Zandronum WAD loader

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Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by doomista » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:24 am

Hi guys,
quick search showed no result for such a thing as is Zandronum WAD Loader that would make it nicer to load multiple wads. I can barely remember that there were something based on Java, but that's something I personally don't use/like/whatever.

So I've made a very simple batch script for loading multiple wads AND simple way for loading multiple wads in right order (like RGH requires skulltag_actors/data which has to be linked/loaded before RGH itself).

So... after some edits you have to make in this batch file or it won't work properly, you simply run it, it will display all files located in specified direktory, you will enter name of the wads you want to run and press enter. Boom, it works!

NOTE:
In my zandro folder, i have iwad/pwad subfolders, name speaks for themselves. The script works with this system. Also, I've zandro installed in C:\Games\Zandronum.
If you open the script with RMC(Right mouse click)->Edit
and navigate to line 10 (after lot's of lines starting with REM), you can change directory where's Zandro installed.
Line 11 sets name of pwad subfolder (pwad in my case).

So if you have you zandro installed in like D:\Prog\Games\Doom
line 10 will look like:

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set ZANDRONUM_PATH=D:\Prog\Games\Doom
and let's say you have all your pwads in same directory, so line 11 will be:

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set SUBPATH=
just like that.
When you will run the script, it will write for example:

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*************************************
*                                   *
* Zandronum console WAD loader v1.0 *
*           by doomista             *
*                                   *
*************************************

Enter any number of wad names separated by a space
PK3 files requires the .pk3 extension to be written


List of files located in: C:\Games\Zandronum\pwad
  brit10.wad   brit11.wad   brutalv20.pk3   greenwar.wad   skulltag_actors_1-1-1
.pk3   skulltag_data_126.pk3
Enter wads you want to load:
so now you can just type brit11 brutalv20.pk3, hit enter and it will run.

Hope it helps ;)

PS.: Since this runs under Windows, it's not case sensitive, so LoReM and lorem are equal
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RE: Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by WaTaKiD » Thu Oct 22, 2015 3:32 pm

doomista wrote: [...] quick search showed no result for such a thing as is Zandronum WAD Loader that would make it nicer to load multiple wads. [...]
doomseeker comes with the zandro installation and it is quite easy to use it to load multiple wads and either play offline or host a server

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RE: Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by doomista » Thu Oct 22, 2015 8:50 pm

WaTaKiD wrote:
doomista wrote: [...] quick search showed no result for such a thing as is Zandronum WAD Loader that would make it nicer to load multiple wads. [...]
doomseeker comes with the zandro installation and it is quite easy to use it to load multiple wads and either play offline or host a server
Yep you're right. But for me personally it's the slowest option of all possible, so I just made this little hack for myself and wanted to share it ;)

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RE: Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by Samuzero15tlh » Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:48 pm

doomista wrote:
WaTaKiD wrote:
doomista wrote: [...] quick search showed no result for such a thing as is Zandronum WAD Loader that would make it nicer to load multiple wads. [...]
doomseeker comes with the zandro installation and it is quite easy to use it to load multiple wads and either play offline or host a server
Yep you're right. But for me personally it's the slowest option of all possible, so I just made this little hack for myself and wanted to share it ;)
I think that too mate, glad you made this nice work :D
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RE: Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by doomista » Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:01 pm

Thanks Samuzero15tlh :)
I was thinking also about a normal console program where you could select desired wads with arrows and enter, but that would require from users do create list of their preferred wads (up to aprox. 90) and I don't know if it isn't too much trouble, especially if active doomers have 200+ wads downloaded. But if anybody is interested, I can do this.
Unfortunately I haven't time to learn things such as Qt framework, otherwise I would do standard mouse controlled launcher.

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RE: Zandronum WAD loader

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Post by DevilHunter » Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:18 am

That is pretty awesome. Few questions though, is it possible to specify more then one Pwad folder?

Also, since some mods STILL need Skulltag_Actors/Data/Data_126.pk3... Is it possible to set a path to said files like... "D:\Doom Ports\Wads\Needed Files"??

I personally use ZDL myself, which is pretty good on its own. There is a bunch more Launchers out there.

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