Crispy Doom 5.10.0

Crispy Doom 5.10.0 is released on Jan 12, 2021. Its major new feature is the addition of support for the widescreen assets found e.g. in the Unity version of Doom.

New Features and Improvements

• Proper support for widescreen assets has been added (by @SmileTheory, thanks @ghost and @chungy).
• The bezel bottom edge to the left and right of the status bar in widescreen mode is now preserved (thanks braders1986 and @SmileTheory).
• Special treatment is now applied to the No Rest for the Living and The Masterlevels expansions - even during network games, demo recording and playback. This includes level transitions to the secret maps and back, finale text screens, par times, etc. (thanks Coincident and Keyboard_Doomer for input from the DSDA community).
• Menu scrolling with the mouse wheel has been improved to be more responsive (by @JNechaevsky).
• All textures are now always composed, whether they are multi-patched or not. Furthermore, two separate composites are created, one for opaque and one for translucent mid-textures on 2S walls. Additionally, textures may now be arbitrarily tall.
• Freedoom Phase 2 and FreeDM are now explicitly named in the Doom 2 Episode menu.
• The status bar is now redrawn in the Main, Episode and Skill menus, where it could get overridden by custom graphics (thanks @JNechaevsky).

Bug Fixes

• A crash has been fixed when the -record and -pistolstart parameters were used simultaneously (thanks Spie812).
• An optimization inherited from MBF has been fixed which led to sprites not being rendered on the lowest possible floor (thanks @retro65).
• Only non-sky flats are now checked for the swirling effect.
• Crushed non-bleeding monsters are not removed off the map anymore, their sprites are replaced with the invisible SPR_TNT1 instead (thanks ZeroMaster010 and sorry for the desyncing demo).
• Sigil is not auto-loaded anymore with the Freedoom Phase 1 IWAD, since Sigil's own texture definitions may clash with the ones from Freedoom (thanks @Some1NamedNate).
• A brightmap definition for an animated flat sequence in HacX has been fixed.
• Some fixes to the "--enable-truecolor" configure option have been implemented (i.e. the --disable-truecolor option, the rendering of the status bar bezel, fuzzy column drawing and the translucency factor - thanks xttl).
• Window height adjustment when changing window size has been brought back at the cost of the window shrinking when repeatedly changing the widescreen option.
• Parts of the status bar being visible during the initial wipe in widescreen mode has been fixed (thanks xttl).

Crispy Heretic

• The level restart key now restarts the current demo recording from the map it was started, but under a new name (thanks @thom-wye).
• Demo file names may now have arbitrary length (inherited from Chocolate Doom, also applied to the Hexen sources).
• The demo file size limit has been removed (also applied to the Hexen and Strife sources).
• The top border not always being drawn correctly in hires mode for all reduced screen sizes has been fixed (thanks @xttl).

Known Issues

• Users who insist on the pure Vanilla experience that was formerly applied to the No Rest for the Living and The Masterlevels expansions or who need it to properly play back demos recorded with a previous release will have to rename their PWAD files and explicitly load them on the command line.

Crispy Doom 5.10.0 is based on Chocolate Doom 3.0.1 and has merged all changes to the Chocolate Doom master branch up to commit b26157ac.