Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 412

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doom-editing-digest      Monday, 18 September 1995     Volume 01 : Number 412 

Re: new technique for transparent doors 

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From: Robert Fenske Jr <fenske@rgfpc.electro.swri.edu> 
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 07:59:53 -0500 (CDT) 
Subject: Re: new technique for transparent doors 

        WARM can achieve the same functionality as DMAPEDIT's node builder 
if you use the -n=!u option (yes, I know it's totally unclear from the help/ 
docs). 

        As for the NEWDOOR.WAD itself, doors #1 and #3 look like the standard 
transparent doors to me.  The reason door #1 (closest to player start) 
doesn't work is that the door track linedefs are # higher than the door 
linedefs.  Door #3 correctly has the door track linedefs numbered less 
than the door linedefs.  The main problem with door #3 is that the door 
bars extend into the ceiling when the door is raised.  However, this effect 
can be removed by making the height of the door track sector one less than 
the height of the sectors outside the door.  This can't be immediately done 
with door #3 since the door track sector is the same as the outside sector. 

        I never considered viewing a transparent door from below, but the 
HOM-like effect is the same as when the door is raised.  The key thing is 
that DooM tries to draw the ceiling of the 1/1 sector when the ceiling is 
above the player's viewpoint.  Frankly, I don't yet understand why the 
particular nodes that DMAPEDIT or WARM (with -n=!u) remove the effect.  I 
think perhaps it has something do to with that DooM thinks the 1/1 sector 
of the far door side is obscured by the door track sector and so doesn't 
ever bother drawing the ceiling, but I don't really know. 

Robert Fenske, Jr.   rfenske@swri.edu   Sw     | The Taming the C*sm*s series: 
Electromagnetics Division              /R---\  | 
Southwest Research Institute          | I    | | "The Martian canals were the 
San Antonio, Texas USA                 \----/  |  Martians' last ditch effort." 

 

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