how do you make custom textures?

[iEatYourSandwiches]

Im completly and utterly new to everything. I want to make a doom wad with custom item and enemy textures but have no idea how. can anyone help me? 

[Borg]

Enemies and such I can't help you with. For wall and floor textures this video by Doomkid is very helpful.

 

[Dark Pulse]

On 12/26/2021 at 4:03 AM, Sulphu87 said:

Im completly and utterly new to everything. I want to make a doom wad with custom item and enemy textures but have no idea how. can anyone help me? 

Depends. Are you trying to make a vanilla-compatible WAD, or something more tuned for, say, GZDoom?

 

The former will require you to do stuff like converting your texture to the Doom palette, creating a texture patch, adding it to PNAMES, etc.

 

The latter is a lot more straightforward (basically just add your texture as a PNG to the WAD) and reference it straight.

[iEatYourSandwiches]

14 hours ago, Dark Pulse said:

Depends. Are you trying to make a vanilla-compatible WAD, or something more tuned for, say, GZDoom?

 

The former will require you to do stuff like converting your texture to the Doom palette, creating a texture patch, adding it to PNAMES, etc.

 

The latter is a lot more straightforward (basically just add your texture as a PNG to the WAD) and reference it straight.

yeah im making something for gzdoom, so i just add my textures as a png to the wad?

[iEatYourSandwiches]

38 minutes ago, Borg said:

Enemies and such I can't help you with. For wall and floor textures this video by Doomkid is very helpful.

 

well i WILL be needing to make a few wall textures as well so thank you for your help

[Chipper35]

That is an excellent video. However: are you familiar with OTEX??

[iEatYourSandwiches]

30 minutes ago, Chipper35 said:

That is an excellent video. However: are you familiar with OTEX??

whats that?

 

[Chipper35]

A fantastic texture pack. 

[Chipper35]

If you are truly a noob…….. you need to spend about 700 hours learning to map first…….honestly. You can thank me later. 

[iEatYourSandwiches]

17 minutes ago, Chipper35 said:

If you are truly a noob…….. you need to spend about 700 hours learning to map first…….honestly. You can thank me later. 

alrighty. i appreciate all of your guy's help

[Dark Pulse]

3 hours ago, Sulphu87 said:

well i WILL be needing to make a few wall textures as well so thank you for your help

To be fair, this video is for how to add textures in a vanilla-compatible way. (Hence why it's going through the trouble of converting it to the Doom palette and adding entries to PNAMES, etc.)

 

If you're not aiming for vanilla compatibility, then pretty much all you need to do is add the PNG file to your WAD, use your WAD as a resource in whatever you're using to map with (Ultimate Doom Builder, SLADE, etc.) and then just tell it what texture to throw on a given wall.

 

Enemies/Items are a different beast entirely. If you're just replacing graphics, you will need to have those properly converted to the Doom sprite palette and sprite format, and name them specific names, but they will keep the same behavior as the old ones.

 

If you're talking about creating new enemies or such, that's a much more advanced topic, requiring the use of DeHackEd (or its windows equivalents, i.e; WhackEd) for the vanilla game, or something like DECORATE/ZScript coding for GZDoom.

 

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by Dark Pulse

[iEatYourSandwiches]

thank you all this info will be useful

[Ludi]

Aesthetically, I just fart around with stuff from old texture CDs from eBay and distort it in paint.net. Works pretty well usually, actually.

[smeghammer]

On 12/28/2021 at 1:43 AM, Sulphu87 said:

whats that?

 

This:

https://doom.ukiro.com/otex-downloads/

 

More textures than you can shake a big stick at...