Okay I gone back to playing 1.3 after buying Source and Im having fun again but Im wondering is there some way to increase the resolution of the textures.

Am I right in saying the textures are something like 128x128 because HL was made when Voodoo cards were king?

Can the textures in DOD be extracted and improved in some way to make better use of the newer cards and improve the look of DOD 1.3?

Though a total noob to mapping if someone can porvide instructions and say what tools I need to use then Im willing to put in the work.

I recently had a look at James Bond:Nightfire which uses the HL1 engine but it had high reslution textures and it looked pretty good for a old engine. It made me think DOD 1.3 could look a whole lot better.

I don't see how you could do this. Unless you decompile map that does not belong to you,re-texture it and recompile it. In wich case, this would go against copyright of the owner of the map.

If I would have made a map in 1.3, I would not want someone to recompile a copy of my map.

Also why would you want Source look in 1.3, does not make sense to me, play Source.

Couldn't he just extract the wad file, recreate textures, name them the same and place the NEW wad in its respective folder, just like any other custom?

Arent there a lot of textures used repeatedly in maps that arent created for specific maps? Couldnt they be extracted and improved to lift the look of 1.3?

Im not looking to mess up someone elses work or claim credit for a map I didnt make.

And Coolhand I dont like Source like a lot of people so I just want to spruce up DOD 1.3 which I do still play. Whats wrong with that?

I think theres a console command like gl_maxsize (or something like that) which ups the size used for the textures. I don't think it makes the texture any bigger, per se, just makes sure that the largest MIP map is used.

My memory is hazy.

Wouldn't that mess up with the texture scaling?

Good point maxey! :p...didn't think of that.

I dont think it has anything to do with texture scaling, just how the graphics card handles them in GL mode.