[FistMarine]

I know about loading SSI files directly and I know that the patches are obsolete now but the only reason why I used the Caribbean patch is because I couldn't make Shark's Cove load Caribbean because it expects to find vacation.grp file and not a SSI file. I didn't find any other way.

EDIT: When I was writing previous post, I forgot about EDuke32 loading the SSI files, that's why I suggested the patches. My bad.

[NightFright]

The Dropbox links have been automatically suspended until further notice due to excessive bandwidth usage. Sorry, folks. Send your complaints to Dropbox...

[FistMarine]

Report time I guess...

Aside from some mistakes found in the addons hints readme (see below), I found out that in Taivo pack, the old version of Dogville is included instead of the newer 2012 version, even though the text file mentions the date 2004/2012, I assumed that the newer version is included after all. Here is the download link for the newer version: http://msdn.duke4.ne...ogville2012.php

Also here is the link for Taivo's DM maps in case you want to include them in the pack:
http://dnr.duke4.net...palm_Death.html
http://dnr.duke4.net/maps/Seven.html

Addons Hints readme:

Cerovsky Pack: our -> your
Spiegul Contest: ot -> of
Taivo Pack mentions Dark Place Series

Hope you will also review all the suggestions/fixes from previous page as well. Polunka, now it's your turn to report bugs as I'm taking some time off from testing the compilation pack.

EDIT: Removed attachment

[NightFright]

What I haven't fixed/changed in previous reports will remain as-is. As for any content updates, it's like I said before. 2017. At some point in 2017. Can be December 2017 even.

And the Dogville readme included is from 2004, so you could have guessed from which year it was.

[FistMarine]

I reported some more issues in the meantime after the 3.12 update on previous page such as the newer 2.0 version of Red Light Romp map which is available on Steam Workshop. As for those con "fixes", I did that because there are some errors. For example in Space Map Pack, one of the map's whole name is called "Beta One: Moonbase Beta" but you put just "Moonbase Beta", even though for "Beta Two", you put the whole name, which is "Beta Two: Blood Moon". For Red Series, the old Red 1 is called The Long Road, not REDDUKE. I don't know why you don't want to fix these "minor errors", I did myself and that's why I insisted on these.

About content updates, I didn't know that those DM maps are classified as content updates, if you say so I will keep these suggestions for 2017 as I have a lot of suggestions regarding new content, that's why I'm saving all of these suggestions for next year. I didn't want to "spoil" anything. I'm going to remove the attachments because they are meaningless right now.

As for Dogville, both the readme and the map are the old 2004 version. I have checked the map included in the pack and it's the old 2004 version. I remember the 2012 version being a lot longer than that. In the addons_readme text file, it states the years 2004/2012.

[Fantinaikos]

I must point that the hit detection of the very first three levers of Complex (complex.grp) should be reworked, the "Mr. Zappy" one in particular requires the player to be in a position I never remember to be raised.

[NightFright]

I think this needs to be specified, it doesn't tell me anything. I never had any issues with those levels.

[Fantinaikos]

NightFright, on 05 December 2016 - 09:17 AM, said:

I think this needs to be specified, it doesn't tell me anything. I never had any issues with those levels.

I'm talking about this one.
 Zappy lever.bmp (883.25K)
Number of downloads: 34

Press Use against the wall: Not work.
Crouching and look up:Not work.
Press Use by a certain distance: Not work.

Apparently the only "way" to turn off/on is crouch, release crouch button and press Use button at the right moment, but sometimes neither that works and not so intuitive anyway. It's clearly not intended by the mapper.

[NightFright]

That looks more like a port issue to me than anything else. I wouldn't know what makes a switch act like that. I have already seen switches act weirdly when placed on certain walls in other addons. In those cases, it only got fixed when moving the switch to a completely different wall, but that's always a bad solution.

*EDIT*

Version 3.13 is available.

