[Beta 2 Artpack 1.0 released] SplitWolf

SplitScreen for up to 4 players in cooperative mode on a single PC!!! (SDL)
Support for both vertical and horizontal splitscreen!
Minimap/radar support.

Coding: LinuxWolf
Additional art: DoomJedi
New Boss art by Untrustable
Beta testing by HexaDoken

Spoiler:

Nexion wrote:For the 3-player thingy, just curiousity cause some games like to solve it different due to uneven number.

How many people/members were eaten alive till now by all (Team R.) projects together?

And do you have any tips how to lure programmers and mappers into the caves of others?

It seems to rain programmers somewhere.

Don't worry about people being eaten alive, i'm not hungry for now. Just wondered number-wise how many people were involved from Femstein era till recent stuff.

Nexion wrote:Didn't catch the one about hosting other projects like Metalor's one

we had a whole grand time talking over the project in the secret Guns and Glory forum.

Tragos2d wrote:This is exactly how I imagined Wolf would play cooperatively.

My only minor nitpick is that it feels too smooth.

Great work on the 8 sided sprites.

During the firing animation of the machinegun a frame is missing on one of the rotations. I haven't managed to grab a screen of it but a WOLF4SDL texture briefly appears. Again congrats, this project is worth keeping an eye on.

Team RayCast dev. forum wrote: Missing player frames - SPR_BJ_MACHINEGUNATK4 (dir4 folder, copy of SPR_BJ_MACHINEGUNATK2) and SPR_BJ_MACHINEGUNREADY (dir4 folder, copy of SPR_BJ_MACHINEGUNATK2 )

Tragos2d wrote:B.J's strafing speed is godike if you strafe with the mouse. Perhaps a maxspeed setting or delay in the code can address this. Sorry if this already was mentioned. (didn't read entire post above)

I must know if you play on adding any type of LAN or Netplay?

I understand the basics of socket programing for C++

How exactly does the AI handle itself when it tracks more than one player? This must have required an extensive re-write of the game logic. Does the AI simply pick who is the closet during the loop or does it perform a more advanced line of sight routine?

Anyone here use Teamviewer?

If so I think it's possible via remote viewing to mimic a multiplayer match.

Although I'm unsure if Teamviewer allows the "viewer" to enter in keystrokes of the viewee's machine.

Anyone care to try this out?

doomjedi wrote:The project is now on moddb

http://www.moddb.com/mods/splitwolf

-Cobra- wrote:
Does this mean we will see an updated beta with some improvements/fixes soon?

But you can PM LinuxWolf etc...maybe the more interest he sees in "SplitWolf" - that might affect his priorities.

-Cobra- wrote:I really hope this project doesn't get abandoned. =(

Could we at least get a new build with the "new art"

and Missing player frames - SPR_BJ_MACHINEGUNATK4 fix?

doomjedi wrote:Good news - LinuxWolf agreed to prepare a release of a new beta.

This will be a lengthy post, but I hope it might be helpful or
interesting to some of you...

Inspecting various wolfenstein addons files, I have
determined that there are five different "registered"
versions in circulation:

Apogee v1.1 (6/22/92 exe is 98,402 bytes)
Apogee v1.4 (12/3/92 exe is 110,715 bytes)
id v1.4 (9/2/93 exe is 259,310 bytes)
GT v1.4 (4/13/94 exe is 109,589 bytes)
Activision v1.4 (1/27/98 exe is 108,779 bytes)

On the first menu screen, the version number is on the bottom right, and the
picture on the top right shows the distributor's logo...the top left
picture always has the id logo.

All VSWAPS (graphics/digitized sound) and GAMEMAPS (levels) for
all five are compatible with each other. However, the VGAGRAPH (title screen,
info bar, etc.) for Apogee 1.1 and 1.4 are NOT compatible with any other
version NOR with each other. That is why VGAFILES.ZIP is offered with
the source code - these files are actually from what I call the id version.
The GT (Good Times) and Activision VGA files also work with the source
code.

Having said all this, the default executable you get when you compile the
source code is the id/GT/Activision one. The GT logo is the one
displayed on the first menu.

You can control what version you compile by overwriting VERSION.H with a copy
of one of the following files (I've been able to compile these three only) :

WOLFGTV.H GT version (equivalent to id and Activision)
WOLFVER.H Apogee 1.4 version
WOLF1VER.H Apogee 1.4 shareware version

Notes:
By default, VERSION.H = WOLFGTV.H

The only differences that I notice between the GT and the Apogee
compilations is the F1 key during play: Boss/DOS key for GT, help screen
for Apogee; and the Apogee one has an extra "non-shareware" message at the
start of gameplay.

When compiling the shareware version, to play you must use the VGA files
from the Apogee version. Remember, the shareware is Apogee 1.4
too!

SODVER.H and SDMVER.H would be used for Spear and its demo, respectively,
but they do not compile. I think the released source code has wolfenstein
video code updates, but this was not done for SoD yet. Some program called
IGRAB still needs to be run for SoD to work, I think. Unless someone can
figure out how to re-code this by hand....

Japanese and Spanish version code exists too, but files needed for these are
not included with the source code.

Comments?

Andy

WolferCooker wrote:Very interesting to say the least.

Do you guys plan on making/adding any optional sprites if someone were to use Splitwolf with a more advanced mod?

WolferCooker wrote:you can say art has something to do with it. But to be more specific, would there be optional sprites made to show BJ carrying a rocket launcher, rifle, flamethrower, etc. if someone were to add those weapons in their mod with SplitWolf in it?

doomjedi wrote:Thank you for your interest in the project.

It is obvious that everyone would like to play Wolf3D multiplayer.
When you say "you could add a option" - it sounds so easy...which is misleading. It's not like just adding an option...it's a task of whole different level and scale that require networking knowledge, packet handling, syncing, error handling...complicated testing and lot's of work - so much that it's no coincidence no coder yet took that as a project.
Even existing "SplitWolf" took huge amount of coding work to make, and it uses only local comp. Currently net support is not planned for "SplitWolf".

You can play multiplayer on Wolf3D zDoom remakes...there is also NetWolf alpha we are testing right now. Maybe ECWolf will have such capabilities?

I hope somebody will make faithful Skulltag Wolf3D remake, which would take it to whole other level.

wolfie wrote:i liked that you could cusumize player 2's clothes prehaps maybe you could take this a step farther and make it so you can custumize the colors of all the player's clothes and make your own color's as well

doomjedi wrote:

wolfie wrote:i liked that you could cusumize player 2's clothes prehaps maybe you could take this a step farther and make it so you can custumize the colors of all the player's clothes and make your own color's as well

First - player colors are customizable in SplitWolf within certain limited selection of colors - brown, grey, blue, green, pink, red, light blue ...sounds like enouph to fit most tastes.
Beyond that - it's not supported natively within Wolf3D palette.
Other colors have less shades which will lead to color loss and color depth differences between the colors.

wolfie wrote:i always thought while playing this mod
that you could only change player 2's cloths...