[TRIVIAL] W_CacheNumLumps: [Random number each time]

[Guest Unregistered account]

So, I know there's a very old thread about this question, but renaming F_START to FF_START hasn't solved the problem for me. (I'm mapping for Vanilla Heretic, by the way)

So, here's a screenshot:



Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[Dave The Daring]

In my vanilla wads I put all my textures (including skies) between PP_START and PP_END. Flats go between FF_START and F_END (just one F for F_END). You don't need the P_START and P_END..

Well, this method works for me anyway.

[Dave The Daring]

Ah, I just noticed you're mapping for Heretic, which could be a different case. That'll teach me to read the thread properly in future.

[Gez]

Don't you mean W_CacheLumpNum? There's no such string as W_CacheNumLumps in Heretic.

The function in Heretic source code is

void	*W_CacheLumpNum (int lump, int tag)
{
byte *ptr;

	if ((unsigned)lump >= numlumps)
		I_Error ("W_CacheLumpNum: %i >= numlumps",lump);
		
	if (!lumpcache[lump])
	{	// read the lump in
//printf ("cache miss on lump %i\n",lump);
		ptr = Z_Malloc (W_LumpLength (lump), tag, &lumpcache[lump]);
		W_ReadLump (lump, lumpcache[lump]);
	}
	else
	{
//printf ("cache hit on lump %i\n",lump);
		Z_ChangeTag (lumpcache[lump],tag);
	}
	
	return lumpcache[lump];
}

So it's told to cache a lump number something, and you claim that number changes each time.

Since you're targeting vanilla Heretic, I'd like to mention that the TEXTURE1 lump is suspiciously small. The IWAD's TEXTURE1 lump is 3102 bytes, yours is merely 112 bytes. I guess it only contains your new or modified textures, leaving all the unmodified IWAD textures out. And vanilla does not like that.

SLADE 3 has the option to import the texture definition from the base resource archive precisely for this reason. You probably told it to create it empty, or you didn't set the base resource archive at all. Either way, you'll have to import the textures from the IWAD TEXTURE1 lump now.

[Guest Unregistered account]

I told it to create an empty one, not knowing what it meant. Ugh... man, but patches and flats sure are fiddly.

[EDIT]: Off-topic, but autocorrect just gave me the option of replacing "fiddly" with "piddly". Really.