Arsinikk Posted August 29, 2023 (edited) After 8 months since the beta was used in 100 Line Christmas, the full fledged resource pack is finally here! You may ask: “why does this exist?” or “Doesn’t a Christmas resource already exist?” While the Doom Christmas resource pack does exist, I’d describe some of its assets as being subpar. When compiling a Christmas resource for my community project, I decided that the Christmas resource pack was in need of a refresh. And so here is the brand new resource pack refresh by @Arsinikk, with help from @ThatKidBobo, @Cacodemon187, and @NinjaDelphox. You can download the resource below and scroll down to see the changes included in the resource pack. For Players: Like the original Doom Christmas, you can actually load this directly with Doom / Doom 2 / TNT / Plutonia and it’ll work right out of the box. Make sure to download XMASPACK.zip and not the resource (XMASPACK-Resource.zip). It’s recommended to also load the Dehacked file (DEH) for full compatibility. Loading the resource without it will work, but some things may be wonky. For Mappers: This is a resource that is meant to be an updated version of the Doom Christmas resource that everyone uses for Christmas WADs. I really do hope that people will start to use this one instead, as it includes many fixes and refinements to the original resource pack. Make sure to download XMASPACK-Resource.zip and not XMASPACK.zip. Links: XMASPACK WAD (for players): Download XMASPACK Resource (for mappers): Download Spoiler You can see the minor tweaks and refinements to the sprites to make the resource feel less cheap. I always found the plasma in Doom Christmas to be wasted potential, so I decided to “Christmas” it up with alternating green and red projectiles and explosions! With the exception of Cyberdemon, I always found it sad that there was no Christmas replacement for the Mancubus and Archvile. For my community project, I decided to remedy this sad state and whipped up some sprites. You may notice that the Archvile’s red nose lights up when it resurrects monsters :) I also decided to redo the Cyberdemon sprites and make him look more like Candycane… compared to whatever he was supposed to be in the original resource pack. Spoiler I manually went through around 100 textures and made them seamless. It was alot of work, but it was so worth it. There were less flats to make seamless, but some of them definitely needed some love. Spoiler We ended up adding some flats that were missed in the original resource, as well as adding some new ones. Textures include some really minor additions. *Note that the FIREGRN animated will need to be added as an animated texture. It does not replace FIREBLU by default. This resource includes some custom Dehacked that you may recognise from 100 Line Christmas. The fast imps replace SS Nazis (you may recognise them from 100 and 200 Line Massacre), The keens were replaced by a swinging bell, and just for fun the brain decoration was replaced by a pacifist snow bunny. P.S. It’s really funny to play MAP31 of Doom 2 with Fast Imps instead of SS Nazis :P Spoiler One of my biggest pet peeves of the Doom Christmas resource was the Cacodemon death sound. I like that it has some glass breaking as the Caco is in the shape of an ornament… What I don’t like is that the glass breaking sfx is extremely loud in slaughter type maps, it’s really awful. So I decided to remedy this by recording an actual ornament shattering and merging that sfx with the death sound. In addition I also added an ornament shatter sfx to the Pain Elemental death as well. You can listen to difference below: Spoiler This resource includes a slightly altered version of the Doom palette, including bluer tints for the grays, a softer blue, and a goldish yellow. It’s worth noting that the resources were made and will work with the main Doom palette. Also included is a custom colourmap that has a Christmas-y invulnerability palette (shown below)! Spoiler Doom Christmas Basis for a bunch of Sprites and Textures Arsinikk New Cyberdemon, Archvile, and Mancubus Sprites Plasmagun Firing and bolt GFX Blue bell (Keen) GFX fall animation Glass breaking Cacodemon and Pain Elemental SFX Gray Lamp Sprite Bottom