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WIREFRAME DOOM

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After thinking of how cool wireframes are, I thought to myself: "Gee, I wonder how would Doom look if the textures were made to look like they're wireframes!" This is the result.

As you've probably noticed, there are 3 colors of wireframe. Green are the normal walls. Red are used on textures often used for interactable things (namely: switches, doors, elevators). Lastly, blue ones are used on "liquid" textures, as they often are set to damage the player, so don't be surprised when a floor melts you. =P

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Nine Inch Heels

  

Have to agree with a previous review: Both the flats and the textures don't align with a size 64 grid in a map editor. Unless you can align flats as is possible in for example in UDMF, this isn't a resource you'll have a good time creating maps with, and even if you're working in a format that can align flats, you're better off using a higher quality resource to begin with anyway.

 

Flats and textures are "off grid" because they're not a black square with a green frame around it, which is how it ideally should have been. A quick look around in SLADE shows that the coloured lines are 3px wide, so something had to give as a consequence. A perfectly centered black square inside a 2-3px wide frame would have done the trick just fine.

A neat idea that was put to use for example in valiant map 32, except valiant used a better resource that is more forthcoming towards mappers. If you want a resource for wireframe stuff, you're better off looking elsewhere, or cooking your own wireframe textures from a greyscale-base, and colouring them however you want to.

 

With all that said, this isn't entirely bad: It's fun to load up doom2 and giggle at how "weird" everything looks all of a sudden, but it's a short lived laughter due to a very limited colour selection, so the novelty aspect wears off fast, unfortunately.

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Misty

  

This is the great idea, but wireframes are 2px off(or even more) and they automatically don't align well from the start. Of course, if you use more advanced mapping format, this shouldn't be a problem, because you can align flats and walls accordingly and match them, but on more conservative formats this can be irritating. 

 

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5/5 I love this type of stuff. one time i did something similar with the blue tech and wolfenstein stone wall but it got kinda boring. but this wireframe idea worked out surprisingly well. wow. 5/5

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JPL

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Cool! Different color for the skies would be nice.

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It's an interesting idea, but needs to be developed further. Quite simply, it's boring to have exact same texture/color everywhere on every map. And skys could benefit from special treatment. I think an earlier mod did something similar but took it farther. Was called 8-bit deathmatch or something?

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xnv

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Whoa, this looks surprisingly good. I bet you can base a whole mapset on textures like this.

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Guest

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Hmm... I've seen most of this about 20 years ago, so it's not original at all. I do remind having played a level (don't know the name anymore, it's too long ago) build around this concept; after having played it for 10 minutes, you've just seen it, and won't play it again. Mostly because it is too monotonous. Besides that, avoiding very ugly texture misalignments dramatically limits a level builder to using a very large grid, so details are gone. 2/5 for raising the idea.

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cs99cjb

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Good concept, well executed

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Walter confetti

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that's a pretty interesting concept, very retro-stylish! Playing this with some chiptune and 8-bit sounds will be awesome!

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