wad mangle issue

This might sound stupid, noob, dumb, retarded, and so on and so on... But I really MUST know....
What is the default background color used for sprites in WAD Mangle? I have tried the entire friggin 32-bit rainbow, I think... and nothing.

If you could help me out, I'd be eternally appreciated. :)... no, seriously! :D

Thanks anyhow! ;)

Cyan.

Red: 000
Green: 255
Blue: 255

I thought that was WINTEX's background color? OK then Ill try it. Thanks.

Nope, not working! And get this: instead of appearing with "no background color" in-game, it appears with BLACK instead of cyan :S.
MAN WAD MANGLE SUX!!! And so does windows XP... G0D I miss Wintex... *cries* T_T

So... use, like, WinTex? :crazy thought:

Why don't you try using XWE.
http://www.doomworld.com/xwe/

Jehar said:

So... use, like, WinTex? :crazy thought:

You just don't get it, do you? I'M RUNNING WINDOWS XP AND WINTEX WON'T WORK ON THAT OPERATING SYSTEM!!!

@RandomMarine: Ok then I'll try using XWE... hope it's good.

Just to explain this misconception. There's no such thing as deafult transparent color in Doom. The transparent color is transparent, period. Lump managers such as XWE, Wintex or internal DeePsea lump manager have their ways of achieving transparency on sprites and textures. Some do it with pink color (DeePsea) others use cyan (which is more popular.

Heeey XWE is great, man! :D And cyan does the trick too! :) One final question: does XWE automatically save the wad? 'Cos I can't find a save button anywhere lol. :P Neways, thanks for all ur help, u guys, I'm truly grateful ;)

Peace.

Oh and thanks for the definition, ellmo. I DO remember the duke3d.grp file (in WinTex) having PINK as background color, ure right!

Andy011 said:

does XWE automatically save the wad?

It does. But be careful. If you're managing a wad that is opened in another program at the same time - for example you have Doom Builder running in the background that has your wad opened and you're playing with the same wadfile in XWE - you will have I/O errors on exiting which will cause most of the filse inside WAD mix-up with each other.
..using the last automatically saved backup should get you where you need to be.

If u were a girl, I'd french-kiss u right now! Thanks man!!! :D Thanks all of ya :P

Andy011 said:

You just don't get it, do you? I'M RUNNING WINDOWS XP AND WINTEX WON'T WORK ON THAT OPERATING SYSTEM!!!

Explain this:

Dr. Zin said:

Explain this:

Copy & paste :P

Dr. Zin said:
Explain this

Your screen resolution sucks.

Andy011 said:

You just don't get it, do you? I'M RUNNING WINDOWS XP AND WINTEX WON'T WORK ON THAT OPERATING SYSTEM!!!

@RandomMarine: Ok then I'll try using XWE... hope it's good.

WinTex works fine for me on XP. But XWE is probably the best bet anyway.

Dr. Zin said:

Explain this:

*ACK!* H...how... but it doesn't work on my XP :S
Maybe bcos it's XP Pro??? I don't get it... =O Man I'd sure prefer wintex instead of XWE tell me how u did that O.o

EDIT: ......please? >_>

It gives you a missing DLL message, right? For vbrun300.dll?

http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?vbrun300

Extract it into your Wintex folder.

Nooo man, it gives me an "AUTOEXEC.NT" error... I already have the VBRUN300.DLL file. =\

EDIT: Look, it's not THAT urgent, but I'd really appreciate any help, because I have used WinTex for AGES. That's right, I'm no noob. Ever since I got this damned XP installed on my PC, WinTex wouldn't work! :( However, I HAVE managed to expand my mod while I was away, with a Windows MILLENIUM OS.

Quick Off-topic: the mod is based on the popular MOD for Half-Life:
"The Specialists Mod" :D It uses DDF, so it's pretty cool :) Altho I really could use a mapper =/