DRD Team

I don't actually know it and didn't find anything in the documntation thats why I ask: How can I scroll a 360° skybox (the one with the N,W,S,E,B,T)? For example just scrolling horizontally or even both possible directions so you feel just like in "Facing Worlds" of UT, on a asteroid floating in the space void?!

The normal sky scroll option in MAPINFO can be used for horizontal rotation.

So no vertical scrolling? To make the map look like an Unreal Tournemant "Facing Worlds"? If not, could you add this for the next version of GZDoom? I really would need something like this for my "Sapphire" map!

Zdoom has never had Vertical Scrolling skies, although I wish it did.

Cutmanmike wrote:Zdoom has never had Vertical Scrolling skies, although I wish it did.

Yeah, true, but this is GZDoom and the 360° Skybox If it is possible in Unreal/Unreal Tournament, it should not be too hard to implement it in GZDoom... and it would be soooo coool

It wouldn't be hard. Add just another rotation operation to the matrix. I'll consider it for the next version but to be honest, I have been so busy with keeping up with ZDoom the last 2 weeks that I haven't done any real work on GZDoom itself.
I'll probably wait with the next release until ZDoom 2.0.99 is done anyway.

Graf Zahl wrote:I'll probably wait with the next release until ZDoom 2.0.99 is done anyway.

Any idea how long that will be? I see that you have been doing a power of work with Zdoom, and Randy has been active too, so I'm hoping not long. It's just that there are a couple of little annoyances in the current GZdoom that I'd like to see the back of and I know they have been already been fixed.

But, in your (and Randy's) own good time, of course. I realise you are both busy people. I just wondered if there was any "feel" for how far away a new version was.

I'm sorry but I have no idea when Randy considers the code good enough for release. But GZDoom at the moment for sure is not. I still have to port a significant amount of code from ZDoom, then check that I got everything and then playtest it for myself. The changes are so extensive that I won't release anything without making sure first that it works well.

But regarding ZDoom's bug reports, there isn't much I can do anymore. Many of the remaining reports are strange occurences that are probably untraceable so most of what's left is up to Randy.

OK, well thanks for the "situation report" anyway.

admittingly It'd be interesting to see what would happen with this sort of thing.

Graf Zahl wrote:I still have to port a significant amount of code from ZDoom...

Dare I ask it? Does this significant amount of code include the floating point stuff?

No.

So will this be included in the new GZDoom version? I really would like to use it in my "Sapphire" map

Either 1.0.05 (unlikely) or 1.0.06 (more likely.)

Might be okay, as Sapphire will be released in about 1 or 2 months, so enough GZDooms should pass since then, thx