slope problems

[Orangewaggs]

im trying to make slopes so i can try out mapping but every time ive tried it it never worked
ive set it to doom in hexen format, i set the line to 181 and i tested it and all it was wsa a platform with a no texture wall i dont get it ive tried everything...
any help?

[Enjay]

Put 2 sectors side by side sharing a common line. Make them have different heights (floor or ceiling or both). Make the shared line type 181. Set the first arg to slope a floor or the second to slope a ceiling. Use a 1 to slope the sector on the front side of the line, use a 2 to slope the sector on the back of the line. In game, the appropriate sector will be sloped so that it is the same height as the sector on the other side of the line.

eg

One sector has a floor of height 0 and it shares a line with a sector with a floor of height 64. The shared line has its front side facing the 64 height floor. Setting the shared line as a type 181 then setting the first arg to 1 will slope the height 64 floor down to meet the 0 height one at the line. Setting the arg to 2 instead will slope the 0 height floor up to meet the 64 height one.

[Orangewaggs]

so wait what does arg mean i dont see that in doom builder... yes i know you use deepsea but im more of a visual

i guess this would be more easier when db2 comes out with zdoom plugins for slopes but if i cant even get them to appear then i guess that wouldnt even help

[skadoomer]

in the the tutorials section of zdoom, their a demo map on slopes if your interested to see the specifics of the line placement.

[Orangewaggs]

thank you i already look at it but after looking at what Enjay said and then what you said i looked at it again and it worked
hopefully i can get down to decent mapping and to get custom monters in there as well

[skadoomer]

The tutorials page is your friend. It goes unspoken for the most part but is a pretty good showcase for how to do zdoom-hexen stuff. For deorate, I recommend looking at Torm's Beastiary for examples on using decorate.

[Ceeb]

I still suck at slopes. I mix up front and back all the time. You'll get better.

[Project Shadowcat]

I still suck at slopes. I mix up front and back all the time. You'll get better.

The best way to think of it is to draw a little diagram and stick it on your bulletin board, as I got confused for the longest time myself before I had the little diagram committed to memory.
Draw two boxes sharing one line. Tic one side of the shared line. Put a 1 on the side with the tic, a 2 in the other box. That tells you which sector is going to receive the slope.

Argument 1 is for the floor. Argument 2 is for the ceiling. Most of the time you want to slope the floor for things like hills, rocks, cliff-faces, and most features of a structure.

[Orangewaggs]

i have a new question how would i go about putting monsters from the beastiary into doombuilder to get it to actually work instead of that <!>
icon? because i know you have to do something else with a different editor....

[Remmirath]

Use either XWE or SlumpEd.

[Orangewaggs]

and....?


(i looked at the wiki and didnt find a how to add custom monsters to maps)

[Remmirath]

The wiki only talks about ZDoom-related features. To know how to import lumps in a wad you gotta search for a tutorial here on the web. Try the Doom Wikia, or google "XWE tutorial".

[Orangewaggs]

didnt find anything

[Remmirath]

http://www.freewebs.com/wadsayer/xwe.htm

[Orangewaggs]

i looked there its just a picture nothing to click on no link nothing