HELP

I was making a doom2 level with Doom builder, and I tried using the bridge thing. I have no ideas on how I'm supposed to use it, so I looked at another wad. It's not helping.
Anyway, I made a series of mistakes, and tried to rectify them. For some reason, the consequence is that now whenever I open up the wad with Doom builder I can only edit level 20! (There are 20 levels in the wad, and level 20 is the one I'm talking about now.) But when I play the wad with ZDoom I can access the full 20 levels. Is there any way to get the rest back? (By the way this wad has taken me months to make so I don't want to lose it all.)

Maybe maps 01-19 are in the standard Doom2 format?

When you open your wad you should see a window with the map names and configuration. Change this from ZDoom to Doom2 when editing Doom2 levels, and back to ZDoom when editing ZDoom levels.

oh, ok

edit: and also, how do I use the bridge thing?

Alter its Z-height. Surely the option to do so must be there when you right-click on the bridge thing, somewhere.

I still don't understand. What am I supposed to alter the Z-height to? How do I set the texture?

edit: ok, got the texture, but can't seem to be able to place it right

Your map has to be in Hexen format to be able to use Z height. The option to set a Z height is on the right-bottom of the Thing properties dialog (right-click a thing). For bridge things: the Z height is a relative distance from the real floor up. So if the real floor is at 32 height and you set the thing Z height to 64, the thing will be at 96 height.

for some reason, it is working now. So the only thing I don't know is why it wasn't working before...when I tried the same things. Must have been something. Still, it will take a while before I get the hang of it.

edit: oh, and by the way, thanks

edit: And by the way, is there any possible way to change the map names? I think it has something to do with the .dbs file but I don't really know what.

Just make a .deh or .bex patch that changes the names. Try using Whacked 2. To put this into your level, you'll need to use XWE or Wintex. XWE is more user-friendly.

Hope this helps.

or use mapinfo, if using ZDoom. Its much more flexible and gives you more options.

Is it in all of the formats? What about in skulltag?

It's an external lump

(Yes for the slow one among you)

Where can I download these utilities?

Right here at Doomworld is an up-to-date list of editing untilities.

Funny, it doesn't work now. It worked yesterday, but it doesn't work now. I can walk underneath the bridge things, but if I try going over them it's like going into a wall.
I have the Z-height at 120, the thickness 8 and the radius 16.

| 0 |-128| 0 |

The bridge things are in between the two platforms at 0 height. What am I doing wrong?

Edit: 1 day later, they are working again, and I did nothing to change them. I'll bet you anything that tomorrow they will stop working again.