DOOM Special Effects


This is the ASCII version of the DOOM sfx pages.


                                   Contents

  1. Beginners Guide (begin.txt)
     If this is the first time you have encountered the WAD special effects, I
     suggest you read the beginners guide. Please note that the beginners guide
     doesn't cover EXE hacking.

  2. Neat Design (neat.txt)
     This is not really special effects. Only some neat design tricks
       1.  Door on top of lift
          This is also known as "Hallways that pass without holes in the floor"
       2.  Descending Stairs
       3.  Switches and Textures

  3. SKY effects (sky.txt)
     There are a lot of things to accomplish with the F_SKY texture.
       1.  SKY Door
       2.  SKY Windows
       3.  SKY at Floor
       4.  SKY Everywhere
       5.  Low Buildings in Courtyard
       6.  Non-repeating F_SKY

  4. Special Effects (special.txt)
     This is the "real" special effects. Here you need to make sectors that
     aren't closed and other "illegal" stuff to be able to achieve the desired
     effects.
       1.  The Deep Water effect
       2.  Invisible Stairs
       3.  Invisible Lift
       4.  Non-convex Invisible Areas
       5.  The Transparent Door effect
       6.  The Solid Window effect

  5. DeHackEd Grabbag of Special Effects (grabbag.txt)
     If you're interested in EXE hacking, here you will find a description of
     some of the special effects developed so far. As I know nothing about EXE
     hacking myself, Lee Gaiteri (a.k.a. Lummox JR) has written this page. DHE
     can be found at ftp.luth.se or from ftp.cdrom.com (look in the "patches"
     directory for DHE patches).
       1. NEWS FROM THE FRONT
       2. Basic patches
       3. Fun with fireballs
       4. Bullets and blood
       5. Teleporter effects
       6. Morphing!
       7. Bad guy be mean go BOOM!
       8. Really spooky stuff
       9. The easy way
      10. The hard way
      11. The dream arsenal
      12. Wishes come true
      13. Why can't I...
      14. Code pointers revisited
      15. What I can't tell you
    Also associated with the DeHackEd grabbag:
      codepnt.txt
	  A table of currenly known code pointers and
	  their effect.

If you want to find out how to make special effects with monster behaviour
without changing the DOOM exe, I suggest you read the RMB manual. If you know
of any special effects that you think should be in these pages, please contact
me. If you have written your own page about special effects, or some other DOOM
editing related subject, please write me a note with the URL, so I can check it
out (and add a link to it from my pages).

I suggest you also read the "files.txt", where each file has a short 
description.

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