🩸 tinywad

A library to manage WAD for DOOM based game. It has been tested with the following IWAD:

• DOOM.WAD
• DOOM2.WAD
• HEXEN.WAD
• CHEX.WAD
• TNT.WAD
• PLUTONIA.WAD
• STRIFE0.WAD
• STRIFE1.WAD
• DOOMU.WAD
• DOOM2F.WAD
• HEXDD.WAD

It supports the following features:

• Load WAD buffer/file
• Extract lump raw content
• Extract lump as original files (PNGs)
• Extract the image lumps with a custom color palette
• Update lump raw content
• Build a IWAD/PWAD
• Add/insert lumps then save the WAD file

📖 How to build and run ?

1. Install the dependencies
   • cargo

⭐ Use cases

Patching directly the IWAD

use tinywad::error::WadError;
use tinywad::models::operation::WadOp;
use tinywad::wad::Wad;

fn main() -> Result<(), WadError> {
    let mut doom_2 = Wad::new();
    doom_2.load_from_file("doom2.wad")?;

    let gate = doom_2.lump("GATE3").unwrap();

    let mut doom_1 = Wad::new();
    doom_1.load_from_file("doom1.wad")?;

    doom_1.select("^FLAT|FLOOR");
    doom_1.update_lumps_raw(&gate.data().buffer);
    doom_1.save("doom1.wad");

    Ok(())
}

Screenshot(s)

Extracting lumps with custom palettes

use std::fs;

use tinywad::dir::MAX_PAL;
use tinywad::error::WadError;
use tinywad::models::operation::WadOp;
use tinywad::wad::Wad;

fn main() -> Result<(), WadError> {
    let mut doom_2 = Wad::new();
    doom_2.load_from_file("doom2.wad")?;

    for pal in 0..MAX_PAL {
        doom_2.set_palette(pal);
        doom_2.reload()?;
        doom_2.select("^BOSF");
        
        let dirpath = format!("doom2/pal_{}", pal);

        fs::create_dir_all(dirpath.clone()).unwrap();

        doom_2.save_lumps(dirpath);
    }

    Ok(())
}

Extracted lumps (as PNGs)

Building a PWAD from scratch

use tinywad::error::WadError;
use tinywad::lump::{LumpAdd, LumpAddKind};
use tinywad::models::operation::WadOp;
use tinywad::wad::{Wad, WadKind,};

fn main() -> Result<(), WadError> {
    let mut src = Wad::new();

    let lump_names = [
        "FLOOR0_1", "FLOOR0_3", "FLOOR0_6",
        "FLOOR1_1", "FLOOR1_7", "FLOOR3_3",
        "FLOOR4_1", "FLOOR4_5", "FLOOR4_6",
        "FLOOR4_8", "FLOOR5_1", "FLOOR5_2",
        "FLOOR5_3", "FLOOR5_4", "FLOOR6_1",
        "FLOOR6_2", "FLOOR7_1", "FLOOR7_2",
    ];

    src.load_from_file("doom.wad")?;

    let gate = src.lump("FLOOR6_1").unwrap();

    let mut dest = Wad::new();

    dest.set_kind(WadKind::Pwad);
    dest.add_lump_raw(
        LumpAdd::new(
            LumpAddKind::Back,
            &vec![],
            "FF_START",
        )
    )?;

    for lump_name in lump_names {
        dest.add_lump_raw(
            LumpAdd::new(
                LumpAddKind::Back,
                &gate.data().buffer,
                lump_name,
            )
        )?;
    }

    dest.add_lump_raw(
        LumpAdd::new(
            LumpAddKind::Back,
            &vec![],
            "F_END",
        )
    )?;

    dest.save("doom1_patch.wad");

    Ok(())
}

Dumping metadata

use tinywad::error::WadError;
use tinywad::models::operation::WadOp;
use tinywad::wad::Wad;

fn main() -> Result<(), WadError> {
    let mut src = Wad::new();

    src.load_from_file("hexen.wad")?;
    src.dump();

    Ok(())
}

Output

Name: XXTIC, Size: 8, Offset: 12
Name: STARTUP, Size: 153648, Offset: 20
Name: PLAYPAL, Size: 21504, Offset: 153668, Palettes amount: 28
Name: COLORMAP, Size: 8704, Offset: 175172
Name: FOGMAP, Size: 8704, Offset: 183876
Name: TINTTAB, Size: 65536, Offset: 192580
Name: TRANTBL0, Size: 256, Offset: 258116
Name: TRANTBL1, Size: 256, Offset: 258372
Name: TRANTBL2, Size: 256, Offset: 258628
...

🪧 Supported lump types

• DOOM image(s)
• Flat
• Palette
• Markers
• Music

✅ Todo

ℹ️ Documentation

Run cargo doc --open to read the documentation in the browser.