EZDec - Create DOOM mods with ease!

[hiimaura]

Hi! Aura here!
I wrote this program called EZDec, which is a Windows application that allows users to create Decorate code for zdoom-based ports with a simple GUI. It's a good start for people who have never made a Doom mod before, but are interested in toying around with it. Right now, its very early in development, but I plan on adding a lot of features to it.
Currently, it creates a .pk3 file with your customized weapon in it.

Some of the things you can do include:

Making a pistol that fires at max speed.

Making a shotgun chaingun.

Firing an Imp fireball from a BFG

Plasma Rifle firing revenant tracers

 

What I plan to add:

Fire rings/lines/other shapes of hitscans/projectiles/railguns

Drag and drop custom sprites and apply offsets.

Make your own projectiles (not just using Doom 2's)

Make your own monsters.

Support for all doom-engine games based on IWAD selection

Randomly generate new weapons.

 

Here's a picture of the GUI


GITHUB
https://github.com/auratoostronk/EZDec

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2

DOWNLOAD
https://github.com/auratoostronk/EZDec/releases

Please leave me any feedbacks, comments, suggestions down below! If you see any bugs, report it to the Github link above!

[DannyMan]

Does it support dehacked patches?

[hiimaura]

41 minutes ago, DannyMan said:

Does it support dehacked patches?

No, sadly it does not :c

[Murdoch]

Great idea.

[MFG38]

Funnily enough, I had an idea to do a similar thing a while back - my plans of actually executing it flew out the window when my interest shifted from programming to something else. :P

 

Anyway, it's a cool idea for sure. Don't know if I'll use it myself since I'm pretty experienced with DECORATE, but for beginners, I can see this being a fairly useful tool.

[CBM]

nice. We need more tools like this.

[Syn]

I'll have to try this out later today, looks super helpful!

[DavidN]

This is nice! I could imagine it being good for experience modders to scaffold something out without remembering the entire list of required states, etc

[DOEL]

this is awesome, looks like I'm gonna make my first mod 😎

 

I'm gonna try to make a "rebalance": add an 8th hitscan to the SG, make chaingun shoot faster, and make plasma balls faster

[forgettable pyromaniac]

I can see it doing small yet really important shenanigans given enough TLC. Good luck!

[loveless]

finally, i can get to the questionable ideas in the back of my head.  thanks!

[Dusty_Rhodes]

Wow, looks super useful. Nice work.

[Wavy]

YEEES

 

I'm gonna toy around with this later. Thanks!

[Dark Pulse]

Excellent idea. Makes me wonder if the same concept could be applied to ZScript...

[hiimaura]

Thank you all for the support and posts so far. I honestly didn't think much of the project at the time, but I'm glad to hear people want to use it. I might just stick with this project :P

[Redneckerz]

8 hours ago, hiimaura said:

Thank you all for the support and posts so far. I honestly didn't think much of the project at the time, but I'm glad to hear people want to use it. I might just stick with this project :P

You should. An easy way to write DECORATE code supplements other things like DECOHack (Which has its own language) and DEH9000.

 

It is that i have of little time, but this is Wiki-worthy stuff.

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

Wow

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Seriously, WOW! It's a very good idea