extension independent sound file path to be able to update res-packages with new format

[illwieckz]

Hi, it's not a bug, it's a feature request! 😃

You know, the texture shader path is extension independent. You can ship a tex-package_1.pk3 containing shaders with .tga extension then you can replace it by a tex-package_2.pk3 with shaders with .crn extension without breaking maps that depend on this shaders.

But if you ship a tex-package_1.pk3 with .wav sound files, then you replace it with a tex-package_2.pk3 with .opus sound files, you must rebuild all the maps that depends on it because the sound file path is extension dependant.

I read somewhere that you want to have sound shaders, but before that and without that, having a extension independant sound file path will be a great improvement 👍

[Viech]

Do not put .wav files in a tex- package, the prefix is for texture packages only. (Actually it should only be used for well-formated texture packages as we might be more strict about the file hierarchies inside map- and tex- packages in the future.) Maybe use res- as a prefix for generic map resources.

[illwieckz]

hmmm, OK, because I need to create a common packages with many files, not only textures, and they are messy like Tremulous was…

[illwieckz]

We need this to be able to build against lossless assets and ship lossy assets without having to patch the entities lump inside the bsp.

Building against lossless assets is needed in some case (like alphashadow textures), so it must be allowed in general. All convert-able assets must be extension independent.