Extend defined length of frames

[Apeirogon]

Looks like gzdoom accept, at least dont crash, frames which out from the range of range defined by the A-Z letters 0-26.
So, maybe it is possible to increase amount of sprites which use same name by increasing diapason of allowed frames?

Yes I know that now gzdoom can have 37 ^ 5, or so, sprites, but it become a torture to maintain and develop mod which use actors with high detailed, silky smooth (which means it have HUGE amount of sprites for one actor) sprite animations, or even models.

[Cherno]

I started identifying actors with lots of frames by three letters instead of four and then increment the laster letter by one, like

POSA, POSB, POSC,...

where POSA has idle, walking and running frames,
POSB has melee and ranged attack frames,
POSC has pain and death frames, and so on.

[Graf Zahl]

This is really not needed.

[Apeirogon]

This is really not needed.

Why? Its help maintain and develop mods with great amount of animations per actor.

[Graf Zahl]

You can easily use multiple sprite names here. Extending this table is not that simple.

[Enjay]

You can easily use multiple sprite names here.

Indeed. Nice and easy to do.

From my Genetech mod:

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    Spawn1:
    MOD1 ABCDEFGHIJ 4 A_Look
    Goto Spawn1
    
    Spawn2:
    MODA ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR 4 A_Look
    Goto Spawn2
    
    Spawn3:
    MODB ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR 4 A_Look
    Goto Spawn3
    
    Spawn4:
    MODC ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR 4 A_Look
    Goto Spawn4

The above code snippet uses sprites called MOD1, MODA, MODB and MODC. When you are using models, you often need much greater numbers of sprite names than with sprite-based enemies. The full actor above uses even more.

[Apeirogon]

Since I dont know english well, I cant quickly remember between what letters placed letter, for example, "j". So I just use qwerty...and so on instead of spite and frame names for models.