Legend-9 compatible & tested modern Doomsday engine file

Mod installation instruction (will be also demonstrated on video)

1. Unzip the archive.

2. Create a folder anywhere on your computer, and place the Hexen.wad in that
folder. For the sake of this example, we will create the folder as follows:
Doomsday 2.3.1/data/games

3. Go to the extracted Doomsday engine folder. Inside it - there will be a folder
called "bin". Open that folder. Scroll down through the files until you see
"Doomsday.exe". Double click on it. This will launch the Doomsday engine.

4. The engine will ask you about the location of the data files. Browse and point
the engine to he directory where you put Hexen.wad. In our example that was:
Doomsday 2.3.1/data/games

5. At this point the engine should recognize the main wad automatically and launch
a game select window, from where you can now start playing Hexen with a single
click of the "play" button.

6. In order to play mods, - in our case Legend-9 demo; place the Legend-9 demo
files in the same directory as Hexen.wad. Legend-9 demo consists of TWO files:
L9_DEMO_XM.WAD and L9_DEMO XM.DED. Place both in the directory mentioned above.
Refresh files list in the engine window. The engine will automatically recognize
the files as mods.

7. Click to add the mods from the list, by clicking the "+" button. First the
"WAD", then the "DED" files respectively. Click OK. Click "play". That's it!
Configure the engine's video/audio/renderer/controls - and begin your adventure.

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Troubleshooting:

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- it can sometimes happen that Doomsday engine fails to recognize your Hexen.wad.
If that happens - the fact that you bought your game in the store and have the box,
CD/floppy disks and manual standing proudly on your shelf - will not help. Use the
internet to find an alternative Hexen.wad by any means necessary. Repeat until you
find the file that Doomsday recognizes. That shouldn't be too hard.

- if the engine crashes for whatever reason and suddenly fails to recognize your
Hexen.wad (or Doom.wad, Heretic.wad - whatever), - while it DID recognize it
earlier; navigate to the "Dent Team" folder - (usually found at
users/your_username/AppData/Local/Deng Team).

Open until you get: Deng Team/Doomsday Engine/runtime/configs. Delete the
"game.dei" file and restart Doomsday. Things should work fine. Alternatively, if
the graphics card has caused the crash - delete the "renderer.dei" file. Or the
"persist.pack" file in the "runtime" folder. Or all three of the above if nothing
helps.

- Hexen is a 4:3 aspect game. Playing it in a widescreen aspect ratio, such as 16:9
will cause squishing distortion of the in-game graphics, most noticeably - sprites.
To match the aspect ratio and maintain aesthetic proportions for the images - all
graphics would need to be redrawn in a correct aspect. (fat chance of that
happening) Or resized using intelligent enough AI, - which would either way be out
out of Hexen's league. So there is no way around it. To avoid the ugly squishies -
choose the highest 4:3 resolution, which is 1280x960 - and set the
weapons/menus/guis/finales to "STRETCHED" in the "video" Doomsday engine menu
section in-game. (these setting will only show in-game). I know, it sounds
counter-intuitive, since the are options named "SMART" and "ORIGNIAL", - but they
in fact are anything but. They generate the squish effect. So choose "STRETCHED" to
get the properly aspected graphics without distortion.

- Modern Doomsday engine defines mouse look as separate mouse functions for "look
up/down" and "turn left/right". It does not seem to have the traditional mouselook
checkbox. Yes, weird, i know - but this is how you set up the mouselook in the
game.

- to get the classic look: set the renderer to "custom" and disable all forms of
texture filtering. Enable "sharp edges" Leave the lights/halos effects on.

Enjoy the mod!