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=============================================================================== WADED version 1.88 Sams Publishing Version WADED programmed by Matthew Ayres Documentation by Kirk Yokomizo Documentation release 1.0 =============================================================================== Disclaimer: ----------- This documentation was written to aid in the use of WADED, programmed by Matthew Ayres. Matthew Ayres or Kirk Yokomizo claim no responsibility for anything bad resulting from the use of this documentation. Feel free to distribute this document freely, as long as this document is kept in its original form, and is distributed in an electronic format. Contents ======== -=[1]=- - Installing WADED -=[2]=- - File Operations [2.1] - Switching Games [2.2] - Loading External Files [2.3] - Saving Levels [2.4] - Exiting WADED -=[3]=- - Map Movement [3.1] - Map Position [3.2] - Zoom -=[4]=- - Things Mode [4.1] - Inserting a Thing [4.2] - Moving Things [4.3] - Removing a Thing [4.4] - Clearing Things [4.5] - Editing Things [4.5.1] - Selecting a Thing [4.5.2] - Things attributes -=[5]=- - Line Mode [5.1] - Line Color Codes [5.2] - Selecting a Line [5.3] - Information Window [5.4] - Editing a Lines attributes [5.4.1] - Basic Line attributes [5.4.2] - Line Specials [5.4.2.1] - Adding Specials [5.4.2.2] - Assigning Trigger Sectors [5.4.3] - Line texturing [5.4.3.1] - Adding Textures [5.4.3.2] - Selecting Textures [5.4.5] - Multi-Line -=[6]=- - Sector Mode [6.1] - Selecting a Sector [6.2] - Editing Sector Attributes [6.2.1] - Basic Sector Attributes [6.2.2] - Sector Texturing [6.3] - Make Door [6.4] - Multi-Sector -=[7]=- - Draw Mode [7.1] - Adding Rooms [7.1.1] - Line Draw Mode [7.1.2] - Lines Draw Mode [7.2] - Moving and Deleting [7.2.1] - Move/Del Vertices [7.2.2] - Move/Del Lines [7.2.3] - Move/Del Sectors [7.3] - Make Sector button [7.4] - Clean button [7.5] - Scratch button [7.6] - Snap-to-grid -=[A]=- - Appendix [A.1] - Keyboard Equivalents [A.2] - Customizing WADED.T [A.3] - Using WADCAT [A.4] - File list and descriptions [A.5] - History of WADED [A.6] - Getting Help [A.7] - Registration =============================================================================== Introduction ============ WADED is a powerful, easy to use map editor for Doom, Doom II, and Heretic. Using WADED, you can create completely new levels from scratch, or edit existing levels. With WADED's many features and simple to use interface, you will be making levels in no time flat. WADED is programmed by Matthew Ayres, and written with QuickBASIC v4.5. (A few routines were written in assembly language) WADED is an editor built from the ground up and uses no outside code used. ======================== -=[1]=- Installing WADED ======================== To install WADED, unzip the latest WADED zip file on your hard drive in any directory you want. WADED does not have to be in any specific directory, you can run WADED from anywhere on your hard drive, even a different drive all together. After you have unzipped the WADED archive, run the WADED.EXE file. Since this is the first time you are running WADED, you will be greeted with the setup screen. Here is where you tell WADED where it can find Doom, Doom II, or Heretic. WADED will work with as few as one game installed and as many as three, only one is required. While in the setup screen you can either type in the location of your games manually, or you can just press the F9 key to have WADED search your hard drives for the needed files. Once you have finished entering the locations of your games, press the F10 key to save your changes and to continue. You next will be put strait into the program. NOTE: If at any time you need to change the locations of any of the games installed on your system, start WADED up with the -c command. (i.e. waded -c) The locations of all your games is stored in the WADED.CFG file which is in the same directory as WADED.EXE. Once the program has been loaded, WADED will display a brief introduction file with some basic info on WADED and how to register it. After the timed delay, WADED will bring you to the first map of Doom, or the first game available to WADED. If you do not have Doom installed on your system, but have one of the other games installed, WADED will load up the first map of one of those games instead. If you want WADED to load up to a particular game, or a level that you have already made, you can start WADED with one of the following command line options. waded mywad.wad Doom 1 waded -2 mywad2.wad Doom 2 waded -3 mywadh.wad Heretic waded -h mywadh.wad Heretic NOTE: If you want to start up WADED to the first level of one of the above games, type waded with the command line option, without the external wad file name. ======================= -=[2]=- File Operations ======================= [2.1] Switching Games --------------------- WADED will let you edit maps from Doom, Doom II and Heretic. To edit the respective game with WADED, you can either bring up the desired game from the command line, as described above, or you can switch games after entering WADED. To switch to another game, click the on the button with the loaded game's name displayed. If the current loaded game is Doom, the switch will say "Doom". After clicking the game switch button, WADED will bring up a list of games installed on your system. NOTE: After you have switched games, all current work is erased. WADED will prompt you if you are sure, just in case you do not want to lose your work. When switching games in WADED, you are loading up a file that is really a level package, or in other