Tweaks Skull Switch Texture Berserk Present GFX Final lamp GFX edits XMAS sky variants Baron wall texture from E2M8 BLUEGSTN (ARSKBLST) + BLUREDST textures Other misc GFX ThatKidBobo Shotgun Sprite Refinements Candy Cane / Fist Sprite Refinements Candle Sprite Refinements Gray Lamp Sprite Refinements Bullet box Sprite Refinements Health Bonus (Candy Cane) Sprite Refinements Snowman and Decoration (POL**0, COL**0) Sprite Refinements Cacodemon187 Red and green light flat (TLITE6_5) NinjaDelphox Present colour flat/textures Evilneck Snow Bunny sprite Base Christopher Golden (Doom Zero) Plasma SFX Arachnotron SFX Craneo Classic XMas Doom sky texture design Lamp GFX edits Icon of Sin (Santa Edit) Frozen Pipe Textures Mechadon Sky GFX base (Mek's Box 'o Skies!) Night sky base Eradrop Sky variant backgrounds Korp Xmas Doom sky trees Zrrion the Insect Lamppost pole and base bits Alpha Dog Alliance (Strain) Impostor Imp SFX Realm667 Impostor Imp attack GFX base Baron Red Recolour GFX Hopefully this resource will be useful for anyone who wants to make future Christmas Doom WADs! Regarding some things that could be added to the resource, we are still missing some things: Christmas sprites for the Spider Mastermind Still missing some Christmas versions of Vanilla Doom textures If you would like to contribute to the resource pack, please message me on my Slotter Sanctum Discord! We are a friendly bunch and would love your contributions! Thanks for reading! Arsinikk Edited July 13 by Arsinikk 27 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted August 29, 2023 Awesome stuff. I'll try to use this in something this December! 2 Share this post Link to post
UberGewei Posted November 15, 2023 @Doomkid Check this out, this is awesome.@Arsinikk I did some of those textures years ago, that's embarrassing haha. Great job making them seamless! *downloads pack* 3 Share this post Link to post
Arsinikk Posted November 26, 2023 (edited) I’m excited to announce a new update (v1.2) for the Doom Christmas resource pack! After seeing Misty’s community project having issues with integrating the resource, I decided that it was worth re-organising how the resource pack was put together to make it easier for mappers to use. In addition, I’ve added a few new graphic enhancements to the pack as a bonus as well with the help from @Craneo. (additional new credits in the credits section below) Doom Christmas Enhanced is now cut into two different packages. The first XMASPACK is similar to the original Doom Christmas as you can load it with Doom / Doom II / Plutonia / TNT and it’ll work. It’s meant for playing and NOT for mappers. The second package XMASPACK-Resource is the actual resource for mappers to use in their projects. Links: XMASPACK WAD (for players): Download XMASPACK Resource (for mappers): Download Spoiler Spoiler Additional v1.2 Asset Credits: Arsinikk Final lamp GFX edits XMAS sky variants BLUEGSTN (ARSKBLST) + BLUREDST textures STONE2 and STONE3 fixes Craneo Classic XMas Doom sky texture design Lamp GFX edits Mechadon Night sky base Eradrop sky variant backgrounds Korp XMAS Doom sky trees Zrrion the Insect lamppost pole and base bits Hopefully this resource will be useful for anyone who wants to make future Christmas Doom WADs! Regarding some things that could be added to the resource, we are still missing some things: Christmas sprites for the Spider Mastermind Still missing some Christmas versions of Vanilla Doom textures Again a very special thank you to Craneo for the lamp sprite bases and the recreated snow mountain for the skies. Thank you! Arsinikk Edited July 13 by Arsinikk 9 Share this post Link to post
Bald Cyberdemon Posted December 2, 2023 Utterly adore you guy's restoration and expansion of this holly jolly Christmas classic Do y'all mind if I recompile these assets and rerelease them as a patch for older Christmas wads? I specifically want it to be as modular as practically possible for all kinds of preference (like if someone just wants the texture realignments without all the newfangled ones, or wants the fresh new Pain Elemental sound but still likes to hear "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! HO HO HO!!!" everytime a gib happens) All due credit will be given of course + a link to this thread in the readme and whatever topic I release it under 0 Share this post Link to post
