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Owlet7 / wadfusion

WadFusion — simple IWAD merge utility
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Group episodes by game #6

Open maverick-hunter opened 3 weeks ago

maverick-hunter commented 3 weeks ago

Guys, I don't even know if this project was already supposed to be used by anyone, but I've been following the commits after you picked up after WadSmoosh ended development. Thank you so much for that!

I was just wondering if, with so many more episodes now, there's still a way to keep the classic Doom font for the the episode list, instead of the plain text used by GzDoom.

I don't really know if it fits the goals of the project, but I was wondering if you'd consider an option for submenus for Doom 1 episodes and Doom 2, sincer there are so many official episodes now.

Also, I think it would be cool if the command prompt gave a message about which wads one's missing for the complete package.

Anyway, thanks again for keeping this project alive!

Trimint123 commented 3 weeks ago

Considering that it's pretty much impossible to have every custom text in one screen, I think it's safe to assume that the idea for it wasn't planned unless we find a way to make the menu scroll, which at that point we may as well make a fancier menu instead.

maverick-hunter commented 3 weeks ago

I don't even know if it's doable, but would submenus somewhat like this be out of the scope of the project? Maybe

Trimint123 commented 3 weeks ago

If possible, maybe we could split sections of Hell on Earth, TNT, and Plutonia to be episodic, though a creative name is required for those since they ain't an official names.

Owlet7 commented 3 weeks ago

That's the plan, more or less. The episodes should be grouped by game and campaign. The Hell on Earth episodes do have official names: "The Space Station", "The City", and "Hell".

Also, I think it would be cool if the command prompt gave a message about which wads one's missing for the complete package.

That would lead to some potential redundancies (e.g. saying that doom2kex is missing when the user already uses it as doom2). It would also clutter the screen with too much information. The "Supported WADs" section of the Readme should suffice, it already covers everything that's supported.

Planned menu structure
Trimint123 commented 3 weeks ago

Ohh, taken ideas from Works of the Masters. Interesting!

As for the episodes name, I don't know. Some of the names is a bit uncreative, but I guess we can't do much about it, huh?

Owlet7 commented 3 weeks ago

Ohh, taken ideas from Works of the Masters. Interesting!

Actually, no. I made a similar mod 10 years ago (now unlisted), long before WadSmoosh, and before ZScript was implemented in GZDoom. I thought that it'd fit the goals of the project to add support for these maps.

As for the episodes name, I don't know. Some of the names is a bit uncreative, but I guess we can't do much about it, huh?

I wouldn't want to change the Doom II episode names, since those are official, but Final Doom doesn't have official names for its episodes, as far as I'm aware, so I'm open to suggestions.

maverick-hunter commented 3 weeks ago

That's the plan, more or less. The episodes should be grouped by game and campaign. The Hell on Earth episodes do have official names: "The Space Station", "The City", and "Hell".

That would look really cool, IMHO. Thanks for sharing that graph!

Trimint123 commented 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't want to change the Doom II episode names, since those are official, but Final Doom doesn't have official names for its episodes, as far as I'm aware, so I'm open to suggestions.

TNT is about alien demons invaded earth through a spaceship, so it should be space related. The Doom Wiki had some interesting idea of how TNT's episodic should structure: MAP1-11: experiment lab, then millitary base MAP12-20: nighttime (may as well be in space considering the next one) MAP21-30: hellish (the demon's planet, probably)

For Plutonia, I'm not sure how I would theme that one specifically.

Owlet7 commented 3 weeks ago

TNT is set on a moon of Jupiter (presumably Io), not on Earth.

Trimint123 commented 3 weeks ago

Huh, good to know?

RoniPunk commented 5 days ago

Amazing work on WAD Fusion! I too was working on something to fix the game index. I am also working on a full run mod for Wad Fusion as there was one for wadsmoosh and also I added the PSX doom exclusive maps as hidden extras as the Xbox version did for Sewers and Betray.