SLADE v1.11 Released

[Risen]

This editor sounds very promising. It's the few of you who are developing good editing tools that are in reality keeping Doom editing alive.

I'll be checking this out as soon as I can.

[DaniJ]

Yeah I said glbsp doesn't like non-standard map names. Which IMO is pretty stupid but whatever. Maybe I'll recompile it without that limitation for SLADE.

Not true. glBSP 2.20 does support non-standard map names. To do this instead of creating a marker lump such as eg GL_E1M1 it instead creates a lump called GL_LEVEL. Inside that lump is a simple label=value named pair as normal text. One of the labels is LEVEL, that value is the regular marker lump the gl node data is for.

However this only works when your using external GWA files...

[Nash]

I agree with Risen.

Slayer deserves mad propz!

[DoomRater]

Ohyes!

I got it to work once I realized I tried to replace the WRONG DLL. (smacks self) And it runs beautifully, cept for one thing that I think should be added- 3D windowed mode.

[Nash]

Hey Slayer, think you can make the 2-d map editor actually LOOK like that logo?

Being able to see the flats would look cool. Like BUILD's automap!

Not that it's a needed feature. Just a fancy cosmetic nice-to-have. Still, would look cool though.

[Nash]

More feature requests. Hope you're putting all these into some kind of to-do list or something.

*Ability to run map. And set command line options etc. Like in DoomBuilder.
*Ability to open maps without BEHAVIOR lumps (SLADE complains when I want to load non-ZDoom maps when my configuration is set to ZDoom)

[Siggi]

I've found that I can't enter 3D mode with large maps (ZDCMP1, DV map05, etc). It stopped while making GL nodes...

[randi]

Thank you for ignoring the ports that can. GZDoom can do [light] in one unit increments and other GL ports most likely, too.

Software ZDoom has used the full light precision for years, too.

[sirjuddington]

Not true. glBSP 2.20 does support non-standard map names. To do this instead of creating a marker lump such as eg GL_E1M1 it instead creates a lump called GL_LEVEL. Inside that lump is a simple label=value named pair as normal text. One of the labels is LEVEL, that value is the regular marker lump the gl node data is for.

However this only works when your using external GWA files...

Strange, the "Failed to build GL Nodes" message only appears when the GWA file isn't generated. So it's actually glbsp going wrong here, not SLADE. Here's the glbsp output:

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Opened PWAD file : sladetemp.wad
Reading 8 dir entries at 0x230
Warning: Bad level name `MAP100' in wad (too long)
Warning: Level lump `THINGS' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `LINEDEFS' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `SIDEDEFS' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `VERTEXES' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `SECTORS' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `BEHAVIOR' found outside any level
Warning: Level lump `SCRIPTS' found outside any level
Error: No levels found in wad !

Hey Slayer, think you can make the 2-d map editor actually LOOK like that logo?

Being able to see the flats would look cool. Like BUILD's automap!

Not that it's a needed feature. Just a fancy cosmetic nice-to-have. Still, would look cool though.

I've wanted to add something like that for a while. It wouldn't look like that though since that would require the gl nodes to be built. If I added it it'd just be an option to set the background to a certain texture (would be useful for aligning map geometry to the texture).

*Ability to run map. And set command line options etc. Like in DoomBuilder.
*Ability to open maps without BEHAVIOR lumps (SLADE complains when I want to load non-ZDoom maps when my configuration is set to ZDoom)

The first one is planned, the second would require me to bundle zdwadconv.exe with SLADE as well, so if people don't have a problem with there being yet another exe file in the SLADE folder, it's in

And it runs beautifully, cept for one thing that I think should be added- 3D windowed mode.

With the way I have things set up now, that would be impossible. Or at least quite a bit of work to do.

[SMG M7]

Hey, that thing for alinging the floors to the textures would be very helpful, especially for destroyed tech bases.

[sirjuddington]

I've found that I can't enter 3D mode with large maps (ZDCMP1, DV map05, etc). It stopped while making GL nodes...

Works for me. DV MAP05 anyway, haven't tried zdcmp1. However, in that map it takes forever to build the nodes and setup the 3d structures. And 3d mode runs terribly slow too I really would like to increase the 3d mode speed, but I'm not experienced enough with that kind of stuff to do it.

[Nash]

I honestly think the 3-d mode is a little bit slow for me.

I'm so used to DoomBuilder's fast 3-d mode.

Also, an annoying thing with SLADE's 3-d mode is that the framerate isn't capped, so in low-detail places the FPS is lighting fast, then I move forward for a bit and it'll crawl.

Maybe add an FPS limit?

[DoomRater]

-Grid size modifier
-multiple bindings (I'd like my - and MWheelDown to both zoom out k)

[sirjuddington]

Maybe add an FPS limit?

I had one in before. I'll add an option to enable it, although it probably won't help with the fps fluxuations much.

-Grid size modifier
-multiple bindings (I'd like my - and MWheelDown to both zoom out k)

Not sure what you mean for the first one. The second can be done through slade.cfg, just create duplicate 'view_zoomin' and 'view_zoomout' entries in the 'key_binds' section. I'll add the ability to define multiple bindings from the dialog eventually

key "view_zoomin" "+" 0
key "view_zoomout" "-" 0
key "view_zoomin" "MWheel Up" 0
key "view_zoomout" "MWheel Down" 0

[DoomRater]

By the first one I mean having a grid size other than 64? The menu at least suggests it does not change size.