Make WAD released!

J-Dub · Post by **J-Dub** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:49 pm

I got ahold of a ridiculously in-depth book on C++, I've been playing around in VC++, and I'm going to make another .WAD tool! This will be a command line program which allows files to be drap/dropped on it to make a .WAD. So far, I have it merging raw data and I just need to make it write the header and directory.

Edit: Make WAD released! Check my website!

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:50 pm

i read a c++ in 2 days book too and now im ready to mak triple aaa titles john carmack famous here i come!

J-Dub · Post by **J-Dub** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 4:01 pm

Good for you

darbyjack · Post by **darbyjack** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:28 am

how rude

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:29 am

well I don't mind as long as it's better than XWE

darbyjack · Post by **darbyjack** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:49 am

SPOINK! haha XD

SMG M7 · Post by **SMG M7** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:57 am

CheapAlert wrote:i read a c++ in 2 days book too and now im ready to mak triple aaa titles john carmack famous here i come!

That was really rude, man. Yeesh. If anything, it's a cool idea, considering there's so many XWE haters out there.

asdf · Post by **asdf** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:04 am

why do people hate xwe somuch any way?

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:21 am

I was planning on writing something similar for Linux that dealt with PK3 files, so watch for that eventually.

Phobus · Post by **Phobus** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:31 am

@asdf: It's known to corrupt files and stuff, though I've never experienced it myself.

leileilol · Post by **leileilol** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:28 am

Bio Hazard wrote:I was planning on writing something similar for Linux that dealt with PK3 files, so watch for that eventually.

Ark!

Phobus wrote:@asdf: It's known to corrupt files and stuff, though I've never experienced it myself.

I've never had any corruption using XWE. Also XWE makes a backup of the wad automatically every time it is "saved" so it's more reliable IMO.

XWE bashing is so timeline.

Hirogen2 · Post by **Hirogen2** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:35 am

CheapAlert wrote:I've never had any corruption using XWE. Also XWE makes a backup of the wad automatically every time it is "saved" so it's more reliable IMO.

Yeah and that costs quite some time on big WADs

chopkinsca · Post by **chopkinsca** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:14 pm

Phobus wrote:@asdf: It's known to corrupt files and stuff, though I've never experienced it myself.

True, but Csabo is working on fixing that right now, and it seems to be going well. The backups work well, but indeed do take up a lot of space if the wad gets large. As far as I can see, there's only an option to limit the backup to one.

I've never had enough problems with XWE to switch to something else. The program has evolved quite a bit in the past while.

Doesn't mean that nobody else should try and make something to do things xwe doesn't, or compete.

J-Dub · Post by **J-Dub** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:55 pm

Cutmanmike wrote:well I don't mind as long as it's better than XWE

I can't rip on XWE since zWad isn't really any better. I wouldn't be surprised if I overlooked some miniscule detail that could somehow result in a corrupted WAD.

ATM this is not going to be a GUI but who knows what I might do with it later on... zWad was originally only gonna have an export lump feature and now it does a bunch of stuff.

Shadelight · Post by **Shadelight** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:16 pm

Make this wad editor NOT require a .net thing.....