[TUTORIAL] Getting started with Doom Builder 2 (making maps)

[Skye.EXE]

So Wait, Can You Get Rid Of The Red ! Texture? If you can, is there something to tell me how to? Yeah, I Know, Bad Questions. I'm just new to Doom Builder 2.  

[MD-2a03]

Thanks for the links, and why would I TL;DR it? Doom stuff isn't that insanely hard to learn lol. If someone's really that lazy, they shouldn't even bother.

[TERRORsphere]

So Wait, Can You Get Rid Of The Red ! Texture? If you can, is there something to tell me how to? Yeah, I Know, Bad Questions. I'm just new to Doom Builder 2.  

Press space when aiming at the wall and give it a texture. You can also copy-paste textures and "flood fill" if you set the buttons in your controls. Press F5 to set them.

[Skye.EXE]

So Wait, Can You Get Rid Of The Red ! Texture? If you can, is there something to tell me how to? Yeah, I Know, Bad Questions. I'm just new to Doom Builder 2.  

Press space when aiming at the wall and give it a texture. You can also copy-paste textures and "flood fill" if you set the buttons in your controls. Press F5 to set them.

Of course I Was That Clueless. x-x

[Max]

"The setup files are corrupted, please obtain a new version of the files"

Wut. Come on, man!

Alright, dling it from elsewhere helped.

How does one add new textures?

[CutmanMike]

I'll do a separate tutorial for that... eventually

[Max]

I hope eventually means soon because I need to make Sheep Man's map  

[Mr. X]

"The setup files are corrupted, please obtain a new version of the files"

Wut. Come on, man!

Alright, dling it from elsewhere helped.

How does one add new textures?

Add new textures to a map?  First, go to edit, then map options.  Click "add resources..." and on the new window, click the "From Directory" tab.  Find the directory containing all of your textures.  Then click the "Load images in directory root as textures" box and click ok.  This should allow you to use images in the directory as textures in DoomBuilder2, but not in game.  Open the stage.wad file in slumped and import all of the images used as lumps.  They should appear in game now, too.

[TheBladeRoden]

How do I make ladders?

[TERRORsphere]

How do I make ladders?

It's actually quite simple the way CutmanMike's done it.

Simply double click on the line and just copy how he did it to create a legit MM8BDM ladder. Here's a screenshot:



I've circled the important bits.


I hope this gives you a good idea of how things work in Skulltag.

[Max]

Thanks Mr. X and DTD, few extra things.

I have a ramp of stairs leading to a platform... however, above each stair is a sort of box on the ceiling... it looks terrible and I don't know how to get rid of it.

And how to add music? I probably won't get it looped correctly but any music is better than silence.

[Mr. X]

Ok, I've got a question with the new update.  Can I safely delete the v1a PK3 without losing any data?  When I try to test in DoomBuilder, it tries to load both pk3s which increases loading times and makes it so I can't fire.

[CutmanMike]

v1b contains all the data of v1a so sure. You may need to point to v1b in the game configurations in DB2 though.

[Mr. X]

I've done that, it's just in testing parameters, although I only have skulltag.exe and megagame.wad listed, it tries to load all of the pk3s.  I'll just delete v1a then.

[NitroBro]

can anyone tell me how to add custom tilesets and use them?