Fixing .tga files?

[Bede]

How do you fix a faulty dependency that's a .tga file?

I have some that say the texture is not a multiple of 2 or something to that effect.

You can't modify them in Explorer like a config.txt file.

What program do you use to modify .tga files?

Thanks.

 

[Willem2]

Hi Bede,

you will have to use something like Paintshop, Irfanview,Photoshop or other program and resize the files in multiples of 2 pixels , as in 2x2,4x4,......64x64,128x128 or 64x128 etc. and replace them.

Hope this helps,

Cheers, :wave:

Bill.

 

[johnwhelan]

GIMP, paint.net are the free ones, Paintshop pro, photoshop are the graphic editors if you have them lying around.

Cheerio John

 

[john259]

It has to be 2 to the power of a positive whole number. Other multiples of 2 won't work.

OK: 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 etc (sorry I don't know what the minimum and maximum permissible sizes are)

Not OK: 6, 10, 12, 14, etc

John

 

[ckthomson]

Another program you can use with TGA files is Faststone Image Viewer. IIRC, it's freeware, and a decent quality product.

GIMP is good too, but I've never liked the Windows port as much as the Linux version.

Cheers,
CKT.

 

[mjolnir]

How do you fix a faulty dependency that's a .tga file?

I have some that say the texture is not a multiple of 2 or something to that effect.

You can't modify them in Explorer like a config.txt file.

What program do you use to modify .tga files?

Thanks.

The other comments in the thread are all correct. I would note one other thing, even though your post doesn't suggest that it is your problem. Although the ~.tga format supports some form or forms of compression, when I accidentally attempted to use a compressed ~.tga file in TRS, it was not a successful exercise, but worked fine when I used the same file in an uncompressed format.

ns

 

[john259]

Bear in mind that the problem might actually lie in the text file which contains the tga file's filespec, or the tga file may simply be missing.

John