DieHard Wolfers

[BrotherTank]

Display the Map Name on Get Psyched Screen
by Adam Biser

Here's what I'm doing for Orb of Dilaaria.
Open WL_INTER.C and add the lines in 'Blue' to your code as shown:

::: CODE :::

void PreloadGraphics(void)
{
   DrawLevel ();
   ClearSplitVWB ();   // set up for double buffering in split screen
   VWB_Bar (0,0,320,200-STATUSLINES,127);

   //Add these 4 lines to draw the map name given in the GAMEMAPS file.
   SETFONTCOLOR(0xf,0x0);
   PrintY=2;
   US_CPrint("Now entering...");
   US_CPrint(mapheaderseg[gamestate.episode*10+gamestate.mapon]->name);


   ..etc..

Then you just name the maps whatever you want them to be called via your map editor program (ie Mapedit, WDC, Floedit).

EDIT: Cleaned up code comments...
Enjoy... Adam
EDIT 2: added gamestate.episode to the ->name line.

[Guest]

What source file are we supposed to add this to?

[Adam Biser]

PreloadGraphics is in WL_INTER.C

[lucky_foot]

I'm assuming that the name of the map is placed in from the name given in Mapedit 8.4?

If not, how do you name the maps?

[Adam Biser]

@lucky_foot: Correct. Though I suppose you could also set up some form of string array in code if you wanted.

[lucky_foot]

Thanks.

I. myself, am i tutorial person who follows directions and has a slight knowledge of coding.

[Guest]

I've input the following code:

::: CODE :::

SETFONTCOLOR(0xf,0x0);
   PrintY=2;
   US_CPrint("Now entering...");
   US_CPrint(mapheaderseg[gamestate.mapon]->name);

in lines 1002-1005 on the WL_inter.C, I've doubel checked them several times (They are in the right places and I have no symbols or code missing) however I get an error when I compile.

"Error WL_Inter.C 1005: Statement missing;"
US_CPrint(mapheaderseg[gamestate.mapon]->name);

The first bracket in it is highlighted. Chances are that I've made a stupid mistake but I would be thankful of any help you can offer.

[BrotherTank]

Check the lines of code before the code added. Chances are there is something missing... a ";" semi-colon somewhere or bracket pair that is still open. What you posted looks right.

Greg
BrotherTank

[Guest]

Thanks for your help, I'd deleted one of the semi-colons from the code above by mistake and it has compiled this time. Thanks again for the help.

[BrotherTank]

Adam...

Don't know if you've found this or not... But this code works sometimes and others will throw wierd strings in the name. MCS found the problem when building EoD.. (which is one of the problems he is having now as he needs the string space back and wants to use this tutorial, but it sometimes throws the wierd characters).... And he's put it to me to figure out why this isn't working....

Here's what we've done so far...

Edit maps with Mapedit... change names to appropriate names... if the string entered isn't 16 characters before you hit enter, then the name will sometimes show properly, other times will add odd characters.

Edit the maps with WDC... This seems a little more stable, but will sometimes show blank or the odd time will add wierd or odd characters....

As an example... level 22 in EoD is called "Otto" ... 99% of the time it will show just Otto... but sometimes it will show "Otto ]$#%" or something to that effect. It does this more often when maps are named with Mapedit, but will do it as well with maps named with WDC.

The current problem with EoD is string space. MCS has run out... he was using an array to hard code the names (because he found this problem)... and now he needs for it to go back to using the variable from the mapheaderseg as in your tutorial.. This will save him close to 700bytes in string space (and hopefully fix the last of the problems in EoD).

So... I'm asking for your help in figuring out the problem... All EoD's maps were done with Mapedit... so if you can help with a fix, that would be greatly appreciated and help bring to an end the problems he's having fixing EoD.

Greg
BrotherTank

[Adam Biser]

Well, you can try something like:

::: CODE :::

void PreloadGraphics(void)
{
   char      mapname[17];
   byte      pos=0;
...
   SETFONTCOLOR(0xf,0x0);
   PrintY=2;
   fontnumber=0; // WSJ->Chris->KyleRTCW's disappearing text bug fix.
   US_CPrint("Now entering...");
   while (mapheaderseg[gamestate.mapon+gamestate.episode*10]->name[pos]>=32 && pos<16)
   {
      mapname[pos] = mapheaderseg[gamestate.mapon+gamestate.episode*10]->name[pos];
      pos++;
   }
   mapname[pos] = 0;
   US_CPrint(mapname);

Seems like it needs the null terminator.
I haven't tried to duplicate your error, so this might not fix it, but it acts like this is the problem.

EDIT: Conner94 pointed out that it would display episode 1 titles for episodes 2-6, so I updated the code to use "gamestate.mapon+gamestate.episode*10" instead of just "gamestate.mapon". This code came from Orb, which doesn't have episodes.

EDIT 2: Fixed the disappear text bug by adding "fontnumber=0;" before the US_CPrint line as noted above.
EDIT 3: Fixed the credit for EDIT 2.
EDIT 4: Put setfontcolor and printy here again.

[BrotherTank]

Thanks Adam... will pass it on to MCS to give it a test... As well as testing it here...

Greg
BrotherTank

Edit: Seems to work fine here.. Hope MCS has the same success...

[MCS]

Works flawlessly... thanks!

[Adam Biser]

This code was updated to work with episode based games. See post #11 for details.

[Reactor]

Greetings!
My problem is with my level titles. Some of them are too long for Wolfenstein Data compiler, I can't type them. I wonder if there is any way to enter longer level titles.

[Adam Biser]

16 characters is the limit of the GAMEMAPS structure. An idea for having a longer name might be to store all the map names in an ENDART chunk, load that chunk, find the name for the map and the display it. I've not tried this, and I don't have code for it, but it should be somewhat similar to the text grabbing stuff in WL_TEXT.C.

[Reactor]

Uh-oh,that sound so complicated to me!
Anyone has a small tutorial for me? I'll lose 50 life meter points!

[Tricob]

Reactor wrote:

I wonder if there is any way to enter longer level titles.

An alternative would be to have the longer name placed in the actual map, and have the code scan the map data to extract the level's name. But that means you can't use levels that cover up this area of the map.

In any case, that's a code trick that - once again - I don't completely know how to do.

[WLHack]

I have noticed that when you use the secret cheat (ILM, BAT, etc.),
then the map name isn't shown anymore in the Get Psyched screen
(To make it work again you must close the program and start again).

Is there anyway to prevent this?

[Adam Biser]

Don't cheat.

Seriously, though, I've noticed it, too. I haven't really tried to hard to figure out why it happens. I thought that

::: CODE :::

SETFONTCOLOR(0xf,0x0);

would take care of it.

I'll do some testing tonight.