Swapping Things Based on Wad Detected - any way to do it?

[scalliano]

Hi guys, it's been a while, and I'm slowly getting back into modding again.

I am currently working on implementing ID24 support into Shuffle - I hadn't touched it for a while and was daunted by the prospect of trying to include the new assets in such a way that the mod could actually be played with Legacy of Rust. The mod will load fine, but I've hit a snag - while the old RandomSpawner class works for the new monsters when using the Deh_Actor_xxx, the way that the weapons are implemented means that even if I try to replace ID24Incinerator, ID24Fuel, etc. the mod will still use the RandomSpawner for the PlasmaRifle, Cell, etc meaning the only way I can spawn the new weapons is by adding them into the PlasmaRifle spawner and giving them a higher drop rate.

However, I have been able to load Shuffle with LoR properly via Doom Fusion thanks to this handy-dandy piece of ZScript included in the compiled .ipk3:

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class Id1WeaponHandler : EventHandler
{
	override void CheckReplacement (ReplaceEvent e)
	{
		int weapSwap = CVar.FindCVar("wf_id1_weapswap").GetInt();
		string mapName = level.MapName.MakeLower();
		if ( ( weapSwap == 1 && mapName.Left(3) == "lr_" ) || weapSwap >= 2 )
		{
			if ( Level.MapTime == 0 )
			{
				if (e.Replacee is "PlasmaRifle")
					e.Replacement = "Incinerator";
				if (e.Replacee is "BFG9000")
					e.Replacement = "Heatwave";
				if (e.Replacee is "Cell")
					e.Replacement = "Fuel";
				if (e.Replacee is "CellPack")
					e.Replacement = "FuelTank";
			}
		}
	}
}

My question is: is there a way of using ZScript to perform this swap upon .WAD load, for example, by detecting a string in GAMEINFO rather than map name, so that the original id1.wad can be used?

Any help would be appreciated.

[stainedofmind]

You should be able to. MOShuffle has a script to read the contents of any loaded WADS to determine which map sets are loaded. You could take a look at that:

viewtopic.php?t=72760

It's under "main.zscript" then "MOShuffleThinker.ScanLump().

Hope this helps.

[scalliano]

Thanks, I'll take a look.