Features

The SLADE map editor has a variety of features, including support for a range of formats and port-specific features, and many tools to help speed up and simplify map editing.

• Support for Doom, Hexen and UDMF format maps
• 'Split' game configuration system - just select a game and a port, no long list of 'ZDoom + Doom 2', 'ZDoom + Doom 1' etc. configs
• Syncs up with the resource editor - changed a texture? it'll update in the map editor
• Nice looking, smoothly animated 2d map editor view
  • Textured sectors
  • Filled sector hilight/selection (optional)
  • Multiple thing view styles
• Advanced line drawing
  • Can draw lines overlapping or splitting other lines
  • On finishing line draw, sectors are automatically built, no need to play around with sector references
• Shape drawing
  • Same advantages as line drawing, allows for faster drawing of simple shapes, eg. draw a rectangle with 2 clicks instead of 5
  • Currently supports square/rectangle and circle/ellipse shapes, with more simple shapes to come in future versions
• 'Object Edit' tool - similar to DB2's 'edit' mode
  • Move and scale by dragging the edit box from the middle or edges
  • Rotate by holding ctrl and dragging the edit box corners
  • A bar will show at the bottom of the window allowing manual entry of offset/scale/rotation values
• 3d editing mode
  • No need to build nodes
  • Allows unlimited view distance (not recommended on old hardware and/or very complex maps)
  • A reasonably accurate preview of what the map will look like in-game with correct Doom aspect ratio, simulated depth fading and shaded orthogonal walls
  • Walls, flats and things can be selected and deselected, allows editing multiple at once
  • Shift+click to 'flood-select' similar adjacent walls or flats
• Support for advanced port features
  • ZDoom UDMF enhancements
    • Sector colouring preview in 2d/3d modes
    • Flat scaling, offsets and rotation preview in 2d/3d modes
  • ZDoom DECORATE thing definitions support
• Categorised texture and thing type browsers
• Script editor - with syntax highlighting and autocompletion (ACS only for now)