Doors

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Manual, remote and locked doors.

Note

Door textures come in two sizes: 64 and 128. When making your doorway, opt for a passage width to match.

Building a door

Use this method to make a basic door. It can be used as a base for a manual or a remote door.

  • Join two sectors together with a passage

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  • Increase the grid detail as needed by pressing 3-5

  • Enter vertices edit mode (v)

  • Add vertices for the door inside the passage

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  • Enter Linedef edit mode (l) and select the front/rear sides of the door

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  • The door raises into the ceiling, set the front upper Sidedef texture to the ICKDOOR1 texture.

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  • Enter sector edit mode (s) and select the door sector

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  • Lower the ceiling all the way to the floor so that the door is closed. Use the Ceiling +- buttons or the [] keys.

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Manual Doors

Manual doors open when the player performs the USE action on the door.

  • Enter Linedef edit mode (l)

  • Select both Linedefs of the door

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  • Choose the Type of the Linedefs as 1 DR Open Door

To make the door open on a fixed track (the sides stay still while opening and closing):

  • Select the track Linedefs

  • Check the upper unpeg and lower unpeg options

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Note

The door line specials indicates that the sector facing the back of the Linedef is a door, this special does not need a tag either.

The DR special can be opened repeatedly, while D1 can only be opened once.

Locked Doors

Doors that require a blue, yellow or red key to open are created similarly to manual doors. When choosing the door Linedef type, pick one of the specials that target the keys:

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Remote Doors

Remote doors are opened through a switch.

  • Enter Vertice edit mode (v)

  • Use the LMB to insert vertices along the wall, make the Linedef 64 units long

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  • Enter Linedef edit mode (l), select the new Linedef

  • Choose the SW1GRAY switch texture

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  • Choose the Linedef Type as 63 SR Door Open

  • Move the mouse cursor over the grid to ensure focus is not stolen by the Line Specials panel

  • Press ; then f to apply a fresh tag to the Linedef

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  • Enter sector edit mode (s), select the door sector

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  • Press ; then l to apply the last tag to the door sector

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  • Eureka highlights both the sector and the Linedef that share the same tag. This shows us the two are linked:

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Note

The SR line special indicates a switch that can be toggled repeatedly, while S1 is a switch that can only be toggled once.

Downloads

doors.wad