David Develops Doom - Editing basics! 

A couple of minutes after I posted this video, GZDBBF was succeeded by Ultimate Doom Builder and can be downloaded from here! forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=232&t=66745

Just put a cyberdemon and a chaingun and a megasphere

david, i just want you to know that you give me the same stress reducing calm feeling i get from bob ross

Ok, I figured it out. This IS actually COOL!. Just finished making my own test level.

The emacs joke at 23:18 caught me off guard (vim gang for lyfe though). Fantastic Gloryhammer wallpaper too. Truly a man of culture. Very useful tutorial. I think I'll mess around with this before trying out Unity Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:25 You will need list 1:01 Where to get DOOM WAD files 2:11 Source ports 5:38 Doom Editors 8:05 Getting started with SLADE 8:30 Map Formats and basic setup 11:48 Opening the editor and explanation of Duplicate Patch error 12:20 Start of Basic Mapping (Winging it) 12:40 Creating a basic room (Vertices Mode) 13:20 Things Mode 15:26 Texturing 16:22 3D Editing Mode 27:20 Switches 28:29 Actions and Sector Tags 29:20 Linedefs mode (making the switch work) 31:54 Monster Closet 34:03 Making a Door 44:52 The End (?) 45:07 Making an End Trigger

If anyone wants more tutorials, ChubzDoomer was also a great resource when I first started mapping.

This is the best intro out there. It would be absolutely amazing if you could make a new updated version of this. ❤

I was using Doom Builder 2 for the longest time, thought there was no reason to upgrade. Recently switched to the Ultimate Doom Builder, which is the newer version of GZDoom Builder with added features to work with other source ports besides GZDoom, and it's amazing! You can rotate and align ceiling and floor textures, 'nough said.

You're quick at this. Thanks for this, I learned a few things.

So thankful for this tutorial! I'm doing an experimental D&D campaign with some different mixed media formats in it - particularly, a sprawling dungeon that will act as both the very start and the eventual end of the campaign. The inspiration struck me, after some time, that a Doom level would be the perfect way to portray that, but I wasn't sure how to begin. Until now! Thanks a ton for the assistance with the basics - I might dip into some more advanced tutorials from here, but this was already a fantastic start.

Really nice tutorial, thank you! Especially for starting from the very basic basics. Regarding map design customs, after playing a bit as a newbie, I've learned what is expected. But it's cool to think what other unconventional possibilities can arise. Oh, and that ending that didn't work cracked me up. :D Thanks for leaving it in.

'...but it will begin to make some sense after you've been doing it for about 4 or 5 years...' Hahah, i sure hope you're right...! Really good tutorial, thanks a lot.

I’ve been mapping for like 2 years now and I come back to this for some reason nostalgia I guess

Nice useful tips, not only limited to the editor used, but in general to all the game

New subscriber to this awesome series! Love the explanations and building tips. I intended to hit all your tuts soon. I'm using UDB2 and gzdoom. It's amazing how far modding has come since I last played with it in the 90s and early 2000. I stopped because I took on a s/w job that took all my time/efforts. Now that I'm retired I'm really enjoying getting back into this! It looks like you can make a quake-like game with enough knowledge and time! Thanks again!

Please continue this series! The information in these videos is relevant and fantastic!

"Presenting the enemy" John Romero: "Yes!"

Really enjoyed that, thanks. Doom editing has certainly come a long way since I last tried it in the mid-90's!

Fantastic video. Been playing Doom for years but never dared make my own maps till now.

Thanks for these videos. Haven't done any doom editing since the 90s and the tools appear to have been a lot more primitive then 😅 I already have some level ideas from watching your tutorials.

Great tutorial! I must say the one tutorial a person needs to actually start making a map! I switched from Doom Builder 2 to GZDoom Builder, I was struggling in Doom Builder 2 but everything in GZDoom Builder just seems to work, and flow so much faster.

This was super fun to watch and very educational, thank you. Great video!

