DoomView Special Edition v3.25 - Doomworld /idgames database frontend

Title:	DoomView Special Edition v3.25
Filename:	utils/graphics_edit/dview325.zip
Size:	25.26 KB
Date:	03/19/95
Author:	Russell Wronski
Description:	DoomView SE is a program that will let you take any Doom, Doom II, and Heretic WAD or PWAD view any of the graphics and export them to BMP.
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Bugs:	NONE! Never! NO! NO! NO! NO!
Rating:	(2 votes)

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Anonymous

Ahhh, I remember Dmview in my early days to view the artwork when I couldn't run DOOM!

View dview325.txt

Mr. Skibone
                       (known on his BBS as DJ SKI)
             (known to the outside world as Russell Wronski)
               (known on the Internet as skibone@ripco.com)
                                 presents

DoomView Special Edition v3.25

March 19th, 1994

*****************
** New Stuff!! **
*****************

- Heretic support!

- DoomView doesn't have to be in the same directory as your WAD
  Tell it where to look!
  for example:  DVIEW C:\WHEE\THIS\IS\FUN\ID\GAMES\HERETIC\HERETIC1.WAD
  (Not important to me but people asked for it.)

- 'Export All' command now tells you exactly how many files will be exported
  and how many bytes it will take

- Delete that COLOR.PAL file.  It's now incorporated into the EXE.  Wow!

- Ultra-exotic slightly colorized menus (Thanks to Todd Farrington)

*****************
** Greetings!! **
*****************

I love writing doc files about as much as I like documenting my own code,
so this little doc file ain't pretty but I'm putting in some little tidbits
of information that may be useful.

The program itself it pretty self-explanatory, so I'm not going to take up
five hundred pages writing long-winded explanations of the subtle uses of
the up and down arrow keys.

But here is a thing or two you may find interesting:

*************************
** Running the program **
*************************

DoomView SE is a program that will let you take any Doom, Doom II, and
Heretic WAD or PWAD view any of the graphics and export them to BMP.  Just
type

DVIEW <wadfilename>

where <wadfilename> is the name of the WAD you'd like to view.  Got that?
Really confusing, right?  Well, to make this doc file real
professional-like, here's an example:

DVIEW SKIBONE.WAD

That will allow you to view all of the graphics in SKIBONE.WAD

If you don't include a WAD filename, it will look in the current directory
for an id WAD in this order:
Doom 1 registered	DOOM.WAD
Doom 1 shareware	DOOM1.WAD
Doom II			DOOM2.WAD
Heretic registered	HERETIC.WAD
Heretic shareware	HERETIC1.WAD

If it doesn't find any of those, back to DOS you go.

This program should work on any current version of Doom, Doom II and
Heretic, even the SGI and NeXT WADs.  (Let's change the SGI and NeXT
support to a maybe - I haven't tried those lately.)

(I had assumed that it would even work on the Doom 1 betas, but a DoomView
fan informed me that it would not.  He even took the time to find out the
differences between the way the graphics are stored in the beta and the
releases and asked me to include support for this in DoomView.  If I hadn't
erased my copies of the beta...ummm, I mean, since I >NEVER< had a copy of
any of the betas :-) , I didn't include support for them and it seems late
to do it now.  That, plus Romero and company are the last people in the
world that I would want to piss off!)

The program assumes you are trying to view a Doom WAD file.  If you try to
be cute and use this on a spreadsheet or something else, well.....it's your
hard drive.  Nothing will be damaged but a reboot will probably be in order.

If you use this on a PWAD that doesn't have any graphics, the program will
gracefully boot you out without a wimper (or an explanation).

This archive should include:
DVIEW.EXE    - The main executable
FILE_ID.DIZ  - For lazy sysops
DOOMVIEW.DOC - This fascinating piece of literature
DOOMINFO.REV - Revision History of DoomView (A horrible glimpse into the
               mind of a DOOMented DJ)

*******************
** Program Start **
*******************

When the program starts, it searches through the WAD file looking for any
picture files.  The more entries the WAD file has, the more DoomView has to
look through.  So be patient with a Doom II WAD file.  It's got a few
thousand entries to look through.  It will also access your hard drive like
mad because it looks at a little piece of every entry.
The program kindly informs you:
Looking for pictures.
This may take a minute...
But unless you are using this on the registered Doom WAD on a 386sx (or
slower - hey!, it is 8086 code - use it on your XT!), it should find all
the pictures in only a few seconds.

