SLADE Discussion - Latest: v3.2.12 (20/Feb/2026)

[Gez]

What build do you have? It shouldn't do that anymore.

[Sp00kyFox]

I'm using r1410 from the DRD svn site.
under preferences I set the path to all three png tools, apart from that I'm using the default settings.

[Nash]

It looks for the value of HKLM\SOFTWARE\CodeImp\Doom Builder\Location in the Windows registry.

Hmmm mine seems to be stored in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CodeImp\Doom Builder :O

Also I remember this being a problem if both Doom Builder 2 and GZDoom Builder is installed - SLADE will always default to Doom Builder 2 and on top of that, uninstalling DB2 properly will not remove this registry entry and SLADE will just fail to do anything in that situation.

[MG_Man]

How do I get SLADE to not compile an ACS script to the same lump as the source?

I'm using a .ACS file for source code, shouldn't it compile to a .O file instead of overwriting the source file?

EDIT: Forget it, I figured out that the .O file has to be UNDER the .ACS file for that. Still means I have to make a dummy .O file first though...


Also I can't seem to get r1410 working, nothing happens when I run it. 3.02 Final works fine.

[Gez]

How do I get SLADE to not compile an ACS script to the same lump as the source?

I'm using a .ACS file for source code, shouldn't it compile to a .O file instead of overwriting the source file?

EDIT: Forget it, I figured out that the .O file has to be UNDER the .ACS file for that. Still means I have to make a dummy .O file first though...

What do you mean exactly by "file" here? An entry in an archive, or a loose file in some directory?

As far as ACS goes, when SLADE 3 exports the file for ACC to see it, it does use separate .acs and .o files. Then when importing back, it'll either import a map's SCRIPTS lump to the corresponding BEHAVIOR lump, or it'll import a library to a lump with the same name but within the ACS [wiki]namespace[/wiki] (A_START/A_END markers in a WAD; /ACS/ folder in a ZIP). ACS source themselves shouldn't be in the ACS namespace.

Also I can't seem to get r1410 working, nothing happens when I run it. 3.02 Final works fine.

I can't help you then. 3.0.2 is super ultra old. Like, July 2011 old.

What happens if you install an SVN build in a clean directory, using the DLLs bundled with it rather than whatever old things may be lying around?

[Gez]

Also I remember this being a problem if both Doom Builder 2 and GZDoom Builder is installed - SLADE will always default to Doom Builder 2 and on top of that, uninstalling DB2 properly will not remove this registry entry and SLADE will just fail to do anything in that situation.

I decided to fix this. There is now an advanced option (I didn't create a config page for it, sorry) where you can set the path to your Doom Builder .exe of choice. So grab r1412 and set path_db2 to the full path to the map editor you want to use (including executable file name). In fact, it could even be used with another editor than DB2 entirely, as long as it uses the same command line parameters to be launched.

[Sp00kyFox]

thanks gez, it also fixed my problem

[MG_Man]

I can't help you then. 3.0.2 is super ultra old. Like, July 2011 old.

What happens if you install an SVN build in a clean directory, using the DLLs bundled with it rather than whatever old things may be lying around?

Exactly what I said, nothing. No log file either. Even tried deleting the appdata/roaming/slade3 folder. Running Win7 32-bit. VS2010 runtime installed. Is there anything else it needs?

And I was referring to files in an /ACS/ folder in a PK3. I didn't realize source files shouldn't be there, so I guess that's cleared up.

[Gez]

Well the SVN builds are compiled with VS2005, so the VS2010 runtimes are not really relevant for it. I'd expect anyone able to run SVN builds of ZDoom or GZDoom to already have the VS2005 runtimes, but maybe not?

[MG_Man]

Seems I didn't have it, but it still doesn't run after installing it. I'll try rebooting.

EDIT: Still nothing. I'll try going back through revisions and see when it starts working.

[Blue Shadow]

Not sure if it's a big deal or not, but when I checked on the revision number of the Slade build I'm using via Help -> About, it told me that the revision number is r1410M instead of r1412 (which is what I'm actually using at the moment).

[Nash]

I decided to fix this. There is now an advanced option (I didn't create a config page for it, sorry) where you can set the path to your Doom Builder .exe of choice. So grab r1412 and set path_db2 to the full path to the map editor you want to use (including executable file name). In fact, it could even be used with another editor than DB2 entirely, as long as it uses the same command line parameters to be launched.

Thanks Gez!

[Sp00kyFox]

got another question. for importing images there are options to choose about the color of the transparency.
is this also possible for exporting images? I wanna batch process some with an external tool and need the transparency to be one single color.
yeah I could always use XWE for that but I just wanna know if this is also an option in slade.

[Nash]

It's been many months since I last updated to the latest SVN of SLADE... but today I updated and - WHOA! SLADE starts up so much faster now! Good job!

(Too bad I don't remember which revision I had prior to the update... I hastily dumped the new files into my SLADE directory and overwrote everything...)

[Gez]

Not sure if it's a big deal or not, but when I checked on the revision number of the Slade build I'm using via Help -> About, it told me that the revision number is r1410M instead of r1412 (which is what I'm actually using at the moment).

It's not a problem; it's still r1412. Just compiled before the commit.