words, one main file holding many levels. WADED will ask you which level to load after you switch to a different game. Click on the level that you would like to edit. If you are working on a external WAD file from a different game platform, you must first switch WADED to that game before loading the file. For example, if you are editing the first level of Doom I, and want to edit your new Doom II level. First switch to Doom II and then load the external file. [2.2] Loading External Files ---------------------------- To load external WAD files, click on the Load button near the right side of the screen. You can also press the L key on the keyboard to get to the load wad screen. WADED will bring up a list of all the files in the current directory with the extension of .WAD. Click on the actual wad name in the file listing to load the file. If the wad you want to edit is not in the current directory, or has a different extension other than .WAD, you can do one of two things. Pressing the L key again will bring up another box where you can type the complete path and file name of your wad. You can also traverse through the directories of your hard drive by clicking on the [..] selection while in the load file screen. NOTE: Any time you load up a wad file that has multiple levels included in a package, WADED will prompt you for which level you would like to edit. Select the level that you would like to work on. When you are done editing a multi level wad pack, you can choose another level from the main file by clicking on the pick map button. [2.3] Saving Levels ------------------- To save a map that you have been working on, click on the Save button near the right side of the screen. Pressing the S key will have the same effect. WADED will bring up the save file window. This windows is where you tell WADED the name of your map file and what level to save it as. The current directory is where the file will be saved unless you change the path field. You can change the path by clicking in the path field, or by pressing the P key. If you are saving over an existing file with the same file name, WADED will prompt you if you would like to proceed. If you do save over an existing WAD file WADED will make a .bak file out of the old file as a backup file. If you want to get back your old wad file, load up the .bak file instead of the .wad file. You can load up the .bak file while you are in WADED by pressing the L key twice and typing in the complete file name of the backup wad file. The last option in the Save screen is whether or not to build nodes. The improtance of node building will be explained later in the documentation. [2.4] Exiting WADED ------------------- To exit out of WADED, click on the Quit button. You can also exit with the Q and ESC keys. Before exiting, WADED will ask you if you are sure you want to exit. Click Yes to exit or Cancel to return to WADED. ==================== -=[3]=- Map Movement ==================== When you are editing a level in WADED, it is helpful to be able to change you viewing area of the loaded map. You can move around on the map in the four basic directions; up, down, left and right. You can also zoom in and out on your map for precision editing. [3.1] Map Position ------------------ To change your position on the map, click on one of the four arrows on the right hand side of the screen. Click on a button once to move in small increments. To scroll across the map, press and hold the mouse on one of the arrow keys. The arrow keys on your keyboard will perform the same functions as the mouse arrow buttons. To have WADED center your map on the screen, you can press the HOME key on your keyboard. WADED will center your map at any zoom level. [3.2] Zoom ---------- To zoom in, or out, on your map, click the mouse button on the + or - buttons on the right side of the screen. The + and - keys on your keyboard have the same effect as the mouse buttons. WADED allows many different zoom levels. =================== -=[4]=- Things Mode =================== WADED's Things mode allows you to insert, move, and remove things, and also allows the editing of a thing's attributes. What exactly are things? Things are the objects in the game, enemies, weapons, ammo, power-ups, and obstacles such as barrels and light posts. WADED has small icons for most of the items in the game. Each icon represents the item it stands for. Items that have no icon, instead have shaded circles, some blue, some red. At higher zoom levels, all enemies will have an arrow on the icon to show which way the enemy will start out facing. [4.1] Inserting a Thing ----------------------- To insert a thing on your map, you must first choose which type of thing you want to put down. The currently selected thing is boxed out in the list of things in the lower right part of the screen. You will notice there are two lists. The list on the left is the itemized list, while the list on the right divides things into categories for quick searches. Groups of things range from Player starts, to obstacles. Each game has its own categories and own set of things to put on the map. NOTE: You can customize the things categories to contain any items by editing the WADED.T file. (See appendix) After you choose which item to put down on your map, move the cursor to the desired position of the new thing. Click the right mouse button at this location to place the item down. Make sure you don't click on an already existing item, as this will delete that item. [4.2] Moving Things ------------------- To move an existing thing on your map click the left mouse button on the thing. Hold the button down and drag the