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I was wondering if it was possible to open doom/doom2 style WAD files with the archive object, or if a method of doing so exists. if so, anyone willing to provide an example? it does not even need a MAP01 lump, just a proof of concept (aka the app reads the wad structure and uses data from some sort of lump) is needed.
No. You could implement the file format yourself by reading it byte for byte with an extension like Binary Object, but I guess you're not familiar with that.
Actually I am, but I was seeing if such an extension to automatically do it existed. I guess I will have to use the binary object (or binary quickload object) since the format is well known and posted on the doom wiki and is thus straight forward, maybe I can even write an extension to directly read WADs since they are not a bad way to store information.
You have another option to read it into/out of MMF2. I'm developing an extension that lets you define and use formats to save and load data: http://community.clickteam.com/showthread.php?t=69767
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/WAD <-- the WAD format itself (DOOM wiki).
http://zdoom.org/wiki/WAD <-- the WAD format itself (ZDOOM wiki).