Improve iwad path loading

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Closed this issue 7 years ago · 2 comments

Currently hardcoded values (in nasty.wad) are used for the IWAD filenames. That's not a good idea.

Answer 1 · 2017-12-24T18:29:34.000Z

I think we need to have a system that detects what IWAD it is. There are ways to do this and it's how ZDoom works. It looks for lumps found only in certain wads: https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/blob/master/wadsrc/static/iwadinfo.txt

Probably not the most elegant way to do it but I'm not sure there is a better way. (Checksums of certain lumps? Checksums of iwads?)

Answer 2 · 2018-01-07T16:02:05.000Z

now detecting by md5 checksum. can be slow if there are a lot of wads in the iwad directory