What made DOS / Quake textures look like that
- Single 256-color palette for every texture in the game
- Textures around 64×64 to 128×128
- Software rendering with colormap-based lighting
Quake-style texture filter
One shared 256-color palette, gritty brown tones, no dithering.
Preset settings
| Resolution | 64×64 |
|---|---|
| Palette | 64 colors (kmeans) |
| Dithering | none |
| 15-bit color | no |
| Downscale | average |
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.
- Build engineDuke3D/Blood-like look: 256-color palette, crisp pixels and strong contrast.