Render96 Video Game Texture Preservation

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 08:44 AM

I was given a few texture CDs and a lot of CAD CDs from the early 90s. They are all from American companies, so I think some of them may contain the original images for textures from American PC game studios like ID or gearbox.

KerbalAwesomebuilderX

I was given a few texture CDs and a lot of CAD CDs from the early 90s. They are all from American companies, so I think some of them may contain the original images for textures from American PC game studios like ID or gearbox.

Speed Weed 26-Jun-21 10:06 AM

You should upload them to archive.org

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 10:08 AM

Ok. I’ll try to figure out how to do that

Speed Weed 26-Jun-21 10:18 AM

You're gonna have to setup an account

KerbalAwesomebuilderX

I was given a few texture CDs and a lot of CAD CDs from the early 90s. They are all from American companies, so I think some of them may contain the original images for textures from American PC game studios like ID or gearbox.

Stevie 26-Jun-21 01:32 PM

I’m really interested in those. Are they backed up anywhere yet?

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 02:04 PM

No

Fanamel 26-Jun-21 02:06 PM

Hey that's pretty cool, any help getting those archived is very much appreciated

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 02:07 PM

Ok.

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 03:24 PM

Ooh there are some nice textures in here!

I might use them myself for half life maps

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 03:53 PM

Hundreds of textures in bitmap format. I’ll try to get them on archive.org

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Fanamel 26-Jun-21 04:09 PM

interesting, don't think I've seen these yet

it looks like wraptures and extreme 3D version 1.0 are on archive.org

But I'm not seeing uploads of the blue CD

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 26-Jun-21 04:22 PM

The blue CD has lots of demo scenes and AVIs

And the wraptures disc has everything from the blue disc and the red disc

I have the blue one installed on original hardware from 1995

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This one was released in 1992

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 28-Jun-21 09:34 AM

The pink one has everything on that

And more

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MtH 28-Jun-21 07:45 PM

after some research, it actually doesn't! "Wraptures Extreme 3D" is a compilation disc of 70 textures from Wraptures One (130 textures) and Wraptures Two (150 textures). the extreme 3d textures are also in lower res overall

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MtH

we're currently looking into purchasing the above ebay listing so pls try not to end up in a bidding war with us lol

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 28-Jun-21 11:36 PM

Oh! Great. After purchasing them you will archive them, right? I actually want to use these textures.

MtH 29-Jun-21 03:00 AM

ofc

Raven 29-Jun-21 06:00 PM

Huh, looks like the gif I used the other day has stopped working. I'll need to redo that

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 04-Jul-21 12:07 AM

Currently trying to recover the textures from MS 3D movie maker. they are all stored in .CHK files so it's really hard. Every software that I try that claims to extract .CHK files just crashes halfway through

ThatNintendoNerd 04-Jul-21 12:09 AM

There are utilities to create your own assets for 3D Movie Maker, so maybe see if that can parse and extract the textures

The file extension might not say all about what the format is. The file magic says a bit more but still not much

Raven 05-Jul-21 12:56 AM

I do like how if I run into a weird file type, but it shows up in the windows explorer preview window as an image, then I can just change the file extension to .jpg and it opens perfectly

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 05-Jul-21 10:04 AM

Has anyone done battlefield 2s textures yet? (edited)

Speed Weed 05-Jul-21 11:30 AM

Not that i know of

KerbalAwesomebuilderX 03-Sep-21 09:59 PM

How many teraflops do you reckon are in this room?

KerbalAwesomebuilderX

How many teraflops do you reckon are in this room?

SonicChao 04-Sep-21 12:12 PM

Yes