Arsinikk Posted December 2, 2023 31 minutes ago, No-Man Baugh said: Utterly adore you guy's restoration and expansion of this holly jolly Christmas classic Do y'all mind if I recompile these assets and rerelease them as a patch for older Christmas wads? I specifically want it to be as modular as practically possible for all kinds of preference (like if someone just wants the texture realignments without all the newfangled ones, or wants the fresh new Pain Elemental sound but still likes to hear "MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! HO HO HO!!!" everytime a gib happens) All due credit will be given of course + a link to this thread in the readme and whatever topic I release it under Sure that's completely fine :) I already tried creating a sort of all-in-one package with the (for the players) link, but there's probably a few things you may wanna mix and match. 1 Share this post Link to post
Bald Cyberdemon Posted December 2, 2023 Found out that the Vsmooth xmas patch has it's own little change to the chaingun, giving it some c9 bulbs Spoiler Curious what you think of these? according to the readme this is something the guy who made this version of vsmooth, act17, made themself for their project here's a link to the mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/sdvchristmaswad/downloads/smoothdoom-vanilla-christmas-patch 0 Share this post Link to post
Arsinikk Posted December 7, 2023 On 12/2/2023 at 12:05 PM, No-Man Baugh said: Curious what you think of these? according to the readme this is something the guy who made this version of vsmooth, act17, made themself for their project Hey apologies, I let this get away from me. (Been a bit busy recently). I sorta like the idea of the bulbs on the chaingun, but I'm less thrilled about the execution here. Part of the reason for this "enhanced" version of the Doom Christmas resource was to better the quality of the assets. With that we also strive to keep some overall cohesion of art style to keep everything feel that it belongs together. I'd say those chaingun sprites don't really fit either of those categories as they are now. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bald Cyberdemon Posted December 7, 2023 (edited) 2 hours ago, Arsinikk said: Hey apologies, I let this get away from me. (Been a bit busy recently). I sorta like the idea of the bulbs on the chaingun, but I'm less thrilled about the execution here. Part of the reason for this "enhanced" version of the Doom Christmas resource was to better the quality of the assets. With that we also strive to keep some overall cohesion of art style to keep everything feel that it belongs together. I'd say those chaingun sprites don't really fit either of those categories as they are now. Honestly the main reason I brought it up was to see if you and collaborators would be interested in enhancing them yourselves. However immediately after reading your response I figured I could do the work myself if I really wanted to see this chaingun in the wad Here's what I got done so far. done from-scratch modeled after C9 lightbulbs just finished the silhouette and getting the hang of GIMP. At first I was pretty satisfied with the way the middle red and was really laboring on the 2 green bulbs, but looking at it now in this size the red bulb looks pretty lumpy and the green bulbs look more proportional (ironic since they're just rotated versions of the middle, lol) I'll probably ask for help sooner or later given that I've never worked on totally original drawings since I was 6, but for now I'm just going to take a break and work on cleaning up the bulbs and start lighting Merry Christmas, everyone. HO! HO! HO!!! 1 Share this post Link to post
Arrowhead Posted December 13, 2023 Going to be releasing a small 3 map DM pack using this resource. Will be released tomorrow. Some good work in this resource pack, was very fun to use. 4 Share this post Link to post
Superjustinbros Posted December 19, 2023 I tried loading XMASPACK.WAD into GZDoom and it gives me this fatal error before it can start. 1 Share this post Link to post
