Can't start episode if map's name is > than 8 characters

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Re: Can't start episode if map's name is > than 8 characters

by Graf Zahl » Thu May 15, 2014 10:32 am

Oh well, seems there's still some hidden spots where stuff gets truncated...

Can't start episode if map's name is > than 8 characters

by Fishytza » Thu May 15, 2014 10:10 am

Did some tests regarding maps to see if this works.

Turns out if you define an episode with a map that has a name longer than 8 characters, it never loads because ZDoom never seems to read anything past the first 8 characters.

For instance, If I had a map called icecreamfactory(.wad) (in the maps folder of a pk3) and try to load it via episode selection it would give this error:
Could not find map ICECREAM
The code would look like this:

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Episode icecreamfactory
{
	name = ":("
}
It doesn't seem to matter if I put it in quotes or add the extension or even the whole path ("maps/icecreamfactory.wad").

Tested with ZDoom 2.8pre-453-g8c05281

EDIT: Removed attachment.

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