Fog Effects (Again)

[Guest pete the cheat]

OK I have messed around with colourmaps but the closest I can get is making the area black and white!! Is there any way to set the screen fade like on ZDoom, I can't find any refernece to it in the DDFs.

[Lazer]

Insert a lump called MAPINFO into the wad. For each map you want fog, you just type in:
setfade "?? ?? ??"
Replace the question marks with numbers. Setfade can be also called outsidefog and that will make only outside have fog. For a nighttime area where it is cool and fogish (you know what I mean) "44 44 44" is really good. For a very fogish area "99 99 99" works really good. You can also mess around with the numbers to get different colors. I hope this helps.

[Zeratul 982]

Or you can experiment with the coloring and fading using the console commands "testcolor" and "testfade." I can't get the fog stuff to work without having an zdoom compatible editor such as WadAuthor or dme.

[Lazer]

No, all you need is Wintex or anything else that can insert lumps (WadEdit). Then you just type in what I said in the lump starting with:
map??

[Zeratul 982]

I can't insert a "mapinfo" lump in a wad, because when I choose "load entry from file" it only lists the possible lump types playpal, colormap, demo1, demo2, demo3, gmxgusc, genmidi, and endoom, but no mapinfo. In that window I try to type in mapinfo, but it doesn't work. I select "new entry" from the "guru only" menu, but nothing happens. Am I looking in the wrong place?

This is getting a little frustrating, and I bet it's also getting frustrating for you as well.

[Guest TheWorm]

Zeratul: you can insert any lump(such as colormap or playpal) then find the "rename entry" option. Rename whatever entry you put in as mapinfo.

[Zeratul 982]

I think I already tried that. I made a lmp called "mapinfo" and in the lmp I put in what lazer told me:

Map01 outsidefog "44 44 44"

All I get is the "bad syntax" error when I attempt to start it up now. I tried putting the RGB part with quotes, without quotes, with commas, without commas, without spaces, etc. and I still got the error. The same thing happened with "setfade" as well. I looks like I still don't know what I'm doing. So now what's going on?

[Lazer]

Then try this:

map MAP01 "Entryway"
outsidefog "44 44 44"
nojump
sky1 SKY1 0.0
music D_RUNNIN
par 30
next MAP02

-nojump is optional
-the sky can be changed to any texture you have
-you can also make Entryway be anything you want (sorta loike using Dehacked). Now just copy and paste.

[Zeratul 982]

I finally got it to work. Sorry for all the trouble.