Engine information

ACSUtils provides functions to identify the exact source port (ZDoom, GZDoom, Zandronum) and renderer (software, OpenGL).

Identifying source port

Detection method

The detection module first checks for presence of GetPlayerAccountName, which is a Zandronum-exclusive function. It returns a string (usually an empty string) if it exists, while unimplemented ACS functions return 0. If the function is present, the port is assumed to be Zandronum.

If the port is not Zandronum, the detection module attempts to spawn an actor of type DynamicLight, which is present in GZDoom, but not in ZDoom. If the actor spawns successfully, the port is assumed to be GZDoom.

If both these checks fail, the port is assumed to be ZDoom.

Caching

The above checks are not rerun every time the source port is queried. After identification, the type of the source port is saved into a map variable. Subsequent queries simply return the value of that variable.

IdentifySourcePort

int IdentifySourcePort()

Identifies the engine that the mod is running in and returns one of the following constants:

PORT_ZDOOM – ZDoom

PORT_GZDOOM – GZDoom

PORT_ZANDRONUM – Zandronum

IsGZDoom

bool IsGZDoom()

Returns true if the port is GZDoom or a derivative.

This function returns true for Zandronum, since Zandronum is a derivative of GZDoom and includes its OpenGL renderer.
If you want to check for OpenGL renderer, don't use this function. Use IsOpenGL.

IsZandronum

bool IsZandronum()

Returns true if the port is Zandronum or a derivative.

GetPortName

str GetPortName()

Returns the name of the source port as a string, one of “ZDoom”, “GZDoom”, “Zandronum”.

Example usage

print(s:"This mod is running on ", s:GetPortName());

Identifying renderer

IsOpenGL

bool IsOpenGL()

Returns true if the engine is currently running in an OpenGL renderer.

Calling this function serverside is an error, because the server has no renderer at all. Nonetheless, this function will return true in that case, because the OpenGL renderer generally has less restrictions.

Detection method

This function first calls IsGZDoom to check if the port is GZDoom or a derivative like Zandronum. If the port is not a GZDoom derivative, it can't have the OpenGL renderer, and this function returns false. This is to prevent detecting the OpenGL renderer when ZDoom is run with a config from GZDoom which has vid_renderer=1.

If the port is confirmed to be a GZDoom derivative, this function checks for two CVars: vid_renderer and gl_nogl. This function only returns true if vid_renderer is true and gl_nogl is false.

Caching

As with source port identification, the result is cached in a map variable.