The Enhanced Resource Pack (or ERP) has been released on July 1. It's a collection of several community projects that have accumulated throughout the years (those upscales are rather new, though), meant to significantly boost your Duke3D gameplay experience on a visual and acustic level. You might see it as a spiritual successor of the HRP, if you want.

What the ERP has in store for you isn't little! You get:

• Neural upscales for textures + sprites (by Phredreeke and others)
• EDuke32 indexed hightiles build (by Nuke.YKT, needed to run the whole thing)
• Skyboxes (by Fox)
• Voxel Pack (by the Duke3D Voxel Pack team)
• SC-55 Music Pack (by Brandon Blume)
• PSX Sound Pack (by Marphy Black)

The Fixes for Duke3D mod has received a lot of love with all relevant menu tiles (e.g. 3DR intro logo, title screen, ingame help menu, ep.1/2 ending screens etc.) having received an 8-bit widescreen treatment, making it look a LOT better on modern systems without losing that retro vibe one can only get when sticking to the original artwork instead of using highres replacements.
There's also a few more tweaks under the hood, like you can now switch the menufont color to blue, green or grey if you want (you would have to edit duke3d-fixes.def for that, though). Picking up access cards now also mentions their color (e.g. "Red Access Card") and Raze support has been added (however, please note that if you are using any port other than EDuke32, you will have to remove game.con from the zipfile first since it will prevent the mod from loading otherwise).

Grab it now from Github while it's hot!

• [UPDATE] Fixes for Duke3D v1.4: Huge widescreen update for menu tiles, optional menufont color switch, detailed access card pickup messages, Raze support

Graf Zahl's Raze port has been released in its first official (non-beta) version 1.0, allowing you to play almost all Build games (Duke3D Atomic+WT, Shadow Warrior, Blood, Redneck Rampage and others, pretty much everything except for Ion Fury) with the same executable. In order to celebrate the occasion, I have created a small tutorial in the ZDoom forum with info about how to get everything working.

Even though there is not much else going on right now (besides the upcoming 25th anniversary of the Duke Nukem 3D release on April 19), I took the opportunity to apply a small patch to Duke!Zone II to make it work flawlessly with Raze, which is only fair after I already included Rednukem optimizations last time.

• [UPDATE] Duke!Zone II Fixed Release v2.0.4: GRPINFO definitions adjusted for Raze compatibility

The next version of the Addon Compilation is finally making real progress! You can now participate in testing any addon from the upcoming version 4.0 you want, regardless whether it's one of the new entries or an "old" one (many addons received considerable updates, anyway). In total there are now 135 addons with almost 1.500 levels.

Just be aware of the fact this is still a WIP release. Especially user map collections (e.g. Space Map Pack or Urban Map Pack) still cannot work properly due to a missing EDuke32 feature. It is quite possible that some of the other addons cause issues with recent EDuke32 snapshots as well, but that's why we need your help! The more, the merrier.

The intention is to be done around the end of March next year, so a stable and fixed release can happen for the 25th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D on April 19, 2021.

A new Addon Compilation release after almost four years? Wow! However, before you freak out: This is NOT what you might think or expect. I realized that most of the compilation entries would not appear in the EDuke32 launcher when using this with the World Tour groupfile, so I supplied a separate batch file (addons_wt.bat) for that purpose. This new version won't gain you anything if you are using the Atomic Edition - there are no new or updated addons in this version whatsoever. There is also no need to download the entire pack again for just a few kilobytes, so I have made a small patch over at the Duke4.net forums which saves you a lot of time and bandwidth if you have version 3.13 installed already.
And no worries: The REAL (huge!) update has not been forgotten and I am still working on it!

Our nice little Voxel Pack is doing fine in the meantime. mxrtxn is currently working on Caribbean voxels which we will hopefully soon be able to use in EDuke32 without having to edit internal Voxel Pack definitions.

Furthermore, we are currently thinking about retiring the old HRP and compile a new version (which would bear a different name which has not been decided yet) with upscaled original textures, sprites, voxels and SC-55 music. It would be much closer to the original artwork and might have a realistic chance of being completed within a reasonable amount of time. Also, most of the work for it is actually done already.

That's all for now. Get back to work, you slacker!

Updated downloads:

• [UPDATE] EDuke32 Addon Compilation v3.14: Added proper World Tour support


• [UPDATE] Duke!Zone II Fixed Release v2.0.2: Sound definition fix (reverted to v2.0 state)

In this difficult time of disaster, disease and suffering, it is important for you to remember two things: 1) We are still alive and 2) We are still working on something (even if it does not look like it all the time).

The Voxel Pack has made some progress in the last few months, mostly thanks to Borion and his amazing additions. Be sure to check out the latest version which is from now on also linked in the Downloads section.

Unfortunately, no substantial news regarding HRP (no surprise considering nobody is really working on it any more) and Addon Compilation. I intend to make some progress with the compilation, but it's hard to catch up with recent substantial EDuke32 code changes and the remaining issue with custom maps loading from internal groupfile folders is also still unsolved. There will possibly be a test version in the hopefully-not-too-distant future, though.

Until then: Stay healthy, stay safe! Wear those masks in crowded places - help protect others!

Updated downloads:

• [UPDATE] Duke3D Voxel Pack v1.3 pre4: 69 new and 11 updated voxels (since pre2), updated maphacks


• [UPDATE] Duke!Zone II Fixed Release v2.0.1: Fixed predefined sound #207 not being overwritten by custom definition


• [UPDATE] Duke3D Fixes v1.35: Game.con update and various DukeGDX optimizations

Two new releases are available in the Download section. Especially the Duke!Zone II update may be interesting since it is now the full version and not a patch any more, you can directly use this with your Duke Nukem 3D copy to play the three new episodes. Free of charge, of course!

We have also seen quite a bit of progress with the Voxel Pack project, mostly due to the tireless efforts of Borion who added TONS of new voxels since the beginning of the year. A final new version isn't ready yet, but the current pre-release is already very stable and has everything you need to play. You can check out Voxel Pack v1.3 pr2 over at GitHub, it's absolutely worth it!

HRP and Addon Compilation haven't seen any updates in quite a while, but at least the compilation might receive its long-awaited major update quite soon, depending on how fast a remaining EDuke32 issue with loading custom maps folders from groupfiles can be fixed.

Info about updated downloads:

• [UPDATE] Duke!Zone II Fixed Release v2.0: Standalone release (no patching required), tiles014.art converted


• [UPDATE] Duke3D Fixes v1.3: Skyboxes & Grabbag.mid removed, newer game.con fix, widescreen weapons

One last news update before 2019!

Unfortunately, I don't have nothing new for the download section just yet. While my work on the new addon compilation release is complete, EDuke32 is still not ready to run it with all the changes I have applied to the addon files. Hopefully it won't take much longer in 2019 before the port is capable of running everything as intended. I will definitely keep you guys posted as soon as there are any news regarding the topic!

Please mind that a lot of extensive changes have been applied to EDuke32 recently which obviously have broken support for the addon compilation to some degree. You may either only be able to run the standalone addons or none at all (since your launcher may freeze during the loading process). Latest r7299 snapshot from today should take care of these issues. Otherwise, please use older snapshot builds from a few months ago.

There's still something new for you to try: A Christmas-themed Duke3D addon with 8 maps surfaced over at the Duke4.net forums which you may want to get into that special mood for the season.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everybody out there!