Hey fellas
So here's the story, I wanted to make the mod Weapons of Saturn not have any screen shaking.
Inside the mod, we have an "ACTORS" subfolder with text files that get included in the root DECORATE file.
Instead of just modding the mod directly, I wondered if I could make a patch archive. I discovered that I could just replace the text files containing the Actor definitions with mine in a new folder, ZDoom seeing each as a lump.
So my patch looks like this:
And that's it. It's just those 11 "lumps". Here's the funny bit, this only works if the patch is provided as a folder, not as a zipped archive! In both cases, ZDoom logs 11 lumps recognised, but it looks like the DECORATE is parsed differently.
Again, when I just pass ZDOOM a path to the folder, it works!
Works: gzdoom.exe weapons_of_saturn.pk3 weapons_of_saturn_no_shake
Does not: gzdoom.exe weapons_of_saturn.pk3 weapons_of_saturn_no_shake.pk3
If this could be made to work with archives, then maybe mod patches would be easier?
I've attached the archive for you to try yourself![:)]( "Smile")
Cheers
Steve
So here's the story, I wanted to make the mod Weapons of Saturn not have any screen shaking.
Inside the mod, we have an "ACTORS" subfolder with text files that get included in the root DECORATE file.
Instead of just modding the mod directly, I wondered if I could make a patch archive. I discovered that I could just replace the text files containing the Actor definitions with mine in a new folder, ZDoom seeing each as a lump.
So my patch looks like this:
Code:
weapons_of_saturn_no_shake ACTORS 1911.txt COACHGUN.txt KNUCKLES.txt MACHINERIFLE.txt MINIGUN.txt MP40.txt NOVARIFLE.txt PISTOL.txt RIOTGUN.txt SATURNV.txt TITAN.txt And that's it. It's just those 11 "lumps". Here's the funny bit, this only works if the patch is provided as a folder, not as a zipped archive! In both cases, ZDoom logs 11 lumps recognised, but it looks like the DECORATE is parsed differently.
Again, when I just pass ZDOOM a path to the folder, it works!
Works: gzdoom.exe weapons_of_saturn.pk3 weapons_of_saturn_no_shake
Does not: gzdoom.exe weapons_of_saturn.pk3 weapons_of_saturn_no_shake.pk3
If this could be made to work with archives, then maybe mod patches would be easier?
I've attached the archive for you to try yourself
Cheers
Steve
Statistics: Posted by SuaveSteve — Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:10 pm