The height will be the height of the animation times the number of frames then rounded to the next power of 2 (eg. The width will be the same as your animation. For this tutorial, I will assume the animation is 512 wide by 256 high and has 7 frames which fits in the 512kb limit for DXT1 sprays.Ģ. Make sure there is an alpha channel and you save in 32bit. Photoshop with nVidia DDS plugin (GIMP also works too)īefore you begin, make each individual frame of your animation and save them as a. (Example: if the spray is 256x128 but you want it to fit in a 512x256 spray). In most cases, the only time you need to do this is when an animation is a 2:1 or 1:2 ratio and is less than 7 frames long.

Note: There is no need to do this unless you are unsatisfied with the quality of a spray when DXT5 is used. Here I have found a work-around that will bypass VTFEdit and manually and properly make an animated spray with a proper alpha channel. For some reason the method that makes the alpha channel becomes very blocky and unusable. Now, there is a bug in VTFEdit when it comes to the DXT1 With One Bit Alpha format (DXT1-1bA). If there is anything unclear to you, let me know and I'll do my best to clear up any confusion. Keep in mind that this is my first tutorial. For this tutorial, I am going to assume you have a general idea on how to make sprays and know which formats work for what situations (DXT1 = nontransparent, DXT5 - transparent). my pc is running very stable actually and gimp never crashes.1. i didn't modify gimp at all, did nothing strange and didn't install any shady programs. this 3D texture thing is new to me of course. I'm working with gimp for about 2 years now and i'm also a little familiar with it. The asylum pack also has textures in DDS i can't open.Īll the DDS files i tried to open were from the Game Guru directories! Gimp says 'file cannot be opened by DDS converter plugin' what i really don't undestand: now that i got this running i can open the textures for the comic library in GG, i can open many new media files in DDS but there are many i can't open. i have gimp v2.82 and i installed the normalmap and the DDS converter from this gimp file library. I want to edit / open / save DDS files in gimp. why are there always D, N and S files of a DDS file? and the first thing to do is to understand how DDS files work. Now after i got a little familiar with gameguru i would like to do some stuff on my own, own media.

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