Ultimate Doom Builder

[Deon]

Wow, that 3d floor mode is amazing.

Thanks to you, all the houses in Tristram now have double-sided roofs!


Before I had a trouble: I've made too many furniture objects in those houses using 3d floors, and I couldn't imagine going through all the sectors' properties manually, assigning new tags and then making a sloped 3dsector for the roof... With this mode it's just a couple of clicks, and done! You saved me so much time...

[Deon]

I have run into an issue I did not expect:

I am struggling with floor portals (type 57).
I am following tutorials like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUlul4KIZrg

However the floor portals do not seem to work at all.

Here's an example of what I am doing:

ZZZ1.wad

(5.88 KiB) Downloaded 43 times

I seem to follow the tutorial to the letter, but the portals on the floor simply don't happen.
The line portals work perfectly.

[Deon]

I will not delete my message because it can be useful to someone else. But basically I missed the fact that it's not enough to setup the portal via lines for the floor transitions, the rooms must be PHYSICALLY stacked (one above another). In my case they were on the same level, that's why it didn't work.

[Deon]

Here's my question about some advanced stuff. I want to make my own banners for my map, and I've discovered +WALLSPRITE which does what I want, without rotating the image.

However, there seems to be misalignment between what I see in the "Q" visual mode and what I see in the game.

Here's the sprite in the game:
[imgur]https://i.imgur.com/UT3tIr7[/imgur]

And while it's aligned in the game, this is how I have to set it up in the visual mode:
[imgur]https://i.imgur.com/FaKWhjc[/imgur]

The image is 64x64 and this is the code:

Code: Select all

Actor Sign1 10102 {
  //$Title Sign 1
  //$Category Signs

  Height 64
  Radius 64
  Mass 1

  +NOBLOCKMAP
  +NOGRAVITY
  +NOINTERACTION
  +WALLSPRITE

  States {
    Spawn:
      SIGN A -1
      Stop
  }
}

Could you suggest what am I doing wrong? Aligning each wall sprite in game instead of visual mode will make map creation really slow.

[CBM]

I have run into an issue I did not expect:

I am struggling with floor portals (type 57).
I am following tutorials like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUlul4KIZrg

However the floor portals do not seem to work at all.

Here's an example of what I am doing:

ZZZ1.wad

I seem to follow the tutorial to the letter, but the portals on the floor simply don't happen.
The line portals work perfectly.

floor portals are hard... by keep trying .... they do work

[CBM]

.....
Oh god. All this time, all these three nights of no sleep and making control sectors, I was a single click away...

I wish I knew about it from the start. But thank you SO MUCH, you saved me from a lot of pain in the future.
Well, at least now I know how control sectors work, so I guess it will help me in future troubleshooting if something goes wrong. We live to learn .

Same here.. I soo need to learn how to use this

[boris]

Could you suggest what am I doing wrong? Aligning each wall sprite in game instead of visual mode will make map creation really slow.

You're probably using a PNG for that sprite, right? There's a bug where PNG sprites without an offset are centered instead of using (0, 0) like GZDoom does. It'll be fixed in the next release.

While it'll be displayed the same between UDB and GZDoom with that fix, I'd still recommend to set a proper offset for that sprite. In your case you could set the offset to (32, 32). You can do that in SLADE.

[Deon]

Do I need to load PNG to WAD first? I am not sure where Slade saves the offsets. Does it somehow "hack it into" PNG format itself, or does it put it in a separate descriptor file of sort?
Thank you so much for your help.

[boris]

Do I need to load PNG to WAD first? I am not sure where Slade saves the offsets. Does it somehow "hack it into" PNG format itself, or does it put it in a separate descriptor file of sort?
Thank you so much for your help.

The offset is stored in the PNG, it's just a standard property of the format. You don't have to put the PNG into a WAD, you can just open your directory in (recent versions of) SLADE and modify the offset just as it it was a native Doom graphic. Of course you could also use some image editing program that supports changing the offset.

[SuaveSteve]

Or you could have a look at my tutorials.

Wow. Thanks so much for this!

Instead of updating the in-editor help file, why don't we move to a wiki, migrate the .chm file contents over and get rid of it? The wiki can have all these tutorials and docs. It's one less thing for devs to worry about

[dpJudas]

The main showstopper for that is mostly finding the volunteer willing to move over the .chm content .html files to a newer system.

[Deon]

Do I need to load PNG to WAD first? I am not sure where Slade saves the offsets. Does it somehow "hack it into" PNG format itself, or does it put it in a separate descriptor file of sort?
Thank you so much for your help.

The offset is stored in the PNG, it's just a standard property of the format. You don't have to put the PNG into a WAD, you can just open your directory in (recent versions of) SLADE and modify the offset just as it it was a native Doom graphic. Of course you could also use some image editing program that supports changing the offset.

That probably explains this problem
viewtopic.php?f=124&t=70186&p=1168781#p1168781

I will go ahead and test it.

The amout of work this software can do is truely astounishing.
Maintaining a wiki sounds fun, I know my thing around virtualization/dockers and some wiki engines like xWiki, so if the tool developers ever decide to build a team, I will be glad to help/Patreon in donations for server maintenance.

P.S. I just had to come back to say THANK YOU.
With all the tips I've got here I've made this in 1 hour:
[imgur]https://i.imgur.com/bW2JvVf[/imgur]

Which is definitely better than this (ignore the missing textures) which I've done in a few HOURS before
[imgur]https://i.imgur.com/bn0Dq06[/imgur]

I guess the best idea right now is to play with shapes and make some prefabs instead of embarking on a "BIG WAD PROJECT" like I initially wanted, just to train the hand and get better at this.

[NGX]

Hi.
Not really a bug report, but a suggestion that whenever in UDB, you open the properties of something (right-click) -- if you press TAB, it'd be convenient if it scrolls the tabs, however if you left-click inside a tab then the TAB button scrolls the options there within, as per now.

[boris]

You can use Ctrl+Tab /and Ctrl+Shift+Tab) to cycle through the tabs (that's a Windows thing).

[NGX]

Oh yes, thanks I didn't know this:) Yep, Windows Lucky Number 7..