Changes compared to v3.12:
> Red Series: "RED1: RedDuke" ingame map title renamed to "The Long Road"
> Space Map Pack: "Moonbase Beta" ingame map title renamed to "Beta One: Moonbase Beta"
> Taivo Pack: "Dogville 2012", "Taivo Deathcity", "Seven" and "Napalm Death" added
> The Chronic: Door texture alignment correction for CHRONIC2
> Urban Map Pack: Replaced "Red-Light Romp" with version 2.0 (from 2013)

Those who want to update from v3.12 through the development folder (instead of downloading the full release), download and replace following files:
> addons.bat
> addons: addons.grpinfo, chronic.grp, red.grp, space.grp, taivo.grp, urban.grp
> addons\readme: addons_hints.txt, addons_readme.txt
> addons\readme\taivo: deathcity.txt (new), dogville_2012.txt (new), napalm_death.txt (new), seven.txt (new)

It is extremely likely this was the last update for this year, and probably also for the better part of 2017. My resting time starts after this update - this time for sure. Happy Holidays everybody!

[FistMarine]

Thank you NightFright! You just made my day with this surprise update. Happy Holidays everyone!

[NightFright]

I am unable to update the development folder right now, Mega isn't showing me the content of the "addons" folder, so I cannot update the groupfiles... x.x

*EDIT*
Fixed.

[Polunka]

Caught me off guard, really! And I'm glad you've fixed the problem with MEGA.

[Anvil]

NightFright, on 06 December 2016 - 12:01 AM, said:

> Urban Map Pack: Replaced "Red-Light Romp" with version 2.0 (from 2013)

Where did you get this version from?

*EDIT*
Nevermind, found it under a slightly different name.

[TheDragonLiner]

It might be a dumb question but I lost track of this for too long so ... is the fix for Oblivion's Muddlelizer integrated in this new release ?

[NightFright]

That fix is already implemented since v3.1. Or should be, at least.

[FistMarine]

Yes, the fix is integrated into the newest versions. I remember I helped with fixing that bug, so I know for sure it was fixed.

[Polunka]

TheDragonLiner, on 07 December 2016 - 05:31 AM, said:

It might be a dumb question but I lost track of this for too long so ... is the fix for Oblivion's Muddlelizer integrated in this new release ?

Seems you've been absent here for a little too long

[TheDragonLiner]

Polunka, on 09 December 2016 - 12:57 AM, said:

Seems you've been absent here for a little too long

Well the thing is that after the stories with Oblivion I've had a vacation somewhere and this topic has advanced quite quickly in the mean time so I was completely out of track with you guys ^^
And when I got back I was more into drawing than gaming so it delayed my coming back to D4N even more >_>

Thanks for answering BTW

[FistMarine]

A new report has arrived!

addons_readme fixes:

About: is is -> is
Duke Hard: map map -> map
Duke is 007: of don't -> don't
Last Reaction & Water Bases: E3L5 -> LASTR05
Credits (Robert Travis): "Moonbase Beta" -> "Beta One: Moonbase Beta"


The only thing I haven't changed myself is the FM3X description. The readme file states that the addon was first released in 2009 but Fernando actually released the New York Rebellion episode back in 2007, then he released FM2X in 2009 that contained both New York Rebellion and Orbital Oblivion. I left that for you as I don't want to change too much.

Misaligned texture in Red Light Romp V2:


Suggestions:

Include skybox for Fbsp003 and Spiegul Contest
Move the Munasta series from Space Map Pack into their own grp
Rename addon "Secrets of the Acropolis" to "Infinity: Secrets of the Acropolis" (addon's full name)

EDIT: I know you said it's the last update but I had to report all of these (though I wish I found all of these before you released 3.13). Oh well, it's never too late to report any bugs. And actually I wouldn't mind a new version 3.14 (codenamed "Pi") to be released on Christmas day.

[NightFright]

No way. I am done for this year. Thank you for your report.

And no more "misaligned texture" reports any more, please. Those are so incredibly trivial. Give those authors a chance for slight imperfection, ok?

[FistMarine]

NightFright, on 12 December 2016 - 01:40 PM, said:

No way. I am done for this year. Thank you for your report.

