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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: LeGuille on October 22, 2008, 10:48:16 pm

Title: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: LeGuille on October 22, 2008, 10:48:16 pm

I have Adobe PhotosShop CS3 Web Design Pro + Gold-Alpha-Beta-Gamma-Awesome-10.12b/YourMom edition. </sarcasm>

It seems to have issues, after I installed the DDS file importer / exporter plugin, viewing the files in the TBP core. I cannot open files to view / edit them or put them in a data/maps .vp so I can do custom-textures. It's so annoying. It gives me a program error every time. It will view the starfield_0001 file from the skybox_nebulae set.

So, I am confused as to what to do. How can I edit these DDS files more easily?

Title: Re: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on October 23, 2008, 12:50:07 am

What did you use to extract the files from the TBP core?  The file is so large that several programs will just extract garbage.  Try using the version of VPView that is on the TBP DVD. 

Title: Re: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: LeGuille on October 23, 2008, 01:24:41 am

I was using VPMage to extract.

I will try to use VPView.

EDIT: Thank you! This solves a lot of problems for me, Fubar!

Title: Re: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 23, 2008, 02:59:50 am

Moreso, why is this in Fred disc? /me can't move it, as he isn't king of Fred land.

Title: Re: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: LeGuille on October 23, 2008, 01:08:19 pm

This was actually a FRED question, because the follow-up is that I need to know where to put the new textures so that FRED understand to use them in a mod folder from the Launcher. I don't know how to make sure it defines custom textures from a mod folder.

Title: Re: .dds file editing / viewing in Adobe PhotoShop CS3
Post by: Jeff Vader on October 23, 2008, 01:10:00 pm

Quote from: LeGuille on October 23, 2008, 01:08:19 pm

I need to know where to put the new textures so that FRED understand to use them in a mod folder from the Launcher.

\modfolder\data\maps

Quote from: LeGuille on October 23, 2008, 01:08:19 pm

I don't know how to make sure it defines custom textures from a mod folder.

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/FRED_Command_Line_Reference#-mod