Couple questions about wad loading.

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Couple questions about wad loading.

Post by law56ker »

Does it matter which order i load wad files and the deh files in the mod menu txt. Also is there a size limit to a single wad file and/or the combination of wad files for nxdoom. Also what do deh files do?
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Post by BlackAura »

It does matter sometimes. If two WAD files both contain the same file, then the contents of later (in the command line) WAD files will override the contents of earlier ones. Same deal with DEH files. For most mods, it doesn't matter at all.

The WAD files can theoretically be as large as you like (up to 2GB anyway), and have as many items in there as you like (well, probably a few million at least). Realistically, that would be stupid. If a WAD file replaced every single piece of data from the main DOOM wad file, it would be as big as it can really get. And it would still work. Probably. You can load as many as you like, but I'd advise against loading too many - it might eat up all the available memory.

DEH files modify the game's behaviour. They're used to create new objects, new weapons, and stuff like that.
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