Skins in wadfiles

Toke · Post by **Toke** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:02 pm

Why does zdoom reject the map entries in a wadfile that contains skins?

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:19 pm

cause some skin authors thought it would be funny to put a bunch of other junk into the skin wad to change stuff like the titlepic and music and stuff

Toke · Post by **Toke** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:28 am

Well thats the best way to handle it, the common zdoom devlopment way of doing everything wrong, somehow randy manages to find the worst solution to every problem.

WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT LIKE TO INCLUDE SKINS IN THEIR MAP PACKS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Post by **Kate** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:34 am

Can't you make seperate files? Make one wad to hold the skins and another to hold everything else. Is that really so hard?

Toke · Post by **Toke** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 2:45 am

its not hard, but in multiplayer its anoying, guess this another zdoom 'improvement' that needs to be removed in zdaemon.

Cutmanmike · Post by **Cutmanmike** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 5:06 am

Those people who put replacement textures and music in their skins REALLY piss me off...

Ultraviolet · Post by **Ultraviolet** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 9:49 am

Why hasn't anybody got the punchline to this one right yet?

Ultraviolet · Post by **Ultraviolet** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 12:58 pm

Aww, you've all stopped trying.

nossr50 · Post by **nossr50** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 1:03 pm

Toke has a good point

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:53 pm

cutmanmike wrote:Those people who put replacement textures and music in their skins REALLY piss me off...

I HATE PPL WHO PUT NEW TEXTURES IN THEIR SKIN FILES, but I just hate it when ZDooM rejects it when they put a skin in their texture pack

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:33 pm

Changing this would only encourage people to put weapon sound replacements or other annoying junk in their skin wads. If you want your skins to work with ZDoom, put them in their own wad. It's that simple.

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 3:10 pm

I want some way, maybe an extra lump in the wad, to distinguish a wad from being a skin wad with extra stuff and a level wad with a skin.

We could make a null NOTSKINW lump in a wad to tell ZDooM not to reject it. But then skinmakers would put that lump in their skin wad.

I know this sounds confusing, but I REALLY want to be able to include an extra skin with my levels, or etc. If it means disabling this anti-badskinwads feature, I dont care!

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:21 pm

It wouldn't work, because skiiners would just add that extra lump.

Macil · Post by **Macil** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:34 pm

Hmm...
Someone could make a program that inspects all of your skin files for this lump and tell you if some stupid skinner is hijacking your textures!

Sadly, I have no knowledge of the WAD's format

Risen · Post by **Risen** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:45 pm

What is the difference between a Duke3d texture resource with a Duke skin in it and a Duke skin with a bunch of texture replacements?

The answer is of course nothing, and that's why it won't be changed.

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