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         |            DUKE NUKEM 3D HIGH RESOLUTION PACK (HRP)            |

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         |                   A Duke3D Community Project                   |

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         |                Compiled by Parkar & NightFright                |

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         |                   Version 5.0 (May 6, 2011)                    |

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CONTENTS OF THIS README

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1) About

2) Installation

3) Notes

   3.1) WIP release

   3.2) Highlights of this release

   3.3) Known issues

   3.4) Title screen art

   3.5) EDuke32 port

4) License

   4.1) HRP

   4.2) Others

5) Contact/Links

6) Credits

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1) ABOUT

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Remember "Duke Nukem 3D", the great first-person shooter 3D Realms released back in 

1996? Its cool protagonist, ingame atmosphere, original weaponry and many other 

features make it worth playing even today.

For all Duke fans who want to play the game again in a modern Windows environment 

with 3D accelerated graphics, the Duke3D community has created the High Resolution 

Pack (HRP). Utilizing the amazing skills of various texturing and modelling artists, 

the project´s goal is to replace all textures and sprites with high-res versions, 

optimizing it for latest OpenGL ports.

All you need is the "duke3d.grp" file from your original Duke3D v1.3d or 

Atomic (v1.5) CD-ROM. You can also play with the shareware version available 

over at http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html . 

Here's what the Duke3D HRP has to offer: 

   - EDuke32 port for Duke Nukem 3D (by TerminX and Plagman, based on JFDuke3D by 

     Jonathon "JonoF" Fowler). Supports older Polymost renderer as well as the more

     advanced Polymer renderer (with advanced effects like normal/specular mapping,

     per-pixel dynamic lighting, real-time shadows etc). 

     For more info about these ports, check out JonoF's JFDuke3D and the EDuke32 site. 

   - 32-bit high resolution textures with 4-8 times the detail of the original textures. 

   - Models instead of the old sprites. 

While the HRP is still "work in progress" and missing quite a few textures and 

models, you can check the Duke Nukem 3D source code forums for additional content 

or even better contributing something of your own.

The community's goal is to issue a new HRP version once in 1-2 year(s).

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2) INSTALLATION

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Installing is easy:

First make sure you have your Duke3D CD in your CD/DVD drive or an existing 

installation of the game. You can also just have the "duke3d.grp" file somewere 

on your system.

Then run the installer (the file you downloaded/got from a friend or whatever) 

by double-clicking it. Then just follow the onscreen instructions.

After installation, you start the game using the shortcut in the Duke3D folder, 

desktop or start menu called "Duke3D High Resolution Pack". Starting the game 

directly will start EDuke32 without textures and models.

IMPORTANT: To see the high resolution textures and models you have to change the 

           render mode to 32-bit Polymer in the "Video Settings" under "Options" 

           in the game menu. Otherwise, HRP content will not work (properly)!

It is recommended to run the setup utility in order to set up your video, audio 

and controls for optimum quality and gameplay experience. However, most of the 

settings can be changed with EDuke32 ingame menu as well.

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3) NOTES

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3.1) WIP release

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Since this is a work in progress version of the pack which has not been tested 

extensively, there are probably some issues that need fixing. Please let us 

know of any problems with it so they can be sorted out in future versions. Also 

notify us if we are missing any art that’s been released prior to the packs 

release date, even though we have skipped some stuff since we simply did not like 

it, there is maybe some stuff that has been missed to include.

Please also be aware of the fact that we are still missing models and textures

because these have not been remade yet by the community. They will probably

be featured in upcoming releases of the HRP (or updates).

For a full summary of what's left to do, you may have a look at the HRP Wiki

todo-list: http://hrp.duke4.net/wiki/doku.php?id=other:next_hrp_release

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3.2) Highlights of this release

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Compared to previous release (HRP v4), you can expect the following changes:

> Full Polymer lighting support (with maphacks)

> Polymer support for many textures (normal/specular mapping)

> Polymer support for HUD weapons: Chaingun, RPG, Devastator

> Increased resolution for several textures and model skins (beyond standard 512x512 HRP res)

> New model for Lunar Overlord (ep.2 boss)

> Improvements to the ingame menu (new font, some new screens)

> Hundreds of new textures, dozens of new models - overall HRP size increased from 285 MB to over 550+ MB! 

IMPORTANT!

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Please note that all HRP v5 contents has been optimized for usage with Polymer renderer.

This means that if you use the older Polymost renderer, you WILL encounter problems (HUD 

weapons rendered incorrectly or other display glitches). Polymer requirements offer advanced

graphics effects but demand much better hardware. If you are forced to use Polymost due to

having a weaker machine, you have to download a different HRP build! 

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3.3) Known issues

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Although we tried hard to eliminate or avoid any glitches, unfortunately 

some of them could not be removed in this release. Here are those we know of:

- Current EDuke32 problems (might get fixed in future versions):

     > At the end of episodes 1-3, you will not see the end screen after the

       cinematic. Instead, only a black screen will show up.

     > The startup/loading screens are not optimized for widescreen resolutions 

       and might show black stripes on both sides and possibly some distortions,

       depending on your display.

- Rarely you will still find props, pickup weapons or the like that are

  clipping into walls, often preventing you from seeing them completely. 

  Maphacks can fix these glitches, so don't hesitate to report anything you 

  consider worthy of correcting.

- Slime babe #1323 has a transparency/clipping bug with her hair. Updating

  the model should solve that problem.

