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how do i make my own mod? - Doom Editing - Doomworld

💾 ►►► DOWNLOAD FILE 🔥🔥🔥 Celebrating the anniversary of a game well into its double figures is often a retrospective; looking back at a long-gone relic that has influenced gaming in one way or another. Apart from its gratifying gunplay, the reason the original Doom has survived this long is the modding community, which has been twiddling with the Doom source code ever since it was made publicly available in In the install directory, each of the original Doom games has a WAD file - an archive file containing vital game data like monsters, sounds, levels and textures - which is required for the mods to work. These are source ports of the original Doom engine, helping the game run seamlessly on modern computers. Not only that, such source ports take advantage of modern gaming hardware and software to add things like dynamic lighting, full 3D mapping, mouse-look, widescreen resolutions, and all manner of technological bells and whistles. The granddaddy of Doom as well as Heretic and Hexen open-source ports, ZDoom originally came out in , and remained continually updated until It took on many of the technical improvements of the Boom open-source port, adding a slew of new gameplay possibilities to Doom like jumping, swimming, mouse-look and crouching. Development of GZDoom began in , and it has now replaced ZDoom as the go-to open-source port for serious modders. If you want to see what a fully modernised Doom looks like, you can do so with GZDoom, which features dynamic lighting, full 3D maps, reflective surfaces, and various filtering options to smooth out animations and textures. The vast majority of Doom mods are compatible with GZDoom. Beyond that, there are plenty of smaller source ports to play with. Zandronum opens in new tab is focused on multiplayer replacing the now-defunct Skulltags with support for up to 64 players and new game modes like Invasion, Capture the Flag and even a work-in-progress Battle Royale mode. First, download the latest version of GZDoom opens in new tab , then extract it to a folder of your choice. These files contain all the important game data for their respective game. Note that if you actually move the WAD file rather than copy it, the vanilla game will stop working, which may or may not matter to you. Once the WAD files are in the GZDoom folder or folder for whichever source port you chose to use , you no longer need the base game and can uninstall it if you wish. You can now jump straight in and play any of the original Doom games in their fully modernised glory. There are countless settings you can play around with here, from adding fall damage to tweaking the UI and messing around with monster behaviour. So where do you start looking? Head over to Doomworld. This will open GZDoom, at which point you select which base Doom game you want to run it with. Many of these larger mods have their own options that you can customise from within the game too. Download the latest version of ZDL opens in new tab , and unzip it into a folder of your choice. Next, click the main tab in ZDL. Select GZDoom or another source port in that dropdown list. Another thing worth considering is Doom Launcher opens in new tab , an elegant frontend that lets you quickly browse and play all your downloaded Doom WADs without having to drag-and-drop things around Windows each time. Happy modding! He writes in print and digital publishing, specialising in video games. Tech Radar. TechRadar Game-changing stories. North America. Robert Zak opens in new tab. See more how-to articles.