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Community Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: 40oz on January 13, 2013, 13:29:11
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I've gotten really accustomed to Odamex's quick wad loading without having to exit in and out of the game. It's like the source port also doubles as it's own frontend. I love it!
One feature I think Odamex could use though is the ability to search for wads. For example, today, I wanted to play No End in Sight. Unfortunately my memory was failing me and I typed in the console:
wad doom.wad NEIS_b21.wad
to which Odamex couldn't find the wad I specified. That's because the actual filename to No End In Sight is NEIS-b21.wad. I had to exit out of Odamex, look in my wad folders, and find the wad to see the correct spelling of the filename. It would be awesome if I could say, type into the console:
searchwad NEIS
and Odamex would output all the wad I'm looking for. So if I were for example type in:
searchwad hr
Odamex would search my wad directories and output:
hr.wad
hr2final.wad
hrmus.wad
etc...
So that i could see the names of the wads that I have available to play. On another level of awesomeness, it would also be cool if I could type in a command and the name of the wad, and Odamex would output it's text file, so that I could read which levels are replaced in the wad. But I'll save that for another thread.
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The wad search idea sounds pretty cool. Perhaps an enhancement bug on the tracker with this idea is in order?
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I think tab-completion would be a good option here as well or instead.
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Fun little feature I just figured out by accident while trying to reply to this: Odamex accepts console commands on stdin.
You can start it up in tmux/screen/etc., then use those for remote control with shell tab completion. For example:
tmux new -d -s odamex-$$ 'odamex'
tmux send -t odamex-$$ 'netplay ' /home/ant/.odamex/demos/DM_20130113_010334_dwomga1.wad_map136.odd Enter
(netdemos need tab completion wayyy more than wads do)