ZDoom

"Low Detail Shader when?" I get frequently asked. Probably as a joke, who knows...

So - here it is.

Use "gl_lowdetail" cvar in console to turn it on and off.

It emulates the effect of pressing F5 in Vanilla Doom, except it's not resolution aware (it simply pixelates to 160x200) - didn't see any reason to do that, anyway.

You can relive the old vanilla days by typing... ... in the console. (Default F5 binding: "menu_display")

Memories best relived with the following cvars also set:

Wow, that screenshot is dreadful in exactly the way it's meant to be.

And with a low-end graphics computer, you can now also relive the days of owning the peasant-tier 286 while trying to run Doom on it! XD

Good stuff Rachael. That pixelated blob of mess looks ugly - and I mean that as a compliment. ;)

Rachael delivered, I can now die in peace

Thank you for making this add-on. It's fun to play some modern mods in GZDoom as if it was 1994 again.

I think this is pretty cool. BTW i've added a couple of new low detail modes to my engines (3x2 and 4x4) but they are not in the releases yet.

Now if only pushing F5 played the toggle sound! This is awesome

You can execute several commands in a key bind, and there is a play sound command... even tho I don't think that particular sound is defined in SNDINFO.

ZzZombo, I tried what you said and it works:

Rachael wrote:
"Low Detail Shader when?" I get frequently asked. Probably as a joke, who knows...

So - here it is.

Use "gl_lowdetail" cvar in console to turn it on and off.

It emulates the effect of pressing F5 in Vanilla Doom, except it's not resolution aware (it simply pixelates to 160x200) - didn't see any reason to do that, anyway.

You can relive the old vanilla days by typing...

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bind f5 "toggle gl_lowdetail"

... in the console. (Default F5 binding: "menu_display")

Memories best relived with the following cvars also set:

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vid_scalemode 2
gl_tonemap 5
gl_lightmode 8
gl_bandedswlight true
r_vanillatrans 1
gl_lights false

Sorry if i necro or not, but for me it's not working. I put the code into the Console in QZDOOM 2.1.0, but nothing happens at all. Please help me get it to run, i'm trying to make a true Jaguar Doom TC!

If it doesn't work then your card is probably not supporting shaders.

Definitely works in GZDoom 4.1.1 and QZDoom q2.2pre-2589-g231f967d8 for me.

Something is missing. Something... terrible.

Spoiler:

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Okay you have fun with that

PixelCrunch wrote:

Rachael wrote:
"Low Detail Shader when?" I get frequently asked. Probably as a joke, who knows...

So - here it is.

Use "gl_lowdetail" cvar in console to turn it on and off.

It emulates the effect of pressing F5 in Vanilla Doom, except it's not resolution aware (it simply pixelates to 160x200) - didn't see any reason to do that, anyway.

You can relive the old vanilla days by typing...

Code: Select all

bind f5 "toggle gl_lowdetail"

... in the console. (Default F5 binding: "menu_display")

Memories best relived with the following cvars also set:

Code: Select all

vid_scalemode 2
gl_tonemap 5
gl_lightmode 8
gl_bandedswlight true
r_vanillatrans 1
gl_lights false

Sorry if i necro or not, but for me it's not working. I put the code into the Console in QZDOOM 2.1.0, but nothing happens at all. Please help me get it to run, i'm trying to make a true Jaguar Doom TC!

I also use GZDOOM 3.7.1 (because my shitty graphics card does not support OpenGL 3.0+), but i'm not sure how i can make that work, as i've never tested it there.