Create Custom WADs

[tomatoKetchup]

Maybe you should mess around with the different given software by yourself? Tutos are good but you will never fully learned how to do something if you don't try and fail, a lot.

[scifista42]

Feel free to mess around the editor to learn it, or open other people's wads in the editors and learn how they work to do various things. Generally, learn figuring things out on your own, rather than asking on the forum before researching yourself - you have all of the software, the internet and Google. Also there are doomwiki and zdoomwiki, rich sources of Doom related information including editing/making maps and wads.

[Altazimuth]

Don't forget The Eternity Wiki if you wish to use certain EE-only features.

[Gez]

http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_Wiki:Source_material

[The Doommer]

scifista42 said:

Feel free to mess around the editor to learn it, or open other people's wads in the editors and learn how they work to do various things. Generally, learn figuring things out on your own, rather than asking on the forum before researching yourself - you have all of the software, the internet and Google. Also there are doomwiki and zdoomwiki, rich sources of Doom related information including editing/making maps and wads.

I can only set textures for wad by SLADE. that is the only thing.
I need to learn more than this. Is there any better reference for tutorials ?

[Hoodie]

The Doommer said:

I can only set textures for wad by SLADE. that is the only thing.
I need to learn more than this. Is there any better reference for tutorials ?

I learned a lot with slade by just fucking around with it and looking at the IWADS, putting other peoples stuff in my wads to see how they work, experimenting and trial and error shit till something worked. Also check ZDoom wiki for a lot of slade stuff you can do.



Just create some shitty stuff with it and learn from that. Don't release anything without crediting an author though, or then he posts in your thread and makes you feel really bad...

[illuknisaa]

The Doommer said:

I can only set textures for wad by SLADE. that is the only thing.
I need to learn more than this. Is there any better reference for tutorials ?

Dude there are a lot of tutorials how to do stuff.

What do you want to do? eg do want to make a map, add new textures, custom hentai monsters etc.?

[VGamingJunkie]

The Doommer said:

I can only set textures for wad by SLADE. that is the only thing.
I need to learn more than this. Is there any better reference for tutorials ?

I have no trouble setting textures for wads made by Doom Builder, you just have to right click and add to textures.

[geekmarine]

Doomkid said:

How Doom Builder get pregnant?

They need to do way instain level designer> who nevr finsih their wads, because these wad cant frigth back?

[The Doommer]

MetroidJunkie said:

I have no trouble setting textures for wads made by Doom Builder, you just have to right click and add to textures.

I have lots of problems , i can't select sky for wad , cannot select all textures that i want because of some shitty bug for Doom Builder.

[scifista42]

1. You don't select a sky for a level. They are hardcoded (MAP01-11: SKY1, MAP12-20: SKY2, MAP21-32: SKY3). In vanilla, you cannot change them unless you replace the sky textures with another ones using SLADE3. In Boom format and higher, you can use sky transfer linedef actions to change the sky in certain tagged sectors.

2. Shitty bug? I bet on user error. Please provide more info.

[Gez]

scifista42 said:

In Boom format and higher, you can use sky transfer linedef actions to change the sky in certain tagged sectors.

MBF and higher, not Boom and higher.

Yeah I know most Boom-compatible ports nowadays are also MBF-compatible so the distinction isn't very important. (There was only one real exception IIRC. Maybe EDGE?)

Also, MAPINFO is a solution that might be simpler in many cases.

[The Doommer]

scifista42 said:

1. You don't select a sky for a level. They are hardcoded (MAP01-11: SKY1, MAP12-20: SKY2, MAP21-32: SKY3). In vanilla, you cannot change them unless you replace the sky textures with another ones using SLADE3. In Boom format and higher, you can use sky transfer linedef actions to change the sky in certain tagged sectors.

2. Shitty bug? I bet on user error. Please provide more info.

I want to use both DOOM I & DOOM II textures for game. but It will get confused when i choose an sky for the texture. It will always set the SKY1 as the E1 sky , SKY2 as E2 sky and SKY3 as E3 sky.
But i want to use DOOM II SKY3. And for the ceiling textures app doesn't allow me to choose any texture i want for it.

[glenzinho]

The simplest method to have the Doom 2 episode 3 sky is to make your map for any number in the MAP21 to MAP32 slot. Then you can use the ceilings texture app (ha!) to set F_SKY as the ceiling, add water and you have instant sky.

[GreyGhost]

The Doommer said:

cannot select all textures that i want because of some shitty bug for Doom Builder.

A bad workman always blames his tools.

