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TGA to DDS batch converter

Uploaded by Lanjane - December 17, 2018
Author Author Lanjane
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This is a small pack prepared for easy and convenient batch converting .TGA files to .DDS (DXT5)

Main usage is to quickly convert large amount of .TGA files to .DDS format, for example to convert sprites created by RTW ingame sprite generation engine (see RTW sprite generation tutorial by Aradan).
But you may use the method described here for any other task involving convertation from .TGA to .DDS
This pack is based on nvdxt.exe tool by NVIDIA (command-line tool included in Legacy Texture Tools)

Usage
place .TGA files to raw folder and run convert.bat. After some time the result will appear in converted folder, and source .TGA files from raw folder will be thrown to Recycle Bin.
If you work with sprite files, you may need then to batch rename all .DDS files to .TGA.DDS. I use easy free program Advanced Renamer for this small task.

If you want the source files not to be moved to Recycle Bin after the converting is done, open convert.bat with any text editor and add rem before Recycle so your batch code will look like this:

Code:
nvdxt.exe -file raw\*.tga -outdir converted
rem Recycle raw\*.tga
Credits
NVIDIA for Legacy Texture Tools
Frank P.Westlake for free Recycle tool (license included)

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Comments

Gigantus
December 17, 2018 at 09:07 PM
Does this sprite tutorial (M2TW) work for RTW as well? It does include all conversion tools.
Lanjane
December 20, 2018 at 07:00 AM
Gigantus, maybe, I haven't tried. The method described here is universal for any batch TGA -> DDS converting, sprites were mentioned just as an example.