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Slopes have a thin black line drawing around them that don't look quite right.

Note: If you have the original Steam releases of the Doom games you are up-to-date and do not need to bother reading this.

As you may or may not be aware, several versions of Doom were released between 1993 and 1995 due to bugs being found, and features being added. You can find all of the history for the releases here.The latest version of all of the iwads are final version "1.9"

If you need to check which version of any IWAD you have, you can use this utility by Russell: http://russell.slipgate.org/iwadverifier.php

There are patches released by id software that will update your installation of Doom and Doom 2 to the latest version, however you have to have the original full install which includes the exe, wad, and all corresponding files. Additionally they only run in DOS. But fear not, as patching utilities to simplify the process have been made over the years!

http://www.doomgate.de/content/files/ladopato/javapatcher/JIWadPatcher.html

This iwad patcher will take any of your doom iwads and update them to the latest version, all you have to do is point it at what file you want to patch. Doom 3: BFG Edition users, you might want to go ahead and revert your iwads BACK to version 1.9 to uncensor the Wolfenstein levels. Note you do want certain final outcomes:
For Doom you want "Doom_19ud" AKA Ultimate Doom
For Doom 2 you want "Doom2_19" Final release before the BFG versions were released that censored stuff
For TNT you want "TNT_19" (but you already have this)
For Plutonia you want "Plutonia_19" (but you already have this)

This error looks pretty similar to what this user was experiencing. Maybe it can help you. http://odamex.net/boards/index.php/topic,2169.0.html

One was started, however Decay needs to let us know how out of date it is.

As you go back in time, you will find that ZDoom is highly incompatible with itself. The reason Rex's Darkest Hour doesn't work from 1.22 to 1.23 is because ZDoom tended to change a lot of things without regards to how things worked and how modders were accustomed to previous versions. I'm sure the Odamex team would love to see full Boom and ZDoom 1.22/1.23 support, however there is not enough time in the day to keep up with demands and too few well documented bug reports to rely on. Its very rare that you come across developers that are willing to delve into the engine as thorough as some of the developers we have and we're lucky to have them. But the fact of the matter is is that there is nobody dedicated to simply "fixing compatibility." We would all love to see perfect DeHackEd, Boom, and ZDoom support (on and offline). But as of right now, development is a bit slow and the priority is netcode improvements, rendering improvements, and a more robust menu system simply because these criteria are what the developers enjoy working on the most.

If any developers are reading this topic and want to help the Odamex team out with anything coding-wise, please do not hesitate to contact the team via IRC or the bug tracker!

No, use DOOM IN DOOM FORMAT

A few bugs:



All player color icons appear a shade of blue in the scoreboard despite them being different colors.



Translucency effects appear to not be as translucent anymore? zddl4.wad map00 for testing

Oh no! IDL2013l.wad now includes rainbow road!


It's supposed to look like this. This screenshot was taken in 0.6.2 release:


map11 has a few issues with rendering these textures.. not sure what the problem is. They also appear tutti frutti in 8-bit mode in your modified client:


This screenshot is what it is supposed to look like. It was taken with 0.6.2 released:


Also in map11 of idl2013l, dying in the slime shows a great testcolor green screen! This is actually worse when you switch back to 8-bit mode in your modified client... because then it turns tutti frutti and crashes:


This screenshot was taken in 0.6.2 release. This area is supposed to look like this:


Last but not least, particle fountains are rendered in tutti frutti! Cool, but not intentional:


By the slime the particle fountains are green, right in front of me where the SG pickup is they are supposed to be blue. This is idl2013l map29