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.