Freedoom Retexturisation Project

[Voros]

Recently, jmickle's amazing Aquatex textures were finally added to Freedoom!

Now, the maps need a minor/major retexturisation, so that they utilise these beautiful textures.

Download the development version at http://freedoom.soulsphere.org/

Q/A
Q: How do I pick a slot?

Choose whichever you one from here. But if you're not familiar enough with the maps, then I can give you options on which maps are available, from easy work to time-consuming ones.

Q: The new textures are all techbase-related. How will the Hell/outdoor levels be changed?

Simply, they won't. Concentrate on techbase areas of maps.

Q: But the resources aren't finished. Shouldn't they be the priority here?

They are. But I'm doing this for the player's sake. And as a short-term goal for the next release of Freedoom (v0.11). Why have new textures, and maps that don't use them?

Q: Deadline?

Meh. Until v0.11. No idea when that'll release.

Q: Can I edit the map, like thing placement, also?

I would recommend you don't ATM. But rather focusing on doing cosmetic changes.

Q: Is it worth it?

... Sure.

Any other questions? Ask right here.

Let's start with Phase 1.

When you're done, post a link to the map here on a good file hosting site.
OR email it to as an attachment at ayubahmed2240@gmail.com

Thanks for your efforts towards Freedoom!
Here's a preview of Sodaholic/Blastfrog WIP retexturised MAP02

Spoiler

[andrewj]

Last time I looked, many of the maps are not yet vanilla compatible, and some of those will need to be removed (because they would be nearly impossible to vanilla-ify).

Retexturing maps that will get thrown out later would waste that person's time. So this seems premature.

[Voros]

Yes, I'm aware of that. New maps won't come for some time.
Until then, why not use the current set? I did say it was a short term goal for v0.11's release. It would be the first step to making Freedoom more independant.

[esselfortium]

Another thing that might be premature: Do these textures cover at least two or three distinct themes with enough versatility among them to span 32 maps? If not, this project should probably be limited to retexturing a single episode of Freedoom rather than the whole tamale, at least for now.

[Voros]

esselfortium said:

If not, this project should probably be limited to retexturing a single episode of Freedoom rather than the whole tamale, at least for now.

That we can agree on. Aiming for Chapter 1/2 would be a good idea I suppose?

[uhbooh]

I think we should add nex credo first, so there's more vanilla maps to add aquatex to.