OK no problem then.

NightFright, on 12 December 2016 - 01:40 PM, said:

And no more "misaligned texture" reports any more, please. Those are so incredibly trivial. Give those authors a chance for slight imperfection, ok?

OK I understand. The only reason why I reported this "misaligned texture" was because it's right there at the map start. Something tells me that the author forgot to change the texture since the new version doesn't use the custom art like the first version did.

[Fantinaikos]

"Haunted Nukem" goes in conflict with fixed GAME.CON by Darkus, not allowing it to begin (this is surely the problem because when I move it to another folder it starts). What lines I have to add to make it compatible even with that?

Obviously if this does not de-fix Darkus work or negatively afflict other mods and/or vanilla game.

[NNC]

Just wondering... is the ceiling aligned handbutton works in Mothership (part of the pipeline pack or "The Day After") now? It was a functional button in the original DOS version, but strangely not with EDuke32 versions... I'm not sure if it can be fixed with map changes or it needs change in EDuke32 code. The button opens the middle chamber of the shrink ray that allow the player to find a well hidden secret place.

[FistMarine]

I remember that one of the buttons in Mothership didn't work in EDuke32 when I played the map last time in 2015 I believe.

Also another important thing to mention is that the swing doors in E5L14 in Metropolitan Mayhem don't open, as said in the addons readme file. At first I didn't believe this because I remember that it worked for me before but I checked the map recently and it is indeed broken. I checked with both the addon compilation version and the normal version of Metropolitan Mayhem (the one released at Moddb) and it still doesn't work. I recall the last time it worked was in 2015 when I played the episode last time.

These are definitely EDuke32 bugs that should be fixed.

[NNC]

Now I found an old thread of mine about this issue, and the final conclusion was that v1.5 fucked it up, not EDuke32. Ceiling/floor buttons only work with hitscan or block flag on them.

[Master O]

NightFright, on 24 August 2014 - 11:48 AM, said:

Since mid-2013, I had been working on a pack of Duke3D addons which can be easily run from within the EDuke32 launcher by using the grpinfo feature. The result is a collection of about 109 groupfiles containing about 1.100 levels, almost 1.6 GB of data (uncompressed).

How it works:
- Creates an additional folder in your Duke3D directory ("addons") which contains all the groupfiles.
- You add -jaddons to your EDuke32 shortcut.
- When launching EDuke32, you will see all the groupfiles in the launcher afterwards....

This addon compilation is awesome. Thanks so much for putting it together, NightFright.

Also, if any mods are reading this, please sticky this thread. It's that great a thread.

[FistMarine]

So it's been more than 2 months since the last update and since the thread was bumped a week ago and have recently finished with my exams, I decided that it's time to post all my bug reports, fixes I've done myself and suggestions for the next version. Warning: huge spoiler ahead!

Spoiler

Addons Readme errors

About: is is
A.Dream Trilogy: The first Dream level was released in 2008, so it should say 2008-2011
Duke is 007: if dont
Duke Hard: map map
FM3X: Description should mention the fact that New York Rebellion was released in 2007, then Orbital Oblivion (bundled together in FM2X) was released in 2009
JJ Duke3D: E2L4 -> JJ204, E3L9 -> JJ309
Last Reaction: E3L5 -> LASTR05
Vermin Clearance: hoardes -> hordes
Credits: Moonbase Beta -> Beta One: Moonbase Beta


Bugs found

Missing Skyboxes in FBSP Series (Fbsp003) and Spiegul Contest (reported in previous post)
Oblivion: Muddlelizer and Expander have swapped sprites (Muddlelizer has red color, Expander has green color)
The Chronic: Typo in CHRONIC1 viewscreen "The aliens is everywhere"
Urban Map Pack: Red Light Romp 2.0 has a misaligned texture (reported in previous post)


Fixes I've done myself

BobSP Series: Added the GAME.CON file that comes with original BOBSPX map (changes protectors to spit like enforcers and queen boss drops keycard), removed the Alternate BobSP X episode. Please note that the map I kept is the "alternate" one and renamed it to BOBSPX, since THIS is the ORIGINAL version of the map. The version with missing boss fight should be labelled as "alternate", in case you want to have an alternate version of the map in the pack. For now I just kept the original version with the boss and CON file inside the fixed grp file.

