Why Does PrBoom Crash When I Do This? - [SOLVED BY A NICE FRUIT (plums)]

[Fellowzdoomer]

So, whenever I'm bored, have free time and/or have a severe case of mappers block, I like to remake some DooM maps that I've played. I've been remaking E1M1 recently (cause: Free time + Mappers block), and I have a problem. I made the nukage pit where the armor usually is deep. No problem there, but when I add GRNMAP, the map crashes when I pick the skill level.

This is the map in question. Can someone find out what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

(P.S. don't worry, they'll be a way out of the pit.)

[plums]

You don't have any colormaps in your wad. If you want to use Boom's built-in colormap, use WATERMAP.

edit: Also I think your colormap texture has to be on the lower texture, to get it to work with a fake floor transfer. That's not what's causing the crash though.

[Fellowzdoomer]

How do I use WATERMAP? and what is my cause of crashitude?

[plums]

You change any instance of GRNMAP or BLUMAP or whatever in your wad to WATERMAP.

You are crashing because your wad doesn't have entries called GRNMAP or BLUMAP in it, but you are trying to use those. WATERMAP is the only colormap entry you can use in PrBoom without needing to actually include it in your wad.

[Fellowzdoomer]

...and it'll display as green or do I just put WATERMAP on one linedef only?

[plums]

It should display as green under a slime flat. You only need it on the linedef that has the type 242, on the lower texture.

[Guest Unregistered account]

It's weird, I once played a downloaded Deathmatch wad with almost no recognised textures - and instead of crashing, it replaced the textures with HOMs and the flats with some kind of plain white tile with "No texture" written on it. :/

EDIT: Oops, misread. :P

[Fellowzdoomer]

It does that to me too Joe.

How.do I make.it blue?

[plums]

Download editutil from here and unzip it:
http://www.gamers.org/pub/idgames/themes/TeamTNT/boom/editutil.zip

Copy the contents of colmaps.wad into your wad, including the C_START and C_END markers.

Now you can use all the colormaps in your wad. (REDMAP GRNMAP BLUMAP GRYMAP YELMAP VIOMAP CYAMAP)

[Fellowzdoomer]

Thanks for help. I gotta see if that up above is DOSBox Compatible

[plums]

For what you're doing, the only thing you need from editutil is colmaps.wad, so as long as you have some DOS tool to manage wad resources (NWT I guess?) you should be OK.

I guess you could also run it as a resource wad, i.e. boom.exe -file mylevel.wad colmaps.wad

[Fellowzdoomer]

Well, this is odd. I extracted colmaps.wad and my map using DeuTex, and reassembled it. PrBoom crashes when I use the merged wad alone, but adding the wad from deutex path runs it. Maybe in the txt file I should say it requires this wad?

[plums]

Did it extract the markers C_START and C_END? Those are important. Post the merged wad if you want and I'll look at it.

[Fellowzdoomer]

Do those count as lumps?

EDIT: no they dont... heh heh...

EDIT 2: did you create PrBoom, plums? It seems as if you know a lot...

[plums]

I believe so - they're empty but I think that's still a lump.

[Fellowzdoomer]

I created blanks of C_START and C_END, named it STOPCRASHINGFORGODSSAKE.wad then ran it.

It actually listened and works as intended. Now the water pit (replaced nukage.) Is blue as hell! Thanks again Plums! I owe ya 2.

Would you like to see the results? (I'm missing 2 secrets + exit.)

[plums]

Fellowzdoomer said:

I created blanks of C_START and C_END, named it STOPCRASHINGFORGODSSAKE.wad then ran it.

It actually listened and works as intended. Now the water pit (replaced nukage.) Is blue as hell! Thanks again Plums! I owe ya 2.

Would you like to see the results? (I'm missing 2 secrets + exit.)

Glad it works. And sure, let's see it.

[Fellowzdoomer]

I'm planning on redoing the whole of Ultimate doom. May not be IDGAMES releasable...

Link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5vao99ld79dnp9b

Skill 1 - Learn The Layout
Skill 2 - Easy
Skill 3 - Slight Challenge
Skill 4 - Murder!
Skill 5 - You Won't Pass The First Room

I'll add exit.

[plums]

Nice little map. Still feels a bit rough, though - there are troopers stuck in the wall in the first area, some weird floor texturing on some steps, a few doors seemed to not work (maybe you know about these, it is a WIP after all...) with a bit more polish it would be pretty good, if not especially original.

Did an FDA for fun, don't know if you can play it but it should work with boom.exe if you want to watch:
http://www.doomworld.com/vb/attachment.php?postid=1290032

[Fellowzdoomer]

All doors work.

[plums]

Ah, got your PM, OK :)