item to its new location. Let go of the mouse button to drop the item in its new position. [4.3] Removing a Thing ---------------------- To delete a thing on the map, you can do one of two things. You can either click the right mouse button on the actual item, or you can select the item with the left mouse button to highlight it. After highlighting it, press the DEL key on your keyboard to remove the item. [4.4] Clearing Things --------------------- If you want to delete all the items from the map, click the Clear All button in the things bar. Clear all will erase all items off of the current map. WADED will ask you if you are sure, just in case you change your mind. [4.5] Editing Things ==================== [4.5.1] Selecting a Thing ------------------------- Before you can edit a thing, you first have to select it. To select a thing on the map, click the left button on a thing. A green highlight box will appear around the thing. Once you have a thing selected, WADED will display its attributes on the left of the thing bar. [4.5.2] Changing a Things attributes ------------------------------------ Things have many attributes that will determine how, when and where they will appear in the game. After a thing has been selected, you will find all of that particular thing's attributes in the lower left corner of the screen. This window is called the thing information window. Here you will find a picture of the current thing, its name, its I.D. number, and the thing's coordinates. In the center of the thing information window, are several small boxes. All of these boxes are not necessary for all items. In some cases these boxes only have an effect on enemies and certain special items. The 8 boxes around the arrow are to tell the game which way the thing is to face at the start up of a level. You can face a thing in any of the 8 basic directions. The right side of the things information window holds more options for things. All of these options are toggles, as they can be either on or off. The first set of three boxes are to set which skill level the thing will appear at. The last two boxes will set whether or not the thing appears in deathmatch, and if the thing is to be deaf. "1-2" - Thing will appear in difficulty levels of 1 and 2 " 3 " - Thing will appear in a difficulty level of 3 "4-5" - Thing will appear in difficulty levels of 4 and 5 "DM" - Thing will appear in deathmatch play "deaf" - Enemy will not be able to hear gun shots, door sounds. ================== -=[5]=- Lines Mode ================== WADED's Line mode will allow you to edit lines and to modify all of their attributes. In Line mode, you can assign textures to walls, add special tags to linedefs, and change toggles. Lines mode will also allow you to assign sectors to lines that have special attributes. [5.1] Line Color Codes ---------------------- Lines in WADED are colored coded depending on their particular line type. Single sided Lines, usally impassable walls, are bright white. Double sided lines are grey. Doors are blue in color. The currently selected Line will be red, and any of its tagged Sectors will be outlined in green. [5.2] Selecting a Line ---------------------- To select a line, move your mouse cursor over any line on the map. Click the left mouse button on the line to select it. The selected line will be highlighted in red. Only one Line can be selected at a time unless you are using multi mode, which will be explained later in this section. [5.3] Information Window ------------------------ Located in the lower Line mode bar is the Line Information Window. When you select a line in your map, WADED will display information on that line in this window. The length, angle, and number of the line are displayed in this window. The line's number is not usally important to the user, as only the game will use this number. The number of the line can be used as a marker or I.D. number also. [5.4] Editing a Lines attributes -------------------------------- To change a line's attributes, first you must select the line you wish to edit. Once you have a line selected, you can change the line's togglesand add special attributes. [5.4.1] Basic Line attributes ----------------------------- A line can be either one or two sided depending on whether you can walk over it in the game. A one sided line is an impassable wall, while a two sided line usually is a step or just a connecting line between two rooms. A two sided line that does not have a sector on either side of it will probably cause problems when you try to play-test the level. In this case, you would probably want to make that line one sided. You can toggle a line as one or two sided with the Impassable and Two sided buttons. To make a one sided line two, or visa-versa, select the line and press the T key, or click the two sided toggle button in the Line mode bar. A one sided line is usually impassable. Remember, a two sided line will show up as grey on the map. Sometimes, after removing or adding new rooms to your map, you will end up with lines that are facing the wrong way. The direction on the line is shown by a small perpendicular line on the "right" side of the line. If the line is part of a sector's outer wall, and is one sided, the "right" side should be facing towards the center of the room. To flip a line's direction, select the line you wish to change and press the F key. Other line attributes you might want to add: Block sound - This line will not allow sounds to pass through. Enemies in the game are set off by sounds they hear. Block Monster - This line cannot be passed by an enemy. Secret Map - This line will appear as normal on the