BZ2 DXT Texture Generator updated

[GSH]

There's a new version of the BZ2 DXT Texture Generator available for download at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/bz2/BZ2DXTGen_v26.7z . This is for modders only. The file is compressed by http://www.7-zip.org/, a free compression/decompression app. You'll need that (or one of several other unpackers) to decompress it.

Update: posted a version # 7 of this. It's a slightly smaller download with newer nVidia compression libs, and uses DLLs more efficiently. To run this, you must install 'vcredist_x86.exe', which can be downloaded and run (once) before you can run this exe. That exe is also available from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647&displaylang=en . 1.3pb4 will requite that same vcredist_x86.exe installed, so you might as well get a jump on it.

Update: posted a version 11 of this tool. Now has a relatively fancy UI on it that ought to be fairly self-explanatory.

Update: posted a version 12 of ths tool. Updated several 3rd party DLLs. Also made pre-scaling preserve more quality.

Update: posted a version 13 of this tool. Added a manifest file telling Windows Vista what security level it should run at. Also tweaked readme slightly.

Update: posted a version 14 of this tool - upgraded libpng to v1.2.29 (security update).

Update: posted a version 22 of dxtgen, released at the same time as 1.3ta5. v22 (and intermediate versions) have newer helper libraries, and has better support for upscaling 640x480 shell & loadscreen backdrops. This version also requires the Visual Studio 2008SP1 vcredist.exe, included as part of the 1.3ta5 download, or independently from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en .

Update: posted a version 23 of dxtgen. Has fixes for black areas of textures appearing transparent, especially when upscaled. Also has lots of options for tweaking textures, including at the per-mip level. See the BZ2DXTOptions.cfg in it for more info.

Update: posted a version 25 of dxtgen. Has fixes for bugs in the new options, Win XP/Vista theming support, and also better crash logs (same as BZ2).

Update: posted a version 26 of dxtgen. Upgraded various DLLs used by dxtgen; no changes to the app.

-- GSH

[mrtwosheds]

It has a UI ? 

Thanks.

[GSH]

A commandline IS the only UI you need.

At work, we've got tools that do sort of the same thing, scanning over files and 'munging' them to a format used by the game. These days, our games don't read 'raw' files (tga, xsi, odf, etc) at all-- they only read the munged formats.

-- GSH

[Avatar]

Hmmm:

Top Web Results for "munged"
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Did you mean mun ged (in dictionary) or Mengde (in encyclopedia)?



-Av-

[mrtwosheds]

Its highly advanced technical terminology.... Thats it! "The Munger!"

[GSH]

Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munge or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mung . It's a one-way translation of data into a format less usable by humans, but more suitable for the game engine or hardware. .xsi -> .msh is a version of munging.

DXT textures are a format that the graphics cards use directly. Plus, doing the work of generating mipmaps is done once at conversion time, rather than every time a level loads. In effect, like .xsi -> .msh, but done offline. If BZ2 was released today, I'd make the xsi -> msh conversion a separate tool as well, and the core engine would only read in .msh, .dxtbz2, and binary-crunched ODFs.

-- GSH

[Commando]

Bumping.  If I could, I would sticky this topic since this program could be very useful for 1.3 mods.

[Lizard]

Bumping.  If I could, I would sticky this topic since this program could be very useful for 1.3 mods.

stickied

[GSH]

Slight update: odds are, the currently posted version will misbehave if you feed it a 2048x2048 targa file written by Photoshop or anything else that puts the origin in the bottom left.

-- GSH

[GSH]

Posted a v7 (see link in the first post) that fixes the 2048x2048 texture problem.

-- GSH

[mrtwosheds]

I tried to run the new version.(in a command prompt window)
The system cannot execute the specified program.
Is its response.

[GSH]

Did you install the vcredist_x86.exe package?

-- GSH

[mrtwosheds]

No.
where do I get it?

[GSH]

Re-read the first post of this thread. Second paragraph has a link.

-- GSH

[mrtwosheds]

Doh!