FAQ

Why is it not called Oblige anymore?

The original creator, Andrew Apted, has no interest in continuing or being associated with the project. The name was changed to avoid confusing people into thinking that he had resumed work on it.

HALP! Obsidian stopped midway through generation or something odd is in the game!

If you experience an error with Obsidian, you have several methods to recover error information so others can replicate.

1. Your LOGS.txt file. If Obsidian ends up in an error state midway through generation, don't hit Build immediately! Preserve this LOG file before re-opening Obsidian or generating a new megawad and post it up in our Discord or as an issue here on our Git!!
2. OBSIDATA lump in your WAD file. If you experienced a problem during the gameplay itself instead of during generation, information about your WAD's settings is stored inside the OBSIDATA text lump. Export this with your preferred WAD authoring program such as SLADE and post it up in our Discord or as an issue here on our Git! You can also load it up in Obsidian by hitting Menu->Config Manager and Load the WAD (Obsidian will read the OBSIDATA lump) and hit Save in order to write the config as an ordinary, shareable text file.

OMFG BUT HANDMADE MAPS ARE SUPERIOR AND PROCGEN MAPS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AND REMEMBER THE TIME PEOPLE STOLE THEM AND UPLOADE THEM TO IDGAMES?!?!?!?!??!

We don't care.

Is there a roadmap of features and a potential conclusion to Obsidian's development?

Although there are usually milestones and goals for each version, these are treated more as ideas to be evaluated and developed at any random time than a specific plan to follow. Sometimes, particularly great ideas may become an instant priority to develop without having ever been written in the roadmap.

There is no conclusion to Obsidian. Hell is infinite.