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An all-in-one Wolfenstein 3D editor. · By adambiser

How to Edit Nitemare 3D Maps With WDC Sticky

A topic by adambiser created Nov 03, 2016 Views: 1,028 Replies: 7
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Developer (1 edit)

It was never intended for WDC to ever edit games other than Wolfenstein 3D and games that use its engine. Nitemare 3D map editing was patched into the editor, but the process isn't very user-friendly (I admit it myself).

Since WDC can only edit Wolfenstein 3D's GAMEMAPS style map files, you much first create a Wolfenstein 3D-based project. Then go to Import/Export -> Import Map, select "Nitemare 3D MAP Files" in the file type drop down, find the Nitemare 3D MAP file you want to edit (MAP.1, MAP.2, or MAP.3), and hit OK.

Now go back to File -> Project Information and click the "..." button on the "Map Data File" line. Select the Nitemare3D-MAPS*.wmc file that matches the MAP file you just imported, ie: Nitemare3D-MAPS1.wmc for MAP.1. It's very important that you do not change any of the map symbols for these file types because the symbol names contain data in them that also gets translated into the MAP file.

Make your changes to the maps. When you're done, go to Map Tools -> Export Multiple Maps and click the right arrow to move your maps from the left to the right side (MAP.1 has 11 maps, MAP.2 and .3 have 10). This still will be easier if you remove all of the non-Nitemare 3D maps from inside the editor. Click OK, set your file name and save. Be sure to use the same file name as your imported!

Play the game and try our your new levels!

I believe the Nitemare 3D can allow for any number of maps, but I'm not sure.

Hey I’m trying to use wdc for creating nightmare 3D maps but I can’t get the to play through ecwolf could you explain to me some of the steps first what file format is it supposed to be saved in

Developer

Would you elaborate on "can't get them to play through ecwolf"?  Can you get the original game files to play with ecwolf?  After editing, have you exported your changes back to the nitemare 3d maps as mentioned in the first post?

I’m not sure what map format to save them in and can’t figure out how to open nightmare resources with a wolfenstein map. I just made a wolfenstein map how do I load nightmare 3d resources?

Developer

Are you familiar with WDC?  Have you used it before?

Sadly, it's not very flexible, so editing NM3D maps takes a good deal of work to get working.

I am new to wdc I can create a wolfenstein map but can’t get the objects and floors textures from nightmare 3d. How do you get wolfenstein maps to run with nightmare 3d

Developer

Well, you'd have to do quite a bit of editing to get Wolf3D maps to work with Nitemare 3D.  The wall and object codes are different.

I will post some editing guides on your other topic, but I don't know of any guides that are specific to Nitemare 3D map editing.

I got wdc working pretty well I was just confused on how to get the nightmare 3d objects and walls on a wolfenstein map I’ve made a few and am still confused how to import stuff from nightmare or catacombs?