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DoomKraft

Tutorials for the GZDoom sourceport
to create custom maps

by Kappes Buur

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Starting out with mapping

• Begin to map
• Tools and Resources
• Beyond the basics

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Map format convertions

• Doom format to Hexen format to UDMF

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Tips, Tricks and Traps

• How to construct a basic door
• See-through Doors
• Fog Effects
• A New Key
• Monsters rise from floor
• LAVAPOT - How to merge HERETIC assets into a DOOM pwad
• TOOLS and RESOURCES
• Slab6 - Offsetting Voxels
• Secret room
• A waterfall
• Import textures for a GZDOOM format map

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3D floor mapping techniques

• From the UDB Reference Manual
• 3D Floor Mode
• Draw Slope Mode & Slope Mode (deprecated)

• Basic 3D floors (conventional for DiHF or UDMF)
• Basic 3D floor for DIHF and UDMF (screenshots)
• Basic 3D floor for DIHF and UDMF (video}
• Basic 3D floor sloped for DIHF and UDMF (screenshots)
• Basic 3D floor sloped for DIHF and UDMF {video}

• Basic 3D floors (3D_Floor_Plugin for DiHF or UDMF)
• 3D Floor Mode for DIHF and UDMF (screenshots)
• 3D Floor Slope Mode for UDMF (deprecated) {video}

• 3D floors (Visual Mode Editing for UDMF)
• Visual Mode Editing of sloped 3D floors (UDMF)

More examples can be found at Boris's Youtube site

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Some ideas for 3D constructs

• A building with a proper 3D roof
• A building with multiple 3D floors
• A 3D elevator
• 3D switches
• 3D monitors
• An extending 3D bridge
• A 3D bridge moving up and down into 3D pool
• A 3D barrier
• Escape through the floor
• Escape through the floor 2
• A 3D Floor moving up and down crushing
• Ground Fog
• Climbable Ladder
• A 3D ceiling fan

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A Sky is a Sky is a Sky

• The Skies of DOOM explained
• A simple image replacement
• The Sky image is a different size
• The Sky is several patches
• A new Sky (MAPINFO sky texture)
• A new Sky skybox
• A new Sky for every sector

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TEXTURE1/2 etc

• TEXTURE1/2 - PNAMES- FLATS - TEXTURES

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ACS Scripting

• Stepping into Scripting
• WHILE DO FOR loops

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Making Sprites

• Spriting by Eriance
• Muzzleflashes
• 3D to 2D by Cardboard Marty

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Literature

• The Unofficial WAD Designers' Handbook
• Doom Builder: An Illustrated Guide

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