creating your own textures?

[Dutch Doomer]

im a newbie ad wad editing and got bored with the original textures and want to create some of my own.
so i need something to create my own textures.
i have downloaded a version of wintex43, is that a good one to use or are there better ones?.
and do i need other programs besides wintex43?.

thanks

[Ichor]

You'll need Wintex to put the textures into a wadfile, but any graphics program will suffice for actually making the new textures that you'll want to use, even Paint.

[Dutch Doomer]

is wintex only suited for making new textures/patches?.
the reason why i ask this is because i need something to edit my own
sounds and music too.
and if i want too use the psx sounds in my wads where do i start,i really have no idea.
any tips would be usefull

thanks

[Ichor]

Wintex can also add sounds and music to a wadfile. However, many some people use XWE instead. Either one works.

[Dutch Doomer]

if im using my new textures in my wads,doom will probably crash due to the fact that it doesn't reconice my new textures.
if im wright how can i fixe this?.

[Ichor]

It shouldn't crash at all. However, if you use Wintex to add patches (actual graphics) to a wad, Doom will ignore them. You'll need to add a new entry in the texture list for it to be recognized by Doom and any map editors.

[Dutch Doomer]

well thanks for your help ichor,first i need to learn to use wintex a littlebit better.
and if i have any questions in the future i will post them here.

thanks

[Epyo]

Deepsea does putting in textures pretty easy in my opinion. IIRC you press F7 (or one of the F keys I forget) and find the button that says "Auto textures from BMP". Then you click it and you can pretty much figure it out from there, but there's a help file if you get lost.

(BTW my 3rd year at DW starts today!)

[psyren]

I have used XWE to import new flats for my wads, but I didn't know it could change textures.

With a flat, (ceiling or floor) I just rename the one I want to replace and add it to my wad with XWE. I tried this using textures, but they are ignored by the game.

Somewhere I read I needed to use DeHacked or Whacked to change textures and I still have no idea how to do this.

[blod]

I'm using Corel Photo-Paint to create new textures. It has everything I need and a bit more (palette extraction, layer transparencies in 8-bit textures, wide amount of dithering options etc.)

[cyber-menace]

I see boris hasn't said this yet so I might as well. Use the forum search. Trust me when I say this has to be about the 50th "How do I make custom textures and put them in my wad" post.

[psyren]

sorry. I was assuming that all available topics would be in the open threads. I had no idea about searching. :)

It is not exactly obvious to newbies where this forum search is.

Then I found and put in "How do I make custom textures?" and it returned nothing. (?)

[Doom_Dude]

Then I found and put in "How do I make custom textures?" and it returned nothing. (?)

Try just using a few words like "custom textures" in the search.