DukeVR: Undefined the user episode levels that still remained defined

Glavic Pack: Made maps into a single episode, added the DM maps into a separate episode. DM maps can be downloaded here:
http://dukeworld.duk.../a-e/Adgdm2.zip
http://dukeworld.duk...maps/p-t/ss.zip

Kucera Pack: In Vesmir, I textured the outside area and added the missing underwater tags in two places

Metropolitan Mayhem: Undefined the original 4 episodes, there is already an officially released E5 right now

Operation Blitzkrieg: Renamed "BLITZKRIEG: POLYMER" episode to "POLYMER EDITION"

Pinxten Pack: Renamed episode to Pinxten Pack and gave names to first 4 "MP" maps based off the text files

Shark's Cove: Undefined original E2 and E3 episodes

Space Map Pack: Earthbound: Beta Station renamed to Earthbound Preview: Beta Station (map's full name), moved Polaris Outpost 2 to the correct slot (before map "Between Sun & Moon") according to the date when was released. Before it was placed not only in the wrong slot (after map "Bowels of Hell Space Station", which was after first Polaris Outpost map) but also it wasn't sequel to the first Polaris Outpost map, so it should be placed in chronological order.

Spiegul Contest: Renamed the map titles to their full name (example MRCK'S SPIEGUL MAP instead of just MRCK)

Urban Map Pack:
AlexCity1: Bank Heist renamed to AlexCity 1: Bank Heist
Moved Kill City to E7 slot instead of E1 but kept it inaccessible as intended

WGRealms: Renamed the level title to just BEERZITY

Download fixes:

Suggestions for Current Addons

Alien VS Predator: Add user maps created for the addon
Return to Fury 161
Predator 2

American Assault: Rename grp assault to american like you had it named originally, sounds better that way

Aqua Series: Rename to Aqua Trilogy

Chimera: Add the missing LR&WB intro, add http://dukeworld.duk.../HiddenZone.zip as bonus map

Command and Conquer Map Pack: Rename to Command & Conquer TC

Community Build Project: Rename grp commbuild to community, add rest CBP series (see below)

Crucial Conflict: Rename maps MPCCE1L1-3 to MPCC1-3

Duke is 007: Remove the 007GAME.CON file as it is identical with the original GAME.CON file

Fbsp Series: Rename to FBSP Trilogy, merge into a single episode with option to keep/reset inventory

FM3X: Update released in November 2016 (extract FM3X-FULL and right click on any file to see its original modified date as it has been changed to 1998 for nostalgic purposes) https://onedrive.liv...A2A9AB863405F55

Jungle Tour Trilogy: Merge into a single episode with option to keep/reset inventory

Lorch Trilogy: (In Lorch 3) Perhaps add an atomic health spawning in front of elevator after deactivation of forcefield instead of 2 large medkits placed behind elevator?

MSSP Episode: Add MSSP8 as bonus level in separate episode, it was released after the episode was completed, link to map here: http://dukeworld.duk...s/k-o/mssp8.zip

Pipeline Series: Rename to Pipeline Pack or The Day After, merge the 2 parts of The Day After into a single episode

Platoon TC: Incorporate weapons fix from here: https://forums.duke4...ix-for-eduke32/

Quakis Pack: Merge levels into a single episode with option to keep/reset inventory, include Q-Red in the episode as there is no reason to not include it

Ruohonen Pack: Update released on Duke Royale: http://msdn.duke4.ne...tdukeroyale.php

Secrets of the Acropolis: Rename addon to Infinity: Secrets of the Acropolis (also rename grp file acropolis to infinity)

