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I've been working on a game for a few months and I just began with changing Doom 2 maps and replacing sprites. I now know how to script text lumps like DECORATE and KEYCONF and I'm about ready to erase all traces of Doom 2 and pretty much turn the WAD into an entirely different game with different graphics. I also used a lot of Doom 2 textures as training wheels while making my own, and I would like to know what's the most convenient way to replace all of the old Doom 2 textures with new textures as well. I'm not knowledgeable in anything other than text lumps, but I've learned as I've gone and I expect to continue learning. I have yet to learn how to change sequences between levels and beginning cinematics, but I'm sure I'll pick that up pretty soon. I just want some advice that I probably wouldn't learn from playing around with what I find on zdoom wiki because I'm making my first WAD right now.

Right now, I'm attempting to make my own font, rather than just replacing the sprites of the characters that already existed.

Make a null lump of some sort like a smileyface sprite, smileyface patch, smileyface flat, empty sound, silent song

copy those placeholders over every lump

Do this for everything until you see only smilies and hear nothing

Here's one hell of a noob question. What's a null lump? I'm sorry, I know I'm not very knowledgeable.

Just a graphic, sound, texture, whatever that has no actual data in it - like a WAV file that consists of nothing but silence, a texture that bears a smiley face or some other throwaway graphic, etc.

Look at Blasphemer.

Is there any way to delete what's hardcoded? A month ago, I created a new WAD in Slade without any resources and to my surprise, it used the HUD from my WAD and I was able to spawn an arachnotron from Doom 2 with sprites, sound behavior and all.

That's because you also loaded the Doom II IWAD when testing your mod...

Gez wrote:That's because you also loaded the Doom II IWAD when testing your mod...

It was a WAD created from scratch with slade. I then added a few textures and created a map in Doom Builder, using that created WAD as the only resource and somehow it had the data from my other WAD.

But are you loading your file with -iwad?

wildweasel wrote:But are you loading your file with -iwad?

I'm not actually sure, to be honest.