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I took a file and reduced it to 256 colors. (The above image is 256 colors now, despite the PNG format. I could turn it into any 256 color format with no color loss).

Question how do I get this into a new pak file? What format and name and folder must it go into.

I'd like this charset to load without having to load without using a command in JoeQuake. Just need assistance figuring out how to get in a pak.

Actually I might have this under control. I'll have to make it fit the Quake palette, I just need a WAD editor and I found one on QuakeTerminus http://www.quaketerminus.com/tools.htm .

That MegaZoid, what a guy ... what a guy!

Nevermind, the conchars is the wrong size. Verdict, impossible. I guess a custom 32 bit charset even if reduce to appropriate palette is still 256 x 256 and the quake charset is 128 x 128.

Can't be done. Hence the loadcharset command in joequake.

whats wrong with 128x128 8bpp? Does it look too ugly?

No, Yellow built a nice texture pack that used a custom charset.

I'm turning it into an easy installer. But I was looking for a way to make it so the custom charset was used without having to use an autoexec.cfg or config.cfg.

Then I noticed I couldn't replace it in the WAD because the size is wrong.

I have a JoeQuake 0.14DEV easy installer for windows built and I am building an easy installer for textures, but I don't want to overwrite someone's existing JoeQuake config so I was looking for a work around to make it in a pak file.

Doesn't appear to be possible since the custom charset was 256x256 and the pcx default charset is 128 x128.

Or am I wrong? If I put a png in a wad file will it work? Can I put a skybox in a wad file?

[I'm just trying to make things newbie friendly. Click it, install it, run it ... no need to learn anything to get it up running and awesome looking.]

well, i dont know that editor you're using, but I guess the resolution wouldn't be a problem. The bpp is rather. Lumps in Quake's gfx.wad are all 256 colored, so I think even if the editor would allow you to add, it wasn't work. But try it out, and see if I'm right.

I'll give it shot, Joe. I'll do 8 bpp ... I can pull off that trick. I'm just concerned that the orig is 128 x 128 pixels and it'll get confused on a 256 x 256 one being in there.

We'll find out what happens

Baker's installer currently installs the pak0.pak from sput's joequake pro. My solution is to change the quake.rc in pak0.pak to include:
exec custom.cfg
And then install a custom.cfg in /joequake with such items as gl_consolefont "charset-1" and loadsky "morose"