Nice Bulletchips (Hardware only)

[DenisBelmondo]

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a very flattering screenshot

a less-than-flattering screenshot

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Here is a simple bulletchip replacement patch. There are some textures in Doom that have bullet holes, chips, and blemishes baked into them. I cut them out, formatted them to work well as GZDoom decals, and that's about it. These work great in the hardware renderer, but not great in the software renderer due to how it handles the alpha channels in .png files. Blood decals featured in screenshot is from Nash's own decal pack.

[Nash]

Nice work! I had indeed thought to do bullet decals this way (with embedded alpha) but wasn't sure if they'd look good and, well, I just didn't bother to try it. :)

Heck, I may actually use these instead of my own, in my autoload!

[DenisBelmondo]

Thanks Nash! I had a 0.5x res version of this decal pack that worked nicely with the software renderer. I essentially separated the highlights from the darker components in separate graphics that were overlayed to create the same effect. Since there was no reliance on the individual graphics' alpha channels, the software renderer didn't choke on them.

I didn't take that approach here because the actual composited decal graphics are more complicated. Maybe something for me to consider for a v2? Nevertheless, I'm glad that you found some use for these!

[Nash]

Separating them into 2 separate decals would increase the decals counter much quicker (decals disappear faster). So there's a downside to that.

(I've already experimented with that idea for... some other thing...)