Coraline Posted December 3, 2008 I just want to see how many people use Doom Builder in comparison with using SLADE. I, personally, use Slade over Doom Builder. The lack of Vista support and the fact that DB crashes constantly won me over. And, for some reason, I like the way it highlights sectors in 3d mode. It's just overall a lot cleaner IMO. What do you guys prefer? I guess you can say DeePSea or WadAuthor if you seriously use them. And, is Slade still in development? Anyone know? 0 Share this post Link to post
Steeveeo Posted December 3, 2008 Doombuiler for me, I still have XP :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Bucket Posted December 3, 2008 Doombuilder doesn't work in Vista?!? *starts DB* News to me. Maybe it only works in 64-bit Vista...? 0 Share this post Link to post
Dreadopp Posted December 3, 2008 I have used Doom Builder for a very long time and I will probably continue to use it...until Doom Builder 2 comes out. Then I'll use that instead. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Use Posted December 3, 2008 Chu said:I guess you can say DeePSea or WadAuthor if you seriously use them. Thanks for that cause yeah, Deepsea, I seriously use it. Dreadopp said:I have used Doom Builder for a very long time... Can't really be that long, it's not even that old. 0 Share this post Link to post
EarthQuake Posted December 3, 2008 There have been many polls about this already and it looks like this about every time: 1. Doom Builder 2. DeepSea 3. WadAuthor 4. Slade I'm a DeepSea man myself. It was the only series of editors that gave me a boner. 0 Share this post Link to post
Nuxius Posted December 3, 2008 Slade and DB, depending on what source port I'm editing for. Overall, I have a slight preference for Slade, though. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted December 3, 2008 I remember when I used DCK 3.62f. Good times. 0 Share this post Link to post
Coraline Posted December 3, 2008 Why does everyone not use Slade? It has everything Builder has, and some stuff DB2 promises (like applying textures in the backdrop of the editor). I have used DeepSea, just not in awhile. Can you still purchase the program? Didn't it have a very rudimentary 3d mode? I do like DB because of the keyboard/mouse shortcuts, takes some time getting used to Slade after using DB but overall I just think it's cleaner. 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted December 3, 2008 I used to use Slade for nearly 100% of my mapping, but one day it decided it wanted to crash every 30 seconds from that point on and so I haven't been able to use it much since then. Had to switch over to Doom Builder :( There are a ton of things in Slade that I really dislike the lack of in Doom Builder, but for the most part I'm used to it. I do still switch into Slade for some things that would just take an excessively long time to do in Doom Builder. 0 Share this post Link to post
Dutch Doomer Posted December 3, 2008 I do all my mapping in doom builder, I've never used Slade, DeepSea or WadAuthor. 0 Share this post Link to post
jute Posted December 3, 2008 esselfortium said:There are a ton of things in Slade that I really dislike the lack of in Doom Builder....some things that would just take an excessively long time to do in Doom Builder. What are these things? 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted December 3, 2008 jute gyte said:What are these things? Being able to split sectors reliably without having to trace over every single line of all the sectors I want to split, being able to middle-click to snap to the nearest vertex when drawing, togglable sky display in 3d mode...to name just a few. 0 Share this post Link to post
_bruce_ Posted December 3, 2008 Tried some editors from DOS days to current ones... Doombuilder is the one for me. 0 Share this post Link to post
Remmirath Posted December 3, 2008 Doom Builder. SLADE sucks IMO, because i have to draw every sector clockwise, otherwise everything screws up. And it isn't as flexible as Doom Builder. 0 Share this post Link to post
Deeforce Posted December 3, 2008 DeePsea! I used it for all my released wads, yeah! But I'm very interested in Doom Builder 2, when it comes out. 0 Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted December 3, 2008 Morpheus said:Doom Builder. SLADE sucks IMO, because i have to draw every sector clockwise, otherwise everything screws up. And it isn't as flexible as Doom Builder. Huh? I've never really used Slade 1.x, but in Slade 2 you can draw anything in whichever direction you want, with more freedom in doing so than Doom Builder gives you. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord_Z Posted December 3, 2008 I have used Doom Builder, DeepSea and WadAuthor. Doom Builder is the best in my opinion though WadAuthor was good to me for a time. 0 Share this post Link to post
PhilibusMo Posted December 3, 2008 Doom Builder (combined with xwe) how could u not love it? can't wait for db2. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lich Posted December 3, 2008 I used DEU, then DETH and now DoomBuilder. DB is the best one I've used yet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Steeveeo Posted December 3, 2008 Sometimes, out of nostalgia, I think about making a map in DMapEdit again :P 0 Share this post Link to post
impClaw Posted December 6, 2008 On Windows: Doom Builder (Still waiting for db2 though) On Linux: Slade (Can't stand db through wine, really) 0 Share this post Link to post
TomoAlien Posted December 6, 2008 I am using Doom Builder and i am really happy with it. I could install Cygwin(Tool that allows you to run Linux applications on Windows) and try out Slade, but i am too lazy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Graf Zahl Posted December 6, 2008 Slade runs natively on Windows. You don't need garbage like cygwin for it. 0 Share this post Link to post
TomoAlien Posted December 6, 2008 Graf Zahl said:Slade runs natively on Windows. You don't need garbage like cygwin for it. I didn't know. But anyway, i tried it out and it was confusing. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lizardcommando Posted December 8, 2008 I've tried using DeepSea and Doom Builder, but I just couldn't get used to them, so I've stuck with WadAuthor. Too bad there's no 3D view mode in WadAuthor. :( 0 Share this post Link to post
Enjay Posted December 8, 2008 DeePsea for me. It's "rudimentary 3d mode" is a source modified version of Risen3D that isn't particularly rudimentary at all. 0 Share this post Link to post
DoomKn1ght Posted December 8, 2008 Enjay said:DeePsea for me. It's "rudimentary 3d mode" is a source modified version of Risen3D that isn't particularly rudimentary at all. I used DeepSea for lump editing only because I don't want to pay when db is free. It's interesting if you can set it to display (g)zdoom features on R3Dedit. I admit I have not checked if you can do this. I respect the author choice and work but It would be cool it was free or and open source in 2008 for a 15 year old game. Anyway nevermind, I use db for mapping, Slade is too buggy now and crash often for me moreover on ati card. 0 Share this post Link to post