Automap viewer

What's the best option for viewing a Doom 2 map with a similar visual style to the game's automap? Thanks!

Best option, you ask? Test ingame, perhaps take a screenshot, really.

(not really helpful answer, I know, I hope someone will be able to advise you better)

Tried that, actually. But the whole map doesn't fit onscreen, so that doesn't really work.

I'm curious too, I'd like a utility that can simply view maps. So far I've just been using slumped or wad author.

Reminds me that "automap preview" is something I want to add in SLADE. Something that hides lines marked as hidden and two-sided lines without differences in floor/ceiling height, and shows as one-sided two-sided lines that are marked as secret.

So far the 'best' map preview utility is found in Deepsea. I find myself using it frequently when
trying to find a particular map.

Either all the maps of the iwad are displayed:





or if a pwad was loaded, the maps of the iwad and the pwad are displayed:





Unfortynately, or luckily depending on one's pov, Deepsea does not work with UDMF.

It would be fantastic if something like this could be incorporated into Slade3.

So, how are the maps in the wiki generated? Deepsea too?

Most of them were created by omgifol scripts. Many of the recently added maps were created by SLADE 3.

I've taken matters into my own hands, wrote an application to do it for me.

Just use DETH, it has a Doom-style map view.

Just for future reference

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-editing/67520-automapper-make-maps-of-doom-levels-like-the-in-game-automap/

Kappes Buur said:

Just for future reference

http://www.doomworld.com/vb/doom-editing/67520-automapper-make-maps-of-doom-levels-like-the-in-game-automap/

Excellent programme. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to have an option to change the colour of hidden lines. Ideally, we could make them invisible, to get a 'true' picture of what the automap would look like in-game.

Right now, it's like pressing iddt.

EDIT: oh wow, I didn't realize how recently this was done - just figured that link was to a necro thread from some bygone age. Great job, meapineapple.