Wacker beta7 - Doomworld /idgames database frontend

Title:	Wacker beta7
Filename:	utils/graphics_edit/wackerb7.zip
Size:	137.2 KB
Date:	07/27/94
Author:	Spike
Description:	For those of you who are asking what is wacker. It is a Doom utility that allows wad manipulation and creation of NEW textures for the doom environment. You can load and save any graphic object within doom to a BMP file. It has facilities to cross reference textures and patches. A batch mode allows wacker to be run from command line bypassing the graphic front end. This release is a bug fix of beta6 with some new functions added, the major reason for release of beta7 is the bug fix:
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Wacker beta7
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For those of you who are asking what is wacker. It is a Doom
utility that allows wad manipulation and creation of NEW textures
for the doom environment. You can load and save any graphic
object within doom to a BMP file. It has facilities to cross
reference textures and patches. A batch mode allows wacker to
be run from command line bypassing the graphic front end.

This release is a bug fix of beta6 with some new functions added,
the major reason for release of beta7 is the bug fix:

* Several people have mailed me about having problems aligning
  textures using the mouse+keys. If fixed this problem. It only
  occurs with SOME mouse drivers that object to me changing the
  upper limit of mouse movement and returning a mouse pointer
  which was modulo 2. The movement code has been re-worked to
  avoid this problem

* Barry@infant2 asked me to add some automation to texture making.
  There is a new command LTB which will allow you to load a bitmap
  in directly as a texture and automatically create the patch as
  well. This is described in DOX.TXT under LTB.

* Some people complained about wacker not loading their textures
  back in after they'd saved them. This is not a bug in wacker,
  in older versions of wacker you have to enclose your patches
  in P_START & P_END markers. I've now changed the code so that
  if the patches are references by TEXTURE1 or TEXTURE1 then they
  are automagically detected even if P_START & P_END are not
  present.

Happy Dooming

Spike

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