added to the commandline in the form:
Swp.exe /game# where # is 0 - 9

The SwpStartup application has been completely revamped with items placed in their correct places.
There is now also a option to load a saved game as well as starting at any level.
Ambience sound and Stat options also added.

NB 1 It is advised to delete your Swp.cfg before using 3.8.8
NB 2 Previously saved games will not work properly with this version.

http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Swp38_8.zip

This will probably be the last beta unless more serious problems are found.

[veritron]

Your website seems to have gone down.

Does anyone have a mirror for that file? If I get a copy I'll happily mirror it.

[ProAsm]

The link seems fine to me.
Please do not mirror beta versions.
Wait for the final 3.8 which all going well will be this weekend.

[veritron]

Originally Posted by ProAsm

The link seems fine to me.
Please do not mirror beta versions.
Wait for the final 3.8 which all going well will be this weekend.

that's awesome and i thank you for your hard work.

i am getting redirected to a domain squatter page when i follow your link - your dns name might've expired or something, I dunno.

[ProAsm]

The final will be identical link except for filename.

i am getting redirected to a domain squatter page when i follow your link - your dns name might've expired or something,

Anyone else with this problem ?

Try this:
http://proasm.totalconversions.com/files/Swp38_8.zip

[veritron]

Originally Posted by ProAsm

The final will be identical link except for filename.

Anyone else with this problem ?

Try this:
http://proasm.totalconversions.com/files/Swp38_8.zip

that is working, thank you very much.

whatever happened to the dns had to have happened within the past day or so.

[ProAsm]

Swp38 Release

Ok finally we have a release.

Swp38: http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Swp38.zip

SwpStartup: http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/SwpStartup.zip

Source: http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/SwpSrc38.zip

Playwang: http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Playwang31.zip

Many thanks to all those that helped and contributed towards getting the music and cd stuff right

[skitey]

nice nice....

only 1 thing about "Playwang"...
could you make it working that i don't had to copy/duplicate the HRP-contend to the Games Directory?

[ProAsm]

Why do you need to do that, I dont do that and it works ok ?
What happens if you dont do that ?

** Edit **
Ok I see what you mean, mmm I wonder when that went wrong.
I'll see what I can do.

** Edit 2 **
Make sure you do not have a SwCustom.txt file in your root folder else none of the game's textures or the game will load.
Thats the only problem I had.
I will make Playwang 3.2 look for this and rename the SwCustom.txt if it exists when playing TC / Addons.
Otherwise it seems to work fine, with both using the Sw_hrp.zip or using the highres folder.

[Hendricks266]

How about you add a command line switch for swcustom.txt?

[ProAsm]

You mean the switch must be present else the swcustom.txt just gets ignored ?
If so maybe a good idea.
But even so whatever is in the root folder always get priority.
This is the reason why I was against a common filename like swcustom.txt as in the beginning Swp had a file which was the same name as the .grp etc, so LoNukem had a file called LoNukem.cfg which Swp looked for although the extension should have been something else.

[Hendricks266]

No, I mean like the /g and /h (plus /x for Duke) switches, but for swcustom.txt. So, it'll be something like /cLoNukem.cfg and it will use LoNukem.cfg as the swcustom.txt file.

[ProAsm]

Sorry, wires got twisted.
Yes thats exactly what I was refering to.
Ok I'll add it as you suggest.

[Hendricks266]

From what I understand from your post before your last, the swcustom.txt will not be loaded at all without the switch. That should not be the case; it should default to swcustom.txt.

[ProAsm]

Ok wildo.

[ProAsm]

Just playing some TC's here I now see what skitey means by the lack of the HRP.
Basically the way Sw and Swp is currently configured, if a whatever.def file is included with a TC or map, it replaces the sw.def and not just adds to it.
That sucks, because if the author did not add a include sw.def we loose the whole hrp!
I'm gonna change that so that the sw.def loads first regardless, then any other /hWhatever.def that comes along is added to it.

