Recoloring textures simple as 1, 2, 3?

[Ghoulz]

I found some hairs I like but dds textures are not set in a normal white tone. Can I simply fire the dds in GIMP or w/e, change, save, and that's it?

 

:psyduck:

[Keirgarth]

Pretty sure knowing the dds plugin for photoshop as I do that you would also need to know the settings to correctly save the file once you have changed it. There are a lot of different ways to save a dds file. You would also obviously need the plugin from nVidia to save in dds format.

 

For example, you could save with alpha, without alpha, with 4+ mipmaps, etc.

Edited August 23, 2011 by Keirgarth

[Rabbit1251]

This is a good question and one that I would be interested in hearing providing that it doesn't require a college course to learn.

 

 

Rabbit

[alonsomartinez]

I found some hairs I like but dds textures are not set in a normal white tone. Can I simply fire the dds in GIMP or w/e, change, save, and that's it?

 

:psyduck:

 

If it is a white texture, I am sure you can do it in nifskope.

[Ghoulz]

I already have a dds plugin for GIMP. Im just wondering if you need the format to be exact for it to work.

 

I had to deal with this for another game, where it was really fickle about format, or the texture wouldn't look right ingame.

[wetblanket]

CS Wiki on dds

Vince Bly on dds

[Ghoulz]

Doesn't help much when you don't know what format hair textures should use...

[wetblanket]

There isn't that many choices - try some and see. Quicker than waiting for someone to spoonfeed you ;)

[David Brasher]

On my machine, I can use all sorts of .dds formats made by GIMP. They just yield higher resolution or lower resolution. The formats I cannot use involve compression. Those make my textures render as black or invisible although some people claim to be able to use them.

 

So just grab a format in GIMP and use it. It will most likely work when you play-test.

[bencebence]

If it's the normal texture then DXT3, if it's a normal map, DXT3 too, if it's a glow map then DXT1.