To be honest, I find it a lot easier to start with more limits, start with the Doom wad format, perhaps even with the Doom 1 wad resources. Having less options makes it less overwhelming and forces you to really think harder about the basics of level design, and then once you've mastered that, you can start expanding to Doom 2 and UMDF options.

So, I press Q, and the controls to move around freely are ESDF, not WASD.

See the video description for links to the tools, and also a great tutorial that's more focused on the Slade3 map editor!

Thank you so much!!! I’ve been wanting to make a doom level for so long!!!! 🤗

Thanks man, i haven't mapped for a while now, and now im caught up to speed.

That tutorial is actually awesome.

Auto-align is great and all, but you really should have explained upper an lower unpegging for vertical alignment. The nice thing about aligning textures by unpegging is that if you change of the sectors adjacent to the lines, they'll remain aligned.

Thank you. I was looking for this kind of tutorial.

Been considering doing this for a long time. Found this really useful. Thanks.

Great tutorial, pure gold

Great tutorial. I have to try my hand at making some wall niches here.

hey there @DavidXNewton ... late to the game on this one (pun, mostly intended), but wanted to say a big thanks! for putting this together... very helpful and takes me back to the earliest days (dark, *dark* days) of originally modding Doom... :D thanks again!

glorious video. well done

This is surprisingly easier than I thought

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

very useful tutorial! thanks for this :)

Far cry from the program Waded that I used back in the mid `90s... It was buggy as hell, but I still really enjoyed making my own deathmatch levels.

thank you so much for your videos. your recent myhouse video has inspired me to get back into mapping for doom. im a total noob so these videos are really helpfull thank you so much

Wow. This looks really fun

Best Doom Tutorial

"There is more gameplay here then my natural life remaining!" 😆 😆 😆

I have ultimate Doom Builder which combines GZ Doom Builder and Doom Builder 2. It's pretty much the same but also supports making classic maps.

Very nice video! You are teaching well, maybe you can make video about making different textures, weapon models or so👌

I've read that the Switch version still has the Deimos door bug.

>Gloryhammer wallpaper This is it, the best tutorial.

Great video! thank you ma man!

Love your videos. I have no exp in gamedev so I decided for my first game to be a Doom episode :)

thank you very much dude !

This deserves more likes

Great program gzdoom

i watched a lot of tutorials on youtube (for all kind of stuff) but this is the best as i remember :)

Wow holy shit. Thank you so much. I want to try my hand at mapping. As a bit on the younger age of OG Doomer (24), I wasn't even capable of playing 2016 until this year--i remember playing Ult Doom, and still have the black foldout w/ CD. I'm glad I learned to play with only a keyboard; ironically 2016 made my love of Ult and D2 in particular, even greater. Thank you. PS: Would you recommend DB2 for an Ultimate Nub at editing? Also, have you ever tried Doom Retro? I have absolutely fallen in love with that port.

29: 45 i cannt find any of those setting for the switch in line def properties im talking about activation when player presses use there is only front side back side and flags but no edit actions

Can you make a tutorial using Slade map editor please?

Smashing!

Very interesting, sadly I'm stuck at trying to MOVE a vertex as seen at 14:00. I've selectet "Vertecies" mode. But I can't drag the points, I just get a selectioin rectangle.

Hey I know this is a dumb question but when ur in first person mode how to get the walls to highlight because I can’t find a highlight feature

question doubt: door open and back close sometimes? I do create door open and then close, not back door open. you know?

Trying to make a level based on what you've put here... worked great mostly, but my doors won't open. I press use and instead of the door raising, it goes down slightly and then nothing happens for a few seconds until it goes back to normal.

can any one point me in the direction to get ultimate doom builder running through doomsday when i hit "test". all i get atm is the doomsday logo then crash

I'm on Linux and am looking to use Slade so I was hoping you'd stick to that in the video. However, it was still pretty good and informative. :)

hey david the tutorial you made here is great but one thing I don't understand is GZdoom builder, is it basically ultimate doom builder? are they the same thing

aye man could u tell me how to select vertices to create a door

Your version of Ultimate DOOM Builder is having more properties options than mine. Is there something I need to do to gain access to those options?

