Can't get my pk3 to find/load maps from wads UNLESS......

[BrettBotTheCryonaut]

...I only have ONE map inside the wad, and the wad is the same name as the map.

WTF? This has been driving me crazy all day. I want to be able to bundle together a few megawads into one pk3, and use mapinfo to create multiple episodes to choose from when you start a new game so you can pick a megawad that way. However, even when I think I've copied everything exactly based on what I've seen work in other mods, it still won't work. The maps that I define in the mapinfo file can never be found/loaded when they are just inside their respective megawad. The only way I can ever get them to work is if I separate them out so there is just ONE map per wad file, and the wad file has the same name as the map. That doesn't seem right at all, and I definitely don't want to have to separate five megawads into something around 150 individual wad files to put in the pk3.

Has anyone seen this kind of behavior before or have any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

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[Rachael]

That is fully intentional, though I know it's not intuitive. Wads in the "maps/" folder are not loaded as standard wads, they are loaded exclusively as maps and if they do not contain a map header as the first resource then they are dropped. This is done to lighten the load on the resource manager. If you want nested wads inside of a pk3 you have to keep them in the main "/" folder.

Furthermore, the name of the header inside the map is ignored, also. I think its fragglescript contents get loaded, and if even that, then that's about it.

If those wads are exclusively maps and nothing more, they can simply be loaded using "map <wadname>". Your mapinfo may need to be updated to reflect this, also.

[BrettBotTheCryonaut]

AHHH I can't believe I never realized that's what it was! I was thinking the Maps folder was just for organizational purposes. It is working perfectly now, and I've found the wiki article that explains what each folder name is for. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

[Rachael]

You're welcome.