plums Posted July 14, 2014 I like to dick around with graphics editing software sometimes. Recently I've been playing with photos and making them into Doom skies. I've accumulated a bunch, and so I'm releasing them for other people to use. 40 skies in total! 2014-07-19 update: more skies, demo map fixed for PrBoom+, other tweaks http://www.mediafire.com/?bchwnavzsnu73nk There's a few really good ones, a bunch of decent ones, and a couple mediocre ones that maybe someone will like anyhow. Also a few edits of classic iwad skies, to extend them and/or make them tile vertically. Some highlights (width trimmed to 512px in some cases): Let me know if you use them for anything! 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Memfis Posted July 14, 2014 Suggestion: add a demonstration map like in the Beautiful Strange Doom Sky Pack for people to quickly check out the skies in the game. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Tarnsman Posted July 14, 2014 Plums do you think you could make that purple planet sky in true color and not horribly shoved into Doom's terrible limited magenta range since Doom's palette has almost 2 full ranges of colors you can replace anyway so people can make a purple range to handle it. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
esselfortium Posted July 14, 2014 Tarnsman said:Plums do you think you could make that purple planet sky in true color and not horribly shoved into Doom's terrible limited magenta range since Doom's palette has almost 2 full ranges of colors you can replace anyway so people can make a purple range to handle it. Agreed! I love the look of that purple sky, but in its current form it'd be really difficult to use. Having the original version to remap into a more purple-friendly palette would be great. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
SFoZ911 Posted July 14, 2014 Very nice plums, looking forward to see/use some of these. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 14, 2014 Tarnsman said:Plums do you think you could make that purple planet sky in true color and not horribly shoved into Doom's terrible limited magenta range since Doom's palette has almost 2 full ranges of colors you can replace anyway so people can make a purple range to handle it. Probably. I don't know if I could recreate it strictly as true-colour, but I could at least replace the blue/purple dither with another few out-of-palette colours, which is probably what looks the worst to people. Maybe soften the white band too. Speaking of which, do you (or anyone else) have a good non-redundant Doom palette? I know there's like 8 colours that are strict duplicates, I imagine you can get away with removing some of the browns too. Probably not too hard but if someone's done that work already, I wouldn't mind having a copy. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Tango Posted July 14, 2014 likely due to the gamma on my phone, the purple sky looked pretty great when I saw it earlier but now I do see what they mean. gonna check out the pack though :D 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 14, 2014 Download link updated, new version includes a demo map with sky transfers, a few skies renamed, and a few tweaked patches. I didn't change the text file now that there's a map, but don't worry about that, it'll be fixed for idgames. https://www.mediafire.com/?4795zp1vle48jm4 Will work on the purple stuff (there's another one in there too) later. Oh and thanks all, for comments/interest/etc. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Tristan Posted July 14, 2014 Some pretty nice stuff in there, I'll hold on to these. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
tourniquet Posted July 14, 2014 A lot of pretty cool stuff plums. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 14, 2014 Thanks guys. lol, HOMs everywhere in PrBoom+ software mode because I forgot to make a proper bounding box for the sky walls. Will update later, in the meantime use GLBoom+ or ZDoom or something else. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Doomkid Posted July 14, 2014 I love the purple skies as is, beautiful for a DOS game's palette limit. Great skies! 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Ribbiks Posted July 14, 2014 hah, chicago skyline. The forest one could be neat, not sure I've ever seen a map with a sky like that. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 14, 2014 Doomkid: I actually like the purple planet like that too, but I'm going to try touching it up anyhow. Ribbiks: Forest was a neat idea but I think the scale is too large. Might try again another time with that same picture or a similar one at least. Also yeah, a few recognizable cities in there :) 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
IMX Posted July 15, 2014 Speaking of extended IWAD skies, the other day I was wandering around Flickr and found out there's quite a good bunch of pictures that would help greatly if someone wants to create a 1024px wide SKY1. (Not sure about how CC licensing works in Flickr so I tried my best at filtering the pictures that allow modifications) I got reminded of this because of Plums' 512px wide SKY1 in this wad, which is quite ingenious, but I'm confident it can be expanded in a better way by using non-repeating mountains 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
marxr Posted July 16, 2014 This is what i've been waiting for, a cool blue sky, ill use it in one of my projects. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Yugiboy85 Posted July 16, 2014 This is some really cool stuff ;) I took the liberty of linking this to the FDC (french doom community) whose main forums can be found here: http://doomfrance.forumactif.com/forum Here is a link to my post: http://doomfrance.forumactif.com/t3809-plums-s-skytravaganza-pwad-ressources I hope that is fine with you plums. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 16, 2014 Of course, thanks for spreading it around. Will probably get to tweaking those purple skies today... 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Fellowzdoomer Posted July 19, 2014 Ooh! Can I borrow these skies for a project that I work on when I'm bored? 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 19, 2014 Yes of course, anyone can use these for whatever they want. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Ledillman Posted July 19, 2014 Beautiful skies indeed, I'll add them to my cool skies folder to use them later, thanks! 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 19, 2014 update: http://www.mediafire.com/?bchwnavzsnu73nk -demo map works properly in PrBoom+ in software mode -misc tweaks to some skies -four more space skies from this post -purple skies have alternate-coloured versions with less dithering, and purple non-paletted versions embedded as PNGs in the wad. (click for fullsize) This is probably it for this one, going to wait a day and then upload to idgames 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
CorSair Posted July 19, 2014 Wow. Really nice selection you have here. I am definitely going to use some of these. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Tango Posted July 19, 2014 sweet!! damn those slave skies you linked to look really cool! several weeks late edit: hahaha yeah space not slave. my b 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
plums Posted July 19, 2014 Tango said:slave skies Assuming you are on a phone and meant "space skies?" Thanks! 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
Fellowzdoomer Posted July 19, 2014 I especially like those purple skies for some reason. They just pop out at me...strange.. 0 Quote Share this post Link to post
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