0004910: DR does not parse materials in def files

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0004910	DarkRadiant	General	public	09.12.2018 18:16	13.01.2024 05:31

Reporter	EoceneMiacid	Assigned To	greebo
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	2.5.0
Target Version	3.1.0	Fixed in Version	3.1.0

Summary	0004910: DR does not parse materials in def files
Description	I'm working on a large sandbox mod. Doom3 (I'm using dhewm3) allows you to define a material in a .def by prefixing it with 'material', as an alternative to having it in a .mtr file in /materials. I prefer this method, since this way, you can keep everything that's related to an entity contained in the .def file, which makes things nicer to manage, find, and mod. You can also do this with skins, soundshaders, ragdolls, particles and so on. DarkRadiant does not support this - it does not parse the materials, and as such my entities are untextured in the editor. It would be nice if DarkRadiant implemented support for this, to be feature parity with IdTech4 at least.
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orbweaver 31.01.2019 14:05 developer ~0011525	It would definitely be nice to have the same parsing flexibility as idTech4, but would require non-trivial changes to DR's architecture since currently all of the parsers are separate and tied to their own search directories. If this were ever implemented, I would suggest a sort of "global def manager" which is responsible for searching ALL directories that might contain defs, then farming each one out to a task-specific parser based on either the containing directory name or the explicit def type listed in the file.

greebo 22.07.2022 11:50 administrator ~0015070	Resolved through 0005977

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
09.12.2018 18:16	EoceneMiacid	New Issue
31.01.2019 14:05	orbweaver	Note Added: 0011525
31.01.2019 14:05	orbweaver	Status	new => confirmed
16.06.2022 15:55	greebo	Relationship added	related to 0005977
22.07.2022 11:49	greebo	Assigned To	=> greebo
22.07.2022 11:49	greebo	Status	confirmed => assigned
22.07.2022 11:49	greebo	Target Version	=> 3.1.0
22.07.2022 11:50	greebo	Status	assigned => resolved
22.07.2022 11:50	greebo	Resolution	open => fixed
22.07.2022 11:50	greebo	Fixed in Version	=> 3.1.0
22.07.2022 11:50	greebo	Note Added: 0015070
13.01.2024 05:31	greebo	Status	resolved => closed