/vr/ - Retro Games

>mapping question, specifically texturing

1:
When you're using texture packs, do you decide ahead of time what ones to use and pick them out and put them in your wad?
Or do you just load up a few texture packs into a wad, use the ones you want and then remove the unused ones at the end?
I'm considering the latter as even though the wad will balloon in size to a few dozen mb i'll be cutting all the fat later.

2:
Any texture artists want to contribute something to my project (can credit you, of course). I'm wanting one or two textures of around the Hexen type, think a fire theme on a wall texture of Korax. Then another showing ancient writing. I'm building a tomb.