SLADE3 – modern editor for Doom-engine based games

SLADE3 is a modern editor for Doom-engine based games and source ports. It has the ability to view, modify, and write many different game-specific formats, and even convert between some of them, or from/to other generic formats such as PNG.

SLADE3 can be considered a successor to both SLumpEd and SLADE – it combines the features of both, to create an all-in-one editor. Why does it keep the name of what was previously just a map editor? Because it fits 🙂

As with SLumpEd and previous versions of SLADE, SLADE3 is fully cross-platform. It can be run on various operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Mac OS/X. So no matter your preferred OS, SLADE3 is available for you.

Features include:

• General:
  • An archive manager with multiple functions.
  • A console.
  • Ability to open archives embedded into other archives, with no limit on the amount of recursion.
  • Ability to “bookmark” entries in order to retrieve them faster in large archives.
  • Filter list of entries by type and/or name, including wildcards.
• Archives:
  • Creating new entries.
  • Importing files as entries.
  • Copy/Cut/Paste entries, including between different archive types.
  • Mass renaming of entries.
  • Modifying entry order (moving them “up” and “down”).
  • Reverting changes made to entries.
• Maps:
  • Map Preview in the resource editor.
  • A fully featured map editor, including the following major features:
    • Doom, Hexen and UDMF map format support.
    • Easy to use line and shape drawing, including automatic sector generation.
    • 3d editing mode with support for various advanced source port features.
    • ‘Object Edit’ function to freely rotate, move and scale map architecture.
• Graphics:
  • Display, including zooming and panning.
  • Viewing paletted images with a variety of palettes.
  • Color tinting and palette remapping.
  • Changing offsets (including automatic addition of offsets) in formats that support them.
  • Converting between image formats.
  • Converting a color to transparency.
  • Basic editing features, such as mirroring and 90° rotations.
  • Extraction and conversion to PNG of all subimages in an image collection (e.g., Build tiles).
  • Call to external PNG optimization tools.
• Fonts:
  • Viewing as graphics.
• Textures:
  • Display of textures, including zooming and panning.
  • Viewing paletted texture patches with a variety of palettes.
  • PNAMES listing, information and edition.
  • Edition of individual textures to change size and scale; to add, replace, or remove patches, and to modify their order and their offsets.
  • Support for Doom, Doom Alpha, Strife and ZDoom texture definitions.
• Audio:
  • Playback of MUS, MIDI, XMI, HMI, and HMP files.
  • Playback of many audio file formats.
• Text:
  • Find/replace.
  • Syntax highlighting.
  • Auto indent.
  • Brace matching.
• Miscellaneous:
  • Preview of generic lumps as hex dump.
  • Creation and edition of ANIMATED and SWITCHES lumps.
  • Generation of ANIMDEFS lump from ANIMATED and SWITCHES lumps.
  • Basic palette editing and palette range generation.
  • ACS compilation (with external ACC program).
  • PNG optimization (with external PNGOUT, PNGCrush and DeflOpt programs).

Website: github.com/sirjuddington/SLADE
Support:
Developer: Simon Judd
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

SLADE3 is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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