I posted this on VERC last night but figured I'd stick it here too.

Its not really that much use as I figure everyone is using TGA's anyway but I did it as an excercise is decoding the VTF format and I needed practice at writing Max plugins.

Anyway, stick it in the plugin folder and max can use VTF files directly as textures without having to convert them to TGA format first.

There is a small bug where certain VTFs (usually small, DXT1 compressed ones) can make Max crash but I'm looking into it.

http://www.wunderboy.org/3d_games/utils/sourcetools.php

Ever thought about possible photoshop plug-in? Or is that not a practicallity for you?

Jed m8 any chance you could make a sticky with all the stuff you have posted, there are utilities all over the first page of MSA.

Originally posted by JoJo
Jed m8 any chance you could make a sticky with all the stuff you have posted, there are utilities all over the first page of MSA.

Are they not all on his homepage? :confused:

Nice one btw.

Originally posted by Watchtower
Ever thought about possible photoshop plug-in? Or is that not a practicallity for you?

Photoshop SDK isnt available unless your a (very well) paid up member of the Adobe developer network.

Jojo, I'll do some housekeeping.

Question: Do the textures for things have to be in .vtf format? Cause it just seems like to much effort to convert all the stuff. Is there a way I can just leave it in .tga and the engine will recognize it?

Cs

Nope. Because VTF contains MIP maps, animation frames if needed, multiple faces if cubemap and header flags telling the materials engine how to deal with it.

Basicalyl VTF format is a slightly optimised DDS format to speed up the process of working with DirectX

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Nope. Because VTF contains MIP maps, animation frames if needed, multiple faces if cubemap and header flags telling the materials engine how to deal with it.

Basicalyl VTF format is a slightly optimised DDS format to speed up the process of working with DirectX

i'm thinking about convert cs:s models, into dod1.3
is that possible?
about the hands (http://www.counter-strike-dl.com/downloads-cat-40.html) ,and the textures(512x512?)...
or something i can steal from the cs:s v_models.vtf into dod1.3 mdl files,so i can use the hands/sleeves in dod1.3
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/macoto1209/aa/hands.jpg<<something like this photoshop work

p.s what does vmt files means?working with vtf files?

(sorry 'bout my bad english)

Macoto if you want your sig to be shown, type [ i m g ] before the link and [ / i m g ] after the link.

without the spaces, like this:

http://home.pchome.com.tw/web/macoto1209/CROUCHIN.jpg

I typed this (except the stars *)

[img*]http://home.pchome.com.tw/web/macoto1209/CROUCHIN.jpg[/img*]



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Yes, Jed. Have you had any occasions of converting DOD models to CS:S? Because I'd love to have Splinters Kar in CS:S :D

Yeah I've converted some but none you'd really worthwhile.

Originally posted by Gellyfishh
Macoto if you want your sig to be shown, type [ i m g ] before the link and [ / i m g ] after the link.
it tells me there was a "communication problem"every time i type that [/img] code...:confused:

Originally posted by Gellyfishh
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Yes, Jed. Have you had any occasions of converting DOD models to CS:S? Because I'd love to have Splinters Kar in CS:S :D
i mean...
i wanna use that hi poly hands with dod1.3 v_models or custom cs1.6 v_models that i have(.vtf to .mdl),not THIS (http://www.dayofdefeat.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=44235)

:( dod:s...dod:s...dod:s...dod:s...dod:s...:(

Originally posted by Trp. Jed
Yeah I've converted some but none you'd really worthwhile.
it's like using the ps2 to play ps1's games

it's like using the ps2 to play ps1's games

I think really hi-poly dod models would look great on source. And it would bring more of a DOD:S feeling