Using Doom 3 Mods in Tandem

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I've noticed that when you mix mods together, the results are unpredictable.
I have a number installed, including the Trent Reznor Sound mod and the
Classic Shotgun mod.

I just added the Duct Tape mod, and noticed that, although the machine gun
now has a light, the shotgun doesn't.

Is there any way to get all mods working with each other? Is there
any list of which ones are compatible?

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On 4/28/2005 8:55 AM Paul Moloney brightened our day with:

>I've noticed that when you mix mods together, the results are unpredictable.
>I have a number installed, including the Trent Reznor Sound mod and the
>Classic Shotgun mod.
>
>I just added the Duct Tape mod, and noticed that, although the machine gun
>now has a light, the shotgun doesn't.
>
>Is there any way to get all mods working with each other? Is there
>any list of which ones are compatible?
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>
Well with something like that you'd have to rewrite the mod yourself. I
haven't looked into how you go about adding a light source to a weapon
but obviously when you change the weapon via a mod it requires another
modification to add a light back to it.
If you have no idea how to do it yourself, learn. Look through the pak4
files (extract them using, for example, winzip), you'll notice they both
have a weapon_shotgun.def, only the one in the last alphanumeric ordered
pak4 file will be loaded. So you're goal is to find way to combine the
code from both weapon_shotgun.def files.
Mods will usually be incompatible if they both modify the same thing.
If you don't want to try to do this yourself your best bet would be to
look through all the modified weapons out there for someone who has
already done a repackaging amalgamation of the mods you want to work
together.


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