Widescreen Assets Pack and Appreciation Thread

[Meerschweinmann]

Some map-screens and E2END from Heretic for up to 32:9 based on Nash Muhandes Widepix:

 

 

Beware, E2END uses the E2PAL in Heretic.wad when converting to DOOM graphics.

 

Edited July 21 by Meerschweinmann

[Meerschweinmann]

And here are FINAL1 and FINAL2 from Heretic in up to 32:9 and 854 pixels width:

 

 

 

Edited July 21 by Meerschweinmann : Forgot to delete a some lines on two stones

[Devalaous]

13 hours ago, Meerschweinmann said:

Some map-screens and E2END from Heretic for up to 32:9 based on Nash Muhandes Widepix:

 

 

Beware, E2END uses the E2PAL in Heretic.wad when converting to DOOM graphics.

 

 

These interpics remind me, we one day need @DevilMyEyes to come up with some official-looking intermissions for Episode 4 5 and *maybe* a simple one for the hidden E6

[UserPlayer89]

personally i think ultrawide would stretch the playfield beyond what’s necessary but it’s neat people in the community are looking out for it

[Meerschweinmann]

7 hours ago, UserPlayer89 said:

personally i think ultrawide would stretch the playfield beyond what’s necessary but it’s neat people in the community are looking out for it

 

To be honest, something between so called 21:9 and 32:9 would be fine, and there is 32:10, but those monitors are getting rare and were primary thought for business use.

But in my case, the wider my monitors got time after time, i never would go back. Not only for gaming.

 

Another thing is, i have fun in doing that assets and its a good practise in using GIMP.

 

And i write "up to 32:9", because those assets can be used with every today used aspect ratio.

So everyone with a 16:10 or 16:9 monitor can use these assets too and so they are not only for niche 32:9 useage.

 

When using this assets even 21:9 benefits a bit, because they are wider then the mostly used 560 pixel width which is a bit too short for so called 21:9 marketed monitors, because their real aspect ratios are 64:27, 43:18 and 24:10(12:5) which needs 576 pixels width to cover all of them completely.

Edited July 22 by Meerschweinmann

[Meerschweinmann]

The Hexen up to 32:9 journey begins. Here are the easiest three to begin with.

 

[Meerschweinmann]

TITLE, INTERPIC, FINALE1, FINALE2 and FINALE3 in up to 32:9 for Hexen.

 

To be honest i am not 100% fine with FINALE3.

 

Based on Nash Muhandes Widepix.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 30 by Meerschweinmann : Edited FINAL2

[Meerschweinmann]

And here are the Hexen Deathkings assets in up to 32:9.

 

Based on Nash Muhandes Widepix.

 

 

 

Edited July 30 by Meerschweinmann

[Devalaous]

@Meerschweinmann and any other artists around; could you guys please both widen AND shorten the new Master Levels titlepic from the new port? Its 16:9 only, which doesnt play nice with Eternity and older stuff like Doomsday, and also doesnt cover larger monitors

 

Similarly, the new statusbars from Legacy of Rust and the attached files with both cells AND fuel, also are 16:9 only, so it breaks things like NightFright's split hud mod, so they need a 4:3 standard version

[Meerschweinmann]

8 hours ago, Devalaous said:

@Meerschweinmann and any other artists around; could you guys please both widen AND shorten the new Master Levels titlepic from the new port? Its 16:9 only, which doesnt play nice with Eternity and older stuff like Doomsday, and also doesnt cover larger monitors

 

The master levels TITLEPIC of the new release seems to be a scan of the master levels box.

It has more detail then the INTERPIC of DOOM2.

If someone has a good scan of the master levels poster included back in the days that would be helpful. 

[DreadWanderer]

9 hours ago, Devalaous said:

@Meerschweinmann and any other artists around; could you guys please both widen AND shorten the new Master Levels titlepic from the new port? Its 16:9 only, which doesnt play nice with Eternity and older stuff like Doomsday, and also doesnt cover larger monitors

 

Similarly, the new statusbars from Legacy of Rust and the attached files with both cells AND fuel, also are 16:9 only, so it breaks things like NightFright's split hud mod, so they need a 4:3 standard version

 

I sympathize with this but truth be told, the fact that ports like Eternity still have iffy support for widescreen assets in 2024 kinda bugs me.

[Meerschweinmann]

On 8/11/2024 at 12:36 PM, DreadWanderer said:

 

I sympathize with this but truth be told, the fact that ports like Eternity still have iffy support for widescreen assets in 2024 kinda bugs me.

 

All 32:9 pictures i had posted here work with the latest Eternity Engine.

 

I do get the latest builds from here:

 

https://devbuilds.drdteam.org/eternity/

Edited August 23 by Meerschweinmann

[THEBaratusII]

Since the re-release of Doom is out there with community-made addon support, I decided to get a crack at making widescreen-assets.

 

Here is two for EARTH.WAD (by Roger Ritenour) in 426x200.

 

The first one was obviously easy because of the black background, but the second one while photographed I couldn't find a good photo to manually work with so I ended up uncropping it using AI with a tiny bit of touchups. Not really perfect but serviceable for now.

[Devalaous]

1 hour ago, THEBaratusII said:

Since the re-release of Doom is out there with community-made addon support, I decided to get a crack at making widescreen-assets.

 

Here is two for EARTH.WAD (by Roger Ritenour) in 426x200.

 

The first one was obviously easy because of the black background, but the second one while photographed I couldn't find a good photo to manually work with so I ended up uncropping it using AI with a tiny bit of touchups. Not really perfect but serviceable for now.

