Looking for visually interesting vanilla wads

[Nacho_y]

Hi. I'm searching wads with interesting visuals so I can get an idea on how to make a good looking one. It has to be with vanilla textures if possible.

 

I remember seeing one that I really liked in a stream, maybe if I can get a screenshot I'll share it so somebody can point me out the name.

[out_of_service]

Base Ganymede is certainly worth looking at!

[retrogamer97]

Hellbound 

[Quill]

Can't talk about good use of vanilla textures without mentioning Going Down.

[Noiser]

Mutabor is one of the most impressive vanilla-compatible maps I ever saw. 1000 Lines 3, Doom 2 in Spain Only and the Egg Boy's crew mapsets are also recent examples (most of them use custom textures though). 

 

Doom 64 for Doom 2 have some very impressive architecture in it, despite being a "remake". It also use vanilla textures.

 

48 minutes ago, retrogamer97 said:

Hellbound 

16 minutes ago, dotQLL said:

Can't talk about good use of vanilla textures without mentioning Going Down.

Hellbound is limit-removing and Going Down is Boom.

Edited July 5, 2022 by Noiser

[retrogamer97]

4 minutes ago, Noiser said:

Mutabor is one of the most impressive vanilla-compatible maps I ever saw. 1000 Lines 3, Doom 2 in Spain Only and the Egg Boy's crew mapsets are also recent examples (most of them use custom textures though). 

 

Doom 64 for Doom 2 have some very impressive architecture in it, despite being a "remake". It also use vanilla textures.

 

Hellbound is limit-removing and Going Down is Boom.

Sorry thought you meant vanilla as in using standard textures. 

[Berubaretto]

No End In Sight is a good example of using vanilla doom's textures(though it has some textures from alpha doom).

Sharp Thing,a single level for ultimate doom created by Xaser, is another good example,despite using few textures from other sources.

If you have interests in Plutonia's texture,you can also check Cydonia,which emulates orignal Plutonia's style perfectly.

(All of them are downloadable in idgames database)

Edited July 5, 2022 by Berubaretto

[Sena]

The Day of Chains (Boom-compatible map, but it uses vanilla textures)

Edited July 7, 2022 by Sena

[Nacho_y]

14 hours ago, Noiser said:

Mutabor is one of the most impressive vanilla-compatible maps I ever saw. 1000 Lines 3, Doom 2 in Spain Only and the Egg Boy's crew mapsets are also recent examples (most of them use custom textures though). 

 

Doom 64 for Doom 2 have some very impressive architecture in it, despite being a "remake". It also use vanilla textures.

 

Hellbound is limit-removing and Going Down is Boom.

I didn't know there was a recreation of Doom 64! I tried the bethesda d64 but didn't like it at all. I will definitely give that a try!

 

As a side note, just saw 1000 lines 3 and its incredible. Thanks for that mention.

Edited July 5, 2022 by Nacho_y

[Borg]

Check out Map 10 of Threnody. Except for the sky all the rest are vanilla.

Play the wad too. Some good stuff.

[TheMagicMushroomMan]

1 hour ago, Borg said:

Check out Map 10 of Threnody. Except for the sky all the rest are vanilla.

Play the wad too. Some good stuff.

Limit-removing, not vanilla.

[Borg]

On 7/5/2022 at 5:52 PM, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

Limit-removing, not vanilla.

Thanks. Still a little fuzzy on some of the the jargon.

 

On 7/5/2022 at 5:52 PM, TheMagicMushroomMan said:

 

 

[Shepardus]

The Squonker team has made a bunch of vanilla-compatible wads with custom textures, such as Pagodia, Moonlit District, and Mayan Reynolds. BTSX is also an obvious mention for vanilla compatibility (with custom resources).

 

Down the Drain has some interesting-looking maps (for certain definitions of "interesting" anyway), and is vanilla compatible with only vanilla textures.

[kalensar]

Vanilla Texture or Close to it-- PrBoom used mainly by me

1. Foursite-- Doom 2// Pure Vaniila textures

2. Gehenna-- Doom 1// Close to vanilla

3. Sigil- Doom 1// I  think pure vanilla

4. Hell in Space- Doom 2// Pure vanilla iirc

5. The Castle Pack-- Doom 2/// UNBELIEVABLY!!! Pure Vanilla textures

6. Dominus Diablous-- Doom 2// Close to vanilla

 

NON Vanilla Textures

1. Hellbound

2. A.L.T. wad

3. GMP

4. EDay 2019 Vanilla--- This is not the same old Hell on Earth Starter Pack. LZDoom, Zandronum and GZDoom are thebest for it with OPenGL 

5. Ascent of Titan-- GZDoom

6. UAC Vinur Prime Research Base Redux

[bofu]

On 7/6/2022 at 9:09 PM, kalensar said:

Vanilla Texture or Close to it-- PrBoom used mainly by me

1. Foursite-- Doom 2// Pure Vaniila textures

2. Gehenna-- Doom 1// Close to vanilla

3. Sigil- Doom 1// I  think pure vanilla

4. Hell in Space- Doom 2// Pure vanilla iirc

5. The Castle Pack-- Doom 2/// UNBELIEVABLY!!! Pure Vanilla textures

6. Dominus Diablous-- Doom 2// Close to vanilla

 

NON Vanilla Textures

1. Hellbound

2. A.L.T. wad

3. GMP

4. EDay 2019 Vanilla--- This is not the same old Hell on Earth Starter Pack. LZDoom, Zandronum and GZDoom are thebest for it with OPenGL 

5. Ascent of Titan-- GZDoom

6. UAC Vinur Prime Research Base Redux

 

Thanks for the mention. With the exception of skies and some custom lava/waterfall textures (as well as some flipped versions of certain middle textures because my OCD was bothering me), the whole intention of Dominus was to be vanilla-esque, just with more detail.

 

I should note for OP that it does require limit-removing (not by a whole hell of a lot), but all the maps are in Doom format.

Edited July 10, 2022 by bofu