overhead map even though it could be a door or passable. Not on Map - This line will never show up on the overhead map. Start Map - This line will already appear on the overhead map when the player starts the level. [5.4.2] Line Specials --------------------- Line specials are for assigning a line to do special things to an attached sector, or to act as a trigger. This trigger will have an affect on something else on your map. The effect could be anything from a door, to an elevator, to the exit of your level. [5.4.2.1] Adding Specials ------------------------- To add line specials to lines, first select a line on the map. Next select a special number that you would like to use for that line. You can do this by using the + and - buttons next to the Special number box. Lines that have special 0 have no special tag assigned and act as normal lines. If you already know the number of the special you want to add to the line, change the number with the + and - buttons. If you do not know the number already click on the LIST button. WADED will bring up listings of all of the specials. The specials and their numbers are divided up into groups for easy location. (Doors, Floors, Lifts, Misc) Once you have decided on which special to use, select the special from the list by clicking on the number. NOTE: In front of each special is a set of numbers and letters. Each letter and number denote how many times the special can be activated and how the line is activated. Refer to the chart below: W - Player must walk over the line to activate the special. S - Player must hit the spacebar on the line to activate the special. G - Player must shoot the line to activate the special. 1 - Line can only be activated once. R - Line can be activated multiple times. Ex: 42 SR Close Door ^^ ^^ ^^^^ Special # Spacebar, Multi Action performed [5.4.2.2] Assigning Trigger Sectors ----------------------------------- Once you have chosen your line special, you must assign a sector that will be affected by that line, called a tag sector. To do so, first select the line with the special. Next click the right mouse button in the sector that you want to be the tag sector. For instance if you have a platform you want to raise by having the player flip a switch in the game, you need to assign the proper special to the wall to make it a switch. Next you must tag the sector that is the actual platform to that line. The tagged sector will appear as green. Click the green sector again to de-select the sector. NOTE: Not all line specials require a tag sector. Refer to the HELP screen in WADED while in special listing mode. [5.4.3] Line texturing ---------------------- Adding line textures gives you level its appearance. The textures you assign to the lines will be the textures of the walls in your map. Textures need to be assigned to walls, steps and overhangs alike in your map. [5.4.3.1] Adding Textures ------------------------- While in Lines mode there are six gray boxes in the lines bar. These boxes are divided into two sets of three boxes. One set of three boxes is for the "right" side of a line, and the other for the "left" side of the line. The right set is near the right side of the screen and the left set, the left. The right and left sides of lines are determined by the small perpendicular line coming out of one side of each line on the map. The side the line is pointing out of is considered the "right" side of that line. Each set of three boxes stands for a certain section of the line you are working on. If the line is only one sided, or does not have a sector on each side of it, there is only one texture that needs to be added. The texture to add to a one sided wall goes in the middle box of the "right" set of boxes. Defining the upper and lower boxes will not have any effect on the line. If a line is two sided, the center texture box should never have a texture defined. The only time this might happen would be when you want to have a wall that appears solid, but you can still walk through it. The other texture boxes will need to be filled in in special cases. If you have two sectors next to each other both with the same ceiling height and floor height, you do not need to texture the common middle line at all. The times to use the upper and lower boxes come when you have two neighboring sectors with ceiling and/or floor heights of different value. For example let's say that you are in a map with only two rooms. One room has a height of 128 and a floor of 0. The connecting room has a height of 136 and a floor of 8. See below: |------------------| 136 Overhead View Upper texture---> | | o------o------o 128 |------------------| | | | | | | | 1 -| | | | | | | | | o------o------o | o | ^ | ^+- |------------------| 8 | /\ | <---Lower texture 0 |------------------| ^ The center line (marked by the ^), in WADED, would be facing the player or in other words, the "right" side of the line is facing towards the player. If this is the case, you can see that you will not need to define the center texture box since it is the space you walk through. The lower box of the "right" set of boxes will need to be defined, as it will account for the texture of the "step" leading to the next room. As for the "left" side of the line, you will need to define the upper texture box since this will account for the overhang texture when the player is in the other room. NOTE: If any of the six texture boxes are highlighted as red, this means that WADED is telling you a texture is required there. If a texture is missing where it is needed at any time, the wall will give you errors during play testing. The most common error is the "Hall of Mirrors" effect where the wall appears blurry. Other problems include impassable invisible walls, or see through walls. The two final toggles in Lines mode are for centering and aligning textures. The upper unpegged and lower unpegged toggles will tell the game that you want to line up the textures on the walls, upwards or downwards. Upper unpegged will take the top of the texture and line it up with where the top of the wall and ceiling meet. Lower unpegged will take the bottom of the texture and place it at the intersection of the wall and floor. You can also adjust the texture placement on a wall manually by adjusting the offset values for that texture. The offset can be adjusted by clicking on one of the four offset boxes under the texture boxes. It does not matter which box you choose, as they all bring up the same menu. Here you can adjust how the texture will be situated on the wall. You can move the texture left, right, up, and down by adjusting the corresponding offset. NOTE: Lining up your map's walls with the lines on the GRID will automatically align textures left to right. The GRID is divided into 64 pixel increments and many of Doom, Doom II, and Heretic's textures are 64, or 128 pixels long. [5.4.3.2] Selecting Textures ---------------------------- Selection of textures is an easy process. The current texture name selected, is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen. There are several ways to change the current texture. One way is to manually scroll through the list of texture names with the arrow buttons next to the texture list. Moving through this list is easier with the help of 3 buttons to the left of the texture list. These buttons are the V button, the P button, and the J button. The V button is for viewing textures. The currently selected texture can be viewed by clicking the V button. You can also view a texture by clicking the right mouse button on the texture name. WADED will bring up the texture viewing screen. While you are in this screen you can scroll though the list of textures by pressing the right or left arrow keys. Pressing the ESC button will bring you back to the main map screen. The next of the three buttons is the P button. Once the P button is selected, WADED will bring up a master list of all of the wall textures in the current game. From this screen you can select the texture by just clicking on its name. If the texture is not on this list, click the MORE button do display the rest of the list of textures. From this screen, you can also view textures by clicking the VIEW button. To exit from the list click on the CANCEL button, or press the ESC key. The last button, the J button is used to jump to a particular texture name in the list. After clicking the J button, WADED will ask you for a letter. Type the first letter of the texture you wish to jump to. For example, pressing the A key will bring you to the top of the texture list, or the first texture that starts with the letter A. After selecting a texture to use, click the left mouse button in any of the six texture boxes to assign the texture. To remove a texture from a texture box, click the right mouse button on the corresponding box. [5.4.5] Multi-Line ------------------ If you want to change the look or attributes of many lines all at once, changing them all one a time would take much to much time. WADED's multi-line feature saves you time by changing single or multiple attributes for many lines at one time. To use multi-line, first click the mutli button. You are now in multi mode. All attributes, specials, and textures will be set to null. Now you can select all the lines you would like to change. Click on each line you wish to select. All of the selected lines will appear red, and will stay red until you are finsihed with the changes. To de-select a line, click on that line again with the left mouse button. The line will no longer be highlighted. Once you have all the lines you want to change selected, you can proceed to change attributes of the lines. Here you can add tags, or textures as well. Only change the attributes you want changed on the ALL the selected Lines. To make the changes permanent, click the apply button. WADED will make your changes to all the selected lines. If you change you mind on making changes after you have entered multi mode, click the multi button again to cancel any changes. =============== -=[6]=- Sectors =============== WADED's sector mode allows you to add new or edit existing attributes of sectors in your map. In sector mode, you can assign textures to floors and ceilings, change heights of floors and ceilings and assign special attributes to sectors. [6.1] Selecting a Sector ------------------------ Before changing anything to a sector, you first need to select it by clicking the left mouse button anywhere inside the sector. The currently selected sector will be highlighted red. If the selected sector is a tag sector of a line special on your map, the special line will appear green. [6.2] Editing Sector Attributes ------------------------------- [6.2.1] Basic Sector Attributes ------------------------------- After you have selected the sector you want to change, you can begin editing. You can change the values of ceiling and floor heights by doing one of two things. You can either find the height you want by using the + and - buttons on either side of the height value, or you can click on the actual number and enter your own value with the keyboard. Changing the light brightness level in the sectors is done exactly the same way. Change the value with the + or - buttons or enter your own value. To add a special