Add support for xash3D

backstander

Someone has the Xash3D engine running Half-Life on a Pandora handheld (which has an ARM processor)!
http://pandoralive.info/?p=5043

They said it's got a couple bugs, like the crowbar disappearing and textures looking fuzzy up close.

herb_fargus

There's a bit of discussion here: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/1040 but I'm not holding my breath on it

Cesarpuig

Hi, This work for me: https://github.com/sergiopoverony/xash3d
Resolution 800x600.

ExarKunIv

@Cesarpuig as soon as i saw this i jumped on it. and i have to say it does run very well.
nice find

ExarKunIv

@Cesarpuig do have music on yours?
i cant find any info on how to get it to play if it does. i know that some builds had it turned off

UPDATE
Never mind.

retropieuser555

@Cesarpuig @ExarKunIv Hey did either of you manage to get a gamepad working? I added -sdl_joy_old_api to /opt/retropie/ports/xash3d/Xash3D.sh and it now allows for movement, dual analogue control moving around, and the menu buttons let me select a game or cancel my selection. But once I'm in the game there doesn't appear to be any mapping for any of the actions. Jump, attack etc, the controller doesn't do anything.

I had a look around online about as it seems the valve folder has a joystick.cfg (which is empty) and config.cfg which has the following controller values:-

joy_axis_binding "sfpyrl"
joy_enable "1"
joy_forward "1.0"
joy_forward_deadzone "0"
joy_forward_key_threshold "24576"
joy_lt_threshold "-16384"
joy_pitch "200.0"
joy_pitch_deadzone "0"
joy_rt_threshold "-16384"
joy_side "1.0"
joy_side_deadzone "0"
joy_side_key_threshold "24576"
joy_yaw "200.0"
joy_yaw_deadzone "0"
joystick "0"

Any other idea what else I need to input to get the other buttons working? Seems odd the menu buttons are mapped somewhere but I can't figure out where.

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 im slowing working on getting all my ports working with my game pad.

so for me i was just going to us xboxdrv for the mapping and just map the keyboard to my gamepad.
for me it is the easiest but that's just because i have been using xboxdrv for so long

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv Yeah makes sense. I always find xboxdrv to be a huge headache, I got it working on dosbox on a few games but for some reason I couldn't get the controller to killall xboxdrv and go back to emulationstation controls.

Oh one other question with xash3d, do you get a crash and a segmentation fault whenever you try and select the GUI for keyboard or gamepad controls? Or is that just me?

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555
if you need some help with xboxdrv i could always try to help out.

as for your other question. i have not messed with it that much yet. but i will keep my eye out for that. ill try to get play with it a little later and ill let you know what i find

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv in terms of xboxdrv there's this post I made before but I couldn't quite figure out what I'm missing in the end https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25490/xboxdrv-returning-back-to-normal-settings-when-leaving-dosbox?_=1590594996098 Once things get into terminal I am pretty lost what it's trying to do generally.

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555

do you have runcommand-onend.sh?

UPDATE

im able to get into the gamepad and keyboard options to change anything without crashing

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv No I don't think I've made that file, it should be with runcommand-onstart.sh right? And try to write something that always turns off xboxdrv each time I close a core or program?

re: xash3d That's interesting. I wonder if I should try and reinstall xash3d, as if I can get the GUI to open up properly perhaps I can edit the controls in there.

Do you have your config.cfg file from the valve folder please? I suspect that's the file xash3d looks at for this

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 yes you should have the onstart and onend in the same place, that is why the xboxdrv will not turn off for you before. there is nothing to tell it to turn off

