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DooMAD

October 15th, 2001, 07:05 AM

All you need is:

- A terrain generator,
- Skill for drawing in pixels,
- More patience than sense.

I've made 3 so far and am working on the 4th. Once you have rendered your terrain, you can import it into your favourite image editor, and resize it to 256x128.

The difficult bit is making it tile. That usually takes me about 30 minutes, but it's worth it. Then you import it into your wad.

ReX

October 15th, 2001, 07:25 AM

Hey, how about posting a link to your creations. I'm always looking for tall skies for use in my levels. (Of course you'll get the credit for the skies.) Also, shouldn't the skies be 256 wide instead of 128 wide(perhaps that's what you meant by 256*128)?

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DooMAD

October 15th, 2001, 09:08 AM

You can download them here (http://briefcase.yahoo.com/doomad2000).

ReX

October 15th, 2001, 11:21 AM

I got the skies, and they look cool. You should consider making skies that are 240 pixels tall, so that they can be used in ZDooM, Legacy, and other ports with mlook.

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Doom_Dude

October 17th, 2001, 07:01 AM

About the 240 pixel high sky textures, will they look weird in regular DooM?

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ReX

October 17th, 2001, 10:14 AM

Doom_Dude

October 17th, 2001, 06:13 PM

Kool.
I need to try that 240 high thinghy out.

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The Megawad (http://www.newdoom.com/hosted/themegawad/)
Deathcore & Vilecore Ver2.0 is coming!
Gimme a wicked weapon a mean assed monster in a kewl level and an engine that delivers.

mystic

October 18th, 2001, 08:48 PM

In one of the other (related) threads it was pointed out to me that the Legacy sky should actually be 255 pixels high, otherwise you get tuti-fruti effect at the bottom.

I will sort some of my better skies and post them for you Rex, I love making sky textures, they add a lot to the feel of a level.

Im not sure doom will run with the taller skies, Im sure I had problems with that in the past.

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also creator of ANDYDM1.WAD (my favourite)

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ReX

October 19th, 2001, 05:06 AM

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>sky should actually be 255 pixels high, otherwise you get tuti-fruti effect at the bottom.<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>Tutti-frutti effects apparently occur when a sky texture height is not a multiple of 128. Of course, in a typical level you won't be able to see a tall sky from top to bottom in the same view. You'll need to use mlook, at which point you will be able to detect the tutti-frutti at the bottom. But there are creative ways to avoid this problem.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>I will sort some of my better skies and post them for you Rex<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>Cool.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade>Im not sure doom will run with the taller skies, Im sure I had problems with that in the past.<hr width="100%" size="1" noshade></BLOCKQUOTE>Actually DooM runs fine with tall skies. In fact I tried it out just before my reply to DooM_Dude on this thread.

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