to a sector, choose the special you would like to add by using the + or - buttons next to the special value. If you already know the number of the special you want to use, you can click on the current number and enter your new number with the keyboard. To get a list (by number) of all the possible sector specials, click on the LIST button. [6.2.2] Sector Texturing ------------------------ To change or add textures for the ceilings and floors, first select the texture you want to use from the lower right hand texture list. To change the current sector texture, you can use the arrow buttons next to the texture list, or use the two function buttons near the arrow keys. The P button will bring up the master list of all of the textures you can use, while the J button will let you jump to a position in the list by letter values. The V button will let you view the texture, as will clicking the right mouse button on the texture name. Selection of a texture is exactly the same as selecting a texture in lines mode. Simply click on the texture name in the list that you want to use. Once you have the texture selected you can assign that texture to the floor or ceiling by clicking the left mouse button in the corresponding texture box. To make a floor or ceiling have no texture click the right mouse button on the floor or ceiling texture box. NOTE: No texture in sectors mode means that the game will use the "sky" texture, or the texture used when you can see through the ceiling or are outside. [6.3] Make Door --------------- One of WADED's quick features is the Make Door feature. Make Door will quite simply, make a door out of any sector on your map. After you have selected the sector you want to make into a door, click the Make Door button. WADED will make a door out of that sector, making the correct adjustments to floor and ceiling heights and assigning default door textures and line specials. In the case of an irregular shaped door, WADED will choose the two longer sides to make into a door, and the shorter sides as door tracks. [6.4] Multi-Sector ------------------ Editing multiple sectors is similar to editing multiple lines. To enter multi sector mode, click the Multi button. All attributes and textures will be set to null. Next select all of the sectors you wish to change. Click inside a sector to select it. Click again in the sector to de-select it. The selected sectors will be highlighted in red. You can now make changes to the sectors. Change only the values you wish to change for ALL of the selected sectors. Once you are satisfied with your changes, click the apply button to make them permanent. If you no longer want to make changes while in multi mode, click the mutli button again to cancel your changes. ================= -=[7]=- Draw Mode ================= WADED's draw mode allows you to draw new levels or edit existing levels by adding or removing lines, vertecies, and sectors. Draw mode is mainly for the actual creation and placement of all of your map's rooms. [7.1] Adding Rooms ------------------ There are two main ways to add new walls and rooms to your level. These are the Draw: Line and Draw: Lines modes. Each mode has its own purpose. Mainly the Draw: Line mode can be used for all drawing purposes, yet the Draw: Lines mode makes map building a lot easier and faster. NOTE: When adding lines to you map, it may be useful to use the GRID feature in WADED. Drawing on the actual GRID lines will line up all of your wall and floor/ceiling textures. The GRID is divided into 64x64 pixel boxes, most wall textures in the games are 64 pixels or 128 pixels wide. All sector flats are 64x64 pixels in size. This is helpful when trying to align textures to the floor such as in the case of a teleport texture. [7.1.1] Line Draw Mode ---------------------- The Draw: Line mode of WADED's draw mode is the most basic form of drawing, or adding to your level. This function is used to draw from point to point. Draw: Line is usually used for making small sectors, or making quick additions to existing sectors. To use the Draw: Line function, first click on the Line button under the Draw column. From any point on the map to any other point, you can draw a line. You can use the line function to draw a line between two existing vertices as well. To place the actual line, first choose the point where you want your line to start. Next click the left mouse button once. Now drag the other end of the line to a new position. Click the mouse again to set the line down on the map. To cancel the current line while you are drawing it, click the right mouse button. You can use this drawing method to lay down an entire room, adding lines from the end point of the previous line until you close off the room. For complete room drawing the Draw: Lines feature is more adapt. [7.1.2] Lines Draw Mode ----------------------- The Draw: Lines function is similar to the Line function, but adds one helpful feature. While in lines mode, WADED will not end the drawing process until you connect the final line to an existing vertex. The Draw: Lines feature is useful in drawing complete rooms. For instance, lets say we want to draw a square room on the map. First you want to lay down one of the corners, say the top corner. Click the mouse in the position of the top corner of the room. You have now started the drawing process. Next drag the cursor to the next corner's position. Click the mouse here. Now drag the mouse to the next corner of the room and click again. Follow this pattern until you finally end up clicking the mouse on the original vertex. The drawing process will end when the end point of the last line