#HALF LIFE 1 DEV TEXTURES FULL#

To be able to use your textures pack, you will want to target GZDoom (so your aren’t limited to the original 256 colors palette). If you are not on Windows, they work fine with Wine or a virtual machine. Ultimate Doom Builder and SLADE are the tool of the trade. And a incredibly amount of time lurking on mapping channels on Doom Discord servers (mostly #map-making on The Entryway server and the Hellforge Studio server). I watched a couple tutorial video on Youtube (eg. I only had a good understanding of how the original Doom engine worked, which I guess helped a bit. This is my first Doom level (except maybe for an unreleased two rooms level in the 90’s), so I had to learn from scratch. I really should try making some DOOM levels, I’m just not sure where to start tbh. Using it for the hallways was a pleasure, I started with that and I got a pretty good result in my first couple hours of mapping. I also extended the pack with a blue light and door, a door without a switch/control pad and a screen usable as a switch.

I used original graphics for switches as the textures pack lack(ed) any (except for the one on the door, which is too small as a standalone switch).

#HALF LIFE 1 DEV TEXTURES FULL#

Having textures with metals panel covering the full height would have helped there. Except for the rivet bar which I feel I had to overuse a bit. The pack provides plenty of support and light textures, but they all have a hard seam when repeated vertically. It works okay for hallways, but for rooms I wish I had taller textures to work with to avoid repetition.

The 64 heights and the lack of textures that tile well vertically was the main constraint (but kinda fun to work with). I noticed a few original DOOM textures in the play through video! I’d love to hear your feedback on what textures you felt like you were missing as you made the map.

Half life 1 dev textures