Ok I made this picture:

img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/warmonger/warmongerfire22.jpg

and saved it as a tga with 32bits/pixel or whatever that unit is. Now I import it as a custom textures and it is all screwed up. Here's a screenshot of the problem:

img.photobucket.com/albums/v140/warmonger/Wtextureprob.jpg


I try to save it as a DDS file but Adobe wont let me save it. I hit ok and another window pops up and i can't select the save button on it.

nobody knows?

cmon guys dont let me down!

if u save as dds u have to resize your image by using "the power of two" for the dimensions and reformat to a perfect square instead of a rectangle. so use 2 by 2, 4 by 4, 8 by 8, 16 by 16, 32 by 32, 64 by 64, 128 by 128 pixels and so on.

btw: i created my own textures and wanted to place some metal ad-signs to my map. so i looked at the signs in the dawnville map. one sign at the train station waiting hall is a 1 units thick temp_metal textured brush. the front side is textured with some decal. when i place my own dds decal on a brush in my map i just receive a grey rectangle with a thick black border. i see the texture in my radiant. it looks okay. but where could be my fault?
any ideas? anyone?

so long

missing shader or quite possibly wrong path to the texture in graydiant...
make sure that you put your texture in the path it will be in when compiled....

thank you for replying. unfortunately your tips weren't helpful
before these textures i already inserted some personal textures. i put them into texturesmymapnamemetal and texturesmymapnamemisc and added "metal@" to give them some shader properties. this works fine.
for the new files which don't work i created an new subdir texturesmymapnamedecals and prefixed them with "metal@". in radiant the new files behave normal like the first ones i added. i can see them, fit, stretch, move. everything seems to be okay. but when i compile and enter the map in cod i only see these gray rectangles with the black border.
i already tried different formats (jpg, dds, tga), i played around with size, resolution, color depth. i removed the prefix, tried different prefixes (wood@, decal@, concrete@, etc.). i even saved them with different paint tools (photoshop, paintshop pro, irfan view).

Are you using pk3's or just putting them in the mp folder?

Use pk3, it makes life easier.

Right Click in any folder, Then select New < WinRar Archive
Name this the same as your map.

Now make 3 folders.
Mp
Maps
Textures

In MP put your .arena file
In Maps, put a new folder called MP, and put your compiled map and gsc's in here.
In textures put your .dds files [if you had an additional folder when you put it in textures, make sure you add this folder too.

put the pk3 in the main folder, then fire it up.


=Alias=Drofder

hi drofder,

thanks for replying.
okay. i'm still using simple folders and not having a pk3 (zip) archive because i'm still developing on this map. of course, you are right saying life's easier having all the files in a pk3. i know about the technique of creating pk3 files. i think this is certainly not my problem. i rather thought of the image files themselves. maybe there i have to take a closer look at. any hints about the limitations of dds, jpg or tga?
i know myself about the following limits:
- dds files must be square and must be "power of two" sized and mip maps must/should (?) be created
- jpegs may not be progressive, no care for the format needed
- tgas must be 32 bit and may not be compressed

any more limitations?

so long
Skywalker

anyone? any hints? please help me i'm stuck.

this might be a stab in the ear with a q-tip...but

when you created your texture, did you properly set up your alpha channel on export?
did you make a mip-map for your dds?
did you use the dds plugin that only works with (and therefor have to use) photoshop 7?

i'm just trying to help you out ...