SLADE

SLADE is a modern, open-source, cross-platform map editor (and, since version 3, also a WAD editor) for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux created and maintained by Simon Judd (with code contributions by Gez to version 3).

History

• SLADE 1 stopped at version 1.13, released on 23 May 2006.
• SLADE 2 reached beta on 7 June 2007, but was abandoned afterwards.
• SLADE 3 is currently in development. It is a merging of SLADE and SLumpEd.
• SLADE 3.1 was released on 20 June 2014, after over 3 years of development.
• SLADE 3.1.1 was released on 28 February 2016.

Features

SLADE 3

• All SLumpEd features and more
• Lump manipulation in WADs and ZIP (STORE and DEFLATE only at the moment)
• Ability to open archives-within-archives
• Ability to open many other game archive formats (Duke Nukem 3D GRP files, Blood RFF files, Shadowcaster DAT and LIB files, Quake PAK files, etc.)
• Playback for many audio formats, including:
  • MUS, MIDI, HMI, HMP, XMI, played through FluidSynth
  • Doom's sound format (only extant utility able of handling correctly the padding bytes)
  • Doom's PC speaker sound effects
  • Several simple PCM formats used in games contemporary to Doom (Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3D, etc.)
  • Most streamed formats through SFML
  • Most common module formats through libmodplug
• Support for many graphic picture formats, including:
  • All those from the Doom Alphas and Beta
  • All ZDoom-specific formats (IMGZ, FON1, FON2)
  • The planar format used by the Hexen startup screen
  • PNG including the grAb and alPh chunks, and many other standard formats (BMP, JPG, PCX, TGA, etc.)
  • The formats used by Shadowcaster, Quake, Heretic II, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad, and more
• Palette generation and modification
• COLORMAP generation from palette
• Support for editing TEXTUREx lumps, including the Alpha and Strife variants
• Full support for ZDoom's TEXTURES
• Support for editing the Boom lumps SWITCHES and ANIMATED, including the SMMU and ZDoom additions
• Text editing of any lump
• Hex viewing of any lump
• A console
• Support for Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, Strife, Doom 64, Chex Quest/3, and Urban Brawl games
• Support for Boom, Eternity and ZDoom source port advanced features
• DECORATE parser
• Support for embedding a custom configuration in an archive as a "SLADECFG" lump
• Colour configurations
• 3D editing mode (including translucent textures)
• Easy line and shape drawing
• Saving map preview images suitable for Category:Map views

Map editing is not finished yet, but UDMF and Doom64 EX are supported in addition to the Doom and Hexen map formats.

Older versions

SLADE 1.13 or 2.00-beta have the following features:

• Support for Doom, Doom II, Heretic and Hexen games
• Support for Boom and ZDoom source port advanced features
• DECORATE parser
• Colour configurations
• 3D editing mode (including slopes and translucent textures)
• Easy line and rectangle drawing

See also

• SLumpEd

External links

• SLADE homepage
• SLADE Wiki
• Git repository, hosted by GitHub
• Compiled development builds for Windows at DRD Team