Modding textures

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Hello , I was trying modding textures and just for tests I doubled the sizes of a texture set , glos map , diffuse etc ... resaved but then I got strange little squared white marks ingame on the armor .. any idea what that could be ? perhaps the game doesn't support 2048x1024 textures or what?

[Cozur]

Or perhaps you saved it in the wrong format?

[PROMETHEUS ts]

I saved dds1 for no alpha and dds5 for alpha all with mipmaps .

[Primergy]

Even NTW supported Maps of 4096*4096 size.

Your problem might be the fact, that increasing the size of textures always has a loss of quality, especially if it compressed.

[Primergy]

Even NTW supported Maps of 4096*4096 size.

Your problem might be the fact, that increasing the size of textures always has a loss of quality, especially if it compressed.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

its not a problem of wuality its like there is a layer over the texture like smal whiete array of swares.

[omzdog]

Pic?
Compression shouldn't result in that kind of error.
Seems like a problem with a specular map or shader.

[BullGod]

You've probably seen replacement texture. I've tried to resize some campaign textures, but when I tried to use them in game, engine used generic replacement texture instead. It's a checkboard with "no texture" texts.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

I have edited the lorica_hamata_diffuse

gloss
mask
normal
and specular ...

all are doubled and saved with dxt5 with alpha and dxt1 if not alpha ... so what coudl be else the issue?

[PROMETHEUS ts]

I have edited the lorica_hamata_diffuse

gloss
mask
normal
and specular ...

all are doubled and saved with dxt5 with alpha and dxt1 if not alpha ... so what coudl be else the issue?

[Cozur]

Post the files already, so we can see them.

[omzdog]

Resized textures have to be remapped if BullGod is accurate about your problem.

[BullGod]

Forget what I wrote about campaign map. I've tried modding unit textures and it seems that they've changed file format a bit and for example diffuse texture uses 1 bit alpha, not interpolated alpha, so you shouldn't save it as DXT5 like in previous titles, but as DXT1 1bit alpha. It seems that only normal map remains saved in DXT5 format

[omzdog]

lorica_hamata_diffuse is battle unit texture?
Remap the texture to the model or provide use with an in-game image.

We're all shooting in the dark.

[PROMETHEUS ts]

The remapping of model shouln't be needed if the scale proportion is kept , as for remapping anyway is not possible if models can't be edited imported and reexported .

I will post a picture asap .

[PROMETHEUS ts]

The remapping of model shouln't be needed if the scale proportion is kept , as for remapping anyway is not possible if models can't be edited imported and reexported .

I will post a picture asap .

[BullGod]

I'm able to replace textures with those of the same size, but resizing seems to have all kinds of wierd effects. Maybe it is hardcoded, or this size is declared somewhere in data files?

[PROMETHEUS ts]

Saving the diffuse as DXT1 1 bit alpha seemed to work . for the others I saved as DXT if no alpha and DXT5 if with alpha is that ok?

[omzdog]

The remapping of model shouln't be needed if the scale proportion is kept

No I believe scale effects must be remapped, sometimes algorithms do that funny floater thing when multiplying decimals so pixels don't land perfectly when they're readjusted.

If you can't remap I see little avenue in this venture unless of course I'm completely wrong.

for the others I saved as DXT if no alpha

What do you mean here?

[PROMETHEUS ts]

that saving as dxt1 solved the problem of the strange square layers .