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Kamshaft wrote:Seems like the dxt2dss converter has a bug, it seems to currupt the alpha channel, everything else is fine. Any ideas?

I was just about to post this...



It also does it when converting back to DXT... So like Stephen said, any ideas?

Well, if you have a correct version and an incorrect version of the same picture, please post them. Like I said before, there are some unknown variables in the DXT that may refer to the alpha channel. It might also be that the game knows which alpha channel settings to use, and didn't save this info in the DXT files. If you know what DDS settings there should be please let me know.

I just made a DXT3 .dds file with alpha and converted to .dxt and then converted it back to .dds and the alpha loads fine in PS for that... Probably something with the stock game files then I guess? But how come when I load the .dxt i made with an alpha into the game, the alpha is wrong ingame

GheTTo_cR wrote:I just made a DXT3 .dds file with alpha and converted to .dxt and then converted it back to .dds and the alpha loads fine in PS for that... Probably something with the stock game files then I guess? But how come when I load the .dxt i made with an alpha into the game, the alpha is wrong ingame

That means the game knows what type of alpha to expect from a variable in the DXT file. The DXT that is created is based on a template DXT gotten from a variety of game DXTs. But: it might be that the unknowns in the DXT are referring to alpha stuff, that are not set during conversion.

Mr.Mouse wrote:

GheTTo_cR wrote:I just made a DXT3 .dds file with alpha and converted to .dxt and then converted it back to .dds and the alpha loads fine in PS for that... Probably something with the stock game files then I guess? But how come when I load the .dxt i made with an alpha into the game, the alpha is wrong ingame

That means the game knows what type of alpha to expect from a variable in the DXT file. The DXT that is created is based on a template DXT gotten from a variety of game DXTs. But: it might be that the unknowns in the DXT are referring to alpha stuff, that are not set during conversion.

Well I found out when you only use pure white and pure black and everything pixelated and saved as a DDS 'DXT1 ARGB (1 bit Alpha)' it does work... I'm no coder or programmer but I hope this will get someone closer to finding a fix...

bruce..where do i put them.. and i put my skin to a dds and my photoshop cs2 wont open it.. same with the dxt files....

GheTTo_cR wrote:

Kamshaft wrote:Seems like the dxt2dss converter has a bug, it seems to currupt the alpha channel, everything else is fine. Any ideas?

I was just about to post this...



It also does it when converting back to DXT... So like Stephen said, any ideas?

I got that problem too...I don't suppose anyone has made any progress figuring that out??

garasaki wrote:

GheTTo_cR wrote:

Kamshaft wrote:Seems like the dxt2dss converter has a bug, it seems to currupt the alpha channel, everything else is fine. Any ideas?

I was just about to post this...



It also does it when converting back to DXT... So like Stephen said, any ideas?

I got that problem too...I don't suppose anyone has made any progress figuring that out??

Rookie fix..What works for me when i get that issues sometimes..Open the original skin file and convert to bmp file..then open file with DXTbmp program..import original alpha channel for the skin..save as DDS DXT1 then convert to DXT using DDS2DXT program then add to game files..
=FallGuy=

does anyone know how to extract the terrain files/greyscale maps from the pak files?

Mr.Mouse wrote:

GheTTo_cR wrote:I just made a DXT3 .dds file with alpha and converted to .dxt and then converted it back to .dds and the alpha loads fine in PS for that... Probably something with the stock game files then I guess? But how come when I load the .dxt i made with an alpha into the game, the alpha is wrong ingame

That means the game knows what type of alpha to expect from a variable in the DXT file. The DXT that is created is based on a template DXT gotten from a variety of game DXTs. But: it might be that the unknowns in the DXT are referring to alpha stuff, that are not set during conversion.

Mr Mouse, please share the source code of your DXT2DDS program. Thanks

GheTTo_cR wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:54 pm

Kamshaft wrote:Seems like the dxt2dss converter has a bug, it seems to currupt the alpha channel, everything else is fine. Any ideas?

I was just about to post this...



It also does it when converting back to DXT... So like Stephen said, any ideas?

might be because its dxt5 and not dxt3

here is Noesis python script to open the dxt samples from this thread: supports dxt1, dxt5 and morton swizzled paletted rgba32
top level mip only