by MrDowntempo » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:20 am
So, pardon the newbie question, and I wasn't really sure where to post this question. But here goes:
Although I've played doom off and on since near its initial released, I've really started getting back into playing doom again over the last few years when I started watching Doom Mod Madness. And this is what got me into using gzdoom. Now gzdoom comes with some resouce pk3 files: brightmaps lights zd_extra and gzdoom. While I've sorta figured out what they are, I'm not ever sure if and when I should be loading them. I get that zd_extra has copyright infringing assets, but... since I own the original doom game, should I add it whenever I play? Same with brightmaps and lights? I get that they have something to do with modern light effects on old textures, but ... do I need to load them myself when I play the original maps? What about when playing a wad that uses the original textures? What about playing an original map, or a wad with original textures but I also add a HD texture wad, do I still ever need to add those wads to my load order? And is gzdoom.pk3 something that I ever need to mess with? I've never found a clear full explaination of when I need to bother with those pk3 files and how.
Thanks for the help!
So, pardon the newbie question, and I wasn't really sure where to post this question. But here goes:
Although I've played doom off and on since near its initial released, I've really started getting back into playing doom again over the last few years when I started watching Doom Mod Madness. And this is what got me into using gzdoom. Now gzdoom comes with some resouce pk3 files: brightmaps lights zd_extra and gzdoom. While I've sorta figured out what they are, I'm not ever sure if and when I should be loading them. I get that zd_extra has copyright infringing assets, but... since I own the original doom game, should I add it whenever I play? Same with brightmaps and lights? I get that they have something to do with modern light effects on old textures, but ... do I need to load them myself when I play the original maps? What about when playing a wad that uses the original textures? What about playing an original map, or a wad with original textures but I also add a HD texture wad, do I still ever need to add those wads to my load order? And is gzdoom.pk3 something that I ever need to mess with? I've never found a clear full explaination of when I need to bother with those pk3 files and how.
Thanks for the help!