Jovian Palette

[Olroda]

 

The flatscreen technology of today makes DOOM too bright. This WAD is an attempt to bring our favourite game back into the CRT-induced darkness from whence it came.
The Jovian Palette, or JovPal, is a palette and colourmap replacement which is quite similar to the terrific PalPlus, by Sigvatr.
One could say that my attempt is a different take on the same subject, and it has languished enough in solitude on my hard drive since I made it back in 2014.

Why should you get it? It makes DOOM look better - and darker - without sacrificing the really bright colours.

 

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[leodoom85]

It looks similar to the lighting used in PSX Doom (kinda), which is nice. I'll take a look when I get to home later.

[Da Werecat]

Why colormap though? Wouldn't it be enough to change the palette?

 

This looks like it makes things greyer where they shouldn't be.

[CacoDoomer]

You did a good job bringing back the darker look.  I will definitely be using this.

[Olroda]

On 2017-10-20 at 6:41 PM, Da Werecat said:

Why colormap though? Wouldn't it be enough to change the palette?

 

This looks like it makes things greyer where they shouldn't be.

Mine is a bit different than the original, but yeah, the palette is the major change. Not sure I agree about the grey part, but I'm not saying you're wrong either. It was difficult to get it right.

[Doomkid]

Just the screenshots alone brought me back to looking at Doom on a CRT with gamma set to 0. Neat little mod, downloaded!

[Vorpal]

I haven't like... done measurements and used a microscope but, I feel that on a CRT the darkness is more intense yes but the bright colors are more intense as well, i.e. contrast in general is amplified.

[Olroda]

Glad you people like it.
 

On 10/22/2017 at 0:00 AM, Vorpal said:

I haven't like... done measurements and used a microscope but, I feel that on a CRT the darkness is more intense yes but the bright colors are more intense as well, i.e. contrast in general is amplified.

Yes - Consider this WAD an approximation. Making it look like it exactly as it actually would on a CRT monitor would, you know, require the use of a CRT monitor. Heh. It goes a long way towards that objective, however.

Edited October 23, 2017 by Olroda

[Average]

This is a great addition to my autoload.  It looks lovely and really compliments the more 'broody' mapsets.  I've had a lot of fun playing through Doom 64 for Doom II with it.

 

Thanks for sharing. :)

[Lila Feuer]

Just had a look, good stuff I like it, I actually supplied a personally modified PalPlus for use in my Doom Plus gameplay modification.

[Olroda]

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. Could I perhaps interest you in some brain damage as well?

[Reisal]

This isn't any use on say, OpenGL ports is it?

[Olroda]

It works well with GZDooM, but I'm not sure about the others. The effect should be noticable right away though, so feel free to try.

[Salt-Man Z]

27 minutes ago, Glaice said:

This isn't any use on say, OpenGL ports is it?

GZDoom presumably wouldn't use the colormaps (in favor of GL lighting), but would still use the palette.

[Olroda]

Yeah, JovPal functions in any GL port that still makes use of the palette. I just tried it with GLBoom-plus, and it worked fine.