Good program for making sprites/textures?

[OpenRift]

Been meaning to ask this question for a while as I wanted to give this a whirl at some point. Preferably looking a program that allows you to adhere to a 256 color palette and view with non-square pixels. Looking for something that runs in either Windows or DOS.

Edited November 13, 2020 by OpenRift

[Noiser]

For DOS there is Deluxe Paint 2, which have an option for square\non-square pixels IIRC. Paint XP have everything I need for pixel art tho and I made most of my D4V\D4T sprites on it, but there are probably better options out there like Graphicsgale. If you want that gritty Doom texture look it may be better to try something more sophisticated as well (like GIMP, Paint.NET or Photoshop).

You can also use Slade to see how your sprites will look with non-squared pixels. 

Edited November 14, 2020 by Noiser

[SilverMiner]

Wally, the texture editor (Windows)

[OpenRift]

36 minutes ago, SilverMiner said:

Wally, the texture editor (Windows)

What format should I use for Doom sprites in Wally?

[LexiMax]

I've used GIMP for many many years and always seem to go back to it.  It feels enough like a modern paint program to feel comfortable in and have modern features like layers, while at the same time not being so modern that it pretends like you have two heads if you want to work with a palliated image.  I made a GIMP palette for Doom many years ago that should still work.

 

There's also GrafX2 if you want a Deluxe Paint lookalike, though the interface feels like something out of the 90's.

 

I don't think either one gives you a non-square-pixels preview, but at least with GIMP you can just scale the image with Nearest and then hit Undo to keep working.

Edited November 13, 2020 by AlexMax

[SilverMiner]

13 hours ago, OpenRift said:

What format should I use for Doom sprites in Wally?

PNG 8bit or BMP