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disentomb

Question Concerning Water

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I know this is probably a simple thing to do, but ive never actually done it myself so im lost... im trying to use black water in a small map im making. I wanted it to change frames as the original doom2 water does. I have all four of the black water textures.any help is greatly appreciated

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Make a wad that has the following entries:

FF_START
FWATER1
FWATER2
FWATER3
FWATER4
F_END
FF_START and F_END are markers and FWATERx are saved as flats.

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Replace the lava flats instead? Otherwise you'll have to move on to a source port like prboom or zdoom etc., though I'm unsure of the specifics of making totally new animated flats in them.

Thread hijack:
How does gothictx.wad animate the WFALLX textures? I thought the animated texture designations were hard coded into the engine and the only way to animate textures was to replace existing ones like BFALLX/DBRAIN and such...

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Vorpal said:

How does gothictx.wad animate the WFALLX textures? I thought the animated texture designations were hard coded into the engine and the only way to animate textures was to replace existing ones like BFALLX/DBRAIN and such...

they know what they're doing. thats how lol, also, thanks for your help as well

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Vorpal said:

How does gothictx.wad animate the WFALLX textures? I thought the animated texture designations were hard coded into the engine and the only way to animate textures was to replace existing ones like BFALLX/DBRAIN and such...

The animation is hardcoded just like all the rest. The only difference is that there are no WFALL textures in the IWAD. Put them in a PWAD with the correct naming convention, and they work.

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disentomb said:

... I have all four of the black water textures.any help is greatly appreciated


For some reason I seem to remember that you use ZDoom or GZDoom. Then you could do this

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Boom also has the ANIMATED lump. You need the "swantbls" utility to compile them though, but it's pretty easy to do. Personally, I never find myself using all the original animation groups in a single wad, so I just sacrifice the brown slime or glowing rocks or something to keep things simple.

And please don't use ZDoom just to use ANIMDEFS.

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EarthQuake said:

And please don't use ZDoom just to use ANIMDEFS.


uhh, how partisan. O_O
Personally, I use only ZDoom or GZDoom.

That doesn't mean that I don't check out other engines from time to time, it's just that I don't map for them.

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EarthQuake said:

The animation is hardcoded just like all the rest. The only difference is that there are no WFALL textures in the IWAD. Put them in a PWAD with the correct naming convention, and they work.

Also, you can use SWATER1...4 for flats as well, which is also absent from the IWAD.

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Kappes Buur said:

For some reason I seem to remember that you use ZDoom or GZDoom. Then you could do this

haha you probably read my messages in the "multiple floors" thread. anyway, thank you sir, I appreciate the help. thanks to everyone else who posted on here as well, you're all awesome.

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