Editing utility

DEU was the first fully-featured Doom level editor that appeared in 1994 as Doom's file formats were reverse engineered, and spawned a number of derivatives and imitators.

An editing utility, often called an editor, is a program that allows a user to create or modify portions of the games using or based on the Doom engine, id Tech 4, or id Tech 6.

Doom is recognized as one of the earliest games to explicitly support the modification of the game for the extension of gameplay, through the use of arbitrary WAD files (PWADs). With all the technical information now known about the Doom games, Heretic and Hexen, it is possible to modify nearly anything and everything within the Doom environment. Some of the utilities that enable this are listed below.

Contents

Level editorsEdit

Main article: Level editor

Node buildersEdit

Main article: Node builder

Reject map buildersEdit

DOSEdit

• Reject
• RMB
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)

WindowsEdit

• VigilantBSP
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)
• ZenNode

MacintoshEdit

• ZenNode

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• VigilantBSP
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)
• ZenNode

OS/2Edit

• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)

WAD editorsEdit

DOSEdit

• DeuSF
• DeuTex
• DM ADD Something (DMADDS)
• Doom Construction Kit (DCK)
• DOOM Audio Editor (DMAUD)
• DOOM Graphic Editor (DMGRAPH)
• DOOM Music Editor (DMMUSIC)
• ENDOOMER
• Inkworks
• New WAD Tool (NWT)
• RHEU
• TED
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)

WindowsEdit

• DeePsea
• DeuTex
• eXtendable WAD Editor (XWE)
• RHEU
• Simple Doom Editor
• SLADE (version 3 and above)
• SLumpEd
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)
• WinTex

MacintoshEdit

• Deimos
• Hellmaker
• SLADE (version 3 and above)
• Wad Builder
• WWKSuite

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• DeuSF
• DeuTex
• Simple Doom Editor
• SLADE (version 3 and above)
• WAD Auxiliary Resource Manipulator (WARM)
• WadGadget
• XWadEd
• XWadTools

WAD convertorsEdit

DOSEdit

• DM2Conv
• RHEU

WindowsEdit

• RHEU
• Wad2PDF
• WadSmoosh

MacintoshEdit

• WADenizer
• WadSmoosh

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• WadSmoosh

Binary editorsEdit

DOSEdit

• D2 Hacker
• DeHackEd
• Heretic Hack Editor
• Hexen Hack Editor
• SeHackEd

WindowsEdit

• DECOHack
• WhackEd

MacintoshEdit

• DECOHack
• DeMackEd
• DOOMinator

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• DECOHack

Scripting utilitiesEdit

DOSEdit

• ACC
• DEACC
• Descript
• Hexen BEHAVIOR De-compiler

WindowsEdit

• ACC
• WadScript

MacintoshEdit

• WadScript

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• ACC
• WadScript

OS/2Edit

• DEACCOS2

LMP editorsEdit

DOSEdit

• LMPC

WindowsEdit

• LMPC
• DeCorEd
• DecEdit
• Simple Doom Editor

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• LMPC
• Simple Doom Editor

Random level generatorsEdit

WindowsEdit

• ObHack
• OBLIGE
• OBSIDIAN
• SLIGE
• SLUMP

MacintoshEdit

• OBSIDIAN

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• ObHack
• OBLIGE
• OBSIDIAN
• SLIGE
• SLUMP

Cross platformEdit

• A WAD of Dungeon Mazes

Miscellaneous editorsEdit

DOSEdit

• Doom Consistency Checker (DCC)
• DMPSMU
• dshrink
• ENDOOMER
• Inkworks
• listacs
• RanDOOM
• swantbls
• TED
• ushrink
• WAD Concatenater (WADCAT)
• zwadconv

WindowsEdit

• DCCW
• WadPtr

Unix/Unix-likeEdit

• DMPSMU
• WadPtr
• XWadTools

Doom 3 utilitiesEdit

• DarkRadiant
• Doom 3 Radiant (a.k.a. DOOM Radiant or DOOMEdit)
• GtkRadiant
• NetRadiant

Doom (2016) utilitiesEdit

• SnapHak
• SnapMap

See alsoEdit

• Category:Editors
• Timeline of utility releases

ReferencesEdit

• Doomworld Editors & Utilities page

External linksEdit

• MacFury.com (archived 🏛), Doom utilities for the Macintosh