Maximum textures in a WAD? Created 20 years ago2004-06-28 22:33:33 UTC by RabidMonkey

I have a wad that contains all my custom textures, a few packs I had around, and my Swat3 textures. They total up to 3500 something textures (wow, will I ever need them all?) Is there a limit to how many textures I can place in a WAD, or can I just keep adding them on?

damn dude your really active on this forum, but good on ya fo dat!
i actualy have a question about wads to i downloaded halflife.wad and cs_bdog.wad and threw em in my cstrike folder and now every game i join(in cs) is like tiled and wierd textures... is this because the wad is messed up or are they just old textures or sumthing....

The wads could be messed. Cstrike has its own versions of bdog and halflife wads, so you might have different versions. Do you have Steam or WON?

@rabidmonkey777: Afaik the half-life.wad is the biggest wad I've ever seen. Find out how mayn textures it contains and try to stay below that.
If you want to reduce your wad size, split it into themes. One for forest textures, one for sci-fi textures etc.

well im guessing he makes a small custom wad if he releases a map, but i quite like the idea of having one wad especialy if you have it deep in some folder cause you cant scroll over in hammer... well not that i knwo of

I wadinclude when I release. I dont want to split into all these diff themed WADS because you can only have 8 wads, and I like to keep my CS ones individual so I dont wadinclude ones people already have. Halflife has ~3100 textures, so I might just get rid of my SWAT textures and just use teh other WAD I have of all of them. Thnx. If I do organize, I'll set aside a day for sorting thru my WAD and rename them forest, urban-, vehicle-, door-, and so on.