I've tried tga/jpg/dds (with those settings) and the trick above .. still no joy :(

The method at the end of this thread

http://www.modsonline.com/Forums-top-73003.html

works 100%

peri writes...

Are you a muppet? That's THIS thread

Nope, just had 2 firefox tabs open, one with this thread, one with the thread that tells you how to do custom textures corrctly. I simply copied the adress from the wrong tab

edited on Feb. 15, 2008 06:17 pm by peri

Does the original file have to be .dds, tried and failed with a jpeg wont even show in editor :/

Naming my .iwd with a "zzz_" at the beginning worked for me.
Hope this helps. Example...zzz_mp_backlot.iwd

{=EM=}Carcass writes...

I think you're confusing "multiple of two" and "power of two".

For a texture to be able to be tiled, its dimensions need to be a power of two, not a multiple of two.

A power of two means 2^x (pronounced "two to the x power") power. For example: 2^2 = 4, 2^6 = 64, etc.

So:
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
and so on...


The value 14 is a multiple of two, but not a power of two. Having a texture whose dimensions are a multiple of two (in other words, an even number; for example, 14 x 20) is certainly better than one whose dimensions aren't (for example, 11 x 167), but just because a dimension is a multiple of two doesn't mean it's a power of two.

A few example dimensions and whether they're tileable (width x height):

128 x 128 = tileable
128 x 500 = not tileable
128 x 512 = tileable

Whilstall that does worf for solid decals, how do you make an entire decal slightly transparent, such as the burnt_wall decals?

I've tried to do this and it usually winds up looking like a texture rather than a decal.??

any idea's?