[2.1.3] "Skins" Folder Not Loading Pak Files

Wasted Youth · Post by **Wasted Youth** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:46 pm

I just noticed that ZDoom will not autoload any pk3 files placed in my skins folder.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:08 pm

I also noticed that ZDoom only loads .wad files, leaving my .WAD files alone

dennisj1 · Post by **dennisj1** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:21 pm

So, to summerize, ZDoom won't autoload PK3 skins, and has a case-secencitity problem with WADs.

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:32 pm

You mean case sensitivity?

That isn't even close.

Siggi · Post by **Siggi** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:17 pm

Heh, under linux, ZDoom did not recognise my DOOM2.WAD as an iwad. Only once I'd renamed it to lower case did it work.

But aside from the case sensitivity, ZDoom doesn't recognise any .pk3 or .zip files in the skins folder.

Post by **randi** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:55 pm

Case sensitivity: Linux filesystems are case-sensitive, therefore ZDoom on Linux is too.

Not autoloading pk3s in the skins folder: Why should it? It's called the "skins" directory, not the "autoload" directory. There is no standard for creating a skin in a pk3, therefore all skins must be wads. If you want it to load pk3s out of that directory, stick this is your ini:

Code: Select all

[Global.Autoload]
Path=skins/*.pk3

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:37 pm

randy wrote:Linux filesystems are case-sensitive, therefore ZDoom on Linux is too.

Right, so could you #ifdef in a thing to make it load .WAD too in Linux?

(and quite possibly .Wad, .wAd, .waD, .WAd, .WaD and .wAD too

)

Jim · Post by **Jim** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:51 pm

randy wrote:Case sensitivity: Linux filesystems are case-sensitive, therefore ZDoom on Linux is too.

I expected this response. I don't really isn't think it is much of an issue anyway as long as case doesn't matter inside pk3s and as long as it is consistantly handled across platforms in lumps.

Post by **Enjay** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 4:10 am

If you want to load your PK3 via the skins folder, would it not work to rename it to WAD? That works with individual lumps (MP3, TXT, Whatever). From what I can tell, Zdoom just applies a WAD filter to the files in skins but correctly reads and interprets any file it finds using that filter correctly according to its individual type.

[edit]Yes, that seems to work. I tried it with a level in a PK3 renamed to WAD. I don't have any skins in a PK3 to try it with.[/edit]