A query, how to have that HUD in the editor, because when I play my levels the DOOM 1 HUD appears.

... _"Historic Scotland"_ ...you're more right than you could ever know! It's wild to think, the records and tales of princess Scotia have been basically corroborated by the DNA of her ancestors still living in Scotland/Northern Ireland. Blows my tiny brain away, but I guess the locals would smile and say, "Ah sure, been tellin' ya fer years".

Argh, I really don't understand. This says the dynamic lights are by default on the light source items? These aren't working for me despite using UDB and trying on several versions of GZdoom including most recent and placing the same tall techno lamp used in the video... Dynamic lights are on in the GZdoom options. I don't know what else to try :S

This is all cool and all but actually getting the doom 2 wad has been a struggle for me I’ve used wineskin since I have a Mac and after a couple short hours I managed to find a way to start the installation since I had a few problems but, (I bought it from GOG) it says there is no connection to GOG now I’m figuring that out

very good video! I would like to try, but I cant run gzdbbf on windows 10. I have installed Dx9 and .net framework but still wont run. can someone help me?

I get a weird error trying to create a new map. Basically says device is not ready. So sad... only DeePsea works for me and so far it feels like a pain in the ass in comparison.

epic

Can you make entire games with this? (Delete old levels, replace with new, change loading screen...)

As a Scot, I must say your perception of Scotland is greatly outdated... it's much more red and infernal these days.

how do you exit out of 3d mode?

I cant place a "thing" in the SLADE3 editor, how do i do that?

I was trying to make a doom 2 map, I got a little square and some former humans put in with an ssg and some ammo for it. But every time I tried to test the map it said it wasn't compatible with the version of windows I was using. And it said something about forgetting and Iwad but idk what that is

Does Slade work for Steam's "Ultimate Doom?"

looking at the thumbnail I thought his was a xisumavoid video lol.

12:40

When i try to test the map it just says could not find MAP00 and does not load! I cant load into my map!

I cant open gz doom builder

I just use Doom Builder 2

if you were to make a full game with this, could you... sell it?

Doom Eternal contains doom 1 and 2 wads just in case anyone owns that and not the originals

ok

Gloryhammer! Very good.

I always start typing shotgun guy then delete it and type serg 🤣

Anyone else notice HuniePop in their games library? 4:15

I like your accent

I was the (very fittingly) 666th like ;)

