MODELDEF and WAD lumps.

Kinsie · Post by **Kinsie** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:28 am

Currently, MODELDEF only seems to support zipped files in its definitions. How difficult would it be to also implement support for pointing to models/voxels/skins inserted into WAD files? I'm a backwards hick who prefers WADs for prototyping, and this would enable me to do some interesting things.

I figure this is impressively unlikely, but it can't hurt to ask.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 9:51 am

Models were the reason I implemented Zip support because I had no desire to mess around with WADs for them. Nothing about that has changed.

Kinsie · Post by **Kinsie** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:00 am

Fair enough. I'd be interested in knowing why you made the decision to make it PK3-only, but I respect that you won't change that.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:20 am

The reason is that without a decent naming structure using models degenerates into a total mess very quickly. Referencing skins in a totally unstructured resource is messy at best and impossible at worst.

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