Doom Editing Guide

John Carmack is a really great guy. He's been supportive of hacking and opensource from the start seems like. I suspect that iD's support for modification of its games is in big part his initiative.

I think I had a printed copy of this in a binder. I had messed around with map making from Wolf3D to Quake, but Doom was a great balance between simple yet powerful tools, and complex map design. My favorite map I made has a room surrounded by a lava moat and when you got to the middle of the room, triggers would simultaneously close the doors in and out, and then open several elevated panels that hid a bunch of imps.

"In no way should this promote you killing yourself, killing others, or killing in any other fashion."

You don't see this disclaimer too often

New tools make things too easy. http://slade.mancubus.net/index.php?page=screenies http://forum.zdoom.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32392

Ah, good old dehacked! Man, that brings me back...

http://www.aspectsweb.co.uk/dehacked/index.html

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