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FSXA DirectX Texture Tool

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Hello Everyone,....

I just wanted to point out the the DirectX Texture Tool has some interesting quirks, for instance...

If you add mipmaps and the Texture also has an alpha channel... make sure you add the alpha to each mipmap individually... just adding it to the texture doesn't add it to all mips. So heads up!
 
Are you talking about the Direct X texture tool from the Direct X SDK, the (new or old)NVIDIA Plugins for Photoshop, or Image Tool from the FSX SDK?

Jim
 
Thanks. I haven't had that problem with the old Nvidia Plugins, but there's a new set out that I haven't installed (they have one for 64 bit Photoshop as well).

Jim
 
Yes I have the new NVidia Plugins installed also... it also appears to be more stable as well. :)
 
Funny, I use the FSX Imagetool via CLI switches and don't notice any problems.

DXTex I only use for things that Imagetool can;t do. (Not many!)
 
Imagetool doesn't allow alpha textures to be combined into diffuse textures that I'm aware of.... but the DirectX Texture Tool does.
 
Of course it does!! (FSX version ... not sure about the FS2004 one).

A psd file with an alpha channel will automatically be read into Imagetool.

A batch CLI can autocreate your dds +/-mips in any format you like!

thread here: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23027&highlight=imagetool

hcornea said:
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Range of Shortcuts to Imagetool, using the various CLI options

eg: Create a Shortcut to Imagetool, and select Properties
add: -dxt5 -mips -dds (after the " marks in the command)
Rename this shortcut as Imagetool DXT5

You can drop multiple files onto the shortcut at once ... and if you look at the array of CLI switches available it is extraordinary what you can do.
Click to expand...
 
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I use DXTBmp...anybody tried it? I think its a great tool. I also use pixplant to create my bumpmaps and specmaps becuase it can do a little more with less effort but pixplant is payware so not for everybody.
 
DXTBmps is great ... but doesn't seem to have CLI ability and it won't read alpha channels from psd files (the source-file type I work in)

Thus, it requires adding your alpha channel manually ...

The GUI is nicer than Imagetool by far however.

For opacity maps it is sometimes easier.
 
hcornea said:
Of course it does!! (FSX version ... not sure about the FS2004 one).

A psd file with an alpha channel will automatically be read into Imagetool.

A batch CLI can autocreate your dds +/-mips in any format you like!

thread here: http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23027&highlight=imagetool
Click to expand...

Thanks for the Tip,... though with Photoshop Elements 6 its alot harder to get a simple Alpha channel to correspond as such. For instance, you have to make a selection save to be a alpha channel... its not handled in the best manner or even called as such in Photoshop Elements 5 or 6.
 
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