Doom Editing Digest Vol. 01 Nr. 600

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doom-editing-digest       Wednesday, 6 March 1996      Volume 01 : Number 600 

Re: sprite editing 
Re: sprite editing 

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From: LummoxJR@aol.com 
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:39:51 -0500 
Subject: Re: sprite editing 

>If you want to create real good sprites you have to use a program which 
>don´t mix around the colors ... windows gfx programs are a very bad choice 
>in this 
>case (first, because you never see the real resolution ; second, because you 
>always work with bad fatbit-options) good choices for editing doom/doom2 
>etc.GFX 
>is Dpaint or the shareware-program called improces... there you can fit your 
>images into the doom palette (using the overlay/use actual palette - option 
>while the doom - palette is the actual palette you loaded before). 

Yep, that's it all right. I highly recommend Improces for this kind of thing- 
it's what I use; its editor isn't as good as Dpaint's for picture editing but 
it's better with palettes. 
What I did with my flamethrower graphics was this: First, I used POV-Ray to 
ray-trace the weapon sprites, using a 24-bit TGA file as output. Then, I 
opened up Improces and loaded a Doom graphic I'd pulled out of the IWAD (to 
use its palette- more to the point, I could have just saved the palette at 
some point and reloaded it). Then I loaded the TGA file, used the current 
palette and "Map image" conversion process, filled in the black areas with 
cyan, and saved the graphic as a GIF. Then I'd use Paint Shop in Windows to 
clip the GIF file to the appropriate size (I use a lot of paint programs, but 
the process works...). NWT loaded the GIF into a WAD file just fine. 
It sounds convoluted, but don't let that fool you- it really is convoluted. 
There are probably much better solutions, but this one works for me. 
Also, last I knew Dpaint didn't save in PCX or GIF format, just in 
little-used LBM (IFF). It might have changed since, though. 

Lummox JR 
has anyone else noticed Mike Hoenie's letters get sent twice? 
has anyone else noticed Mike Hoenie's letters get sent twice? 

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From: dfaris@america.com 
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 96 01:55 EST 
Subject: Re: sprite editing 

Does anyone know where I can get the program improces that some people have told  
me about. thanks 

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