zdbsp(1)

🦋 zdbsp — the GL nodes builder, bestie edition ✨

okay so first things first: this is the manual page for zdbsp, section 1 of the General Commands Manual. It's a GL Nodes builder for DOOM engines, and honestly? iconic. 👑

🌸 NAME 🌸

zdbsp — GL Nodes builder for DOOM engines 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

zdbsp [options] input.wad ... [-o output.wad]

zdbsp @argfile.rsp

like, you give it some WADs, you give it some options, and if you want, you tell it where to drop the output. or you can hand it a response file with an @ in front and let it read the args from there. so organized of it 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So. ZDBSP is a nodes builder that was specifically designed to be used with OpenGL-based DOOM game engines. Not just any nodes builder — it's the one that plays nice with GL.

It adheres to the "GL-Friendly Nodes" specification, which means it adds some new special nodes to a WAD file. Why do we care? Because those nodes make it very easy for an OpenGL DOOM engine to compute the polygons it needs for drawing the levels. it's giving "I did the math so your GPU doesn't have to" 😭💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --help — Displays a summary of all ZDBSP's command line options, as if you had run ZDBSP without any options. yes bestie, it's the "just tell me what you can do" button 🙈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Copyright (C) 2002-2016 Marisa Heit

Copyright (C) 2006-2017 Christoph Oelckers

📜 LICENSE 📜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

(yeah, the "is is" is really in there. we keep the lore intact 🫡)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The ZDBSP Homepage: https://github.com/rheit/zdbsp

that's the whole page, no cap. this one's from February 2018, and it lives at zdbsp(1) in the General Commands Manual. go build some nodes, main character 💅✨🦋