Can I have more than one DECORATE lump in a wad?

[Doom Juan]

Is it possible to have seperate Decorate Lumps for items, monsters, decorations etc?

[Gez]

Yes.

It's also possible to give them different names (e.g., DEC_MONS, DEC_WEPS, DEC_STUF, etc.) and then #include them from a "master" DECORATE lump.

[printz]

Can I have a DECORATE that only activates with Zandronum and not vanilla ZDoom?

[Doom Juan]

Gez said:

Yes.

It's also possible to give them different names (e.g., DEC_MONS, DEC_WEPS, DEC_STUF, etc.) and then #include them from a "master" DECORATE lump.

Any chance of giving a little more detail with regards that? A thorough step by step guide?

[GreyGhost]

Assuming you have a set of DECORATE lumps called DEC_MONS, DEC_WEPS and DEC_STUF (to borrow Gez's example), your master lump would look like this -

#include "DEC_MONS"
#include "DEC_WEPS"
#include "DEC_STUF"

[Gez]

Meh, I'm no good at steps-by-steps guide. I prefer to maintain wiki pages.

But it's as simple as I said:

Step 1: Create a lump called MYWEAPON.
Step 2: Paste some DECORATE code for a weapon in the MYWEAPON lump.
Step 3: Create a lump called DECORATE.
Step 4: Type "#include MYWEAPON" (without the quotes) in the DECORATE lump.

There, done. For additional lumps, you need to list them each on a different line. So for example:
#include MYWEAPON
#include MYMONSTR
#include PLATYPUS
and so on.

[Doom Juan]

Thank you both, that's really helped.

[schwerpunk]

Wonderful explanations, guys. I know I've said it before, but I'll repeat: One of my favourite aspects of this community is how tolerant it is of newbies; even going so far as to soup up WADs, videos, scripts, or just explaining what's already written in the Wiki. You guys are excellent, and patient, mentors.

As it stands, I've only had to make one topic asking for help (hiding secrets... though I still have difficulty with that). Almost every problem I've had has been a quick search function away - either on the forums, the wiki, or through Google, if those two somehow (very rarely) fail.

So my thanks go out to all those that keep this community going strong. :)