Introduction to customizing Doom with SLADE and ZSCRIPT
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 10:44 pm
Afternoon all. I've just put together a Zscript and SLADE introductory guide/tutorial thingy. This ended up taking me a little while because I kept adding to it so hopefully it's helpful to someone!
This is aimed for people who have maybe made a map or two and have possibly opened up SLADE but don't know much about what they're doing in there. It touches on some of the most common lumps (MAPINFO, TEXTURES etc) and then dissects ZScript for Class manipulation before finishing up with a follow-along tutorial that gets you to build your own Custom imps.
It doesn't touch on more complex Zscript topics like event listeners and the like because that's where i'm about up to with my own learning. Maybe in 6 months or so i'll make a more advanced followup
This is aimed for people who have maybe made a map or two and have possibly opened up SLADE but don't know much about what they're doing in there. It touches on some of the most common lumps (MAPINFO, TEXTURES etc) and then dissects ZScript for Class manipulation before finishing up with a follow-along tutorial that gets you to build your own Custom imps.
It doesn't touch on more complex Zscript topics like event listeners and the like because that's where i'm about up to with my own learning. Maybe in 6 months or so i'll make a more advanced followup