It looks fine in DOOMBUILDER, but just isn't there ingame 

Its converted to DOOM and its in the TEXTURE1 and PNAMES, its in-between the PP_START/PP_END markers so i have no idea what's causing this

All help is appreciated

It's been awhile since I've been on here but I've been working on a Doom mod and what I'm trying to do seems so simple, yet I cannot figure out how to accomplish it. My end goal is a little complicated so I'm going to dumb down my question and figure it out from there. 

I want to create a semirandom item spawning system. Basically let's say I created an actor in decorate called "WeakPowerupSpawner" and it's only goal is that upon loading the map it has a 50% chance to spawn green armor, 25% chance to spawn a Medkit and a 25% chance to spawn Blue armor. I know how to achieve this effect using map spots, however I also want to create a "StrongPowerupSpawner" and I feel that map editing would be much easier if I could use separate actors instead of giving identical map spots different tags.

Is this possible and if so could you please help me? THANKS!

Ask away if I'm not clear enough

Hope I'm making any sense. I was making headway on my project until late night "fixing" the wad brought me here, what to do next, live with a broken resource file or somehow fix it?

And in the future when I like rename a patch or something, what's the correct way to make sure it gets renamed in patch and texture tables? If I click "add to texturex" I think it will create new ones instead of replacing them, am I right?

BIG THANKS if anyone can help.

I'm sure the problem is something simple, but I've been trying for awhile and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I found that replacing an already-existing sound file makes it work, but I don't want to just replace sounds.

I made a new PK3 from scratch, completely blank. I imported patches etc, sounds, sprites, and all that I generally need to make the game work. However, in UDB I cannot get skies to work now. The skies show up as textures. What is it I've overlooked here? I didn't have this trouble before, it's something I've forgotten to do somewhere.

EDIT: OOPS never mind. I forgot to import an F_SKY flat. Sorted.

As you can see, the ceiling is showing the skybox. The map is in DOOM 2 format and I'm playing on ZDOOM, which the project is made for.

Here is the room in Doom Builder X:

What's causing this?

Giving it a A_Jumpifnoammo("Deselect") state before firing results in the weapon disappearing and becoming unusable. A_jumpifnoammo("nobullets") results in a weird flickering behavior that isn't much better than firing blanks. Working with Jekyllgrim's EDW weapon and ctlcdn's Mismatched pistols as templates I've rebuilt the weapon several times and always come down to this same behavior.

Ditto when I use

if (CountInv("Bullets") <= 0)
        return ResolveState("Nobullets"); //if no ammo, jump to Reload sequence
    return ResolveState(null); //otherwise, don't jump, move on to the next frame

Does anyone know anything that can be done about it?

This is the most recent attempt:

Class DChainGuns : Weapon 
{

  Default
  {
		Inventory.PickupMessage "You Got The Chainguns! (2)";
		Weapon.SelectionOrder 750;
		Weapon.Slotnumber	4;
		Weapon.AmmoType1 	"Bullets";
		Weapon.AmmoGive1 	25; //50
		Weapon.Ammouse1 	1;

		Weapon.Bobstyle		'InverseSmooth';
		Weapon.BobRangeX	0.7;
		Weapon.BobRangeY	0.5;
		Weapon.BobSpeed		1.85;

		Inventory.PickupSound "CHGNPKUP";
		Weapon.UpSound "CHGNPKUP";
}
	
  States
  {
  
  Spawn:
	DMGN A -1;
    Loop;
  
  Ready:
    TNT1 A 1 A_WeaponReady(WRF_NOFIRE);
	Loop;

  Select:
    TNT1 A 0 {
		A_PlaySound("Weapon/WhooshSFX", 6, 1);
		A_PlaySound("Weapon/AKPRaise",  5, 1);
		A_ZoomFactor(1);
	}
	TNT1 A 1  A_Raise();
	TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Raise();
	Goto RaiseAnim;
  
  RaiseAnim:
	AKPL DCBA 1;
	TNT1 A 0 {A_Overlay(3, "IdleR"); A_Overlay(-3, "IdleL");}

    Goto Ready;
  
  Deselect:
    TNT1 A 0 {
		A_ClearOverlays(3,-3);
		A_PlaySound("Weapon/WhooshSFX", 6, 1);	
		A_ZoomFactor(1);
	}
	AKPL ABCD 1;
	Goto LowerAnim;
	
  LowerAnim:
	TNT1 AAAAAAAAAAAA 0 A_Lower();
	TNT1 A 1 A_Lower();
	Loop;
	
Fire:
    Goto Ready;
	