Starship Troopers TC: Rename grp starshiptrp to starship

The Army of Death: Add user map Enlighten the Darkness by Quakis as bonus episode: http://msdn.duke4.net/hotenlighten.php

The Brave New World: Rename grp bravenworld to braveworld

The Prequel to Time: Rename grp prequel2time to prequeltime

Undertaker Series: Rename to "Savior of Alien Era" according to Steam workshop page that contains these maps: https://steamcommuni...s/?id=222190963

Urban Map Pack: Rename Mylev.map to SAS.map for better recognition


Complete CBP Series

Beach CBP
1 Hour CBP 1
1 Hour CBP 2
1.5 Hour CBP
2 Hour CBP
Jonof CBP 1
Jonof CBP 2
Suburban Hive
Suburban Hive 2: Crimson Moon

Space Map Pack

AT_AT Walker
Bobafett
Clearwater
Close Range
Delta Station Down
Invaders
Maia
Moontang Episode 1: Brig it on
Nasty Flavour
Overlay
Spacetrap
The Last Train to Marsville

Urban Map Pack

Alpha City
Atomic Arena
Bite the Dust
Brooklyn Bridge
Buenos Aires Explosive Remake
City at Night
Condemed
Crash and Burn
Domino 2
Driving Home For Christmas
Duke 2070
Duke's Day Off
Dukem Memorial Hospital
Earth Base
Emergency Room
Entrapped
Ethanol Fever
Factory
Factory X
Flood Area
Fantasy Hotel
Galbadia
Groovy Street
Hollywood Holocaust II
Hostile Waters
Insurance Overload
LA Duke 2002
Megalomania
Midnight Arrival
MS-Subway
Needle Time
Parkade
RCPD
Redrock
Routine
The Last Pissed Time
Sewer
Shrunken
Slaughterfest
Sludge Plunge
Supply Depot
Sweeney
The Newbeast Research Facility
The Rock
Urban Reclamation
We Store Your Crap!
XXXmas98

New packs/series

-Anarchy City Series
Anarchy City 1: Atomic Version
Anarchy City 2: Neighbourhood Nightmare
Anarchy City 3: Zero Tolerance
Anarchy City X: Bummed Out!

-DN64 Pack
DN64 Single Player
Hollywood
Gun Crazy
Transit
Stadium

DN64 Multiplayer
Piracy
Castle Dukenstein
Noctis Labyrinthus
Shaft

-Duke Nukem For3ver
Part 1
Part 2

-Forge Pack or Hours Series (the latter name is suggested by Fantinaikos)
Duke 3:16
Duke 23:4
Duke 6:8
Duke 12:12

-Gambini Pack
Duke Nukem ex Mortum
Men in Black
Hydrofusion Substation
Rush Back
It Lives
2 Hours My Balls

-High Treason Pack
EDF Computer Base
Riverside Town
Quantum Physics
Nitroglycerin

-Kevin Cools Pack
On Him Their Lives Depend
Christmas 2001
Eye-Witness (included in Glavic Pack)
Christmas 2002
We Store Your Crap Remix
Retrospective (included in Urban Map Pack)
Freedom
Kut World

-MRCK Pack
Clerey
Notre-Dame des Aydes
Tours - Rives du Cher
Dark Side of the Moon
Mega-CGR
Downtown Ride
Overtime (included in Urban Map Pack)
Rural Nightmare
Filler
Roch Island
Happy Hangover
The AMC Pleaser (included in Urban Map Pack)
Bottles to the Ground
Anorak City
Wide Awake!
Hibernal Solstice
Siebenpolis
The End of the World Part 1

-Munasta Series/Trilogy (included in Space Map Pack)

-Oostrum Pack
The Big City (included in Urban Map Pack)
Maarten Desert
The Toxicity (included in Urban Map Pack)
Alien Planet X64-2
Supa 3
Operation: Get Bike Back
Another Big Base Attacked
Clear the Coast
The Unknown Planet
Shaky Grounds Part 1: Apocollapse

