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<dmchess@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Okay, so I have this silly desire to extract lots of Doom/Doom2
> (the originals, not these fancy modern polygon-based things) wall
> and floor and ceiling textures, to use in The Sims 2 (I think it'd
> be funny to have a happy little family living in a house with Doom
> graphics on the surfaces; maybe I could give them flaming red
> skintones also).
>
> I managed to find a copy of NWT that will just barely work under
> Windows XP (deutex kept crashing even after I found the XP dpmi
> provider), and that lets me extract patches to GIFs, which is
> _almost_ what I want.  But what I really want are the textures,
> which are (in some/many cases) made by pasting together a
> number of different patches into an overall thing.  I could do this
> by hand for a few, but I'm greedy and I want them all.  (I have all
> the real licensed WAD files and all of course.)
>
> Is there some DOOM utility that will extract the patches and texture
> data from a WAD, reconstruct the textures, and save them to files in
> some modern format (GIF, JPG, BMP), that works under modern
> versions of Windows?
>
> Tx very,
> DC
>
> P.S. Oh yeah, the floor and ceiling flats are all just single square
> images, aren't they?  You only need to paste patches together to
> construct the wall textures.  So read the above as having said that.
> *8)
>
> P.P.S. To establish whatever credibility it may buy me, I'm the
> author of SLIGE (http://www.doomworld.com/slige/), the market
> leader (last time I looked) in automatic level generation for DOOM
> and DOOM 2.  Not that I've touched that code in the last several
> years...
>

Cool. I remember SLIGE. :)
I don't know if this will be any help, but you might be able to use the
DosBox emulator to run troublesome DOS-based doom utilities under Windows
XP.
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/