IWAD or *alternative name* lump

[Voros]

Sometimes, I want a mod to compatible across multiple IWADs, say Doom and Strife.

Basically I would create the necessary the DECORATE files for the Doom version and Strife version, put them in folders like Decorate/Doom/... and /Decorate/Strife/... under one PK3/PK7 file, and a lump that would point to the correct DECORATE lump for each IWAD.

I load up the mod with Strife, GZDoom will look up the file, say a lump called "IWAD", and read it. If Strife, the lump would have something in it to load the correct DECORATE lump. This DECORATE lump would naturally have the correct #includes for the correct DECORATE files in the Decorate folder.

Pseudo code in the form of C:

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if(IWAD = strife1.wad) 
{
Decorate = DECORATE.strife; // Which would load all the DECORATE in /Decorate/Strife/...
}
else if(IWAD = doom.wad)
{
Decorate = DECORATE.doom; // Same thing, but instead in /Doom/...
}
else 
{
Decorate = Decorate.doom2; // Same, but in /Doom2/...
}

I'm aware of ZScript, but not that familiar with it, as it's mostly new compared to DECORATE.
Is this feature worth looking into? If it already exists in some form (that doesn't require ZScript, hopefully), then nevermind.

[Graf Zahl]

You can do this with filter directories.
See GZDoom.pk3 itself for how to use that.

[Caligari87]

There's also a page on the wiki for [wiki]Lump filtering[/wiki].