***************************
** [ ] - Change Palettes **
***************************

Mr Owl!  How many palettes does it take to view all of id and Ravens
creations??  1...2...3...Crunch...3!
The first palette is the Doom/Doom II palette.  The second is the Heretic
palette and the third is the palette for the picture E2END in Heretic
registered.  For some reason, this picture has its very own palette.  If
you just type DVIEW and it automatically finds an id or Raven WAD, it will
automatically load the correct palette (except, of course, for the E2END
picture).  Make sense?  Probably not, but you'll figure it out.

**************************
** T - Toggle 5x3 tiles **
**************************

What can I say?  It was easy.  It looks cool.  Nuff said.

****************************
** Export current picture **
****************************

"Oooo, a cute little bunny rabbit.  I'd like to snatch this picture and use
it with my cornball screen saver!"

No problem.  While viewing a picture, hitting X (for Xport? ;) ), will
export the current picture to a BMP file.

****************
** Export All **
****************

The F8 key will start "Export All".  It will first make sure you actually
want to do this - hit "Y" to continue, and then it will start.  During
exporting, hit any key to cancel this gigantic task.

The program will first tell you how many pictures it will export and how
much space they will take up.  On a full Doom (1 or 2) WAD, DoomView will
give you a number that is one or two files off.  That's because the wall
pictures SW18_7 and COMP03_8 were included in id's WAD twice.  (I guess
they were too busy destroying OS/2 support to check check for for
redundancies.) 
  
The Export All command will go through EVERY picture in the WAD file and
export it to BMP.  That may be fairly harmless on a PWAD, but that's 2289
pictures on Doom II, and (if I remember correctly) 1597 pictures on
registered Doom v1.1 or 1567 on registered Doom v1.2 (the status bar was
changed from multiple pictures to one and a few other changes I can't
recall at the moment).  When the exporting is done, it will return you to
the first picture.  It will take about 3 minutes on a 486/66 and will
amount to about 14 megabytes of BMP files on your hard drive.  Now you're
probably thinking - "14+ megabytes just for the pictures?  That's almost as
big as the DOOM2.WAD itself!  Why so big?" Well, the DOOM2.WAD only needs
the palette data once.  The palette is included in every BMP exported.
That plus some additional BMP info accounts for 1078 bytes per file.  1078
bytes times 1600 files equals over 1.6 of basically redundant data.  But
don't blame me - you're the one who hit the F8 key!  :)

Why the F8 key, you ask??  I just wanted to make something you probably
wouldn't hit by accident.  Even though it still asks you if you want to
proceed, I wanted to add that extra layer of protection.  Actually, it's
three layers of protection, since you can cancel the "Export All" at any
time while it's running.

*******************
** id Trickery?? **
*******************

When the program was almost done, I decided to go for the "Export All" on
the Doom II WAD.  It cruised along for awhile, then crashed.  Crashing is
frowned upon.  It crashed every time while trying to export the Arch-Vile
pictures.  A quick look at the WAD file showed picture names like VILEG1,
VILEH1, VILEI1, etc.  After they got to Z (LOTS of Arch-Vile frames), they
continued on their ASCII way to use the characters [, \, and ].  This is a
DOS filename no-no.  So for those few pictures, I have replaced the [, \,
and ] with 1, 2, and 3, respectively.  So no more crashing when you're
filling your hard drive up with 2300 Doom II pictures.  Was this a harmless
instance of blindly following ASCII conventions??  Or was it an evil id
plot to throw a monkey wrench into the works of Doom utility programs?!?!
Enquiring minds want to know!  ;)

******************
** Registration **
******************

This program is ANNOY-THEM-WARE.  If you like it, send some e-mail to the
gurus at id telling them to fix the sound code in their products so they
work with OS/2 (like they used to - see Greets and Grunts for ideas on what
to tell them).
Send e-mail to the following people:
johnc@idsoftware.com	(John Carmack)
johnr@idsoftware.com	(John Romero)
ddt@idsoftware.com	(Dave Taylor)
jayw@idsoftware.com	(Jay Wilbur)

When you're done with that, drop a line to
skibone@ripco.com
and lavish me with praise.  Mail me an Internet tip (I'm an
InterKnucklehead.) Mail me some wild and wooly FTP site information.  Mail
me a recommendation for BBS software.  Or tell me my program is as
worthless as a Microsoft operating system.
HEY!  Even better - get up close and personal.  Feed Ma Bell's pockets and
call Bitstream of the Eschaton - where a line is always open and a slow
system means I'm playing Doom (so don't bug me!  ;)  )
Assembly source code (barely documented) is available to anyone who asks
nicely for it.

