[Update] Final Doom Textures

Source: Final Doom
Count: ~ 200
Palette: Doom
Format: TEXTURES
Anims/Switches: Yes (ANIMDEFS)
Description: All of Final Doom's textures recompiled for Doom/Doom II usage. Some texture and patch names have been changed for compatibility or ease-of-use. All switches and animations have been redefined.

Conversion: MagicWazard
Author: id Software, Team TNT
Submitted: MagicWazard

Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0werde17jlforug/FinalDoomTextures.zip?dl=0


This update is designed to make all of Final Doom's textures play nicely in a Doom/Doom II environment. Everything has been converted to TEXTURES format, so only the new definitions are included. I've renamed textures and patches as necessary to avoid conflicts, as well as for TEXTURES compliance (more details below). All switches and animated sequences have also been redefined, so they no longer piggyback off of existing sequences. Additionally, I've split up TNT's multi-use animations into individual textures, so they're easier to use (no more counting offsets).

While I was cleaning things up, I also went and retouched a handful of patches from TNT that had issues (such as the visible edges of the "burning switch" texture, the color artifacts on the webs, and the row of black pixels on 2 of the cavern patches). I also wound up re-doing the "large skull" switch from Plutonia since the original was pixelated due to slightly crude resizing. In all cases, I've included the original patches for purists. (I originally started retouching a few more TNT patches [like DOBWIRE], but decided to give up on that since that's a project in and of itself.)

I had a couple odd issues with the move to TEXTURES. If anybody knowledgeable would like to chime in on whether these are "bugs" or expected behavior, see the spoiler below:

Regarding the issues:

• Putting quotation marks around the name of the texture definition seems to work as far as ZDoom is concerned, though GZDoom Builder doesn't appear to like it. It fails to find the texture.
• This is most likely related to namespace priority. The wiki mentions here that graphics placed in the patch namespace will be prioritized over other graphics in other namespaces, but only if the archive structure is used (PK3/ZIP). This doesn't work for the WAD format, as the PP_START/PP_END markers have no special meaning to the engine.

Well, in any event, renaming the offending items got them all working, and in a way that shouldn't cause any problems in one environment or another. So unless anybody finds any problems I missed, or has any particular objections to the way it's implemented, I believe it's ready to go.

MagicWazard wrote: So unless anybody finds any problems I missed, or has any particular objections to the way it's implemented, I believe it's ready to go.

My only gripe is the skull switch texture's blurriness.

Blue Shadow wrote: My only gripe is the skull switch texture's blurriness.

Well, considering it's a 33x33 sprite blown up to nearly double its original dimensions, it's either going to be pixelated or a bit blurry. I personally think the latter is an improvement (short of remaking it from scratch, which is outside the scope of what I'm doing). Either way, it's just a non-essential bonus inclusion, and the original versions are still provided for those who prefer them.

Have you thought about looking at the redone textures in Plutonia 2? The skull switch was among them.

Gez wrote: Have you thought about looking at the redone textures in Plutonia 2? The skull switch was among them.

Not specifically; the intention was just to more-gracefully port over the official textures, rather than bring in community content. Notwithstanding the handful of TNT patches I "fixed", the large skull switch is about as far as I wanted to go with doing any kinds of editing, since it was just rescaling an existing asset with a different sampling method. And, of course, the original version is still included.

I'm personally okay with this pack as it is.

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