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 Duke3D Shareware Episode.

Here's what the Duke3D HRP has to offer:

• EDuke32 port for Duke Nukem 3D (by TerminX and Plagman), based on JFDuke3D by Jonathon Fowler. For more info about these ports, check out JonoF's JFDuke3D and the EDuke32 site.
• 32-bit high resolution textures with 4 times the detail of the original textures.
• Models instead of the old sprites.
• Optional: OGG soundtrack (by MusicallyInspired) and DukePlus mod (by DeeperThought)

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 at least once a year or anytime JonoF comes up with a new milestone of the JFDuke3D port. For the impatient ones, NightFright is offering an update pack every one or two months, integrating latest forum contributions and fixes into the HRP. You can find these updates here.

WIP Release

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.

Known Issues

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:

• Occasionally, you will find props, pickup weapons or the like that are clipping into walls, often preventing you from seeing them completely. We did the best we could with current maphacks, but it's inevitable to get some new functions.
• Slime babe #1323 has a transparency/clipping bug with her hair. Updating the model should solve that problem.

Title screen art

The front screen is a slightly modified and enhanced version of 3DRealms original art work used with permission.

JFDuke3D port

The honor of writing the first decent Windows port for Duke3D belongs to Jonathon Fowler (JonoF). While he isn't directly continuing his project any more, Plagman's/TerminX's EDuke32 port is still based on it. Jonathon's work will always be a part of this endeavor and is highly appreciated.

EDuke32 port

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.For the time being, we recommend using EDuke32 for running HRP because the port gets updated much more often and HRP content has been optimized for it.

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.
  

Pär "Parkar" Karlsson
(HRP author)

Contact: parkar82 (at) gmail (dot) com

Robin "NightFright" Reisinger
(HRP co-author, HRP Update Pack author)

Contact: hrp_update (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Jonathon "JonoF" Fowler
(JFDuke3D port author)

Contact: jonof (at) edgenetwork (dot) org

Visit online: http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d

Richard "TerminX" Gobeille
(EDuke32 port author)

Contact: terminx (at) gmail (dot) com

Visit online: http://eduke32.com

=================== JFDuke3D ===================

Jonathon Fowler
Ken Silverman

=================== EDuke32 ===================

TerminX
Plagman

============ High Resolution Textures ============

============ 3D Models and Skins ============

============= Map/Con Hacking =============

============== HRP Assembly ================

NightFright
Parkar

============= HRP Website Design =============

Parkar
Redsplat

=============== Special Thanks to ==============

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

3D Realms
...for making one of the greatest games in history!

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

And all the mirrors and seeders!