High res png weapon sprites?

BlackFish · Post by **BlackFish** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 19:07

I recall there was a way with Gzdoom to have high res pngs as weapon frames, but I lost the example I had. What's the way of accomplishing this?

Post by **wildweasel** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 20:00

What I do to get high-res weapon frames is make a low-res version of the graphic first, import that, align it, and then use HIRESTEX to remap the high-res version over the low-res one.

BlackFish · Post by **BlackFish** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:14

Awesome thank you. (And no these wont be 35fps weapons)

Post by **wildweasel** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 2:10

The 35fps I didn't mind so much as how much the effort was wasted on graphics that didn't look very good in the first place - as long as proper care is taken when ripping to make sure that the angling is accurate, the contrast is set to a good level, and there are no jagged edges, then that'll go a long way to justify the size of the wad file.

And if you're not already doing so, I recommend using a PK3 file instead of a WAD, in the interest of keeping sizes down a bit.

Da Snoop · Post by **Da Snoop** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 12:15

wildweasel wrote:And if you're not already doing so, I recommend using a PK3 file instead of a WAD, in the interest of keeping sizes down a bit.

I thought there's no compression available for the PK3's. They are nothing but ZIP files, right? I tried to pack files in ZIP and then rename it to PK3 and it worked. But when I used any level of compression or password, GZDoom rejected it with a note in the console.

Post by **wildweasel** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 15:28

Well, don't use a password on it, because then nobody can open it. Not sure about that compression bit though...

hitmanx · Post by **hitmanx** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:33

is there anyway to do high res weapons in edge?

Da Snoop · Post by **Da Snoop** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 17:05

I'm not sure, but I think there was no scale for HUD sprites available in Edge. Just for items. Try to read some DDF info of the latest version.

Nick_Perrin · Post by **Nick_Perrin** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 22:35

hitmanx wrote:is there anyway to do high res weapons in edge?

Yes, through IMAGES.DDF.