editing things

[ginseng]

sorry if this sounds very stupid, im very new to wads but i was wondering if/ how i could edit sprite appearance, for example, "things" on slade, i want to draw/ photoshop my own ceiling lamp into the game, is there a way i could just edit this pre-existing sprite and still use it in the game?? i feel like I'm missing something please let me know what i could do <3 

[RataUnderground]

Yeah, you're missing the fundamental piece of knowledge that nobody explains because everybody assumes it's obvious! When you create a pwad, any graphic or file you add with the same original name it had in the IWAD will replace it.
So, if you add with Slade two sprites with the names GOR1A0 and GOR1B0 (For the animation frames) to your Pwad between the markers S_START AND S_END, it will replace that one (with the same size characteristics, however).

[ReX]

Also, if I remember correctly (I'm somewhat rusty on my "vanilla" DooM editing), you will need DeHacked or a similar utility to include custom sprites for a vanilla DooM mod.

[Naarok0fkor]

Check out my WAD. I did what you want to do more than once. You need to get into the DeHAcked and GLDefs files in SLADE...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/guntoberfest/downloads/naarok0fkors-winter-slayride-2023

[andrewj]

10 hours ago, ReX said:

Also, if I remember correctly (I'm somewhat rusty on my "vanilla" DooM editing), you will need DeHacked or a similar utility to include custom sprites for a vanilla DooM mod

The utility is DEUSF, but it only needed for people using DOS, every source port on modern systems supports sprite replacements in a simpler way, e.g. Chocolate-Doom and similar ports require using -merge instead of -file when giving the pwad.

[ReX]

Yes, DEUSF not DeHacked.

 

Also, I had forgotten about the DOS angle.