nwad

Read/write WAD files, as used by Doom et al.

npm install nwad

Usage

NB: All this module does is read from and write to the WAD data structure - reading or creating the appropriate file header, indices etc. A WAD is just a packed collection of "lumps" - to actually do anything interesting with the WAD you will need to work with these lumps - nlump is underway, this module serves as a base for that one.

nwad.load

Takes a Uint8Array and returns a WAD data structure:

{
  "type": "", //"IWAD" or "PWAD"
  "lumps": [] //an array of lumps, as below
}

The lump structure:

{
  "name": "",  //name as per the WAD info table
  "data": [] //a Uint8Array containing the lump data
}

Example:

const fs = require( 'fs' )
const nwad = require( 'nwad' )

fs.readFile( 'doom.wad', ( err, buffer ) => {
  if( err ) throw err

  const wad = nwad.load( buffer )

  console.log( wad.type, wad.lumps.length )
})

nwad.save

Takes a WAD data structure (as above) and returns a buffer:

const fs = require( 'fs' )
const nwad = require( 'nwad' )
const getLumps = require( './some-module-for-getting-lumps-from-somewhere' )

const wadBuffer = nwad.save({
  type: 'PWAD',
  lumps: getLumps()
})

fs.writeFile( 'my.wad', wadBuffer, err => {
  if( err ) throw err
})

license

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Nik Coughlin

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