Ann innovative and powerful map editor for Doom and other games that utilize the Doom engine, including Heretic, Hexen, and Strife. This editor offers extensive customization options for various game engines within the Doom community. It revolutionized the Doom community by introducing the 3D editing mode and continues to be the dominant editor for creating Doom levels.
Doom Builder is an excellent map editor for Doom, Heretic and Hexen. Basically, it is a map editor for all games that use the same engine. The editor also supports the newest ports for these games, such as Skulltag and ZDoom. Although Doom itself is many years old, it is surprising that people still play it with the new, community-made, online capabilities. Therefore, there is still a Doom community dedicated to create custom content for it. This is where Doom Builder comes in.
Unlike many other map editors, this is the most complete in every way. You can filter objects and sections of the map to be identified more quickly, making the process of map creation even quicker. Map making is very straightforward even for people with little experience. The best feature of the editor is the 3D. You can immediately launch a 3D view of the map (even though the game's maps are, in a way, 2D), so you can test how it will look inside the game. The client is stable and it doesn't generate problems with any system. If you are one of those still playing doom and want to create something new, there is no other choice than Doom Builder.
v2.1 [Aug 20, 2010]
Update Eternity Game Configuration (thanks esselfortium)
Added source for Tag Range plugin
Updated ZDBSP nodebuilder to latest version (1.17)
Fixed a problem that allowed endless recursion when instructed by DECORATE goto statements.
Reverted ZDBSP nodebuilder to latest stable version (1.13)
Fixed crash when sectors with lots of sidedefs are created or loaded
Added separate compiler for Hexen (with correct includes).
Added separate Script Configuration so that only the available function and constants are shown in the editor.
ZDoom USDF can now be edited as plain text in the script editor.
Exposed GetLumpData and SetLumpData for plugins to read/write map lumps
Added the ability for plugins to add menu items in existing menus
Added 'conversation' UDMF field to Things in ZDoom configurations
Added the ability for plugins to choose the toolbar section in which to add a button
Added beginning of ZDoom USDF conversation editor plugin
Changed .NET Framework for Comments Panel plugin to version 3.5 (no clue why it was at 2.0)
Added some functionality for plugins that want to render in other editing modes
Exposed more DECORATE information to plugins and Things now have an Actor property (ActorStructure) when they are loaded from DECORATE
Added two new type handlers that can be used in UDMF ('Thing Type' and 'Thing Class')
Polished the browse icons and browse buttons.
Added more events for plugins to intercept.
Removed Hexen compiler and using the ZDoom ACC compiler to compile for Hexen
Removed Eternity UDMF game configuration, because Eternity still doesn't have UDMF support
Added support for 'goto' actor state keyword in DECORATE.
Great platform for gamers who want to have access to all their favorite Electronic Arts games in one place
