WAD Parser

[Blitzman]

The first thing to do is to implement routines for completely parsing the DOOM WAD files. This implies loading the whole content into memory in an organized and easy to access and interpret manner.

• Implement WAD data reading functions for int/uint, short/short and string data.
• WAD file loading.
• WAD header reading.
• WAD directory reading.
• Palette parser.
• Palette visualizer.
• Colormap parser.
• Colormap visualization.

Resources

• http://www.movax13h.com/devlog/building-a-doom-engine-from-scratch-with-c-c-and-opengl-the-wad-file-001/