 

That will go nicely in my existing patch for Earth, thanks!

[THEBaratusII]

56 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

 

That will go nicely in my existing patch for Earth, thanks!

No problem. ^^

 

I am curious, what does your patch change compared to the original WAD mind if I ask?

[Devalaous]

3 minutes ago, THEBaratusII said:

No problem. ^^

 

I am curious, what does your patch change compared to the original WAD mind if I ask?

 

Roger Ritenour's Works: Quality-of-Life Patches by Devalaous

Tested and intended for: Crispy Doom, Woof, DSDA Doom, Eternity, GZDoom (Earth, Phobos), ZDoom/GZDoom only (Pleiades)

earth_fix:
DEHACKED, GAMEINFO and UMAPINFO lumps for Roger's 'Earth'

phobos_fix:
DEHACKED, GAMEINFO and UMAPINFO lumps for Roger's 'Phobos'

pleiades_fix:
Replacement MAPINFO and ZMAPINFO to fix the flaws in the original Pleiades, added level name graphics for the other 9 levels

CREDITS:
Roger Ritenour (Earth, Phobos and Pleiades)
THEBaratusII (Widescreen graphics for Earth)
Devalaous (Dehacked and xINFO lumps, patch assembly)

Basically gets it running nicely in modern ports with nice presentation.

[THEBaratusII]

6 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

 

Roger Ritenour's Works: Quality-of-Life Patches by Devalaous

Tested and intended for: Crispy Doom, Woof, DSDA Doom, Eternity, GZDoom (Earth, Phobos), ZDoom/GZDoom only (Pleiades)

earth_fix:
DEHACKED, GAMEINFO and UMAPINFO lumps for Roger's 'Earth'

phobos_fix:
DEHACKED, GAMEINFO and UMAPINFO lumps for Roger's 'Phobos'

pleiades_fix:
Replacement MAPINFO and ZMAPINFO to fix the flaws in the original Pleiades, added level name graphics for the other 9 levels

CREDITS:
Roger Ritenour (Earth, Phobos and Pleiades)
THEBaratusII (Widescreen graphics for Earth)
Devalaous (Dehacked and xINFO lumps, patch assembly)

Basically gets it running nicely in modern ports with nice presentation.

 

Nice! I've also have put together a presentable version of EARTH for the re-release of Doom myself. Will check out Roger's other works someday.

[Wadmodder Shalton]

Given that we have the Cyberdreams MIDI Pack, I bet that Cyberdreams itself can have widescreen assets now. I bet that @THEBaratusII can take on that.

Edited August 13 by Wadmodder Shalton

[Scuba Steve]

Been making simple assets for Bethesda port versions that supports ultra-widescreen, figured I'd post them here.

Dystopia 3

 

Scythe X

[Jimmy²]

Dear god those old Scythe X graphics I made cobbled together from Google Image results for the project are baaaaaaaad lol

[OpenRift]

1 minute ago, Jimmy² said:

Dear god those old Scythe X graphics I made cobbled together from Google Image results for the project are baaaaaaaad lol

You're your own worst critic. Honestly I think they look great.

[Scuba Steve]

7 minutes ago, Jimmy² said:

Dear god those old Scythe X graphics I made cobbled together from Google Image results for the project are baaaaaaaad lol

Enshrined forever in history muahaha

[Tycitron]

Sorry that I'm not contributing here, but do Sigil 2 widescreen assets exist yet? I would take a hand in trying to do it myself but i have no idea where to start doing something like that. Also i swear they existed but i can't find them now!

[Scuba Steve]

[Devalaous]

1 hour ago, Scuba Steve said:

Been making simple assets for Bethesda port versions that supports ultra-widescreen, figured I'd post them here

 

Oh neat, Scythe X was in need of the treatment too, I can drop these in my existing patch. Curious how you guys are approaching the Dystopia 3 level name issue, and if the bonus level is being included in the package, but thats a different thread topic.

 

9 minutes ago, Tycitron said:

Sorry that I'm not contributing here, but do Sigil 2 widescreen assets exist yet? I would take a hand in trying to do it myself but i have no idea where to start doing something like that. Also i swear they existed but i can't find them now!

 

They exist in this thread. There is a post that only shows the titlescreen, but the file attached has all relevant graphics widescreened.

EDIT: Damn it Ninja Steve!

[Trov]

1 hour ago, Scuba Steve said:

Been making simple assets for Bethesda port versions that supports ultra-widescreen, figured I'd post them here.

Dystopia 3

 

Just needs some bad nearest neighbor scaling on the widescreen extensions for full authenticity...

 

[Tycitron]

9 minutes ago, Scuba Steve said:

Yes! thank you so much Scuba Steve! :D (and you too Devalaous!)

[Scuba Steve]

12 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

Oh neat, Scythe X was in need of the treatment too, I can drop these in my existing patch. Curious how you guys are approaching the Dystopia 3 level name issue, and if the bonus level is being included in the package, but thats a different thread topic.

I normally don't override the author's wishes... and in the case of Equinox, I left names blank because it felt intentional. But for Dystopia 3, I picked quirky names that celebrated the original author's post Doom work.
 

You can steal the UMAPINFO and stuff if you want.

[Scuba Steve]

Equinox

CC4

Requiem

 

Also a few statusbars that weren't 576px wide that I just hacked quickly. There's also a new M_Doom logo for Equinox you can steal, @Devalaous.

[OpenRift]

21 minutes ago, Scuba Steve said:

Wait, didn't someone post these before...?