Freedoom not recognized

3DMaster

So, under Other Games there is Doom64 Absolution, and Freedoom (phase 1 and phase2); I have added the folders in which the wad files are located to the wad-locations under mods; and the wads now show up in the list of mods. Doom64 Absolution is found automatically by DE just fine; however, freedoom is not.

Any idea why? Or how to manually configure these entries?

Vermil

I believe Freedoom is for Boom. Dday doesn't support very much of Boom and hence support for Freedoom probably won't come until Dday gets full Boom support.

3DMaster

I don't think so; if there was no support for FreeDoom, why is FreeDoom standard in the "Other Games" section of DE2?

Vermil

Ok, my mistake.

It's possible the Freedoom Iwad has been updated and hence Dday needs to be updated to support it?

3DMaster

Possible, but now that I think about it, this isn't limited to FreeDoom; over in the Heretic section there's someone whose Doomsday doesn't recognize the Steam Heretic wad; where with me it does recognize that, but Doomsday doesn't recognize the Hexen expansion.

It's weird.

skyjake

There is probably a bug in the IWAD detection code when it comes to the Heretic/Hexen WADs, although I'm not sure why exactly it's failing to detect them.

FreeDoom is regularly updated, so this feature is being planned: https://tracker.dengine.net/issues/2267

Q_Marine

As far as I know, freedm v0.11.2 is the newest version supported by Doomsday Engine. [CRC: A514A6AB]