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Erty
Erty
Posted 4 months ago2024-08-19 12:24:16 UTC
Erty Erty
So you offer to help someone with their map, or perhaps you're collaborating with someone, and right away after opening the RMF/JMF you're met with Invalid texture ('!C2A5') and Invalid texture ('WWOPCLIGHT2A') etc. The author has forgotten to let you know which non-default WADs were used in the map and has now run off somewhere and is out of reach.
Sometimes that happens.

Well, I made a simple CLI tool, Which WAD, in Python re-using some Map2Prop code to help out in that scenario.
It can also extract those textures, and automatically searches _addon, _hd and _downloads folders as well.
I'll add some functionality to use wildcard (*) later on.
Other than that, summer has been very tiring. Caught covid twice and barely started to recover. But I managed to release the first full version of Map2Prop, a year after I started that project! So that was exciting. Still have to properly celebrate that, once I'm in a shape for such.

Oh and our tomato plant finally yielded a nice, sweet, ripe tomato!
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Very happy with how our first tomato fruit turned out!
We had it with some mozzarella, olive oil and oregano 👌

3 Comments

monster_urby
monster_urby
Commented 4 months ago2024-08-20 15:09:24 UTC Comment #106312
It's people like yourself, developing tools 25 years after it's release, that keep the Half-Life modding community alive and I appreciate that.

We had a tomato plant for a few years when we lived out in the countryside. There's nothing better than a fresh tomato, right off the vine. I made many a cheese and tomato sandwich during those summers. Grew our own courgettes as well and one year we missed one when picking the plant and it kept on growing. At the end of the summer we found that we had a lovely plump marrow to dig into.
Erty
Erty
Commented 4 months ago2024-08-20 18:49:20 UTC Comment #106313
Thanks! Better late than never, and it's good practice for me.

And yeah, nothing quite like growing your own food 😃
Striker
Striker
Commented 3 months ago2024-08-25 19:37:22 UTC Comment #106330
That looks like one juicy tomato. I always trust home grown fruits/vegetables a lot more than the commerce ones.

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