Has there been any texture types added to 1.3?

[cataclisto]

What are all the textures we can use in 1.3, can someone list them so i have a good idea?

[Warfreak]

Gladly:
.png
.tga
.pic
.dxtbz2
.bmp (not recommended)

Think thats all of them.

[GSH]

There's also .jpg/.jpeg, .gif (non-animated), and .tif/.tiff. BZ2DXTGen (see this board) reads a few more file types than BZ2 does, and you should use dxtgen to convert your textures from whatever uncompressed format you like to .dxtbz2 before distributing your mod.

-- GSH

[Feared_1]

I made a ground texture that was 4096x4096 just for hoots and giggles. My computer was gagging in the image editor, didn't convert from .tga to .dxtbz2, and didn't even work in game. Scaled it down to 2048x2048 and it worked, though. That was .tga, and I haven't tried other file types (doubt it will work anyway, but it was still fun), so we'll see.

[GSH]

DX9 has a limit of 2048x2048 for textures. If you had used .dxtbz2, it should have auto-skipped any and all mip levels over 2048x2048 and give DX9 mips starting at 2048x2048. If your graphics card had a limit under 2048x2048, .dxtbz2 should once again drop mips over that max and hand it whatever it could handle.

I considered making 1.3ta5 only load .dxtbz2 files, in order to "encourage" people to convert to that file format before releasing mods. Part of me still thinks I should have gone that way.

-- GSH

[TheJamsh]

dxtbz2 files cannot be converted back can they? But they can be viewed.

Personally, im only supplying .dxtbz2 textures in my mod, because not only does it prevent people from using my effect sprites all over the place unless i allow them to do so, but it also keeps the FPS up high, especially when my particle effects are much heavier on the system.

[OvermindDL1]

It is possible to convert dxtbz2 back.  It is a normal dxt file but with a new header, a very tiny bit of hex editing and it should work fine.
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[TheJamsh]

tssk... i guess the 450 effect sprites in serenesis will now be used by others . Oh well, i guess i made enough.

[Rocket]

do DXTBZ2 textures have alpha channels?

[TheJamsh]

If you put them into the original texture then yes. They have everything youre originals do, but are much more compressed.

[GSH]

do DXTBZ2 textures have alpha channels?

1.3pb4, pb4a, and ta5 have all shipped with .dxtbz2 files as their primary texture format. Alpha channels work just fine; you're seeing those in action every time you play.

-- GSH

[cataclisto]

the dxtbz2 would they be about the best on heavily textured maps?

[GSH]

Look: how clear do I need to be to say that if you're running 1.3ta5 at stock settings, every texture you see onscreen (except the localfog volume texture) is a .dxtbz2 texture. .dxtbz2 works. Stop asking questions, and just plan to use .dxtbz2.

When you're creating textures, use a format, e.g. .tga or the like, that your image creation tools and modeling programs use. Convert that to .dxtbz2 and ship only the .dxtbz2 with your map/model/mod.

-- GSH