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| KERPAL |
  Posted 31st May 2005 7:36am |  |
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Hi again, I need help with custom textures.
is there like some special program for custom textures or something because I can't get them to work on RED. |
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NoClanFrank  |
Posted 31st May 2005 8:02am | |
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Fron RED editor's Help file:
It's easy to add custom texture maps to your Red Faction levels.
Texture Requirements:
All textures must be 24- or 32-bit .TGA (Targa) files. They must be a power-of-two in each dimension, no more than 256 pixels wide or tall. 32x32, 64x32, 256x256 are all okay. 133x64, 512x256 or 100x100 are not okay. Texture dimension cannot not have a ratio greater than 8 to 1 (e.g. 256 x 8 is not allowed)
Once you have your textures created, simply copy them to your \RedFaction\user_maps\textures\ directory, and run RED.
Enter Texture Mode using the Mode drop-down list, or by hitting SHIFT-T. In the texture category list on the left, choose the "Custom" category. It should contain your custom textures. If a texture does not appear in the editor, check that it meets the above requirements.
Any custom textures used in a level will be automatically included in the VPP packfile when you use the "Create Level Packfile" command. Please see the section on "Playing & Distributing Levels" for details.
Now are you having problems converting them to .tga format or are they the wrong size? |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 31st May 2005 8:12am | |
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I read somewhere that you can use this program to convert them to .tga format, if you don't have a program like photoshop.
Pic2Pic
Input file formats: BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, TIF, TIFF, TGA, WMF
Output file formats: BMP, JPG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIF
System requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, 0.4Mb free HDD space, 32Mb RAM, Pentium 90Mhz processor.
Did I mention that it was free.
BTW, I just downloaded it and installed it. Converted a .jpg to .tga with no problems and it was really simple. Just remember to choose what folder you want to to be sent to. You can always choose the texture folder in Red Faction to save you the time of having to move them there after they are converted.  |
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Modified May 31st, 08:18am by NoClanFrank |
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| RF Grim Reaper |
Posted 31st May 2005 7:22pm | |
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I use Pic2Pic all the time at home, it's great since I only have access to photoshop at college |
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| ExoStatic |
Posted 31st May 2005 7:40pm |
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Another couple of nice ones are XnView
and irfanView |
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| Pack Hunter |
Posted 31st May 2005 8:34pm |
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dotn forget slowveiw |
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Modified May 31st, 08:35pm by Pack Hunter |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 1st Jun 2005 2:52am | |
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All you hosers with your suggestion but I was the only one that gave him a link.
<--I win, I mean he does. If he ever replies to this thread.
*Dislikes it when people don't post back to see if they solved their problems!  * |
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sobe  |
Posted 1st Jun 2005 4:45am |
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Uhhh.... I am able to use 800x600 pics and so on..... |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 1st Jun 2005 5:15am | |
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Good for you, but it makes it more difficult to align them(the textures) up.
Why go through all the pain of having a harder time while UV unwrapping? 
Read the Help file in RED. It’s there for a reason. |
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| mad_ferrit |
Posted 1st Jun 2005 11:19pm |
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| Quoting NoClanFrank | | Read the Help file in RED. It’s there for a reason. |
Never even opened it |
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| KERPAL |
Posted 8th Aug 2005 3:58am | |
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this works good I like it  |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 8th Aug 2005 6:59pm | |
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| Quoting KERPAL | | this works good I like it |
LOL I have never used it but I am glad you like it. You can thank:
Beatonator
Staff Member
He is the one that told me about that program... I think.  |
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| Spikey2005 |
Posted 8th Aug 2005 9:57pm | |
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Here is an important notice if you are going to use Paint Shop Pro for your textures.
Use Paint Shop Pro 7. DO NOT USE ANY UPDATED VERSIONS LIKE PAINT SHOP PRO 8 or 9. Reason is because when you go to save your texture as a *.tga file in Paint Shop Pro 8, what happens is in RED, You will find some nasty colours or errors with the textures.
There has been no fixure or issue on to how to fix the problem.
Therefore I highly recommend you that if you are going to use PSP, use PSP7.
There are probley hundreds more other painting programs that you can buy or download Free trials. Just pick one that you think will suit your needs. |
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