GZDoom Builder 2.3

[Numnzel]

I'm currently working on floor/ceiling autoaligning.

Perfect, thank you for everything, really.

[tashita]

Where are these textures from?



Also, does it make sense to use GZDoom Builder if you want your map fully Zandronum compatible for online for coop?
Im using the regular Doom Builder 2 with the GZ Visual Plugin to be able to see 3D floors in the 3D view. But I would love to have more features like being able to see dynamic lights, hear the sounds, mirror lines, color sectors... etc. Can you see all of this in the 3D mode if I work for Zandronum?

Also does Zandronum support 3D models like these light candles?

[Gez]

Where are these textures from?

Not sure. But they remind me of [wiki]Blood[/wiki]'s textures, so maybe that.

Also, does it make sense to use GZDoom Builder if you want your map fully Zandronum compatible for online for coop?

Yes.

Im using the regular Doom Builder 2 with the GZ Visual Plugin to be able to see 3D floors in the 3D view. But I would love to have more features like being able to see dynamic lights, hear the sounds, mirror lines, color sectors... etc. Can you see all of this in the 3D mode if I work for Zandronum?

Yes.

Also does Zandronum support 3D models like these light candles?

Yes.

[MaxED]

Where are these textures from?

The screenshot is from Unloved.

Also, does it make sense to use GZDoom Builder if you want your map fully Zandronum compatible for online for coop?

Probably. But I dont think I've updated Zandronum configs, so there may be some stuff missing or less updated.

dynamic lights

Yes

hear the sounds

No

mirror lines

No

color sectors

Yes

[Nash]

Question: How is the geometry built in this screenshot? The curve looks too perfect to be done by hand.

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It happens when a surface lies on exactly the same vertical or horizontal plane as dynamic light. It's a GZDB-only bug, which will be fixed when I start to update current 3D rendering system. For now, you can get rid of it by slightly moving a dynamic light.

Thanks for the info. =D
Is true. The problem has been caused by one dynamic light.

And I have an idea for a new feature, because today while building a ladder on my map (UDMF map type) I realized it would be very tired rotate each floor texture for each step. So an option to rotate a texture in the direction of a selected line would be great for this type of tasks.

This is the ladder:
Full resolution image: http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/51/sdfsdfsdfg.png

And this is how I suppose the feature works:

The floor adjusted by myself manually: (Rotated and aligned.)
Full resolution image: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1038/asdfsdfsdfdf.png


And one last question, do you think you can create dynamic lights that do not cross impassable walls, or something like that?

[Mikk-]

There is a draw curve tool. It's on the far right of the toolbar when in linedefs mode

[Numnzel]

Question: How is the geometry built in this screenshot? The curve looks too perfect to be done by hand.

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It happens when a surface lies on exactly the same vertical or horizontal plane as dynamic light. It's a GZDB-only bug, which will be fixed when I start to update current 3D rendering system. For now, you can get rid of it by slightly moving a dynamic light.

Thanks for the info. =D
Is true. The problem has been caused by one dynamic light.

And I have an idea for a new feature, because today while building a ladder on my map (UDMF map type) I realized it would be very tired rotate each floor texture for each step. So an option to rotate a texture in the direction of a selected line would be great for this type of tasks.

This is the ladder:
Full resolution image: http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/51/sdfsdfsdfg.png

And this is how I suppose the feature works:

The floor adjusted by myself manually: (Rotated and aligned.)
Full resolution image: http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/1038/asdfsdfsdfdf.png


And one last question, do you think you can create dynamic lights that do not cross impassable walls, or something like that?

As Mikk says, I builded it with the draw curve tool, you can see how I do it here:

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[Nash]

Thanks!

[Finalizer]

Beyond the curve tool, you can get that really nice curved staircase with the Bridge Tool:

[Kappes Buur]

I tried what you suggested here: Yet another way to get the job done:.

For example:
Trying to convert from Hexen format to UDMF format from Map Options (F2)

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First it gave this warning

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Then I click OK to proceed.
The editor seems to do something and then I try to play the map

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After saving the converted map, I open it, only to see an empty editor window

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I did not get a warning to say what is wrong.

Then I opened the map with Slade3 and I get this when I click on the map lump

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[Kappes Buur]

On a tangent with my post above:

After using wad2udmf.exe the map is riddled with extraneous, unconnected vertices, especially on long linedefs.

The only way to get rid of these vertices, so far, was/is to save the map from the map editor in Slade3.
Would it be possible to give GZDoombuilder a similar functionality?

[MaxED]

Oh wow... Looks like non-UDMF - UDMF map conversion is broken in more places than I thought...
I can add additional check to map analysis mode, which will find and get rid of unconnected vertices.

[MaxED]

In the meantime...

Newsflash! (r1697)
1. Floor and Ceiling textures can now be aligned using "Auto-align Textures" actions. To use it:
a. Highlight a floor or ceiling.
b. Use one of Auto-align Textures actions.

Here's how floor/ceiling aligning works:
- a linedef closest to 3d-cursor position is picked from highlighted sector.
- linedef's start or end vertex is chosen based on distance to 3d-cursor as a start point for texture offsets.
- all selected floors/ceilings are aligned to that linedef if their texture match one of hilighted floor/ceiling.
- vertical and horizontal texture scale is copied from highlighted floor/ceiling to selected floors/ceilings.

Before alignment:

After (1):

[MaxED]

After (2):

After (3):

2. Floor and Ceiling textures can now be aligned to selected linedefs in Linedefs mode.

[MaxED]

Newsflash! (r1698)

Map Analysis mode can now check the map for unconnected vertices.