//=======================================================================
//			Copyright Flying With Gauss Team 2020 ©
//			config.cfg - archive of cvars
//=======================================================================
MP3Volume "0.8"
allow_levelshots "0"
bottomcolor "6"
cl_allow_fragment "0"
cl_backspeed "400"
cl_charset "utf-8"
cl_cmdbackup "2"
cl_cmdrate "60"
cl_draw_beams "1"
cl_draw_particles "1"
cl_enable_compress "0"
cl_enable_split "1"
cl_enable_splitcompress "0"
cl_envshot_size "256"
cl_forwardspeed "400"
cl_himodels "0.000000"
cl_laddermode "2"
cl_lc "1"
cl_lightstyle_lerping "0"
cl_lw "1"
cl_maxoutpacket "0"
cl_maxpacket "40000"
cl_maxpayload "0"
cl_nopred "1"
cl_nosmooth "0"
cl_predict "0"
cl_scoreboard_bg "1"
cl_showerror "0"
cl_showfps "0"
cl_showpacketloss "0"
cl_showpos "0"
cl_sidespeed "400"
cl_smoothtime "0.1"
cl_sprite_nearest "0"
cl_trace_events "0"
cl_trace_messages "0"
cl_trace_stufftext "0"
cl_updaterate "60"
cl_viewbob "0"
cl_vsmoothing "0.05"
cmd_scripting "0"
con_alpha "1.0"
con_black "0"
con_charset "cp1251"
con_fontnum "-1"
con_fontscale "1.0"
con_fontsize "1"
con_halffrac "0.5"
con_mapfilter "1"
con_maxfrac "1"
crosshair "1"
download_types "msec"
dsp_off "0"
fps_max "100.0"
gamma "2.500000"
gl_allow_software "0"
gl_allow_static "0"
gl_anisotropy "0.000000"
gl_check_errors "1"
gl_clear "0"
gl_compensate_gamma_screenshots "0"
gl_detailscale "4.0"
gl_finish "0"
gl_keeptjunctions "1"
gl_max_size "256"
gl_nosort "0"
gl_overbright "0"
gl_overbright_studio "0"
gl_swapInterval "0"
gl_texture_lodbias "0.0"
gl_texturemode "GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR"
hand "0"
host_allow_materials "0"
host_mapdesign_fatal "1"
hostname "unnamed"
http_autoremove "1"
http_timeout "45"
http_useragent "xash3d"
hud_capturemouse "1"
hud_centerid "0"
hud_classautokill "1"
hud_draw "1"
hud_fastswitch "0"
hud_scale "0"
hud_takesshots "0"
hud_textmode "0"
hud_utf8 "0"
joy_axis_binding "sfpyrl"
joy_enable "1"
joy_forward "1"
joy_forward_deadzone "0"
joy_forward_key_threshold "24576"
joy_lt_threshold "-16384"
joy_pitch "100"
joy_pitch_deadzone "0"
joy_rt_threshold "-16384"
joy_side "1"
joy_side_deadzone "0"
joy_side_key_threshold "24576"
joy_yaw "100"
joy_yaw_deadzone "0"
joystick "0.000000"
look_filter "0"
lookspring "0"
lookstrafe "0"
m_enginemouse "0"
m_enginesens "0.3"
m_forward "1"
m_ignore "0"
m_pitch "0.022000"
m_side "0.8"
m_yaw "0.022"
menu_mp_firsttime "1"
model "gordon"
mp_decals "300"
mp_logecho "1"
mp_logfile "1"
name "Player"
net_drawslider "0"
net_graph "0"
net_graphheight "64"
net_graphpos "1"
net_graphsolid "1"
net_graphwidth "192"
net_scale "5"
net_speeds "0"
r_adjust_fov "1"
r_bump "1"
r_customdraw_playermodel "0"
r_detailtextures "0"
r_drawentities "1"
r_dynamic "1"
r_fastsky "0"
r_flaresize "200"
r_lighting_ambient "0.3"
r_lighting_extended "1"
r_lighting_modulate "0.6"
r_oldparticles "0"
r_speeds "0"
r_sprite_lerping "1"
r_sprite_lighting "1"
r_strobe "0"
r_strobe_cooldown "3"
r_strobe_debug "0"
r_strobe_swapinterval "0"
r_studio_drawelements "1"
r_studio_lambert "2"
r_studio_lerping "1"
r_studio_lighting "1"
r_studio_sort_textures "0"
r_studiocache "1"
r_underwater_distortion "0.4"
r_vbo "1"
r_vbo_dlightmode "1"
r_wadtextures "1"
rate "30000"
s_combine_sounds "0"
s_cull "0"
s_lerping "0"
s_phs "0"
s_reverse_channels "0"
s_samplecount "0"
s_show "0"
sensitivity "3"
sleeptime "1"
snd_mute_losefocus "1"
suitvolume "0.250000"
sv_aim "1"
sv_allow_PhysX "1"
sv_allow_compress "1"
sv_allow_download "0"
sv_allow_fragment "0"
sv_allow_joystick "1"
sv_allow_mouse "1"
sv_allow_noinputdevices "1"
sv_allow_rotate_pushables "0"
sv_allow_split "1"
sv_allow_studio_attachment_angles "0"
sv_allow_touch "1"
sv_allow_vr "1"
sv_check_errors "0"
sv_corpse_solid "0"
sv_downloadurl ""
sv_enttools_enable "0"
sv_enttools_maxfire "5"
sv_fixmulticast "1"
sv_log_onefile "0"
sv_log_singleplayer "0"
sv_maxpacket "2000"
sv_precache_meshes "1"
sv_quakehulls "0"
sv_reconnect_limit "3"
sv_sendvelocity "1"
sv_skipshield "0"
sv_stepsize "18"
sv_trace_messages "0"
sv_userinfo_enable_penalty "1"
sv_userinfo_penalty_attempts "4"
sv_userinfo_penalty_multiplier "2"
sv_userinfo_penalty_time "0.3"
sv_validate_changelevel "1"
topcolor "30"
touch_config_file "touch.cfg"
touch_enable "0"
ui_borderclip "0"
ui_language "english"
ui_renderworld "0"
ui_show_window_stack "0"
ui_showmodels "0"
vgui_utf8 "0"
vibration_enable "1"
vibration_length "1.0"
viewsize "120.000000"
violence_ablood "1"
violence_agibs "1"
violence_hblood "1"
violence_hgibs "1"
volume "0.800000"
exec keyboard.cfg
exec userconfig.cfg
// end of config.cfg

