Crossmonstering =)

[hezenbezen]

Hi all,
Please help with exporting/importing monsters.
I need a howto to share monsters data between doom|heretic|hexen wads.
I.e. a map for Hexen should contain all monsters from Heretic and Doom2.
Which editor could help and how?

[Graf Zahl]

You need two things for this:

1. copy the sprites from the other game to your mod. Look out for sprite renaming, though. For example the Iron Lich in Heretic uses 'HEADxx' sprites, but in this scenario they have to be renamed to 'LICHxx'.
2. Add a 'DoomEdNums' section to MAPINFO where you need to specify the new editor numbers for these monsters.

After that you should be able to use them, but I do not know which editors will pick up the new editor numbers.

[hezenbezen]

A monster also have its sounds. And behaviour. Arachnotron and Lost Soul act not as other monsters. Copying only sprites seems to be not enough.

[Enjay]

That's true - so you have to copy across the sounds and the SNDINFO entries for them too.

Also worth pointing out - if you just copy the sprites without converting them to PNGs or adjusting them to the target game palette, their colours will be messed up.

[m8f]

And behaviour. Arachnotron and Lost Soul act not as other monsters.

Monster behavior for all official games is stored in gzdoom.pk3, which comes with GZDoom and is always loaded. So unless you have custom monsters, you don't need to move any behavior code.