What to use to make doom WADS. (beginner)

[FATAL-R-097]

i have been wanting to make doom wads for a while now but. i cant find any good or easy to use programs to make a doom wad with.

 

could anybody give me some good easy and safe doom wad making programs 

[sht]

i recommend slade3 for making things for zdoom or eureka for vanilla maps and xwe for editing wads and zennode for building nodes. but also i think this is maybe the wrong board for this question

[Simomarchi]

The top Wad editors nowadays are Ultimate Doom Builder for map making and SLADE3 for wad editing.

 

Just to be clear, you have to use Ultimate Doom Builder to create the maps, and SLADE3 to add some modifications to them (change the sky, music, import new enemies in your wad etc. etc.).

 

You can use SLADE3 to create the maps, since it comes with an integrated map editor but UDB is a better choice, at least for me.

 

If you don't have a strong PC you can also try GZDoom Builder, that's basically an earlier version of UDB that requires less graphical resources to run. Keep in mind that despite the name you can map for any port with this editor and in any map format.

 

Regarding how difficult is to use them I think that any instance of Doom Builder is very user friendly. The commands are very easy to learn (as long as you know how to make things work in a doom map) and they all come with an incredibly useful visual mode that can help you with some height adjustments or with some texturing work, other than the fact that it provides an immediate preview of your map.

SLADE3 is also very easy to use but you can mess up the structure of your wad with it, so be sure to learn how does it works and what's the correct way to do stuff with it before trying something brave and fancy (and of course keep a backup of your data).

 

[Stabbey]

If you're a beginner, it also would not hurt to take a look at the tutorials forum, and this series in particular:

 

 

[DavidN]

Linguica’s series is really good! I’ll also throw my own series in, though as said above you should use Ultimate Doom

Builder instead of GZDBBF (which was the latest at the time I made it) - it shows how to set everything up and then walks through making a basic map

 

 

[Kor]

I agree with Simomarchi.  Doom Builder is pretty easy to use, and you can do a lot with it.  It also creates backup files just in case something goes wrong (not that it often does, because it doesn't). I've been using variations of it since 2005 or so.  Now I use GZDoom Builder.  I use Slade to assemble wad files (the graphics, music, etc) and I find it easy enough.  XWE is a decent one too, though it stopped working on one of my computers for some reason.