There's one ＢＩＧ　ＦＵＣＫＩＮＧ　ＬＥＴＤＯＷＮ regarding GZDB-BF, it's still a Windows-dependent application, and I've used Linux since the mid 2000s. I believe that Windows 10 is the operating system that ascended from the deepest pit of Hell on the Antichrist's behalf. I will not let Windows become my new daily driver operating system due to Microsoft's wickedness. If anyone reading this comment is a developer of the master branch of GZDB-BF, consider moving away from WinForms, Visual C/C++ projects and SlimDX and towards OpenGL.Net/Vulkan-Sharp/software rendering, CMakeLists.txt files and Gtk-Sharp/Qt5. (Qt5 interface redesign in progress!) Here's a prayer for all of those Linux users who can't wait to natively use GZDoom Builder: Ｏ　ＧＯＤ，　ｃｒｅａｔｏｒ　ｏｆ　ｈｅａｖｅｎ　ａｎｄ　ｅａｒｔｈ， ｄｅｌｉｖｅｒ　ＧＺＤｏｏｍ　Ｂｕｉｌｄｅｒ　Ｂｕｇｆｉｘ　ｆｒｏｍ　ｔｈｅ ｄｅｍｏｎｉｃ　ｇｒａｓｐ　ｏｆ　Ｍｉｃｒｏｓｏｆｔ　Ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ． Ｔｈｅ　ｍａｐ　ｅｄｉｔｏｒ　ｓｔｉｌｌ　ｄｅｐｅｎｄｓ　ｏｎ　Ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ　ｆｏｒ ｉｔ’ｓ　ｂｕｉｌｄ　ｐｒｏｃｅｓｓ　ａｎｄ　ｒｕｎｔｉｍｅ，　ｉｎｃｌｕｄｉｎｇ ｔｈｅ　ｒｅｎｄｅｒｅｒ．　Ｄｅｌｉｖｅｒ　ｕｓ　ｆｒｏｍ　ｔｈｅ　ｎｉｇｈｔｍａｒｅｓ ｏｆ　ｆｉｎｄｉｎｇ　ｗｏｒｋａｒｏｕｎｄｓ　ｆｏｒ　ｒｕｎｎｉｎｇ　ｔｈｉｓ ｂｏｕｎｄ　ｅｄｉｔｏｒ　ｏｎ　Ｌｉｎｕｘ　ａｎｄ　ｗｅ　ｗｉｌｌ　ｃｅｌｅｂｒａｔｅ ｔｈｅ　ｄａｙ　ＧＺＤｏｏｍ　Ｂｕｉｌｄｅｒ　Ｂｕｇｆｉｘ　ｂｅｃｏｍｅｓ　ｃｒｏｓｓ ｐｌａｔｆｏｒｍ． Ｂｌｅｓｓｅｄ　ａｒｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｄｅｖｅｌｏｐｅｒｓ　ｏｆ　ＧＺＤｏｏｍ Ｂｕｉｌｄｅｒ　Ｂｕｇｆｉｘ　ｗｈｏ　ｓｅｔ　ｔｈｅ　ｅｄｉｔｏｒ　ｆｒｅｅ ｆｒｏｍ　ｔｈｅ　ｖｉｌｅ　ｇｒａｓｐ　ｏｆ　Ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ， ａｎｄ　ｔｈｅ　ｐｏｔｅｎｔｉａｌ　ｕｓｅｒｓ　ｗｈｏ　ｓｔｉｌｌ ｒｅｆｕｓｅ　ｔｏ　ｓｗｉｔｃｈ　ｔｏ　ｔｈｅ　ａｂｏｍｉｎａｂｌｅ ｏｐｅｒａｔｉｎｇ　ｓｙｓｔｅｍ　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｓ　Ｗｉｎｄｏｗｓ　１０． Ｏ　ＧＯＤ，　ｔｈａｎｋ　ｙｏｕ　ｆｏｒ　ｅｎａｂｌｉｎｇ　ｌｏｔｓ　ｏｆ ｐｅｏｐｌｅ　ｔｏ　ｒｅｓｉｄｅ　ｉｎ　Ｙｏｕｒ　ｋｉｎｇｄｏｍ　ｔｈｒｏｕｇｈ　ｙｏｕｒ ｓｏｎ　Ｊｅｓｕｓ　Ｃｈｒｉｓｔ，　ａｎｄ　ｆｏｒ　ｅｖｅｒｙ　ｄｅｌｉｖｅｒａｎｃｅ　ｔｈａｔ ｈａｓ　ｈａｐｐｅｎｅｄ　ｓｉｎｃｅ　ｔｈｅ　ｃｒｅａｔｉｏｎ　ｏｆ　ｏｕｒ　ｕｎｉｖｅｒｓｅ． Ａｍｅｎ

In this program are made maps to brutal Doom.

69 likes very nice

yes trace of it online...

Yo, why would you make Doom maps if you don't even own Doom?

About Buying Doom: Doom Engine Is Free And Open Source , You Paid For WADs

You seem to be helping but I do not agree with you that there are forums and communities full of nice and helping people. I have been there and soon I felt like being in school. I even didn't reach to ask anything before they were going to nag on completely different things very nasty way. I tried a bit more and joined Realm667 and I noticed there are even some Doom communities full of calm people with no bully attitude. Actually, they were very nice to me when talking. However, they didn't accept my monster that is a mix of Demolisher and Annihilator which is basically the same as the mix of Cyberdemon and Spider Mastermind considering their look and behavior from both monsters. They even couldn't give me any businesslike explanation of why they rejected and told quite a shit. In a one-word, they were nice and polite but still no fair nor objective. I think I will never join any Doom community anymore.

Fuck Steam version. It's unreliable and has fatal bug in "Final Doom".