-Papamonos Pack
Secret District
Killing Floor
Gates Motel
Transylvania
Mission: Perejil
Creatures of the Night
Living on the Wildside
Stellar Death (included in Space Map Pack)
The Return (included in Urban Map Pack)
Toys 'R' Killers (included in Urban Map Pack)

-Rendezvous (unfinished episode with 3 maps released)
Resistance Rocks
Demolition Plant
Mincer City

-Skycity Series/Trilogy
Skycity
Skycity 2
Skycity 3

-Supertanker Pack
SP maps:
EDF Base
Tiberius Station 5 (included in Space Map Pack)
Artic Base
Aqua Base
Lunar Base DQN1925 (included in Space Map Pack)
FOS Station (included in Space Map Pack)
Area 27
Cherenkov Station (included in Space Map Pack)

DM maps:
Aqua Arena

-Thobias Pack
SP maps:
City of Despair
Stadium Redux
Desert Storm
Retalitation
Apprehension Arrizona
Baptized in Lunar Dust

DM maps:
Crossroads
Ginnungagap



New single maps/addons

2121 A.D.
Asylum
Alien VS Predator 2
Aliens VS Duke
Atomic Heretic
Bedrone
Deadfall
Demolition
Duke Craft
Duke Nukem Xmas 2013
Duke Nukem Xmas 2014 (2015 version)
Electric Highways
Epic
Fernocity
Lighthouse
Locked Up 1: Qwertys Railways
Merc: Fatal Reality
Merc 2
Nuclear Showdown V2 (with the two recently made maps for the mod)
Operation Xenocide
Park Demo
Pray Your Prayers 2000 (includes the user map Repent)
Preparing for Christmas
The 4 Elements
The Edge
The Realm of Grune
The Thing
The Wall

Note that I don't expect NightFright to approve half of these reports and suggestions but I did my job as a bug reporter and suggestion giver. It's up to him to decide what should be approved for next version. Oh and before someone says something about all that work, no I am NOT saying NightFright should start working on these right now. He can work whenever he wants as I completely understand all the hard work that was put into this project, plus I'm not interested in gaming right now.

EDIT: I have modified this post several times since I originally posted this message. I suggest to re-read all the suggestions since there are quite a few changes.

[Master O]

Since it's part of this addon compilation, does anyone here know where the yellow key in "Alien Extermination Episode 1, Level 5 (Ambush)" is? There's no Youtube playthrough of it, so that doesn't help much, either.

[Polunka]

RunningDuke, on 20 February 2017 - 03:40 AM, said:

So it's been more than 2 months since the last update and since the thread was bumped a week ago and have recently finished with my exams, I decided that it's time to post all my bug reports, fixes I've done myself and suggestions for the next version. Warning: huge spoiler ahead!

Woah, that's an immensely big deal of work you've done. Good job! Guess I've been absent for a little too long here (pun intended; see one of my previous posts where I addressed TheDragonLiner's absence ). The thing is, I'm not particularly interested in playing Duke 3D as of now (have been mostly into Doom/Quake 2 recently) plus NF is away (he must be busy with sth), he's not sent any posts in a while now.

[Polunka]

Master O, on 20 February 2017 - 07:21 PM, said:

Since it's part of this addon compilation, does anyone here know where the yellow key in "Alien Extermination Episode 1, Level 5 (Ambush)" is? There's no Youtube playthrough of it, so that doesn't help much, either.

So I just played this level for you. I'm kinda surprised you didn't find the key. It wasn't the simplest find, but nor did it turn out so subtle.

Spoiler

There's a room with 8 large water tanks (well, that's actually where the yellow access switch is). One of the tanks (which I marked on the automap shot in the attachment) is broken open. Just dive into it, then pass through a not-so-big underwater maze (the other tanks are involved as they're all connected into a whole system). There you will find the card next to a skeleton.

P.S.: There's also a nearby scuba gear in one of the next rooms in case you didn't know.

Btw, an advice: there's that file addons_hints.txt inside addons/readme directory. There you can find some useful tips on how to pass certain points in some levels of some addons.

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