WinTex 4.0 Copyright (c) 1995 Olivier Montanuy montanuy@dmi.ens.fr READ THE HELP FILE FIRST With WinTex, you get a very complete WAD browser and editor, probably one of the best and most reliable DOOM, DOOM2, and HERETIC tool to date. It can view and edit almost anything, including editing textures, sprites, sounds, floors, musics, reject data, and can work in combination with your favourite level editor. ------------------------------ WinTex is a low budget Shareware: only 10$. But you have no obligation to register WinTex 4.0. It's all your choice. If you think this program is cool, you want to help it become even better, and if you want that future version remain low budget :) then register! You need only register once for all future versions of WinTex 4.x -------------------------------- WinTex 4.x supports DOOM, DOOM2, Ulitmate DOOM and HERETIC. HEXEN will be supported when released officially. QUAKE will also be supported (if needed) -------------------------------- Legal Stuff: WinTex comes with no warranty whatsoever. I will not accept any liability. Use at your own risk. I did my best to make the code very reliable, but since I use a Borland C++ compiler and Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0, I can hardly pretend I have control on *all* the possible bugs. WinTex can be freely distributed on INTERNET, PRODIGY, COMPUSERVE, AOL. WinTex can be freely distributed on CD-ROMs, but then you'd better ask me for a special (improved) registered version, addapted for CD-ROM. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WINTEX BE PUT ON THE MICROSOFT NETWORK. DISTRIBUTION OF WINTEX ON MSN IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED, AND IT IS MY ABSOLUTE RIGHT AS AUTHOR OF THIS PROGRAM TO ASSERT AND LEGALLY ENFORCE THAT RESTRICTION. -------------------------------- Detailed features of WinTex - 100% graphic user interface, no command lines. - Multiple WAD editing, with cut and paste between WADs (try this with DOS based tools, for a laugh) - Full featured LEVEL browser, with a real intuitive BSP NODE viewer and a graphic REJECT MAP editor (first of it's kind). - Fully automatic TEXTURE editing (Never mind what a PNAMES and TEXTURE1/TEXTURE2 mean, you need not know!) - Fully automatic entry insertion. WinTex places the entries where they shall be, and it isn't an easy task. Never mind! - Edit entries on a double click! WinTex will call your favourite tool (once configured) and hide while you edit. Stop editing, and WinTex comes back. (Not OLE yet, just simulating. OLE is for later). - Automatic generation of INSTALL batch, for your WADs that replace sprites or flats, or that need a DeHacked patch. - All you need to introduce custom SPRITES and FLOORS, directly accessible for the screen. No command line to learn. - Invokes your favourite level editor, your favourite nodebuilder or reject builder. - Reversible WAD editing (You can always discard your last modifications) - and of course, the usual feature of WAD editors... You know of a tool that does *any* of the above? You're kidding :) Kiss goodbye to DeuTex, WinTex 3.41, NWT, WT, DMAUD, DMGRAPH, Wadmaster, DMMUS, DMMIDI, DMADDS, DMAUDWIN and all the similar stuff. -------------------------------- Installation of WinTex: See the help file for details Put WINTEX.EXE, LBWINTEX.DLL, WINTEX.HLP, DEUSF.EXE and all the other files in a special WinTex directory (on a HD, not on a CD). Get VBRUN300.DLL if you don't have it. It's not distributed here because it's a bit too big and many people already have it. Put VBRUN300.DLL in your system directory. Click on WINTEX.EXE and that's it. -------------------------------- If you intend to use WinTex for a serious project, consider uploading the following tools, to be used in combination with WinTex: TED12.ZIP TED End screen editor RMB21.ZIP RMB reject map builder WARM14.ZIP Warm reject, node, blockmap builder WINDEU24.ZIP WinDEU windows level editor, good bsp builder DCK24.ZIP DCK 2.4 cool level editor EDMAP??.ZIP EdMap fast level editor WMUSPL.ARJ WinMus mus player for windows (beta) Of course you can use other editors like DeeP, WadAuth, EgoEd, DoomEd, but I'm not so certain of their ability to deal with external textures and flats WAD, something that WinTex requires. Note: Do not use DEU 5.21 (it's bugged), use DEU 5.3 when available. ------------------------------------ Troubles with WinTex: - Sometimes the library LBWINTEX.DLL will not disapear from memory. It's a bug in the handling of DLLs by Visual Basic. No known way to fix this. - The color change when WinTex is in background. It's another bug related to Visual Basic: it refuses my color palettes. The only way to fix this is to kill VB. Wait for the next version, sorry. - DeeP.exe can't run properly with WinTex. I don't know why. Probably a problem Window or Borland. Use the .bat file, and trust luck. (I'm trying to fix this, helped by the author of DeeP). - If Microsoft knew how to write Tools and Operating Systems, you wouldn't need to read that section. If you run WinTex under Win95, keep praying. ------------------------------------ Technical Note: WinTex is more than 12,000 lines of C and around 3,000 lines of Visual Basic (hard to estimate). Most of the code is moving from VB to C, for greater speed and enhanced reliability. All the serious job is done in C, Visual Basic only handles the interface. Visual Basic will be removed from the future versions because it's too limited and cause trouble.