What made Build engine textures look like that
- Shared 256-color palette with shade tables
- Hand-drawn pixel art, often 64×64 tiles
- No filtering, crisp chunky pixels
Build engine texture filter
Duke3D/Blood-like look: 256-color palette, crisp pixels and strong contrast.
Preset settings
| Resolution | 64×64 |
|---|---|
| Palette | 32 colors (kmeans) |
| Dithering | none |
| 15-bit color | no |
| Downscale | nearest |
Every value can be tweaked in the editor; drop in your own photo or texture to convert it.
Other styles
- PlayStation 1Low resolution, 15-bit color, 4/8-bit indexed palettes and the GPU's 4×4 ordered dither.
- Nintendo 64Tiny textures limited by 4 KB of texture memory, soft colors and smooth gradients.
- Sega SaturnSharp sprite-like textures with 15-bit color and mesh transparency.
- DOS / QuakeOne shared 256-color palette, gritty brown tones, no dithering.