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Lawstiker
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 Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 5:50 am Post subject: WAD Modification |
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I think this would be the proper place for this.
The question I ask is about creating your own WAD patches. How is this done exactly? Are there any guides or tips for how this is done? From what I can tell the only real tools available for this are Wad Utilities and ROTTMultiTool (I see Game Extractor and XWE as more use towards TC for other games than actual editing, and from what I know XWE can't read all of the files in the WAD correctly), and I'm not quite sure what I'm suppose to do or how to use these programs correctly. Has anyone here even messed with this exactly? I don't exactly plan to do anything, I would just like to know how its done.
Though if all else fails, I'll roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty 
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Per-Scan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| +1 for any info on this. I haven't found a single thing regarding WAD modification other than it's really difficult! I read somewhere that a big problem is that the modded WAD has to be the same size as the Darkwar one. I'm not sure why that makes it difficult as to my mind if it was smaller you could just pad it out. Of course, bigger WAD's would fail... |
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Lawstiker
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject: |
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Well I know simple WAD patches can be made (there's a few maps on the ROTTpository that have them)...but they where all made back in 95-96 and anybody that knew how to do it would be...well nonexistent. I know various tools exist for doing this, but ones such as ROTTMulittool I've only figured out how to break the WAD into its multiple files, replace a file, then reassemble it into another Dark War sized wad...just as you said.
Plus, wouldn't there be legal issues distributing a large wad like that with all the original content?
I think i'll start messing with Wad Utilities though. If someone did wad modifications back in the day and successfully made wad patches...that would have to had been the program they used to do it.
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