Author Topic: [FF7] 24bits texture conversion - Image2Tex (2011-08-02) (Read 63591 times)

Borde · « **on:** 2009-07-12 03:32:21 »

Hello everyone.

I've uploaded a little quick and dirty tool I coded to let you convert your 24 bits textures to the TEX format (as oposed to the 8 bits limitation we've had the last years). It should work with any BMP, JPG, GIF, ICO, WMF or EMF file. The original bitcount is respected. It can also save the textures as BMPs. I have barely tested it, so expect bugs.

Most of the credit should go to Aali for his specification of the TEX format and his help getting things working.

Have fun.

Binary (thanks to PitBrat for the mirror):
http://www.mediafire.com/?3y7ihysoccaxa5s
Source:
http://rapidshare.com/files/1563397979/Img2tex04_src.7z

Lastest version uploaded on 2/8/2011

Aali · « **Reply #1 on:** 2009-07-12 03:55:27 »

"Error 481" trying to open a 2560x1024 24bpp .png file

Borde · « **Reply #2 on:** 2009-07-12 12:31:45 »

Jejeje... you are right Aali. I missunderstood the formats supported by the VB6 version of LoadPicture. Nor PNG neither RLE are supported, sorry.

Update: Uploaded a new version. Now the bitcount is respected and TEX files can also be loaded.

Millenia · « **Reply #3 on:** 2009-07-21 17:53:02 »

Sorry for the bump and KIND OF unrelated, but is it possible to use, say, 1024x1024 sized textures with this tool in the game? I plan on doing all the weapons and there aren't enough texture slots so I have to combine stuff at the end and I'd like to do so with minimal loss of quality.

Borde · « **Reply #4 on:** 2009-07-21 21:38:28 »

Yes, you SHOULD be able to convert the texture no matter the size (yeah, theorically...).
As for the texture slots, you can have up to 10 textures for every character (I guess you may still end up running out of slots...). Here you have a picture showing what you must modify on the skeleton file (??aa) of the model:

Millenia · « **Reply #5 on:** 2009-07-22 09:05:58 »

Yeah, the problem is Cloud, Tifa and Barret all have 16 weapons; that's why I was planning on combining them all to a massive 2048 or so - let's hope the game uses it as-is and doesn't downscale or do anything else stupid like that.

E:/ It DOES work! Thanks Borde

Nero · « **Reply #6 on:** 2009-07-23 09:24:29 »

Iâ€™ve been waiting for something like that.
Thanks for your hard work everyone

Nero · « **Reply #7 on:** 2009-07-23 10:46:04 »

Just tested it, works indeed

the 24bip texts look great in game. However when I try to open the model in kimera it crashes. Maybe itâ€™s because kimera doesnâ€™t support 24bit colors?

Borde · « **Reply #8 on:** 2009-07-23 10:54:39 »

Right. The current version of Kimera only supports up to 8-bit textures. That will change soon, though...
Nice to see it actually worked Millenia

. As I said, I didn't test this thing very thoroughly.

Millenia · « **Reply #9 on:** 2009-07-23 11:13:49 »

Yeah, I don't see any problems; I threw 4 swords into one 1024x1024 and I see no loss of detail whatsoever.

Timu Sumisu · « **Reply #10 on:** 2009-07-26 20:16:53 »

in biturn it reads the outputted file as a requiem, and when in the game it loaded the original battle model stead of my new one o.o any ideas?

EDIT:

okay it works, but still doesnt read in biturn.

Izban · « **Reply #11 on:** 2009-07-27 00:47:18 »

where you using barret or vincent if so then you havent swiched all of there models otherwise i got absolutly no idea whats wrong

Millenia · « **Reply #12 on:** 2009-07-27 02:10:48 »

Quote from: timu sumisu on 2009-07-26 20:16:53

in biturn it reads the outputted file as a requiem, and when in the game it loaded the original battle model stead of my new one o.o any ideas?

EDIT:

okay it works, but still doesnt read in biturn.

Yeah Biturn won't show it but it does work.

Borde · « **Reply #13 on:** 2009-07-27 13:51:02 »

Yes, unfortunately by the time Biturn was coded the TEX file format wasn't fully known. Thus it can only open 8bit and 4bit TEX files.

obesebear · « **Reply #14 on:** 2009-08-04 04:49:21 »

Using Img2Tex does not work on files inserted into menu_us.lgp
Of course, converting them to 256 .bmp works, but that's just ugly

Aali · « **Reply #15 on:** 2009-08-04 05:49:46 »

What are you trying to replace? Some things just have to be paletted or they will not work properly.

obesebear · « **Reply #16 on:** 2009-08-04 06:10:42 »

The character avatars. The game has no trouble displaying an unconverted 256 color bmp (though the pic does have to be offset from the center of the image). Neither a 24bpp bmp nor tex seems to work though

Aali · « **Reply #17 on:** 2009-08-04 06:20:30 »

Rainbow jesus begs to differ

Makubex666 · « **Reply #18 on:** 2009-08-04 06:30:22 »

W-o-W

XD.....
Good work aali

Hellbringer616 · « **Reply #19 on:** 2009-08-04 06:30:57 »

Haha i love you and your rainbow jesus XD

obesebear · « **Reply #20 on:** 2009-08-04 06:39:53 »

I have no idea how you managed to do that. I printscreened your rainbow jesus as a 24 bmp and A<>B replaced it in LGPTools.

Once in-game it has clearly been changed to a 256 color. And the tex file of it just locks up LGPTools.

EDIT
It only locked up LGPTools because the program kept increasing the 'table start' size. Still doesn't work for me though

Aali · « **Reply #21 on:** 2009-08-04 07:04:50 »

My source image was jpeg and I didn't use LGPTools, but there was certainly no magic involved.
It just worked.

sl1982 · « **Reply #22 on:** 2009-08-08 06:34:47 »

It also works for the textures for the fonts

pyrozen · « **Reply #23 on:** 2009-08-13 22:24:43 »

I've noticed that when quickly opening multiple .tex files in a row(i'm trying to locate the worldmap skybox texture), the program has a tendency to crash out. Not sure what you need to pin-point it, but let me know. This error is very reproducable.

lee

willis936 · « **Reply #24 on:** 2009-08-19 00:07:43 »

Component 'COMDLG32.OCX' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.

Author Topic: [FF7] 24bits texture conversion - Image2Tex (2011-08-02) (Read 63591 times)

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