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Game Hunter:
To be honest, I'm not sure of the best place to put this, but it will hopefully receive appropriate attention here.

I've been working on a series of tutorial pages on the wiki for people wanting to mod but aren't really sure how to get started. It's a work-in-progress and only a few tutorials have been created so far, but there should be more than enough to begin creating your own work. At the moment, I'm looking both for suggestions on what kinds of tutorials should be written for this series and anything that's hard to understand in the tutorials already added. This isn't explicitly a how-to thread, but I'm fine with people straight-up asking things that they don't know how to do: either I or one of the other, more experienced, modders will give you an answer at some point. Eventually a FAQ will be added to the tutorial series and will address the more common misunderstandings sent here.

If you have the time and are interested in modding, please take a look at what's already there and reply. Feedback is practically mandatory if these tutorials are to be any good. (If you want to see the current documentation that is often referenced in these tutorials, use this link instead.)

Game Hunter:
I'm just bumping this thread so people remember that these exist.

There are a few other tutorials since I wrote the original post. In addition, please note that the tutorials are not currently updated for version 0.9.9.5, so there's a good chance that there is some misinformation in them. If you find any problems with the tutorials regarding this sort of problem, feel free to reply and let me know. I will try to get them updated within a week or so.

Additionally, what was said in the OP still applies: if you have any questions regarding the tutorial series or modding problems/questions in general, this is probably the best place to start collecting them.

Tormuse:
Hi, I've been looking over the modding tutorials because I'm thinking of doing some modding.  I'm still very much a newbie at it, but I have a bit of experience in programming from a high school course I took years ago, so I think, with some practice, I could create some interesting designs.  :)

These tutorials have been helpful in getting me started, but I think, right now, I would get a lot of benefit from taking an existing Doom level and just playing around with it to figure out how to do stuff and also figure out what I *can* do.  I tried downloading the Hell's Arena and Infinite Arena maps cited in the tutorial, but both of them crash when I tried running them.  :(  I suspect it has to do with the fact that I'm running them in version 0.9.9.6 and they're designed for 0.9.9.4, because when I copied them over to that version, they worked fine.  So, now, I'm wondering how much of these tutorials I can trust to be up to date.  I know that at least *some* of it works, because when I copy/pasted the design for the basic map, it worked fine for 0.9.9.6.

So, I guess my question is what's the next step for me in learning how to make mods for 0.9.9.6?

Uranium:

--- Quote from: Tormuse on April 08, 2012, 02:33 ---...but both of them crash when I tried running them.  :(

--- End quote ---

What's the message you get when they crash? I've been crashing with them too, and I don't know why.

shark20061:
The irc channel would be a great place to get answers to modding questions.

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