Load Customs .Pk3 File with Wad File

[Mayhem666]

I Noticed that when i Load my .pk3 File, It load with the file with the Wad But What i want to do is To Load Two .pk3 File With the Wad...

How and where i Define this to be done??

[Gez]

... what?


It's not very clear what you mean.

Are you saying you want to make a wad file which contains as lumps two different PK3 archives? Then no, it won't work. ZDoom does not extract zips embedded into another archive; it's deliberate so as not to encourage a behavior that would force the engine to make an inefficient use of memory.

Is there any reason you can't merge both PK3s into a single one? Then you wouldn't even need to embed it in a wad. You'd just load that one single PK3 instead. You could even change the extension to .wad if you want; it wouldn't confuse ZDoom (nor SLADE 3) so everything would be fine.

[Mayhem666]

Here's a Clear Statement :

If i have a Wad ( Mod ) Using doom 2 as the Principal Wad, i wanna know if theres a way to load a .pk3 File with them.

[Gez]

Well, you can always use [wiki]GAMEINFO[/wiki].

[Mayhem666]

I looked at the link and it seems like it's to load a Wad file?

[Enjay]

For almost all situations, you load a PK3 in the same way as you load a PWAD.

[Mayhem666]

Well when i load my Mod with Doom2, it wont load any PK3 with it, So i wanted to know if there's a way to make him load with them

[Enjay]

Gez already pointed you to the GAMEINFO page. As I said, in most cases, you can load a PK3 just like a WAD so where it says WAD on that page, read PK3 and you should be good to go.


(In fact, the file extension is actually pretty irrelevant from a technical PoV because ZDoom looks in the file and uses what it sees there to load the data appropriately. You could make up any extension that you liked and provided you tell ZDoom to load it, the file will load.)

[Mayhem666]

Well i tested to load my PK3 with GAMEINFO i make the Lump Gameinfo in my Wad and i put the name with the command and well i does nothing, Maybe i do something wrong?

It's like
(For exemple)In GAMEINFO Lump i type : IWAD = "<Name.PK3>"

And when i start my Mod with the Doom2 Wad it wont load the PK3, Actually, It does Nothing at all, So maybe i do something wrong?

[Sarah]

Unless I'm mistaken, the IWAD is the original game(Doom.wad, Doom2.wad, Heretic.wad, Strife.wad...ect.). From the page on the wiki, the IWAD key is only used to skip the selection screen that lets you pick your IWAD at ZDoom's load. If your PWAD(your custom game) requires Doom2 to work, then you need to put "Doom2" in that part of the GAMEINFO. The next part is the LOAD key and is used to load extra files along with your PWAD. That would be where you put your .pk3 information. Note that the wiki says that your other files need to be in the same folder as your PWAD so ZDoom can find them.

[Gez]

IWAD = "Doom2"
LOAD = SomePK3IDontWantToMerge.pk3

Use that.

[printz]

For almost all situations, you load a PK3 in the same way as you load a PWAD.

Except that the PK3 extension is required at the command-line, whereas the WAD extension is not

[Gez]

That's because if you don't specify an extension and the file is not found, it happens .wad and tries again. Doom did that, too.

But hey, nothing prevents you from giving the .wad extension to a .pk3 if so you want. It will work just fine.

[printz]

Doom did that, too.

Doom requires even the WAD extension

[Mayhem666]

Unless I'm mistaken, the IWAD is the original game(Doom.wad, Doom2.wad, Heretic.wad, Strife.wad...ect.). From the page on the wiki, the IWAD key is only used to skip the selection screen that lets you pick your IWAD at ZDoom's load. If your PWAD(your custom game) requires Doom2 to work, then you need to put "Doom2" in that part of the GAMEINFO. The next part is the LOAD key and is used to load extra files along with your PWAD. That would be where you put your .pk3 information. Note that the wiki says that your other files need to be in the same folder as your PWAD so ZDoom can find them.

So you're talking about the file in the PK3 like

Sprite/
Textures/
etc..?

Are you saying that these file must be in the PWAD also(The Mod)
I'm searching where to put this GAMEINFO..