***********************************
** Strange features (minor bugs) **
***********************************

Nope - all v2.5 demons were exorcized?...exorcised?...exercised??....ummm,
I got rid of all the bugs!

******************
** Program bugs **
******************

NONE!  Never!  NO! NO! NO! NO!
But if this program crashes (chokes on your WAD??), give the Bitstream a
call and tell me what happened and the WAD file you were viewing at the
time.  Go ahead and upload the offending WAD if I don't have it already.
HA!  The Bitstream of the Eschaton has eeeeeeeeevery Doom WAD file and
add-on!  Silly me!
Or send me e-mail cursing me out in five different languages to:

skibone@ripco.com

Yah-hey!  Da info'mayshun supadupahighway!

***********************
** Greets and Grunts **
***********************

id Software (Greet): Thank you for completely overrunning my BBS and taking
up over a year of my life (and counting.) I'm sure I'll still be playing
Doom II PWADs by the time Quake rolls into town.  Now if only you'd let me
borrow one of dem Ferraris.....

id Software (Grunt): So what is the inside story?  Did Lou Gerstner call
your mother a nasty name??  Did you offer to help IBM port Doom to OS/2 and
they said "We don't need your help!" so you thought, welllll, we'll fix
their wagons!!

In other words, Why has SoundBlaster sound effect support for OS/2 still
not been put back in Doom (and Doom II and Heretic)???  It was there.  I've
got it.  I hear it.  I still play v1.1

According to a brief e-mail from Jay Wilbur, you guys "...updated the sound
driver to make it work better with DOS (the platform it was made for) which
made it incompatible with OS/2..." (not exact quote but close) Now I know
you guys are busy with Quake, so I wouldn't want to distract you
unnecessarily, so I'll even give you step by step instructions.

1) Take current code for Doom
2) Get sound driver used in Doom v1.1
3) Replace current sound driver with Doom v1.1 sound driver
4) Compile
5) Run RTPatch
6) Distribute
7) Repeat for Doom II and Heretic.
8) Get more money from people like myself who haven't purchased all your
   products because of lack of support.
9) Buy more Ferraris!

And don't give me the "Doom/2" line.  I could care less about Doom in
Presentation Manager.  I want it in a DOS session, on my PC running OS/2,
with full sound.  Is that a lot to ask for??

GT Interactive (Grunt): Still waiting for my refund!!

****************************************************************
** Copyright / Permissions/ Goofy Political Commentary / Etc. **
****************************************************************

You may distribute this utility in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette,
CD, cassette, 8-track, mini disc, DAT, DEM, DE OTHA ONE, ISDN, T1,
satellite, Internet, Internot, Interknot, Internut, etc) as long as you
include the following files with NO modifications:

DVIEW.EXE    - The main executable
FILE_ID.DIZ  - For lazy sysops
DOOMVIEW.DOC - This fascinating piece of literature
DOOMINFO.REV - Revision History of DoomView (A horrible glimpse into the
               mind of a DOOMented DJ)

id, Doom, Doom II, Heretic and other things are trademarks and copyrights
and other legal mumbo-jumbo of those guys with 1000hp Ferraris.

IBM is big and blue (like the sky, but IBM is bigger).  If your system can
run Doom, you should be running OS/2.  (Unless you have some sort of
demented fetish for GPF's!)

Microsoft is going down!!  BAHAHAHA!!!  Judge Sporkin is gonna carve you up
like a turkey!!

*****************
** Coming Soon **
*****************

A little Bird (of the Charles variety) whispered an idea into my mailbox
where it worked its way into my brain and is growing - The Doom Screen
Saver (for DOS, of course!).  DoomView is neat but fairly lifeless.  We
need something entertaining.  Flying toasters is for your mom.  We need
something on your screen that says "Careful 'round these parts.  I've got a
double-barreled and I ain't afraid to use it." Supposedly one existed long
ago, but it never worked for me.  This is still in idea stage.  If it never
is produced, edit this part of the document out and wait for other promises
that will never ship - like Windows 95 and DEU 5.3  ;-)

******************
** And then.... **
******************

Yikes, this little doc file got big.  Well, most people stopped reading
about 140 lines ago, but if you've got that kind of extra-strength
attention span then do the 100-meter mosey on down to....

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