IdleL:
    DBCG I 1 A_JumpIf(GetPlayerInput(INPUT_BUTTONS) & BT_ALTATTACK, "FireL");
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(GetPlayerInput(INPUT_BUTTONS) & BT_ALTATTACK && (CountInv("Bullets") <= 0), "Left.NoBullets"); 
	Loop;

IdleR:
	DBCG A 1 A_JumpIf(GetPlayerInput(INPUT_BUTTONS) & BT_ATTACK, "FireR");
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIf(GetPlayerInput(INPUT_BUTTONS) & BT_ATTACK && (CountInv("Bullets") <= 0), "Right.NoBullets");
	Loop;
	
FireR:
	TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("Right.NoBullets");
DBCG B 1
		{
			TakeInventory("Bullets",1);
			A_OverlayOffset(OverlayID(),0,0,WOF_INTERPOLATE);
			A_OverlayScale(OverlayID(),1,1,WOF_INTERPOLATE);
			//Do the same with the muzzle flash so it's synced
			A_StartSound("weapons/dblchngun", CHAN_WEAPON);
			A_FireBullets(5.6, 0, 1, 5, "BulletPuff");
			A_AlertMonsters();
		}
		DBCG CDEF 1;
Goto IdleR;

Right.NoBullets:
	DBCG C 1
			{
			A_StartSound("CGCLIK", CHAN_WEAPON);
		}
	DGCG DE 1;
	DGCG F 1 A_Refire("Right.NoBullets");
	Goto IdleR;

Left.NoBullets:
	DBCG K 1 {
	
			A_StartSound("CGCLIK", CHAN_WEAPON);
			}
	DGCG LM 1;
	DGCG N 1 A_Refire("Left.NoBullets");
	Goto IdleL;

	FireL:
		TNT1 A 0 A_JumpIfNoAmmo("Left.NoBullets");
		DBCG J 1
		{
			TakeInventory("Bullets",1);
			A_OverlayOffset(OverlayID(),0,0,WOF_INTERPOLATE);
			A_OverlayScale(OverlayID(),1,1,WOF_INTERPOLATE);
			A_StartSound("weapons/dblchngun", CHAN_WEAPON);
			A_FireBullets(5.6, 0, 1, 5, "BulletPuff");
			A_AlertMonsters();
		}
		DBCG KLMN 1;
		Goto IdleL;
	}
}

Class Bullets : Ammo 
{
  Default
  {
  Scale 0.25;
  Inventory.PickupMessage "Got some Bullets"; // "Picked up a clip."
  Inventory.Amount 11;
  Inventory.MaxAmount 300;
  Ammo.BackpackAmount 11;
  Ammo.BackpackMaxAmount 600;
  Inventory.Icon "BHUDB0";
  }
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    AMM1 A -1;
    Stop;
  }
}

Class BulletBox : Bullets 
{
  Default
  {
  Scale 1;
  Inventory.PickupMessage "$GOTCLIPBOX"; // "Picked up a box of bullets."
  Inventory.Amount 100;
  Inventory.PickupSound "P_AMMOB";
  }
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    AMMO A -1;
    Stop;
  }
}

 Which results in this:

Woe is me, for I am the saddest man who ever wielded two chain-guns! 

And it works fine but once you add too many monster types to single replacer levels become a bit too messy. I'm thinking about something that would replace given enemy type with one other randomly chosen one throught entire level. What method would you use for that? Do you know any randomizer that does something like this without very complicated method? 

In Map editors like UDB, CRATE2 appears as 2 silver crates placed on top of one another, however in the DOOM assets, there's no CRATE2 texture, but rather GCRATEL1 and GCRATER1, which are halves of one silver crate.

Why are the textures split up inside DOOM's assets, and is there any way to work around this? It makes texturing and map editing more annoying and messy.

Model "DeadTree1"
{
Path "models"
Model 0 "deadtree1.md3"
Skin 0 "wood.png"
Scale 1 1 1.2
Offset 0 0 0 
AngleOffset 90 

    FrameIndex DTRE A 0 0 

}

DECORATE:

ACTOR DeadTree1 16001
{
  Radius 24
  Height 128
  ProjectilePassHeight -16
  +SOLID
  States
  {
  Spawn:
    DTRE A -1
    Stop
  }
}

I use Blender 2.66a with the MD3 Export tool.

This is what the Object Paths look like:

If you ask me, i might be able to provide the model/wad (it's a very early beta, so i should have no problem sharing it.)

This is what the switches look like, each switch is not the same linedef and is on a separate sector:

The question that I'm about to ask has been asked before but not necessarily for the same purpose. 

