TEKWALL4 base image

[Nootrac4571]

I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice that TEKWALL4 is based on scans of the Doom logo, but just for fun I had a go at reconstructing it:

 

 

It's not quite perfect: There's something going on in the far top right corner that I haven't quite worked out yet, but I though this might be useful for folks working on hi-res textures or the like.

 

Edited December 13, 2018 by Nootrac4571

[Nevander]

That's actually pretty badass. Love the blue tone it has now. We just need someone to touch it up in the shop and scale down to 128px.

[elend]

That is interesting and really cool. I am working on a Doom-styled Logo for a private forum of my friends and I. I could have needed this tile back then already.

[Teder]

Great work!

EDIT:

just for fun:

 

Edited December 13, 2018 by Teder

[Nootrac4571]

22 minutes ago, Teder said:

just for fun

 

Amazing. Is that Crazybump? 

[ImpieEyez95]

Do we know the origin of the texture (there's a thread on here regarding that) - seems to be from a PC card of some sort. Would be cool if we could track it down.

[Teder]

@Nootrac4571http://boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/index.php easy and fun as hell :)

[Nootrac4571]

26 minutes ago, ImpieEyez95 said:

Do we know the origin of the texture (there's a thread on here regarding that) - seems to be from a PC card of some sort. Would be cool if we could track it down.

 

I presume you mean these patches:

 

Popular wisdom has it that they're photos of a Gravis Ultrasound, but there's a million different versions of that card: Here are a few possible candidates, from roughly the right time period:

 

 

I've had a go at trying to spot the source material, but have had no luck so far.

[Gez]

43 minutes ago, ImpieEyez95 said:

Do we know the origin of the texture (there's a thread on here regarding that)

There is, unfortunately all the images in it are broken. :(

[kb1]

20 hours ago, Nootrac4571 said:

I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice that TEKWALL4 is based on scans of the Doom logo, but just for fun I had a go at reconstructing it:

 

 

It's not quite perfect: There's something going on in the far top right corner that I haven't quite worked out yet, but I though this might be useful for folks working on hi-res textures or the like.

 

Holy crap - another example of something I've seen thousands of times, and not put to together. Good eye! Adrian and Kevin were so resourceful - the way they managed to turn the same source materials into multiple game resources, without it being blatantly obvious just blows my mind.

 

We can use that to build new textures, and a new logo in the same style!

[elend]

I was actually thinking about making a vector version of the logo, but that's a looot of details. Will take me ages. :( I would love to see a huge and clean version of the logo, though.

[Nootrac4571]

10 hours ago, kb1 said:

We can use that to build new textures

 

Very quick attempt at a larger tiling texture based on the same source image:

 

(EDIT: .png version instead of .jpg)

 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Nootrac4571

[Fuzzball]

 

Iirc there is a photo in some of the unreleased pics horde of the actual card you guys are talking about..

Here they are!

Edited December 14, 2018 by Fuzzball

[kb1]

4 hours ago, Nootrac4571 said:

 

Very quick attempt at a larger tiling texture based on the same source image:

 

Hey, that's awesome! Can you post it in, say, PNG though, instead of JPG? JPGs, by their very nature, have imperfections due to the lossy compression they use. PNGs use a loseless compression, so the image is perfect. Thanks! That looks great! That can be used to create new Doom logos that look like Doom logos. Now, we just need to find the lower, orange part.

[Nootrac4571]

4 hours ago, kb1 said:

Can you post it in, say, PNG though, instead of JPG?

 

Done, edited post above

[Nootrac4571]

9 hours ago, Fuzzball said:

Iirc there is a photo in some of the unreleased pics horde of the actual card you guys are talking about..

Here they are!

 

 

Aha, looks very nearly spot on!

[Teder]

@Nootrac4571 badass work!

 

EDIT: a little recolored

 

Edited December 14, 2018 by Teder

[Walter confetti]

Since somebody asking for cropped and doom-palleted version of the OP texture:

(png format)

[crazyflyingdonut]

Holy shit, I did not know this! I feel like there are things I still do not know about Doom, even though I spend a lot of time desperately looking for secrets and trivia about Doom!

[XLightningStormL]

Whilst an excellent texture, it only tiles horizontally, not vertically.

[Nootrac4571]

22 hours ago, XLightningStormL said:

Whilst an excellent texture, it only tiles horizontally, not vertically.

 

Yeah, it's just the same rectangular sections placed in the same positions; the obvious seams are much more noticeable without the downscaling, recolouring and palletisation that Id did. This'll need some massaging to work as an actual texture. I've have a go at making it better when I next get a bit of free time.

 

@Teder: Holy crap, it's the Borg!

 

 

Edited December 16, 2018 by Nootrac4571

[kb1]

On 12/13/2018 at 7:41 PM, Fuzzball said:

Iirc there is a photo in some of the unreleased pics horde of the actual card you guys are talking about..

Here they are!

Nice find!

 

On 12/14/2018 at 5:01 AM, Nootrac4571 said:

 

Done, edited post above

Thanks!

 

On 12/14/2018 at 12:24 PM, Teder said:

@Nootrac4571 badass work!

EDIT: a little recolored

 

That is amazingly close. Was it easy to recolor, or did you have to hit each pixel? What did you use?

[Teder]

@kb1It's just match color function to original tekwall. Color it's not perfect but looks very interesting.

[elend]

I love threads like this! It‘s like CSI-Doomworld!

[Big Ol Billy]

Amazing work folks! There's something particularly mesmerizing about TEKWALL4.

[printz]

Why did some of you post those printed circuit boards? While some other tekwalls are indeed based on PCBs (which makes them look really dumb at that scale), this TEKWALL4 really looks to me like a huge machine (as it should be!), nothing like a PCB :|

 

By the way, it's total badass and totally deserving a mega spider mastermind showdown!

Edited December 20, 2018 by printz

[Robo_Cola]

Hey I know I'm bumping this thread but I wanted to thank you on my new desktop background.  I think it looks really good tiled like that!