sky texture error

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:43 pm

when I start up zdoom it says sky1 needs to use entry 1252
can I have some help?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:03 pm

No.

Because you have to provide a little more information. What exactly were you doing?

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:29 pm

I was trying to start up zdoom and the console loads but I get an error it says it has 752 textures and it wants sky1 to be entry 1252. I don't know what that means.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:42 pm

Did you load any PWADs?

Post by **MasterOFDeath** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:17 pm

I have his insanely odd feeling I have seen this same bug somewhere before, like ages ago...

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:19 pm

yes I merged the q2tex, q1tex and the eternal texture pwads with my level.

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:36 pm

Maybe there are multiple "sky1" lumps and ZDoom can't figure out what to do?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 2:13 am

No, this looks more like he merged the WADs but not the TEXTURE and PNAMES lumps or something like that. That's what I expected and that's why I asked what he was doing.

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 7:16 am

so do I have to like start my level over again? and merge just one of them?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:04 am

Since I still have no idea what exacly you did by 'merging' I can't give any further advice.

You have to make sure though, that you don't just merge the WADs together. That is not sufficient. You have to merge the texture definitions as well. Most likely you just overwrote something in there.

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 8:07 am

what I mean by merging is using xwe to merge the texture wads.
so I think I might redo my level. (which I keep doing until I like the looks).

Zippy · Post by **Zippy** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 5:44 pm

There's a lump that's usually called TEXTURE or TEXTURES or TEXTURE1 etc... That defines textures your wad can use. Likewise, there is PNAMES lump that defines all the patches your wad has. The TEXTURE lump will load up with other TEXTURE lumps (a.k.a. you can have more than one), but I think the condition is they have to have different names... not sure about that one. I don't think PNAMES is cumulative, however.

In anycase, you have to make sure all the textures you are using are defined in your TEXTURE lumps and all the patches those textures use are listed in the PNAMES lump. You can't just merge all the images files into one wad.