I want to use both DOOM I & DOOM II textures for game. but It will get confused when i choose an sky for the texture. It will always set the SKY1 as the E1 sky , SKY2 as E2 sky and SKY3 as E3 sky.
But i want to use DOOM II SKY3.

Most likely due to the order that textures are loaded in when testing/playing the map. The resource wad that's loaded last will overwrite any like-named resources in memory, if that's DOOM.wad, it will replace the Doom 2 skies with its own.

[The Doommer]

GreyGhost said:

A bad workman always blames his tools.

Most likely due to the order that textures are loaded in when testing/playing the map. The resource wad that's loaded last will overwrite any like-named resources in memory, if that's DOOM.wad, it will replace the Doom 2 skies with its own.

What the hell should i do ?

[scifista42]

You can map for Doom 2 IWAD and use this texture pack that contains the missing Doom 1 textures. That means, load exactly these files as "additional resources" to your wad: Doom2.wad, d1gfxd2.wad.

I already told you what to do about changing skies.

[GreyGhost]

scifista42 said:

You can map for Doom 2 IWAD and use this texture pack that contains the missing Doom 1 textures.

That pack has a nasty error in the texture lump which can cause HOMs, here's one I did a few years ago which fixes that and has a few more textures.

[Reisal]

The one on /idgames/ should be replaced with the one GG made.

[The Doommer]

Another quwseion : if i want to set the skies myself (for example set the hell sky on M1-10) what shld i do ?

[scifista42]

You have several ways to do so. I will convey just the universal and easy one:

Put your sky graphic into your wad and rename it to "RSKY1". For example, rip "RSKY3" graphic from Doom2.wad, then put it into your wad and rename to "RSKY1". Hopefully it's clear to understand. "RSKY1" is Doom 2 MAP01-MAP11 sky patch. If you did what I said above, you just replaced the original one with a different one (because it has the same name, it will override the old one).

[Gez]

The sky is made up of a texture: SKY1 in the first 11 maps, then SKY2 up to MAP20, and SKY3 for the remaining.

So you can:
1. Change the texture itself with a texture editor (will work in all cases)
2. Change the patches used by the sky texture (simplest, though it can break if people play with a Final Doom IWAD instead)
3. Change the association of texture to sky (requires some sort of MAPINFO, so not compatible with everything)
4. Use the MBF sky transfer special (requires compatible ports, but also allows to have several different skies in a single map)

[The Doommer]

Gez said:

The sky is made up of a texture: SKY1 in the first 11 maps, then SKY2 up to MAP20, and SKY3 for the remaining.

So you can:
1. Change the texture itself with a texture editor (will work in all cases)
2. Change the patches used by the sky texture (simplest, though it can break if people play with a Final Doom IWAD instead)
3. Change the association of texture to sky (requires some sort of MAPINFO, so not compatible with everything)
4. Use the MBF sky transfer special (requires compatible ports, but also allows to have several different skies in a single map)

What is a good texture editor ?

[scifista42]

SLADE3. Double click TEXTURE1 lump inside your wad and edit texture definitions however you want to (add/replace patches, dimensions etc). If your wad doesn't contain TEXTURE1 yet, copy TEXTURE1 and PNAMES lumps from the IWAD you're using into your wad.

[GreyGhost]

The Doommer said:

What is a good texture editor ?

To create/edit sky patches? There's...

• GrafX2 - a 256-colour editor that's well suited for old games like Doom (I'd stick with version 2.4.2035, which is quite stable)
• GIMP or Photoshop - if you don't find all the features and options a bit daunting
• Paint.NET - which sits somewhere between the two above - or...
• Search eBay/Amazon/wherever for a copy of Paint Shop Pro 5, which is well regarded by some forum regulars

[TheNerdTurtle2]

Hoodie said:

Don't release anything without crediting an author though, or then he posts in your thread and makes you feel really bad...

Sounds like personal experience hahaha

[The Doommer]

GreyGhost said:

That pack has a nasty error in the texture lump which can cause HOMs, here's one I did a few years ago which fixes that and has a few more textures.

Unable to download... Please upload again.

[scifista42]

I can download the file just fine. Maybe try another web browser.

[GreyGhost]

The Doommer said:

Unable to download...

Link not responding? Incomplete download? Blocked by virus checker? Any error messages popping up?

[The Doommer]

scifista42 said:

You can map for Doom 2 IWAD and use this texture pack that contains the missing Doom 1 textures. That means, load exactly these files as "additional resources" to your wad: Doom2.wad, d1gfxd2.wad.

I already told you what to do about changing skies.

This was junk.