Quake-style fullbright colors

AlevamLtd You should ask them. Afaik GLQuake didn't support fullbrights precisely for the reason I mentioned above. It can be done only in software rasterizers (which original Quake engine was). The whole concept of fullbright colors is tied with indexed display modes. It makes no sense in full RGBA mode modern GPUs operate in. Quakespasm may be doing some tricks or conversions but I'd say it's not worth the effort if you don't need to be compatible with original Quake asset formats. The effect itself (and better) can and should be done with emission textures or masks. In fact having a part of indexed palette reserved for incandescent colors is a primitive version of an emission texture.

If your texture assets use indexed color you'll need to convert them into RGBA anyway if you intend to use them with Godot. While doing so it wouldn't be hard to generate a mask for fullbright pixels as well.

AlevamLtd If I do need to use emission maps, will I be able to apply emission maps to texture tiles on level geometry as well?

No reason not to be able to. Level geometry is just meshes. Apply Godot's standard material to them, map the emission property and that's it. You don't even need a custom shader unless you want to render the emission in an unusual way.

If you want to mimic the fullbright "logic" more closely, instead of a RGB emission map you can use only a single channel (grayscale) mask. In that case you'll need a custom shader with light function that reads the mask texture and sets the diffuse illumination to full brightness for masked-in pixels. Then those pixels will never be darkened. They'll always just render out as they are in the albedo texture, effectively acting as Quake's fullbright colors. The only difference is that you mask-in actual texture pixels instead of specific color entries in the palette, i.e. you can make arbitrary texture parts fullbright, regardless of their color. This is obviously better than being limited to specific colors.

AlevamLtd Not sure what this demonstrates. If emission is stronger than you want it, darken the emission texture. You also might want to use a texture similar to albedo, not all white.

AlevamLtd You can do it in the exact same fashion just need to adjust the texture intensity because Godot's renderer and Blender's renderer may calculate things differently as former is a realtime renderer and latter is not.

Godot's standard material has the emission intensity multiplier property. So try to play with it to get the similar looking results. You also may want to disable environment/ambient illumination when tuning things.

AlevamLtd what sort of parameters?

Stuff under "Emission" section in standard material properties.
Everything you need was answered multiple times in this thread. Time to stop asking questions and start doing things

AlevamLtd They likely pipe the textures to emission channel. Might be further enhanced with some clever color management and LUTs.

Mind, in case of your spider here, the eyes are clearly meant to be emission but you can mix multiple textures cleverly via shaders/graph. you can also instead go with emission for the eyes and albedo for the rest, then use prebaked light maps to influence the albedo too. Skip using directional lights and rely more on lightmaps and ambient lighting...

AlevamLtd

shader_type spatial;

uniform sampler2D tex;

void fragment() {
	vec4 t = texture(tex, UV);
	ALBEDO = t.rgb;
	EMISSION = ALBEDO * t.a;
}