i would make a tut but i think theres alrdy one

finally got a texture working!

saved it as a .tga and it worked!
(still have no clue about the .dds thing)

here it is:


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greetz, HyBr!d

ok ive now got paint shop pro but havnt a cklue how to use it i got a pic then saved as blah blah .tga put it into my main/texture/my cusom textures
but in raidiant i cant see my pic just a blank screen
any sugestions also dont have a clue what a dds is and how to make 1

and toasty i cant find a tut so if ya make 1 let me know

for making a .tga texture you have to make sure that the size of youre image is in a power of 2 ( 256 x 256 or 512 x 512 )
and you have to make youre texture seamless.

to make it seamless, go in psp 8.0 to :
effects->image effects->seamless tilling

for resizing it ( that's the way i do it, don't know if its the right way) press shift+s and a resize window will appear.
Set lock aspect ratio off anf turn the pixel dimensions from percents to pixels then set it to 256 or 512 or an other power of 2.

then save it as .tga you should save with the shader you want

example: plaster@nameofyourtexture.tga

for more shaders look here

hope this helps

Greetz, HyBr!d

textures don't have to be square, just as long as both width and height are a power of two. i have approx 80 custom textures in the current map i am making, with various sizes. All are appearing correctly.

i've made my first texture (i know its a bit large )

1024 x 768 but when i compile and load my map it says its not a power of 2. so what's the format in which you can save the textures?

Powers of two:

2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048...
Any of these will do...

HyBr!d writes...

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i've made my first texture (i know its a bit large ) 1024 x 768 but when i compile and load my map it says its not a power of 2. so what's the format in which you can save the textures?

LOL. Like what caretaker said. It's not that it has to be divisible by 2 (x/2) it has to be a power of 2 (x^2). Remember basic algebra and exponents? Those are the only valid values. And, as was mentioned, it does not need to be square.

As for the shader, it is really only necessary (as far as I know) if it is something that you want to have an effect when interacted with in game. For example, if you make your own glass type of texture and you want the glass effect when it's shot or walked on (if it's possible), then you would call it glass@xxxxxxx. If you don't care about the effect, then you don't need to apply the shader part of the name. I have pictures that I have imported in as textures and they have no shader effect part of the texture name and work perfectly well.

so what?

I have my texture called road@racetrack.dds!

Now where?

Does it go in C:\Program Files\Call of Duty\Main\Textures\

And then how does Gradient know where to find it?

Thanks,

Really Puzzled

Supersword

put the texture in a new made "yourmapname" folder and place that one in a texture folder in your main, so you have something like this.

C:/Program Files/Call of Duty/main/textures/"yourmapname"/"shadername@texturename".tga/.dds then in radaint when looking in your texture you will see you mapname in the list click on it and you will get teh textures