Why Doom Builder 2?

What will be new in Doom Builder 2?

• First of all, there are a lot of things redesigned to better fit the needs of the mappers. For example: You can now configure nodebuilder settings and testing settings per game configuration, so that when you switch game configuration to edit some other map, the relevant settings will change along with your choice.
• Next we have Unicode support. This means that Doom Builder will work on non-westen cultures (such as China, for example) without the need of an English Windows installation or weird tricks.
• Then I will make sure it will be Windows Vista compatible. Actually I need some people willing to test extensively on Windows Vista. More about that below.
• Textures and flats and other resources can now be loaded from any number of different sources. Doom Builder 2 will support reading resources from WAD files, Directories, PK3 files and Directories with a PK3 directory structure.
• Instant and nodebuilder-less 3D mode! Recent tests have proven a new great, fast method to render the 3D mode without the need of a BSP tree or any nodebuilder. This new technique also allows for geometry changes in 3D mode.
• Plugins that allow developers to make their own editing modes, including 3D mode extensions (slopes, 3D floors).
• On top of the great new features, there are little enhancements as well, such as full 32-bit anti-aliased 2D mode rendering, full PNG, BMP and GIF support and a more professional GUI look.

When will you have all this?

What do you still need?

• Web designer, a serious good one. The site at www.doombuilder.com is the remains of my old website, and I want a fancy and spiffy website completely dedicated to both Doom Builder 1 and 2 (yes, I will keep DB1 online no less than it currently is, just in case you don't like DB2). If you would like to help me with this, please show me some of your previous work as web designer!
• Alpha and Beta testers. Right now I need people from non-western cultures and Windows Vista users to try and see if Doom Builder 2 runs properly. Serious application testing (Beta testing) will be done in several months, but at the current point that is a bit useless.
• Icon. Yes I need an icon for Doom Builder 2 and I don't think I still want that gargoyle head. I want something new, good looking, in all resolutions from 48x48 down to 16x16 in both 32-bits and 256 colors. This is simple: you make some, you e-mail them to me, and I pick the winner. No crying.

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MikeRS said:
So will it finally run on Linux 'native' (in quotes, because .NET apps don't even run on Windows natively), via Mono?

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Dr. Zin said:
Are you going to fix that bug that occurs in DB1 that causes it to start lagging seemingly exponentially when the nodes are built once you get past a certain number of sidedefs/sectors (IIRC it is not a problem with the nodebuilder, but with DB1)?

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Doom Builder 2 is a complete redesign and rewrite from scratch

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• Plugins that allow developers to make their own editing modes, including 3D mode extensions (slopes, 3D floors).
• On top of the great new features, there are little enhancements as well, such as full 32-bit anti-aliased 2D mode rendering, full PNG, BMP and GIF support and a more professional GUI look.

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Xtife said:
doom builder was awesome in its day
but its just fallen into such disrepair now

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First of all, there are a lot of things redesigned to better fit the needs of the mappers. For example: You can now configure nodebuilder settings and testing settings per game configuration, so that when you switch game configuration to edit some other map, the relevant settings will change along with your choice.

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printz said:
It's funny that MBF (an old DOS port) completely fixed the tutti frutti effect long ago, while IF I'M NOT WRONG ZDoom still has it at irregular-tall (!= powers of 2) textures.

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myk said:
Looks promising.

CodeImp, one thing you might want to consider when working on these things; when choosing a plain Doom format, by default make 3D mode display textures like in Doom and in Chocolate Doom as much as possible. Various wads lately have some texture alignment issues and tutti frutti glitches because there's a difference here (I think 3D mode is behaving more like Boom in most cases).

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CodeImp said:
but I can't really simulate the tutti frutti effect (and I don't really want to either)

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myk said:
in the portions that would produce it {the TFE}.

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printz said:
Regardless, the new designers should know themselves better, because they can read the faqs in idgames/docs or somewhere there.

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myk said:
Ideally, but as experience tells, if the editing tool isn't helping, it's just more likely there will be a mistake or a glitch. The idea of 3D mode is to be able to see more or less what the game will show while you're editing.

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