I play Doom on my phone exclusively via OpenTouch. Because of this I always have freelook off and autoaim on. Now, if I use a weapons mod that has a railgun type weapon (like Karnage Legacy or Zagemod - a few classes have railgun/laser/beam style weapons), there is no vertical autoaim. This results in situations that become unbeatable - for example - only having ammo for a railgun type weapon and loads of enemies at elevated places.

So my question is - is there a way for a complete novice to open up a weapons mod in Slade and add a line of code that would enable vertical autoaim easily?

I've only recently even begun to experiment with Slade, and I am a total novice with no experience. Most I've done so far is change weapon damage numbers.

If that's not an option - is there anything else I should do/try? I play on my phone due to how portable it is. Doom/Doom 2 is one of my favourite games and I've played it many times on a proper PC many times before. I just don't have this luxury at the moment.

TL;DR - Can I make railgun weapons auto aim via Slade?

Thanks

I want to know how I can do something like tnt.wad instead nerve.wad, to load it with -iwad name.wad instead -file name.wad.

What about making multidirectional sprites into single view ones, can it be done? Before I understood naming conventions and knew less about sprites I naively replaced SS with different decorations and was surprised to see it change when I walked around it :D Can I use enemy frames for single frame decos or do they need the sprite from every side? If directional sprites can be turned to nondirectional ones, how does one do this? I also read about adding more sprites to vanilla by adding numbers to them or something, could this be my solution? Can suita0 for example be made to four frames by having sprites suitb0, suitc0 and suitd0 present if I have dehacked slots for them?

Also for some reason my .deh got corrupted or something, a few items had changed back to defaults but I guess that's my stupidity which reminded me, if I'm using Boom, do I put .bex or .deh into a wad or both? So far been only using .deh but in Whacked4 I selected Boom format even though I haven't used any Boom specific things except likely exceeded a few string lengths, what happens then to the .deh? Are they cut, included, reverted to default or do they cause problems? Should I selected Doom format instead of Boom if I'm not using Boom stuff? (just mapping for Boom made me automatically select Boom and I'd like the longer strings). Are .deh files always vanilla Doom format or do Boom .deh files have stuff Vanilla don't like? Which brings me back to my question that if I use longer strings etc should I include .deh, .bex or both and how would I go about the latter? I know dehacked lump but is there some lump name for .bex?

BTW. Is there a list anywhere where I could _easily_ see which sprites, sounds and dehacked numbers belong to which enemies? (been having to google, look at game resources, scribble notes etc and still unsure of few but I'm stupid and at the moment unable to do very much testing)

Terribly sorry for this messy post, I'm so tired, medicated, preoccupied and stressed out but wanting to get even my resource wad together before bad things happen IRL. Just needs a few sprites, dehacked fixes and a few textures which reminded me of another bonus question, firewala(/firewal2/firewal3) or what it was called only displays two frames, can this be remedied? Also is there a limitation to animation patch/texture sizes? If I'd make 'em all 256x128 would they work? I've also read about people using longer patches so what about something like 512x64, would that work animated if at all? It'd really give room for plenty of cool stuff.

Big THANK YOU for anyone who even read this let alone can give me answers! If I could turn enemies into 1 sided decos, it'd help a lot. But this brought one _even_ more question, I was wondering can I use codepointer 281 just to play flamest sound effect? (which I've replaced)

Happy X-Mas and a Doomed New Year!

so I found out DSDA default compat is MBF21 - well ok - now I have to hope ppl play at the right compat or map 30 is borked right

Wondering like ... is there UMAPINFO code that will force the player to have this feature regardless? sort of like the map 30 special in GZ's mapinfo? Or even better a way to just force that compat without simply having trust in the player to do it lol

its a longshot but thought I would try

happy newyears all - exciting times I have 7 maps to go to complete this thing getting weary 

I'm following the wiki's instructions for adding wall textures, and for some reason the map doesn't load in Chocolate Doom once I add new wall textures. (I had a separate problem with flats, but that's been resolved elsewhere and I'm grateful). Per the instructions, I am:

1. Loading a 64x64 png into SLADE
2. Converting it to Doom image format
3. Going to Graphic > Add to TEXTUREx
4. Clicking "Import from Base Resource Archive" (making sure I have Doom II selected, as that's what I'm using)
5. Double-checking to make sure the texture shows up in the TEXTUREx lump afterward

The wiki says if you do this and see it there, you're good to go. And I can even use it in SLADE, I just can't run the map afterward. I read through the other thread and tried renaming TEXTURE1 to TEXTURE2, but like the OP in that thread it just turned one error into another one. I've read through both the wiki instructions and the thread replies several times and I can't wrap my head around what I'm doing wrong.

I don't like how when I equip it ingame and it automatically fires a shot then twitches rapidly until I shoot. How do I fix my weapon?