Doom3world

I tried playing with the declarations manager, which handles the parsing of pdas, skins, particles etc. I want to add my own new declaration type, but I've no idea how I can access anything from the idDecl interface, without resorting to the predefined schemes, which wouldn't work with the new stuff I'm trying... Any insights on this?

I don't know what you're trying to do, but this should get you started.

First you need to add your new type to the declType_t enum, which is in declmanager.h.
Next in Game_Local.cpp, idGameLocal::Init - Add your new type to the manager via the RegisterDeclType function. Finally you will need to inherit a class from idDecl or one of its sub classes and write your own which is passed using idDeclAllocator<NewDeclClass>.

To actually parse the declaration into your new idDecl class override the idDecl::Parse function. For a great example of how this is done see the idDeclModelDef class in Anim_Blend.cpp. They use an idLexer class to parse the string into tokens and act on each as needed. From there you should be able to do just about anything you want with the parsed text.

-VoiD

This looks great, thank you!

I thought I might get a raw parsing tree or something, just by adding my type to the manager. But using the lexer seems easy enough...