ZokumBSP
Author
(c) 2016-2017 Kim Roar Foldøy Hauge, (c) 1994-2004 Marc Rousseau
Description
ZokumBSP is an advanced node/blockmap builder for Doom / Doom 2. Based on ZenNode 1.2.0 and available from GitHub.
This is a work in progress and is a very experimental node builder.
Proeject goals
A node / blockmap / reject builder that allows for larger maps that are compatible with the classic Doom dos executables and with the Chocolate Doom project.
Compability
It can produce compressed blockmaps that are compatible with the original Id Software blockmaps that should ensure 100% demo playback compability. It can also produce blockmaps that are compatible with ZenNode 1.2.0 and BSP blockmaps, but with a possibly smaller size.
The Blockmap in the original 'vanilla' Doom dos executables have an upper limit of about 65 kilobyte. Bigger blockmaps would lead to the game crashing, putting an upper limit on the complexity and size of the maps one can create.
By using better algorithms, some tricks and the added option of brute force testing up to 65k different blockmap offsets one can generate blockmaps that are significantly smaller than what was possible with ZenNode, BSP or Id's original node builder.
Use the -bi+ switch to build blockmaps that can replace the original blockmaps. The quality of compability has been tested mostly with multiple compet-n demos of multilevel recordings. Primarily 30nm2039.lmp, 30ns6155.lmp and 30famax2.lmp
Project web page
http://www.doom2.net/zokum/zokumbsp/
Usage
ZokumBSP Version: 1.0.x branch (c) 2016-2015 Kim Roar Foldøy Hauge
Based on: ZenNode Version 1.2.1 (c) 1994-2004 Marc Rousseau
Usage: zokumbsp {-options} filename[.wad] [level{+level}] {-o|x output[.wad]}
See the documentation file zokumbsp.txt for more information.