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* OpenGL renderer, allowing the following features: | * OpenGL renderer, allowing the following features: | ||
** Full [[3D floor]]s (including [[slope]]s) | ** Full [[3D floor]]s (including [[slope]]s) | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:35, 21 December 2023
GZDoom | |
Codebase | ZDoom |
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Developer(s) | Graf Zahl |
Initial release | 0.9.1 (2005-08-30, 18 years ago) |
Latest release | 4.11.3 (2023-10-26, 5 months ago) |
Development status | Active |
Written in | C++ |
Target Platform | Windows, Linux, MacOS |
License | GPL v3 since version 3.0.0.[1][2][3] Previously Doom Source License, 3-point BSD, others. |
Website | https://zdoom.org/ |
Source Repository
(Git) |
GitHub |
GZDoom is a fork of the ZDoom source port created by Christoph Oelckers (Graf Zahl), who still oversees its development. First released in 2005, it has versions for Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
GZDoom remains a popular port due to both its unprecedented modding capability and graphical optimizations for modern hardware. In particular, the ZScript language unique to GZDoom, combined with ACS and DECORATE inherited from ZDoom, enables a high level of gameplay modding and special mapping features.
Many maps and mods, plus some total conversions and stand-alone games, have been exclusive to GZDoom. This includes over a dozen Cacoward winners.
Contents
History[edit]
GZDoom started as a new renderer for PrBoom, but this early version was never publicly released.[4] In 2005, Graf Zahl ported his renderer to the ZDoom Community Build, and this marked the first official release of GZDoom. The port was from then on tied to the ZDoom codebase.
On January 19, 2008, development of the port was put on hold until another official release of ZDoom is made, due to highly extensive changes to the ZDoom renderer (which consequently require extensively changing the OpenGL rendering code for compatibility) coming more frequently than Graf Zahl could catch up. An official release of ZDoom was made on February 14, 2008, and version 1.1.0 of GZDoom was released shortly afterward incorporating the changes from that version.
On April 14 2010, Graf Zahl announced on the Doomworld forums that development of GZDoom had halted. He stated his reasons as having no time to work on it, and that he was frustrated by numerous complaints about the port's lack of compatibility with ATI video cards. Graf Zahl took down the website and all its subfolders, making GZDoom temporarily unavailable except from its mirrors. The site has since been restored.
In 2014, work on GZDoom's renderer resumed. Upon release of 2.0 on August 2, 2014, OpenGL 2.x support was dropped, as the renderer was rewritten to use OpenGL 3.x and OpenGL 4.4, albeit in compatibility mode. After some time of having dual 1.9.x and 2.1.x releases, support for OpenGL 2.0 was reinstated with GZDoom 2.2.0 in 2016, but with fewer features than before in that legacy mode.
Beginning in December 2016, following ZDoom's official halt in development,[5] GZDoom's development is now detached from ZDoom and the port is the first-level upstream for other forks (namely QZDoom and Zandronum), without looking back at ZDoom.
The current primary direction of development is ZScript, with several other things developed by contributors (for example, OpenGL renderer enhancements by dpJudas). Starting with version 4.3.2, support for the WAD files from the Doom Classic Unity port was added.
Features[edit]
- All ZDoom features
- Rudimentary support for Doom Legacy (To run existing Legacy mods like Ni'mRoD - IXNAY on the HOMBRE)
- ZScript
- Support for the DEHEXTRA standard
- Support for the MBF21 standard
- Support for the DSDHacked standard
- OpenGL renderer, allowing the following features:
- Full 3D floors (including slopes)
- Reflective floors
- Dynamic lights, brightmaps, glowing flats, custom hardware shaders
- Quake II and Half-Life-style skyboxes in addition to regular ZDoom skyboxes
- Optional High-quality (HQnX) rescaling filters for graphics, sprites and textures
- MD2, MD3 and DMD model support
When the QZDoom codebase was merged into GZDoom, the latter gained several new features developed by Magnus Norddahl (dpJudas) and Rachael Alexanderson (Eruanna). These include:
- Polygonal, 3-point perspective truecolor software renderer (“Softpoly”)
- Truecolor support for the classic 2-point renderer
- Postprocessing framework (SSAO, bloom, blur, custom post process shaders, etc.)
- Vulkan renderer backend
- HDR monitor support
- ZScript just-in-time compilation
- Proper windowed mode support (i.e. you can freely resize the game window)
- Correct ZDoom software light mode for the hardware renderer
- High resolution correct version of the software fuzz, for both software and hardware renderers
- Improved dynamic light math, shadowmaps and spotlights
- Materials (Classic, normal and specular maps and PBR textures), but not environment maps
Notable exclusives[edit]
These are notable creations exclusive to GZDoom.
Games[edit]
These are total conversions and stand-alone games.
Gameplay mods[edit]
These acclaimed gameplay mods can be used with the vast majority of classic Doom maps.
Maps[edit]
These are Cacoward-winning maps. Some are partial conversions with custom weapons or monsters.
- Ar Luminae
- Bastion of Chaos
- Dark Universe
- Infraworld - Coma Moonlight
- Mandrill Ass Project
- Putrefier
- Verdant Citadel
- Winter's Fury
External links[edit]
- Official ZDoom website, which is also the official site for GZDoom
- GZDoom documentation at the ZDoom wiki
References[edit]
- ↑ Oelckers, Christoph (29 April 2017). GZDoom 3.0.0 Released. ZDoom forums. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ↑ Oelckers, Christoph (16 April 2017). "Removed FMod as the last remaining piece of code that is not GPL compatible." GitHub. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ Oelckers, Christoph (17 April 2017). "Removed all Doom Source license and all default Raven copyright headers and replaced them with GPLv3. Also fixed the license in a few other files." GitHub. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ↑ Oelckers, Christoph (4 December 2015). How do you learn how to build source ports?. Doomworld Forums. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
- ↑ Randi (7 January 2017). ZDoom is Dead. Long live ZDoom. ZDoom forums. Retrieved 19 December 2021.
Source code genealogy | ||
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Based on | Name | Base for |
ZDoom | GZDoom | GZ3Doom |
GZDoom for OS X | ||
GZDoom Vintage | ||
Freedoom For Android | ||
LZDoom | ||
QZDoom | ||
ScoreDoom | ||
Skulltag | ||
Tower of Babel | ||
VKDoom |