Compressed TGA??

If you know how to load them, you can probably write a quick little program to convert normal TGA's to compressed ones without a whole lot of trouble.

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[edited by - Thunder_Hawk on August 9, 2003 11:20:51 AM]

I was actually looking more along the lines of an export plugin. Having to run each of the .tga''s through a RLE compressor would be something that would seriously piss off the artists.

can anyone point me in the right direction?



~Main

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Colt "MainRoach" McAnlis
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www.badheat.com/sinewave

Like plugin for some paint program or your own program? Most paint programs(Photoshop/ACD/...) can export RLE compressed TGA. For your own just write general RLE compression tool and send TGA bitmap data trough it.

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

[edited by - _DarkWIng_ on August 9, 2003 12:02:34 PM]

I''ve been snooping around Photshop all day and haven''t found a toggle for saving RLE tga vs regular TGA. Is their a button? What am i missing?



~Main

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Colt "MainRoach" McAnlis
Programmer
www.badheat.com/sinewave

[ PhotoShop 7 ] : File -> Save As -> Set format to Targa(*.tga,...) -> Click Save -> A little window shows up asking for color depth(16/24/32) and RLE compress/uncompressed. -> Click OK -> DONE!

You should never let your fears become the boundaries of your dreams.

Hum.. the option is vacant from PS 6. that could be my problem

Excuse my ignorance and lack of knowlage

THank you


~Main

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Colt "MainRoach" McAnlis
Programmer
www.badheat.com/sinewave

I''ve heard that new photoshop has some bug in it that doesn''t let you save to the alpha channel in tga files.
www.opticuslabs.com/alphatexgen
it''s a tool I wrote that''ll do it for you, and if you want to write your own tga files you may want to look at the source.
~Wave

Using PS7 here and TGA and alpha''s are working fine. You might want to reconsider messing with compressed tga''s as well. Once you drop them in a zip file they are approximately the same size (in face in my tests the uncompressed tga''s came out smaller...) So you might want to save yourself the work.


Jack