image to WAD?

[smeghammer]

I'm looking for something to convert an input image into a WAD/map format...

 

I am imagining something that might use colour as height (ideally configurable?) and/or use colour boundaries to define linedefs. 

 

Basically, what I am wanting to do is use something like a Julia set to generate a map template. It would be really cool I think to have a map based on a fractal:

Anyone know of anything like this?

[Nevander]

I don't know of any programs that can automatically create a map layout from an image, but what you could do is make the image the background for your editor and trace it.

[Kappes Buur]

I've never used this process so it is to be taken with a grain of salt.

This may or may not work, depending on complexity.

 

Check out Image to DXF and then run DXF2WAD v1.0

Edited March 25, 2021 by Kappes Buur

[Gwarl]

have also thought of this, but I would just generate the wad as a fractal in the first place which seems far easy (I know how to do fractal images and I just discovered omgifol)

I'll see what I can do

[smeghammer]

8 minutes ago, Gwarl said:

have also thought of this, but I would just generate the wad as a fractal in the first place which seems far easy (I know how to do fractal images and I just discovered omgifol)

I'll see what I can do

 

Oooohhh! This looks like the thing. I wrote a fractal (Mandelbrot) framework in Java many years ago - I could likely do a much better job now with Python3. If the above package can write vertices and linedefs, it should be logically straightforward to map generated fractal data. A project methinks...

 

41 minutes ago, Kappes Buur said:

Check out Image to DXF and then run DXF2WAD v1.0

 

I'll certainly check these out as well.

 

Thanks both.

[smeghammer]

1 hour ago, Gwarl said:

I just discovered omgifol)

 

There seem to be several download locations, for different versions. The most recent I found is this:

 

https://github.com/devinacker/omgifol

 

which looks current.

 

It is also installable via PIP, which is cool:

 

Definitely having a play with this. Thanks for the pointer.

 

Edited March 25, 2021 by smeghammer

[Worst]

You might also want to check out:

- PNG2WAD: a command-line tool that turns PNG images into Doom maps.

- WadC: a programming language for the construction of Doom maps.