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv Thanks for that! I'm gonna mess around with xash3d a little more tonight or tomorrow and see if I can figure out where the differences are.

I'm gonna mess around with those run commands. At the moment I'm loading xboxdrv as part of the .sh files of the dosbox games, but I'll try this way around instead and see if it's more successful than what I was doing before. Thanks for your help with that!

quicksilver

Do you guys know a way to get the constant console messages to stop appearing onscreen?

Cesarpuig

@quicksilver delete -console fron launch command

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life/xash3d -console -clientlib cl_dlls/client.so -dll dlls/hl.so

retropieuser555

@ExarKunIv Bingo! I got the gamepad working, the joystick.cfg file isn't called by the game in the file so I could either call it or add the binds into the keyboard.cfg. Oddly modifying my keyboard.cfg file has stopped the crash when I select the option in the GUI as well. But if I go to edit entries there in the GUI it causes a crash. But I can just edit the file manually anyway.

So yeah, if anyone is ever hunting down gamepad controls on this port, it's definitely possible.

ExarKunIv

@retropieuser555 can you post what you did, i might want to try it that way. if you dont mind

quicksilver

Hey guys I was able to successfully build the newer version of xash3d (xash3d-fwgs) on my Pi 4 (link to the binary below):

https://mega.nz/folder/xBpAgYYb#arEdY1Y2DVere_gGRqeFjw

You can do a direct swap of the binary (only if you built from source, I dont know if this will work if you installed from binary. If you installed from binary, go back and update from source first) in your /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ports/Half-Life/ folder (make a back-up first just in case!). I have tested it lightly and I can confirm it works but I have only played a few minutes into the game. Performance is better if set to 720p or lower in runcommand menu (before doing this, go into the game video settings and change to windowed mode - and set resolution to window resolution otherwise it will still try to run 1080p even when you selected 720p in runcommand. This results in a black screen.)

Link to the source:
https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

ExarKunIv

@quicksilver thanks for the update,