Organization

[Chipper35]

I'm frustrated....... between downloading all manner of WADS and assorted maps etc. etc. I've made an utter spider web of a mess!

 

Can anyone share how they organize their stuff?? I like:

 

A. To mess around with Doom Builder

B. Play assorted WADS and TC's

C. Play fairly 'standard' stuff (e.g. Smooth Doom, Beautiful Doom etc.)

D. I sometimes can even get my head straight enough to use ZDL at times. 

 

 

[Apprentice]

It's fairly easy: start at the beginning !!

 

For starters, I have everything situated within my F:\GAMES\ZDOOM folder, which the root only contains the latest ZDoom release and all the IWADs I have. Every other source port has its own folder within the GAMES\ZDOOM folder with either the *.INI modified to look one folder up or I had to create a *.BAT in order to point the source port to the right IWAD (major failure from many developers here, see ⁽¹⁾). The same goes for third party wads, my own wads, editors and other utils such as nodebuilders and such. Each and everyone has its own folder so that I can easily find what I am looking for and keep my stuff organised.

 

 

 

^{(1) This is what I believe is a major design flaw in many source ports, is that the port is by default not looking for the IWADs one folder up. If you have a DOOMDIR\GZDOOM folder structure and all the IWADs are stored in the DOOMDIR folder, GZDoom and any other port will only look within its own folder in which they won't find a single IWAD. For ZDoom and deratives, it can be 'fixed' by adding "Path=.." into your *.INI file ([IWADSearch.Directories]) but more stricter ports that don't use an *.INI file, will have to resort to "-iwad ..\<wadfile>.wad". Apperantly, I am the only one who has organised it in this fashion, since a suggestion made ZDoom forums was immediately shot down . . .}

[Hawk of The Crystals]

Usually making several folders within the source-port folder works.

[Shepardus]

6 hours ago, Apprentice said:

(1) This is what I believe is a major design flaw in many source ports, is that the port is by default not looking for the IWADs one folder up. If you have a DOOMDIR\GZDOOM folder structure and all the IWADs are stored in the DOOMDIR folder, GZDoom and any other port will only look within its own folder in which they won't find a single IWAD. For ZDoom and deratives, it can be 'fixed' by adding "Path=.." into your *.INI file ([IWADSearch.Directories]) but more stricter ports that don't use an *.INI file, will have to resort to "-iwad ..\<wadfile>.wad". Apperantly, I am the only one who has organised it in this fashion, since a suggestion made ZDoom forums was immediately shot down . . .

Most source ports will support either the DOOMWADDIR or DOOMWADPATH environment variables: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Environment_variables

Edited November 12, 2021 by Shepardus

[Biodegradable]

I just keep everything together in various folders.