Supported Data Formats

SLADE 3 supports the following data formats:

Archives

Note that embedded archives are supported, with no hard limit on nesting recursion.

• WAD
• PK3 -- because of wxWidgets' limitations, only a subset of the ZIP standard is supported at the moment
• PAK and WAD2 formats from Quake, as well as BSP format (only for embedded textures)
• Anachronox DAT files
• Dark Forces GOB and LFD files
• Build GRP files
• Blood RFF files (read only)
• Shadowcaster DAT files/CyClones HD/CD files
• Shadowcaster LIB files
• Amulets & Armor RES files (read only, MDAT.RES not supported as it is not in the same format)
• Descent HOG files

Maps

• Doom format
• Hexen format
• Doom 64 format
• UDMF

Graphics

If a format is specified to have full support, it means that it is possible to convert a picture into this format. Other formats are merely displayed.

• Doom picture format, including tall patches. (Full support)
• Doom flat and other raw data pictures of known dimension. (Full support)
• All Doom alpha and press release beta image formats: gnums, sneas, raw data and header, alpha and beta patches.
• PNG, including grAb and alPh chunks. (Full support)
• GIF.
• JPEG.
• BMP.
• TGA.
• PCX.
• TIFF.
• Shadowcaster/CyClones flats, textures, HUD graphics and sprites.
• Amulets & Armor MipImage textures and UI graphics.
• Quake HUD pictures (also used by Doom Legacy), textures and sprites.
• Quake II "wal" textures.
• Heretic II mipmapped images (.m8)
• Half-Life textures.
• Build engine art tiles (.art)
• Wolfenstein 3D textures, graphics and sprites.
• Rise of the Triad textures, graphics and sprites (except translucent textures).
• IMGZ.
• Planar graphics (used by Hexen for its startup screen, full support).

Fonts

Fonts are at the moment treated as graphics composited from all their characters.

• Doom alpha HUFONT
• ZDoom FON1 and FON2 fonts.
• BMF.
• Hardware fonts.
• Wolfenstein 3D fonts.
• Dark Forces fonts.

Textures

A Doom texture is composited from several patches which are typically in the standard picture format.

• TEXTUREx lumps, including the alpha and Strife variants.
• ZDoom TEXTURES definition lumps.

Audio

• MIDI and variants: MUS, HMI, HMP, XMI
• IT
• XM
• S3M
• MOD
• DMX PCM (Doom's native sound format)
• DMX PC speaker sound effects
• WAV
• OGG (Ogg Vorbis)
• FLAC
• VOC (Creative Voice File) format 0 and 4
• Blood sound effects (.sfx + .raw)
• SNES SPC (no playback)

Models

At the moment, model support is limited to identifying the formats.

Mesh models

• DMD
• MD2
• MD3

Voxel models

• VOX
• KVX