[skitey]

thx for understanding

[ProAsm]

Swp update 3.9.1

These adjustments mainly concentrate on commandline extra's, TC and usermaps.

The SwCustom.txt file.
There is now a commandline option /c or -c immediately followed by a filename which represents a map's or TC's SwCustom.txt equivalent.
For instance with LoNukem it would be /cLoNukem.cfg
It can currently be any extention although I feeling sticking to a .cfg might pay dividends in the long run.
Basically Swp will first look for a /c command and if not found it will look for a local SwCustom.txt.

Directory Path.
There is now also a commandline option /j or -j immediately followed by the directory name.
This directory/folder will now be added to Swp's searchpath.
For example, you have a folder called Test, and in that folder you have a map call Dojo.map
You also have some graphics and stuff for your map thus you have a Dojo.def file
You want to change the way weapons and inventory works so you have a Dojo.cfg file which represents the SwCustom.txt
So you now create a batch file to load and execute your map with all the goodies.
Dojo.bat
Swp.exe /jTest /cDojo.cfg /hDojo.def /map Dojo.map
That will do the trick just fine.
You can also now zip the whole lot up into a Dojo.zip file and only have the zip file in the Test folder and add to your batch file:
Swp.exe /jTest /gDojo.zip /cDojo.cfg /hDojo.def /map Dojo.map

http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Swp39_1.zip

LoNukem has been updated to accomodate the new /cLoNukem.cfg file.

http://www.proasm.com/files/swtcs/Lonukem_v24.zip

[Hendricks266]

It looks like your hack for the Seppuku Station viewscreen is not needed any more.
http://www.jonof.id.au/forum/index.p...c=780.msg0#new

[ProAsm]

Yes JF wrote to me about that and I have the code that he fixed and was going to do a new release this weekend, just been very tied up with other stuff.
I will still leave my fix in until his can work with 32bpp.

[ProAsm]

Swp update 3.9.2

Added JonoF's TV monitor fix that appears in $bullet.
I have left the old fix in until later.

http://www.proasm.com/files/sw/Swp39_2.zip

[ProAsm]

For those who need self installation:

http://www.jonof.id.au/forum/index.p...sg8113#msg8113

[Hendricks266]

ProAsm, there is a bug in the code to turn voxels on and off. The gun barrel (tile 764) does not go back to sprite form when voxels are turned off. They way it will work is that is will be aligned flat so that when you look at it from the side, it will look like a “|”. There may be another tile for the front somewhere, but I haven't looked.

[ProAsm]

Can you give me a map or level example where this tile is used as the obvious gun barrels I looked at use different more solid tiles.

[Hendricks266]

$DOZER.MAP - MAP02. However, it is not present in the map itself, as there is an ST1 sprite for that. You'll have to tinker with the source code.

[ProAsm]

It would seem, no matter how I look at the 764 gun barrel, voxels on or off, it always looks the same to me.
Maybe I'm doing it wrong as if I cannot see it I cannot fix it

[NightFright]

I am just playing through the game for the first time since I initially played it back in 1997. Good port, your SWP one. However I am not so satisfied with the MIDI solution, regarding that the same track is repeated over and over again in the non-shareware levels. The CD tracks sound much better. We need MP3 support soon!

[ProAsm]

Thanks, and I agree about the MP3's

[NightFright]

Hey, and "Playwang" is even better. It's simply *THE* utility to launch all the great addons out there. Great this is still being worked on.

One issue to report, though: If you use MIDI music in the original SW campaign and beat Zilla, the game crashes when it's supposed to play the "Lo Wang Rap" (from CD). You don't see the credits then, just the error message after the sentence "Lo Wang feels like a song now".

[ProAsm]

mmm thats not good
I must admit I never tested it that far and will look at it asap.

[ProAsm]

For months now I cannot make long posts on this forum so will make short ones.....