High Resolution Textures For Hexen
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A modification of the original Hexen Textures for use with jHexen and the
Doomsday engine.

By Chris Bogstad 



Installation:

All textures must be placed in \Doomsday\Data\jHexen\Textures.
Please see the Doomsday readme, section 3.4. High-Resolution
Textures, for further information on using high-resolution textures.


Explanation of Modifications:

All textures were extracted from Hexen.wad and modified in Photoshop.  All
textures in this archive are based on the original textures that came with
the game.  Each image was resized exactly four fold and given greater
detail through various effects in Photoshop.  I have made a conscious
effort avoid any personal interpretation.  It was my sole aim to increase
the size, clarity and detail of these textures while remaining true to the
artist's original work.  While it would have been far more enjoyable for me
to be drawing new textures than the tedious, repetitive task of modifying
the 400+ existing ones, I did it this way for a reason; the game is a
classic and I don't want to change it, I only want to help improve it's
appearance.  The Doomsday engine provides us with many features and graphic
settings that weren't available with the game originally and by modifying
the textures I'm attempting to make use of doomsday's rendering power
without changing the look of the game.  It's my sincere hope that both the
fans of Hexen as well as the artists at who created these textures
originally are comfortable with my modifications.

Chris Bogstad



Utilities Used:

XWE-eXtendable Wad Editor 1.10
Adobe Photoshop 7.0


Credits:

Raven Software and id Software for creating Hexen, one of the greatest
single player, first person shooters of all time!

Jaakko Keranen for creating the amazing Doomsday engine and making these
games fun to play again by taking advantage of modern hardware.
http://www.doomsdayhq.com


Legal Issues:

It is my understanding this add-on does not break the the Software License
Agreement of the Heretic/Hexen source code and it is not my intent to
infringe on any copyright.  The use of these textures still requires you
have the file Hexen.wad so you still need to buy the game in order to play
it.  Hexen can be purchased at:
http://www.idsoftware.com/games/hexen/hexen/.