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FSXA converting textures

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Not covered in the tutorials---> automatically set to dds. What if I have 150 textures, but I want to convert to bmp or dxtbmp? do I have to go through each texture and change them over to bmp by hand?

Also- What if I choose bmp.... should I have chosen dxtbmp? Bob
 
Hi,

For this I use a tool called Convimx Extended Bitmap Image Convertor, it's free.

I use this alot since I used to convert around 700 textures manually using DXTBMP tool and that was tiring and long
 
Yes- I have that too, but I was wondering about any ability within MCX itself to do this when working with dae files (colada).
 
Hi,

The BMP setting is 24 bit BMP, which is not FS compatible. So choose either DXTBMP for FS9 or DDS for FSX.

Note that you can set the default format that will be offered in the Options.

Hope this helps,
 
I've heard that too, but I sometimes see a warning "texture is 24 bit... warning!! But it works anyway. Regardless I dxt my bmps. In FSX I use dxt5 most of the time or dds.

Yes- I saw that in options. I just thought there may have been something else as well. Bob
 
Hi,

In the options you can specify the default texture type. That determines the initial value of the comboboxes.
 
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