Arsinikk Posted December 20, 2023 10 hours ago, Superjustinbros said: I tried loading XMASPACK.WAD into GZDoom and it gives me this fatal error before it can start. I'm currently working on a fix/update. Thanks for letting me know. I'll try and get this updated when I can :) 1 Share this post Link to post
Arsinikk Posted December 21, 2023 (edited) Here's a new update (v1.3) for the Doom Christmas resource pack! Apologies, I've been a bit busy during this Christmas season. :) This should fix an oversight on loading the XMASPACK.WAD in GZDoom (oops) @Superjustinbros This also includes some sprite refreshes as well as a few new textures. Doom Christmas Enhanced is now cut into two different packages. The first XMASPACK is similar to the original Doom Christmas as you can load it with Doom / Doom II / Plutonia / TNT and it’ll work. It’s meant for playing and NOT for mappers. The second package XMASPACK-Resource is the actual resource for mappers to use in their projects. Links: XMASPACK WAD (for players): Download XMASPACK Resource (for mappers): Download Spoiler In addition, some minor things were updated/fixed in v1.3: Updated BRDR textures were updated to match GRNROCK. Updated hell sky (SKY3) to be darker. Fixed Imposter Imp (Fast Imp) error in the MBF Dehacked of the Modder Resource. Fixed an error in DECORATE causing ZDoom ports to crash (oops) Spoiler Additional v1.3 Asset Credits: Arsinikk E2M8 Baron Wall (W108_1) Craneo Icon of Sin Textures (RWDMON1-3) Frozen Pipe Textures (TP*_* + RP*_*) ThatKidBobo Sprite updates for POL**0, COL**0, and BON1*0 Hopefully this resource will be useful for anyone who wants to make future Christmas Doom WADs! Regarding some things that could be added to the resource, we are still missing some things: Christmas sprites for the Spider Mastermind Still missing some Christmas versions of Vanilla Doom textures Special thanks to both @Craneo and @ThatKidBobo for their work on new sprite and texture edits. Thank you! Arsinikk Edited July 13 by Arsinikk 2 Share this post Link to post
DoomGappy Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 15 hours ago, Arsinikk said: Here's a new update (v1.3) for the Doom Christmas resource pack! Apologies, I've been a bit busy during this Christmas season. :) This should fix an oversight on loading the XMASPACK.WAD in GZDoom (oops) @Superjustinbros This also includes some sprite refreshes as well as a few new textures. Doom Christmas Enhanced is now cut into two different packages. The first XMASPACK is similar to the original Doom Christmas as you can load it with Doom / Doom II / Plutonia / TNT and it’ll work. It’s meant for playing and NOT for mappers. The second package XMASPACK-Resource is the actual resource for mappers to use in their projects. Links: XMASPACK WAD (for players): Download XMASPACK Resource (for mappers): Download Hide contents In addition, some minor things were updated/fixed in v1.3: Updated BRDR textures were updated to match GRNROCK. Updated hell sky (SKY3) to be darker. Fixed Imposter Imp (Fast Imp) error in the MBF Dehacked of the Modder Resource. Fixed an error in DECORATE causing ZDoom ports to crash (oops) Hide contents Additional v1.3 Asset Credits: Arsinikk E2M8 Baron Wall (W108_1) Craneo Icon of Sin Textures (RWDMON1-3) Frozen Pipe Textures (TP*_* + RP*_*) ThatKidBobo Sprite updates for POL**0, COL**0, and BON1*0 Hopefully this resource will be useful for anyone who wants to make future Christmas Doom WADs! Regarding some things that could be added to the resource, we are still missing some things: Christmas sprites for the Spider Mastermind Still missing some Christmas versions of Vanilla Doom textures Special thanks to both @Craneo and @ThatKidBobo for their work on new sprite and texture edits. Thank you! Arsinikk Just came to check the thread and there's been an update. Amazing stuff, congratulations on making this. I've played a map with this and it was really good fun. I've been making some snow textures for original Doom because I want people to be able to make maps that resemble the originals but snowy. Are there a lot of these in this pack? Also, I'll edit out the bug quote tomorrow, I'm on my cellphone right now. 0 Share this post Link to post
