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"BW" <this@is.a.fake.address> wrote in message
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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/
>
>

Btw, Deutex works fine for me under XP, but it's only able to extract the
flats as-is, as far as I can tell.