Heretic/Hexen things in Doom

[Graf Zahl]

I noticed this in a discussion on the Newdoom forum concerning this issue:

Make use of the range 32768-65535! Currently the editor number is a signed short so these become negative. You could do the simple approach and say:

35000+x = Doom
40000+x = Hexen
60000+x = Heretic

That would leave 55000+x open in case you eventually decide to support Strife as well.

Since the high numbers are currently completely unused it would be a simple and easy way to be able to place all items in all games without having to resort to DECORATE inheritance.

[wildweasel]

This would make my life much easier.

[Killo Zapit]

But arn't numbers over 32000 or so reserved for DECORATE entitys or something?

[Graf Zahl]

No. The only limiting factor is that the internal type is a signed short so if you didn't change that you'd get a negative number.

DECORATE items can use any editor number they like. There are no reservations - intentionally not.