is a vertex. [7.2] Moving and Deleting ------------------------- WADED's Draw mode will also allow you to move and delete existing parts of your map. While in draw mode you can move and delete vertices, lines, and sectors. The mouse and key functions are generally the same for each move/delete mode. [7.2.1] Move/Del Vertices -------------------------- To move or delete a vertex, first select the vertex move/del button in the draw bar. To move the position of a current vertex, click the left mouse button on a vertex on the map and drag it to its new position. Let go of the mouse button and the vertex will be put in place. To delete an existing vertex, click the right mouse button over the vertex you want to delete. The vertex will be erased from the map. The right mouse button, if clicked in an area where there are no vertices, will place a new vertex down. You can also add vertices to an existing line. To do this, move the mouse cursor over a line on the map. The line will become highlighted in red. Now click the right mouse button to add a vertex on that line, at that point. You can now drag out that vertex to expand the room, or in other words, make two walls out of one. You can add as many vertices as you want to any given line, space provided. NOTE: Deleting a vertex that is holding up part of a line will result in the line's deletion. In other words, if a vertex is the end point of three lines, and you remove that vertex, the lines will also be removed. [7.2.2] Move/Del Lines ---------------------- To move or delete a line, enter the move/delete mode for lines by clicking on the Line button. To move a line to a new position, position the mouse cursor over a line on the map and click the left mouse button. Holding the mouse button down, drag the line to its new position and let go of the button to set the line down. To delete a line from the map click the right mouse button on any line in the map. NOTE: Make sure all of your sectors are closed polygons or else your game will give you errors. Also be sure not to have any over lapping lines that do not connect with a vertex. At any point where a line overlaps another, there should be a vertex. [7.2.3] Move/Del Sectors ------------------------ Moving a sector is exactly the same as moving a line. Enter the sector move/delete mode by clicking on the Sector button on the draw bar. While in Sector move/delete mode, the mouse commands are the same. Click and hold the left mouse button in any sector to drag it to its new position. Let go of the mouse button to place the sector down on the map. To delete sectors, click the right mouse button inside a sector. NOTE: Deleting a sector may leave other sectors incomplete. Your level will not work correctly unless all sectors are completely boxed off and have no open ends. [7.3] Make Sector button ------------------------ Once you have finished drawing all of your rooms, you now want to use WADED's Make Sector function to define each sector in your map. Each room, or sector, needs to be defined. Click on the Make Sector button to begin. All sectors on the map have a color code. The white lines denote that the lines are defined as part of a sector. Grey lines are considered part of two sectors. If any lines in your map appear purple in color, this means that these lines are not assigned to any sectors. To assign these lines to sectors, click the left mouse button inside the sector where the line should be defined to. You will notice that when you move the mouse cursor over the map, defined sectors will flash red. A flashing red sector is a completely defined sector. If the mouse cursor is over a sector and it is not flashing, or only a few lines of that sector are flashing, you will need to define, or re-define it. Click the mouse in that sector to do so. Continue making sectors on your map until each sector is defined and all sectors are closed polygons. Make sure that there are no overlapping lines without vertex points. NOTE: Try not to define a sector that has an open end, or a polygon with a side missing, this will usually cause an error. Clicking in the open space outside of the main map will do nothing. [7.4] Clean button ------------------ Often when deleting old lines and sectors, or after building nodes, that there are extra vertices on your map. To clean these vertices off, click on the Clean button. All extra, not used vertices will be erased. NOTE: When nodes are built, the extra vertices are needed for the level to work. Don't delete the vertices and save your level without first re-building the nodes. [7.5] Scratch button -------------------- At any time you can completely start the drawing process over with the Scratch button. The Scratch button will clear everything off the map. Make sure you want to start from scratch before choosing this option, as it will remove all things, lines, and sectors from the screen. After clicking on the Scratch button WADED will prompt you if you are sure, just in case you change your mind. [7.6] Snap-to-grid ------------------ WADED's snap-to-grid feature is used to control how close together you can draw or move lines and vertices. For instance, if the snap-to-grid setting is set on 64, you can only place vertices and lines 64 pixels appart or at a distance that is a multiple of the snap-to-grid setting. (64, 128, 192...) If the snap-to-grid is set at 4, you can place vertices and lines 4 pixels appart or in distances that are multiples of 4. (4, 8, 12...) You can use snap-to-grid to place vertices up to one pixel apart. NOTE: The snap-to-grid number is not the amount of pixels on the screen, rather the number of pixels that