The future of GD WAD Loader?

[HeadClot]

Hey @Chaosus - What is the future of GDWADLevelloader? I noticed that there has not been a commit in several months.

I am super interested in this being developed further. :)

If you need any advice on what to tackle next as well as some code to reference let me know.

[Chaosus]

Hi. There was computer problems on my side(my hard disk with projects was crashed), gladly I restored it(with motivation to continue), I still want to update this project. I take a look on this today..

[Chaosus]

If you want to help and contribute you can look at http://www.gamers.org/dhs/helpdocs/dmsp1666.html
This is the full WAD format description. You can took the ideas from it.

[jminor]

You may also find this wad2obj.py source code helpful. It can extract full 3D mesh and textures from a WAD. https://github.com/jminor/omgifol/blob/master/demo/wad2obj.py

[Chaosus]

Thanks ! I will take a look on it

[HeadClot]

Hey just thought I would chime in again.

There are a few projects that have working Doom Level Importers.

https://github.com/jbaicoianu/wadjs - WadJS is written in Javascript and Uses the Three.js library. Might be useful as a reference.

There is also Wad2Unity. https://bitbucket.org/freegodsoul/wad2unity This would be also useful as a reference. Written In C# though

[Chaosus]

Wad2Unity seems solid and I like C#, need time to research..

[Chaosus]

Damn, the wad2unity contains a lot of code for triangulation and other hard geometry stuff.. I doesnt sure if I could make it alone, need to take a pause. Anyway, the code is compiles and loading wad correctly.

[HeadClot]

@Chaosus - I know that Wad2Unity uses poly2Tri which can be found here. https://github.com/greenm01/poly2tri

[Chaosus]

@HeadClot Yeah, there is pretty much code inside, need time to rest and research

@HeadClot @Chaosus If you need additional code reference for working with Doom formats, the source code for GZDoom Builder Bugfix is C# and fairly well organized and easy to get hold of. You may consider looking at it as well.

[HeadClot]

Just came across two things which may be super helpful for importing doom levels in Godot.

https://github.com/jmickle66666666/DoomUnity - This is a partially working implementation from my understanding.

https://medium.com/@jmickle_/build-a-model-of-a-doom-level-7283addf009f - Written by the same person and talks about how they imported doom levels into Unity.

[Chaosus]

Ok, I take a look on this, soon..

[Chaosus]

Interesting that Godot have a method for triangulation called Geometry.triangulate_polygon that could be helpful and maybe no..

[vitoralmeidasilva]

Hey @Chaosus , based on this project I took a shoot on trying the same with Wolfestein 3D (mainly a map renderer using the original game data reverse engineered; currently it loads the geometry but I'm having some issues with the textures and compression).
When I finish it, I intend to help with this project.

[Chaosus]

Ok, thanks ^^