Recent changes to feature-requests

Lower color depth options (8bit, 16bit)

Vitoria Litwinczyk — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 16:20:56 -0000

I'm trying to get my Quakespasm to look as crusty as possible, because that's how I like playing older games like this. I think one crucial thing that is missing to finish the look is to be able to lower the color depth below the 24/32 bit colors that Quakespasm.exe and Quakespasm-sdl12.exe allow for.

Adding this feature would nearly complete the retro look for this source port, it would only be missing some texture warping and vertex warble.

Thanks for your time and all the work you all have already put in this sourceport.

#16 support for "basegame"

Ozkan Sezer — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:53:59 -0000

Personally, I'm not interested in this feature.

Eric, what do you think?

#16 support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 18:30:36 -0000

I was reminded by the latest QS release news to wander back by and check on this.

I'm fairly sure that vkQuake commit above would also be apply-able to QS. Anything I might be able to do to help along the possibility of getting this change in QS? Or alternately, any thoughts about why it's not suitable for QS?

Configurable names for screenshots

stoo — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:07:56 -0000

I would really appreciate it if the filenames of screenshots contained the name of the current map and optionally a date/timestamp.

Something like E1M1_20200122_140425.png instead of just SPASM0001.png

If multiple shots are taken within 1 second then just append an incrementing number or whatever to them.

This would be very helpful for a project I'm considering,

I love QuakeSpasm. Thanks.

#16 support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Sun, 04 Oct 2020 07:42:04 -0000

FWIW, the QSS behavior is rolled into vkQuake too as of this commit: https://github.com/Novum/vkQuake/commit/8b52a5ba316d4b41fb2d778257b686d4389a006f

#16 support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:15:03 -0000

Spike's QSS implementation isolated here: https://github.com/neogeographica/Quakespasm/commit/7ad76c35b87746d6976064fbe3d4c25e2dc5ebce

#16 support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 18:48:57 -0000

It looks like https://github.com/Shpoike/Quakespasm has an implementation both of multiple -game args and also of multiple -basegame args. If there's interest in getting this into the main branch here I can take a look at isolating those changes.

#16 support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:39:49 -0000

It's probably worth mentioning that FTE also has "-basegame" support but it works slightly differently, which might cause some confusion. FTE supports multiple basegame args, and as far as I can tell, with FTE as soon as you start using "-basegame" you have to be explicit about all game directories including id1.

So for example with my change here, you could run the Copper-based release "ctsj" using an existing copper installation with these args:
-game ctsj -basegame copper

But with FTE it seems like you would need to do this:
-game ctsj -basegame id1 -basegame copper

FTE's argument handling and filesystem implementation is different enough that I didn't want to tackle trying to mimic that behavior here.

support for "basegame"

Joel Baxter — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 19:28:16 -0000

With more and more releases for Arcane Dimensions and Copper, the approach of "merge these files into your existing AD or Copper directory" is annoying. It's error-prone and is a stumbling block for less technically-minded users. If we could instead deal with them like Quoth releases, i.e. in their own isolated gamedir, it makes a lot of stuff easier: installation, launching, and proper cleanup (including savegames and config).

For Quoth this is done with a dedicated "-quoth" flag that indicates the "quoth" directory should be used as a basegame. Rather than add more dedicated flags, how about a generic "-basegame" flag. There's some potential for interesting/messy corner-cases because of the need to continue to support existing behavior, but I took a shot at it here to illustrate how it might work: https://github.com/neogeographica/Quakespasm/commit/5b849b3abe32809f7047b24b790b177a0a8dc60c

Correct aspect ratio for GUI.

Nick Frost — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 08:21:12 -0000

So instead of this https://www.old-games.ru/forum/attachments/quake01-png.208116/ we get this https://www.old-games.ru/forum/attachments/quake00-png.208115/ (screenshots from other port, but that does not matter). Same for main menu.