will appear in the game. =============================================================================== ================ -=[A]=- Appendix ================ [A.1] - Keyboard Equivalents ----------------------------- Global ------ F1 Things F2 Lines F3 Sectors F4 Draw F5 Draw:Line F6 Draw:Lines F7 Draw:Room F9 Move/Del:Vertex F10 Move/Del:Lines F11 Move/Del:Sectors HOME Center Map C Consistency checker H Help! B Build Nodes I Info on level R Redraw/reset mouse G Grid on/off M Map pick L Load S Save + Zoom in - Zoom out Q Quit ESC Quit Lines ----- P Pick texture from list V View textures F Flip T Two-sided DEL Delete Sectors ------- P Pick floor/ceiling tiles V View floor/ceiling tiles DEL Delete [A.2] - Customizing WADED.T ----------------------------- To customize the categories in things mode, or to add you own, you will need to edit the WADED.T file. This can be done with any text editor. The WADED.T file has a very simple structure. First you will need to outline your category types in the [types] field. The number is the number of that particular category. The next three characters are either y or n. The toggle being whether or not the item should appear while editing a particular game. The first character is for Doom, the second for Doom II, and the third for Heretic. For instance, a BFG shows up in Doom, and Doom II, but not Heretic, so the code would be "y y n". The last field is a small description of that particular category. [types] 1, y y y, Player 2, y y y, Weapon 3, y y y, Ammo 4, y y y, Power-Up 5, y y y, Obstacle 6, n n y, Sounds 7, y y y, Deathmatch 8, y y y, Personal After laying out your catagories, you will want to tell WADED what items to place in each category. Do this by filling out the [type:x] fields. The type number, x, corresponds to a predefined category that has already been determined in the [types] field. The first character tells WADED what item the thing is. The second character tells WADED which icon to use. If you do not know what the specific number for the icon is, the number 1 can be used instead. 1 is the plain blue sphere. The next three characters are the same as above, which game the item appears in. The last field is the short description of the actual item. # Deathmatch [type:7] 11, 23, y y y, Deathmatch start 82, 1, n y n, Super shotgun 2002, 27, y y n, Chaingun 2003, 1, y y n, Rocket launcher 2006, 1, y y n, BFG9000 [A.3] - Using WADCAT -------------------- Included with the release of WADED version 1.88, is WADCAT 0.7. With this program you can easily put multiple levels into one main WAD file. This is extremely useful if you are making a "wadpack" or a set of levels that you want to follow eachother, as in an episode. To use WADCAT, load up the program from the command line by typing wadcat. First, type in the name you want to use for your main WAD file. From here, you must tell WADCAT which WADs to use. WADCAT will prompt you for each level that you want to include. Type in the names of the wad files for each level until you are have added all the WADs you want to include. Now press enter on an empty line. WADCAT will now ask you which map you would like to save the level as. You can save each level as any map. This way you can spread out your levels over the existing ones, or if you typed the WAD names in out of order, you can place them in a new order here. After telling WADCAT where to put the WAD files, WADCAT will write out the main WAD file and exit. [A.4] - File list and descriptions ----------------------------------- waded.exe Main WADED executable file waded.t WADED Things file - contains info on items waded188.doc Documentation on WADED 1.88 waded01.faq WADED Frequently Asked Questions v0.1 wadcat.exe WADCAT v0.7 - WAD concatenater wadcat.doc Documentation on WADCAT 0.7 whatsnew.183 WADED revision history up to 1.83 [A.5] - History of WADED ------------------------- In 1994, after the release of the registered version of Doom I by Id software, there was a definite need for a map editor. The project of making a easy to use and powerful editor was taken up by Matthew Ayres. This on-going project has led to the release of WADED v1.88 which has succeeded in making wad building and editing quicker, easier, and more fun than ever before. [A.6] Getting Help ------------------ Additional help is available in many forms. WADED FAQ - Answers basic questions about WADED and common problems while using WADED. The WADED FAQ comes with each WADED archive and can also be found on Lithium BBS. waded-help - For quick WADED help and tech support, you can e-mail waded-help@cdrom.com for a quick response from the WADED mailing list. To join the WADED mailing list, e-mail waded@cdrom.com with your e-mail address. Lithium BBS - Lithium BBS (510)455-0425 is up 24 hours a day. You can leave mail to Lithium Sysops who will be happy to answer any questions you might have. You can also post your question in the WADED area for an even quicker response. [A.7] - Registration --------------------- If you decide you like WADED, and you plan to continue using it, you should register it with the author, Matthew Ayres. You are required to register WADED if you continue to use it for more then two weeks. Registration is US$15. Cash and checks only please. Registration will eliminate the beginning delay. It also compensates for the authors time and hard work. If you register WADED, you will receive a personalized program called WADEDREG. Your personalized WADEDREG will work on any version of WADED, and it will place your name in the opening and ending screens. Mail registrations to: Matthew Ayres 977 E. Stanley Blvd., Unit 349 Livermore, CA 94550