Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 13:31:01 GMT
From: Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk>
To: quake-editing@nvg.unit.no
Subject: Re: Distributing Quake maps (long-ish, wordy and rambling :)
In article <199603100932.KAA08721@colossus.nero.uni-bonn.de> you write:
>
> > misc. discussion and proposals about distribution files deleted
>
> One remark: as long as we do not know the final PAK/WAD2/whatever
> format, it makes no sense to invent another file format with a
> huge bias towards Quake.
>
> In 1995, I wrote a proposal for a generalized WAD file structure.
> I remember a WAD API proposal by somebody from the DEU team. In
> addition, there are descriptions of Dark Forces and Descent
> files. Now take therse and PAK and WAD2, and look for what all
> these have in common.
>
> Here is how I handled WAD files: I wrote a separate conversion
> function that, reading the raw data lump of the directory,
> assigned lump Type information based on some heuristics. In addition,
This is very interesting. I definitely think that this format would be
more appropriate for the distribution file than the PAK. I was not really
proposing a new format, other than the `MakeTex.cfg' file.
Could you send to me (or post to the list if appropriate) the format of this
DWAD? Also, where are the quake-development pages? Apologies if they were
in the info file on the list, but I must have missed it.
.splitbung
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