- If you use OpenGL texture compression/disk caching in EDuke32, the skyboxes 

  will lose detail, i.e. look more pixellated than intended. This can be 

  especially noticed with L.A. Night skybox (as seen in E1L1) when looking at

  the clouds. Right now, your only choice to fix this is to deactivate texture 

  compression in the menu. Note that this will also deactivate disk caching, so 

  you will have to deal with increased level loading times and possibly jerky 

  framerates in some situations.

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3.4) Title screen art

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The front screen is a slightly modified and enhanced version of 3DRealms original

art work used with permission.

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3.5) EDuke32 port

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The EDuke32 port is an enhanced version of JonoF's initial JFDuke3D port and

features enhanced mod support together with tons of newly-added code. It is 

released and maintained by TerminX.

We are using EDuke32 for running HRP now because the port gets updated frequently,

it offers advanced features for which HRP contents has been optimized.

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4) LICENSES

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4.1) HRP 

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The contents of the High Resolution Pack are licensed under these three licenses:

- The build engine is licensed under Ken Silverman's Build License which can be 

  found in "BUILDLIC.TXT".

- The EDuke32 port is licensed under the GNU Public license which can be found 

  in "GNU.TXT".

- The art content is licensed under the High Resolution Pack Art License which can 

  be found in "hrp_art_license.txt".

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4.2) Others

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Some textures in this pack are based on source textures copyrighted by 

CGTextures.com. Permission to use and distribute these specific textures has 

been granted to the author(s) of this texture pack. Textures downloaded from 

CGTextures.com are copyrighted and may NOT be redistributed or sold. For 

more information and the full license, please visit http://www.cgtextures.com.

This disclaimer applies to the following textures:

- highres\sprites\props: 585

- highres\sprites\signs: 4420, 4949, 4955

- highres\textures: 1120

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5) CONTACT/LINKS

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Pär "Parkar" Karlsson 

(HRP author) ....................................... parkar82 [at] gmail.com

Robin "NightFright" Reisinger

(HRP co-author) .................................... hrp_update [at] fastmail.fm

Richard "TerminX" Gobeille

(EDuke32 port author) .............................. terminx [at] gmail.com

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Message boards

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http://forums.duke4.net

The texture and model projects can be found in the Duke Nukem 3D source board:

http://forums.duke4.net/topic/779-duke3d-hrp-newupdated-art-assets-thread/

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IRC channels

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- 3D Realms IRC Fan Channel ..... #3dr@irc.quakenet.org

- JFDuke3D @ IRC ................ #jfduke@irc.freenode.net

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Visit us online!

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- Duke3D High Resolution Pack ... http://hrp.duke4.net

- EDuke32 port (by TerminX) ..... http://eduke32.com

- Duke4.net ..................... http://www.duke4.net

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6) CREDITS

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All the following people are involved in this release. They all have our gratitude,

for nothing of the great artwork (or pretty much anything else) would have been 

possible to include without their support and effort.  

Please notify us if you did contribute to this project without being listed here!

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JFDuke3D Port

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JonoF

Ken Silverman

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EDuke32 Port

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Plagman

TerminX

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Highres Textures

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0815Jack

ADM

Alexander Filippov

AlgorithMan

Conrad Coldwood 

Another Duke Fan

Armando

Audiocraz

BlitZ

Cage

chicken

Daedolon

Devastator

Ding Bat

DLT

dood!

Dreams

DukeAtomic

Ecmaster76

endmilled

Fearpi

Flacken.WS

Gambini

Gman

gt1750

Hendricks266

Impact

JaJo

Jblade

jimbob

Kef Nukem

Kev_Hectic

Kevin9er

Killd a ton

L2theKING

Lemming

Marked

Megadeus

motionblur

NightFright

Night Hacker 

nyne

ooppee

ozz

Parkar

Piccolo

Piterplus

princetonEO

Rellik66

Roger

Quakis

Semicharm

Sky Fox

Steveeeie

SwissCM

Tesserex

theRobot

toadie2k

Tip

Vasilinka

Viciarg

WarHammer

White Alven

yossa

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3D Models and Skins

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alandog

AlgorithMan

Besli

Blunty 

Cipher

Conrad Coldwood

dood!

Dr. Kill

DukeAtomic

drvarek 

Ecmaster76

efikkan

empyrock

Eric R

escapist

Esslan

FlackenWS

Forder

General Failure

GodBlitZor

gt1750

Hellbound

ilovefoxes

Jean Gorospe

Jokke_r

Killd a ton

Kralex

L2theKING

Madaut

MagNet

Mean Person

Millenia

motionblur

Mr.Fibbles

ozz

Parkar

Piterplus

Plagman

Radar1013

Renegado 

Roma Loom

Sky Fox

Soul Collector

Spiker

Swiss Cheeseman/SwissCM

Tea Monster

vakooja

Vasilinka

YicklePigeon

zilppuri

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Maphacks

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> Initial Release

Dave-ros

DSotM

Ecmaster76

endmilled

ikkejw

Killd a ton

Night Hacker

noctrun

Okira

Piterplus

Renegado

Zebius

> "Reloaded" Release

Hunter_rus

NightFright

> Polymer Lighting

Devastator

Micky C

Roma Loom

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HRP Assembly

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NightFright

Parkar

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Special thanks to

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- 3D Realms, for making this great game in the first place!

- The guys at Duke4.net for hosting and help building the HRP website.

- All of you who support and contribute to the project.

- All the mirrors and seeders.