31 character texture name length limitation relative to basedir, anything beyond that is silently discarded

[starfrost013]

I am working on a quake 2 engine based game and this is not even indicated in a warning message, it would be nice to overload it with a command-line option or something.

[lavenderdotpet]

how r u gettint wads with textures above 31char

[starfrost013]

i'm not using wads???? it's quake 2 based and I made engine modifications (.TGA textures only mostly) but the texture file name size limit is stlill arbitrary???

[lavenderdotpet]

agh i keep forgetting tho i think u can still use wads with q2

sorry about that

[ericwa]

It's limited to 31 chars in the Q2 .bsp format, it would require a new format to raise the limit.

There is a warning for this "WARNING: texture name '{}' exceeds maximum length {} and will be truncated\n" but maybe it's not printing, I'll double check.

[Paril]

Yeah unfortunately this isn't fixable without a secondary BSPX lump or something, and even then you'd still need modified engine support.

If you make an alternate BSP38-based format with longer filenames we can potentially add support for it.

[ericwa]

The warning is working in alpha4, it prints near the end of the qbsp output in the EmitFaces section:

This is running on the q2_long_texture_name.map testmap like this: qbsp.exe -q2bsp -basedir .\q2_wal_metadata\ .\q2_long_texture_name.map