some switch textures look the same?

[kermode]

What do the following textures look like in other people's versions of doom2.wad?
- SW1BRCOM
- SW1BRN1
- SW1STARG
- SW1STON2
- SW1STONE

I wonder because in mine they all look the same. & when I look in XWE they're all made out of the same patches (WALL62_1 & SW1S0). Judging by the names something doesn't seem right here. I would have thought that SW1STARG would be a switch on STARG3 or something, rather than WALL62_1. I wonder if I accidentally changed them somehow but the SW2 versions of all of them are the same too.

[Dragonsbrethren]

They're placeholders for Doom switch textures that the engine requires to be present in the iwad, but aren't used in Doom 2.

[NiGHTMARE]

As Dragonsbrethren said. I'm not sure why ID changed the others into clones of SW1BRCOM though, because IIRC all the patches they use are still present in doom2.wad.

[esselfortium]

NiGHTMARE said:

As Dragonsbrethren said. I'm not sure why ID changed the others into clones of SW1BRCOM though, because IIRC all the patches they use are still present in doom2.wad.

There are some other cases in Doom 2 where a texture was removed despite all of its patches still being used in other textures. It was probably just an automated process that pruned texture entries that weren't used in any maps.

[Gez]

http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Switch

[kermode]

well that's a load off, thx everybody