pull up Kasdia's Texture Guide

That should help as far as saving the texture goes.

Chris


Edited by - cjabates on 8/31/2004 10:17:46 AM

I used DDS and will be sticking to DDS because of all the inverted things with the TGA format. what i done was this.

1. textured my ship in Milkshape with my tga files
2. got all my DDS plugins for Photoshop/Paintshop and installed them.
3. opened all my TGA textures that i used for my ship in the paint program.
4. resaved them as DDS in the same folder where my ship was located.
5. reopened Milkshape changed all the materials to the DDS files (it keeps the same mapping too so no worries about having to remap).
you don't need to re-assign the textures as they're already assigned but i tried to keep the same names for the DDS files as not to confuse myself.
6. used the MAT exporter to export the textures and the CMP for the ship!

because you use DDS you don't need to flip the textures and plus the DDS file size is smaller i believe

Kasidas texture guide has a few helpful hints too about when you save DDS!

Another point too: Make sure all your image sizes TGA or DDS are multiples of 2 e.g 64x64, 128x128, 256x256, 512x512. Freelancer is pernickety about using square textures.

And in your groups on Milkshape, check to make sure that your cockpit IS NOT the first group mentioned. If you have any problems after that getting your ship to show it is probably your ini files.
and finally in your shiparch.ini make sure this entry is here: LODranges = 0, 2000
Edited by - the_ashened on 12/15/2004 7:52:50 PM

Edited by - the_ashened on 12/15/2004 8:07:30 PM

I'm having a similar problem, I suppose. Here it is:

I used Lithium to get a UV map of my ship, then used PS to color it, saved it as a DDS and assigned the DDS as the texture of my ship. I exported the MAT and CMP files without any problems- the ship shows in-game, but with a FLIPPED TEXTURE! a la using an un-flipped TGA.

MS 1.7.0 shows it correctly, HardCMP shows it correctly, but in-game it's flipped.

Please- suggest away!

@Cjbates

Export the texture via UTF Editor... flip it VERTICALLY in your paint program, and then save it and import it back in... it'll work just fine.

BTW, peeps... you can save DDS with more/less mipmap levels than the Kasdian Guide's suggestions, and they'll still work for most things. Keep in mind that higher mipmap levels will make the file larger, and lower levels may have a negative impact on game performance, of course...