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Feature #2047

Allow user to select a specific IWAD file for a (custom) game session

Added by rhargrave over 9 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
skyjake
Category:
User experience
Target version:
-
Start date:
2015-05-13
% Done:

100%

Tags:
UI, Home

Description

Right now, Doomsday locates by name game data. After it finds a list of candidate files, it selects the one which matches exactly the criteria for that game data file. Said criteria include a list of map names, and miscellaneous lumps. This can pose an issue in the case of both testing, and third-party game data (e.g. HACX 2.0). Although it may not be guaranteed at search-time that a non-matching IWAD is compatible with the engine, it is a comparably better experience that what is currently involved in getting the engine to select a non-standard IWAD. As an aside, this also allows for users to name game data in such a way that it is distinct from other data -- e.g. (doom, doom1, etc...).

Related issues

Related to Feature #1600: Drop SnowberryClosed2014-04-192014-04-19

History

#1 Updated by danij over 9 years ago

This is looking at the problem from the wrong perspective. Rather than overriding an IWAD for a pre-defined game mode one should instead be able to define an entirely new game mode configuration and then bundle both into a dynamically loaded package. Otherwise, runtime game selection can't really work correctly because the cart is before the horse.

If the intention is to override the IWAD data for a pre-defined game mode then the canonical way to do so is to load a PWAD on top.

#2 Updated by rhargrave over 9 years ago

I agree. I had been thinking about this whilst out to lunch and this was one thought that I had -- to be able to define game profiles in Ring Zero, the logical extension of which is this.

#3 Updated by skyjake over 9 years ago

  • Tags changed from Snowberry, RingZero to RingZero, UI
  • Subject changed from Allow for IWAD selection to be overriden by the user. to Allow user to select a specific IWAD file for a (custom) game session

#4 Updated by skyjake about 9 years ago

  • Parent task deleted (#1600)

#5 Updated by skyjake about 9 years ago

#6 Updated by skyjake almost 5 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assignee set to skyjake
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

Done in 2.1.

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