Hi-Res ness

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Fri Aug 22, 2003 11:04 pm

i was reading back a few pages and i came across this:

http://switch.to/doom2textures/

OH MY GOD THOSE ROCK!

any chance of seeing these in a wad format to use in ZDoom any time soon?

actually... if someone will show me how to do it (step by step) ill compile it myself

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 1:19 am

Bio Hazard wrote:i was reading back a few pages and i came across this:

http://switch.to/doom2textures/

OH MY GOD THOSE ROCK!

any chance of seeing these in a wad format to use in ZDoom any time soon?

actually... if someone will show me how to do it (step by step) ill compile it myself

They should work in ZDoomGL. THe software renderer will most likely never support them because they are True Color and cannot be displayed properly in a paletted environment.

Besides, they look ok on their own but when used in the game it totally takes away that classic 'Doom feeling'. (In other words, I don't like them!)

Post by **Bio Hazard** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 1:55 am

even if it does take away from the doomy feel its still really cool...

bimshwel · Post by **bimshwel** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:40 am

Maybe they'd look good with high resolution monsters. But those would probably end up being little more than a stretch-and-blur job (which apparently some of the uglier textures on that site are). That just looks dumb, and takes up a frup of a lot more disk space.

HotWax · Post by **HotWax** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 3:07 pm

Evil Mittens wrote:Maybe they'd look good with high resolution monsters. But those would probably end up being little more than a stretch-and-blur job (which apparently some of the uglier textures on that site are). That just looks dumb, and takes up a frup of a lot more disk space.

Every last texture on that site was made starting with a clean slate and drawing a hi-res texture based on the old one. They didn't use the old one to start with, they didn't stretch it, blur it, or anything else that would require using it, as that would be illegal.

Personally, I think they look just fine. The only thing that bothers me is that they're not uniform (which is bound to happen when several people contribute to a project) and sometimes don't look as good together as the old textures did.

I'm sure all of you could do better.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:00 pm

HotWax wrote: I'm sure all of you could do better.

Nobody can do better than the real deal.

Everything else ist just a replacement no matter how good it is.

wildweasel · Post by **wildweasel** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 2:36 pm

I've seen quite a few stretch+filter textures on those pages.

IntergalacticWalrus · Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:38 am

Anybody noticed how the replacement "blood/slime dripping" textures really, really suck? Why did they accepted this? It's a few vertical brush strokes in Photoshop for god's sake. A blind, brain-damaged monkey armed with Microsoft Paint could do better.

Plus they state that all textures must be remade from scratch, yet some of them are very, VERY OBVIOUSLY resampled/filtered, like the Icon of Sin, the teleport squares, the green marble demon faces and some skull/goatface wall decorations.

Tormentor667 · Post by **Tormentor667** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 12:46 pm

@Intergalactiv - Your avatar is "Zombie" from "Monster in my Pocket", am I right?!

IntergalacticWalrus · Post by **IntergalacticWalrus** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:09 pm

Tormentor667 wrote:@Intergalactiv - Your avatar is "Zombie" from "Monster in my Pocket", am I right?!

Yes. There's my left thumb here too by the way.

zarcyb · Post by **zarcyb** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 6:20 pm

Some of the textures are really nice, others... are horrible. But I think it's still a work in progress.

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