Lights.wad

Induna · Post by **Induna** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 18:05

Hi, new to GZDoom

Do I just put this in the GZDoom dir for the dynamic lights to work?

Alter · Post by **Alter** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 18:33

Put in skins folder!
If you do not have skins folder then create in gzdoom directory!

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 22:20

what?!?
skins folder???
Put it in the GZDoom dir and all will be fine.

Shinjanji · Post by **Shinjanji** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 22:39

Anything you put into the Skins folder gets automatically loaded.

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:45

curious...
And it's not true for the GZDoom dir?!?
Sorry to ask perhaps a stupid question, but I'm not pleased to do a search about it... if you have the answer, of course.

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 2:54

No, wads will only be loaded automatically if you add them into /skins/. Simply placing the file in the same directory as GZDoom.exe wouldn't work.

However, you can edit your INI file to tell GZDoom to auto-load from a specific directory.

jflkbob · Post by **jflkbob** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:16

i put it in my gzdoom.pk3 and it works

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 17:15

Well, of course it does; gzdoom.pk3 is always loaded automatically.

Alter · Post by **Alter** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 18:13

it's just zip that you can edit! maybe it's possible in xwe to load wads into pk3 files

jflkbob · Post by **jflkbob** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 22:25

Nash wrote: gzdoom.pk3 is always loaded automatically

exactally, thats why

Induna · Post by **Induna** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:07

Cheers.

Post by **Enjay** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 20:12

jflkbob wrote:
Nash wrote: gzdoom.pk3 is always loaded automatically
exactally, thats why

And over written every time a new version is installed. Why not use your ini or the skins directory?

Also (and not a lot of people know this) if you put a file called zvox.wad in your (G)Zdoom directory, it will automatically be loaded. This has been in Zdoom for years. I think it was originally intended to be a file for player voices but it can be a WAD with anything in it and it still works in current versions.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 21:03

Apparently it is too much for some people to autoload properly - with the autoload sections in the .INI.

Jive · Post by **Jive** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:22

Graf Zahl wrote:Apparently it is too much for some people to autoload properly - with the autoload sections in the .INI.

I searched in my "doc" dir for zdoom, and I found this:

rh-log.txt wrote:September 15, 2001

- Fixed: Monsters that reached the end of a patrol path did not have their
reactiontime reset, so they would wait a very long time before attacking.
- Fixed: STYLE_Shaded ignored special colormaps like invulnerability.

- Added support for autoloading wads through the config file. Create a section called [Doom.Autoload] and place "Path=<file>" beneath it for each file to be automatically loaded. They are loaded after the files in the skins directory and before any files on the command line. Game can be Global to load the files for any game. Global files are added before game- specific files.

I tried it, but it don't works!!!
Those lines are simply deleted and the fields are empty after the load:

Code: Select all

[Doom.AutoExec]

[Doom.Autoload]

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:04

Replace Game with the game you intend to autoload the files with. So if you want to autoload for Doom, use [Doom.Autoload].

Valid games are:

[Doom.Autoload]
[Heretic.Autoload]
[Hexen.Autoload]
[Raven.Autoload] for any Raven game
[Strife.Autoload]

Or, as Randy mentioned, you can replace Game with Global to autoload files for ANY game.

[Global.Autoload]