Better message (and handling) of ANIMDEFS issue

[Enjay]

If you load OSJC's QUAKE - Descent into Heresy with Doom2 as the IWAD, it stops like so:



The problem section of the ANIMDEFS is:

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warp flat fltlava1 0.2
warp flat fltlava2 0.2
warp flat fltlava3 0.2
warp flat fltlava4 0.2

If I comment out these lines or replace the flat name with one from Doom2, the game can start.

I know that this is happening because I'm loading it with an unintended IWAD but my point is that the only error here is that the flat mentioned in the problematic line of ANIMDEFS doesn't exist.

To me, that isn't obvious from the error message so it would be nice if GZDoom could actually tell me more specifically what the problem is. e.g. "line 10 unknown flat" rather than just "Bad syntax".

In addition, perhaps it could continue to load after printing the error to the console?

[Graf Zahl]

The parser is not fixable. What this really needs is a new syntax, like MAPINFO got.

[Rip and Tear]

The best workaround now seems to be Lump Filtering.