.wad compression/packing/unpacking

[Eglin]

Hi guys,

I wrote some wad tools in C++, and I'm sharing them (along w/ sources). It was a fun project, and the resulting tools are blazing fast. Maybe some C hacker will take a look and figure out the file hashes for encryption or make some other improvement.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to meet my goals of defeating the pseudo-encryption or making a drop-in replacement for Rick's (Gibbed) Tools in Deck Editor Rev. Renaming my program to Gibbed...pack.exe will create the wad files properly, but the Deck Editor will still fail to export (copy from its content directory to the game directory) the file correctly. Even so, my tools do still have a few advantages over WADPROGRAM and Rick's tools:

-no need for an external runtime (Java, .NET)
-supports command-line arguments, so it can be used in batch files.
-fully supports compression, so wad files don't need to be zipped before distribution.

Thanks to Rick and whoever wrote WADPROGRAM - they are great tools, and I had a lot of fun following your footsteps.

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[MisterBenn]

Oh my god I only just found this! I've been using the java wad tool until now and I have spent so much time browsing for the correct directories each time I repack. This looks amazing, I will try it out right away!