Patrol1985 Posted June 1, 2014 What is the best level editor for Doom under Linux? I read that "Doom Builder 2" run through Wine may have some issues. Is there any such editor written directly for Linux? Also, do any Linux editors support GZDoom features (3D floors, slopes, etc.)? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 1, 2014 Basically, SLADE 3 is your only choice for advanced GZDoom editing on Linux at the moment. Other Linux editors are too old or they focus on vanilla editing (like Eureka) and have no support for UDMF. Note that SLADE 3 does not display 3D floors and slopes in 3D mode. Doom Builder 2 doesn't either, but GZDoom Builder does. 0 Share this post Link to post
marxr Posted June 1, 2014 Gez said:Basically, SLADE 3 is your only choice for advanced GZDoom editing on Linux at the moment. Other Linux editors are too old or they focus on vanilla editing (like Eureka) and have no support for UDMF. Note that SLADE 3 does not display 3D floors and slopes in 3D mode. Doom Builder 2 doesn't either, but GZDoom Builder does. It has a map editor? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 1, 2014 Yes. That's why I suggested it as a level editor, and why I mentioned a limitation of its 3D mode compared to GZDoom Builder. 0 Share this post Link to post
marxr Posted June 1, 2014 Seems like a decent editor, didn't know slade had a level editor, at least I can't find a level editor in slade, do you have to download a addon or something? 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted June 1, 2014 Thanks Gez. Do you happen to know the system requirements of Slade 3? Are they similar to Doom Builder 2? 0 Share this post Link to post
FireFish Posted June 1, 2014 I use the old slade 2 map editor on xp, and on ubuntu via wine. There seems to be no active development for these tools on linux based systems compared to windows. Wine keeps improving, so if you are no linux purist to proud to use wine i would not abandon wine because it grants you access to some of the better tools. 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted June 1, 2014 FireFish said:I use the old slade 2 map editor on xp, and on ubuntu via wine. There seems to be no active development for these tools on linux based systems compared to windows. Wine keeps improving, so if you are no linux purist to proud to use wine i would not abandon wine because it grants you access to some of the better tools. I gladly would use wine, but I read about some issues regarding those editors and wine. I haven't tested them myself though. Can GZDoom Builder run well on wine? 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted June 1, 2014 Solid Snake said:Seems like a decent editor, didn't know slade had a level editor, at least I can't find a level editor in slade, do you have to download a addon or something? The earliest versions of SLADE 3 did not have a map editor yet but it's been in all the development version for the last few years and the last five beta releases. So read this for pointers. Patrol1985 said:Thanks Gez. Do you happen to know the system requirements of Slade 3? Are they similar to Doom Builder 2? Roughly, yes. SLADE 3 however uses OpenGL (not DirectX, contrarily to DB2) for rendering so it's possible that if you have one of these laptops with crappy Intel or ATI integrated graphics that have absolutely dreadful OpenGL support, it might not work correctly. 0 Share this post Link to post
FireFish Posted June 1, 2014 It depends on the wine version, if you installed what is needed, etc... I cant write about slade version 3, but i do know slade 2 is very usable thanks to wine next to tiny glitches now and then in the graphics of the menu or editor grid. 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted June 1, 2014 Gez said:Roughly, yes. SLADE 3 however uses OpenGL (not DirectX, contrarily to DB2) for rendering so it's possible that if you have one of these laptops with crappy Intel or ATI integrated graphics that have absolutely dreadful OpenGL support, it might not work correctly. Unfortunately I do, hence my question :/ Oh well, won't hurt to try. FireFish said:It depends on the wine version, if you installed what is needed, etc... I cant write about slade version 3, but i do know slade 2 is very usable thanks to wine next to tiny glitches now and then in the graphics of the menu or editor grid. Yeah, but what about GZDoom Builder for Wine? Slade has native Linux support so I don't have to run it through Wine, but GZDoom Builder is Windows only. 0 Share this post Link to post
marxr Posted June 1, 2014 ah the beta versions, i use the latest stable release. 0 Share this post Link to post