DSDA Doom refuses to run with custom textures

[Amaruψ]

I'm asking this on behalf of a good friend.

 

Essentially, she's currently working on a custom map, but whenever she tries to add textures to PNAMES and TEXTUREX, DSDA Doom throws the following errors:

 

  

 

One thing to note is that she can run the map completely fine in GZDoom. Only DSDA seems to be causing issues. Any help would be appreciated :)

[Xaser]

Do the TEXTUREx and PNAMES lumps contain all the IWAD textures too, or just the new ones? For non-GZDoom ports, it needs to contain the entire list of textures, including the IWAD ones; sounds like the most likely cause of the error.

 

If that's the case the most foolproof route I know of to fix it goes something like:

• First, make sure you've got your "base resource archive" (IWAD) set up, and the correct one selected up top:
  • 
• Make a copy of the wad
• Delete the TEXTUREx/PNAMES lumps from the original
• Open the Texture Editor in the original; it'll show this:
  • 
• Click "Yes", then a new dialog appears:
  • 
• Make sure you have "Import from Base Resource Archive" checked, then click "OK"
• Open the Texture Editor in both the original wad and the copy you made earlier
• While still in the texture editor, Copy+paste the textures from the copy to the original to add 'em all back; SLADE will fix up all the PNAMES references automagically
• In the top menu bar, go to "Archive->Maintenance->Remove Entries Duplicated from IWAD", just in case -- SLADE sometimes accidentally copies over patches from the IWAD when copying+pasting textures; unsure if this is fixed yet.

 

 

If the texture entries were only ever added with SLADE's "add to TEXTUREx" function though, you could skip a bunch of the above steps and just repeat that process to add the texture definitions. But if you've got multi-patch textures or the texture names aren't 1:1 with the patch names, you'll want to follow the steps.

[kalensar]

Theres a strong possibility that your friend used FreeDoom Phase 2 as the asset base. FreeDoom phase 2 can be used a base for Plutonia and TNT Evilution. You can test pwad with either Plutonia or TNT to see if it works there.

Edited May 30, 2024 by kalensar

[Amaruψ]

12 hours ago, Xaser said:

Spoiler

 

Do the TEXTUREx and PNAMES lumps contain all the IWAD textures too, or just the new ones? For non-GZDoom ports, it needs to contain the entire list of textures, including the IWAD ones; sounds like the most likely cause of the error.

 

If that's the case the most foolproof route I know of to fix it goes something like:

• First, make sure you've got your "base resource archive" (IWAD) set up, and the correct one selected up top:
  • 
• Make a copy of the wad
• Delete the TEXTUREx/PNAMES lumps from the original
• Open the Texture Editor in the original; it'll show this:
  • 
• Click "Yes", then a new dialog appears:
  • 
• Make sure you have "Import from Base Resource Archive" checked, then click "OK"
• Open the Texture Editor in both the original wad and the copy you made earlier
• While still in the texture editor, Copy+paste the textures from the copy to the original to add 'em all back; SLADE will fix up all the PNAMES references automagically
• In the top menu bar, go to "Archive->Maintenance->Remove Entries Duplicated from IWAD", just in case -- SLADE sometimes accidentally copies over patches from the IWAD when copying+pasting textures; unsure if this is fixed yet.

 

 

If the texture entries were only ever added with SLADE's "add to TEXTUREx" function though, you could skip a bunch of the above steps and just repeat that process to add the texture definitions. But if you've got multi-patch textures or the texture names aren't 1:1 with the patch names, you'll want to follow the steps.

 

 

 

This actually worked out for her, thanks a lot.