The Unofficial WAD Designers' Handbook, Release 2.0
Addendum 1: Basic WAD Structures
by Ron Allen & Bill McClendon (C) 1996. All rights reserved.

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The HNDBKAD1.ZIP archive includes the first addendum, Basic WAD Structures, to The Unofficial WAD Designers' Handbook in both Word95 and plain ASCII formats.

It is strongly suggested that you use the Word95 formatted version, if possible, instead of the plain ASCII version. If you must use the ASCII version, you will need a graphics viewer capable of displaying both .GIF and .JPG files to view the graphics. The ASCII version was assembled using Word Pad for Win95; you may find that it displays best in that text editor.

Word95 users must have both of the appropriate graphics filters (.GIF and .JPG, included with Word95) installed in Word95 for the graphics to display.

In addition, Word95 users need to use a specific directory structure (or manually reassign the graphics links in the Word95-format document; see below). This is necessary because the graphics are saved as links in the Word95-format file rather than being embedded. This was done to save disk space and dowload time.

To install these Handbook Addendum files properly, create a directory called Handbk20 in the root directory of your drive C:\, if it does not already exist. If you have the Handbook document itself, this directory should have been created already. Then extract the Handbook Addendum files from the archive to that directory. The necessary directory structure has been "built in" to the Handbook archive for you through the use of recursed subdirectories.

Should you need to create the necessary directory structure manually for some reason, it is:


C:\                                              Root directory (must be "C")
    |
     --->Handbk20                                Main Handbook directory
                 |
                  --->Basics                     Basics Addendum directory
                            |
                             --->graphics        Supporting Graphics go here


Or, in other words, the graphics *must* be in the

C:\Handbk20\Basics\graphics

directory while the Addendum document itself is in the Handbk20\Basics directory. Since the links are explicit, you *must* locate the Handbk20 directory on the C:\ drive.

The authors recognize that this directory structure may not be convenient for all readers. The decision to require a specific directory structure was made as the best choice from several imperfect options. If you would like to change this structure, you can reassign the graphics links manually. To do this, you will have to delete each link reference in the .DOC file and use the "insert|picture" menu item to replace the links to the graphics files one by one. Unless you want the .DOC file to swell hugely in size, be sure to select "link to file" and *unselect* "save with file" on the graphics file selector dialog box when replacing the links.

Thanks for reading The Unofficial WAD Designers' Handbook, Release 2.0, and Good Dooming! Comments, suggestions, and questions may be sent to ron1701@apci.net.


