Texturing tools
Many tools have been made by community members or 3ds plug-ins made available on the net. Reference to those can be found here and how to use them.

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Tiberius_Morguhn
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Texturing tools

Post by Tiberius_Morguhn »

I didn't see anything about this, so I figured I would just try to contribute some info based on my other NWN community work.

I use the GIMP for Windows to handle all texture work. I use version 2.2.9 although there are newer versions available:

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

I have tried Photoshop and I actually prefer the GIMP and its free versus selling your first born for PS. :p:

It also has some rather nifty plugins, like a very useful DDS viewing/editing plugin:

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/

a normal map plugin:

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7ecocidius/normalmap/

and a plt plugin:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Ot ... ail&id=670

If you want to view DDS or TGA images as thumbnails in Windows Explorer, these are nice too:

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/dds_ ... iewer.html

http://www.greggman.com/pages/thumbplug_tga.htm

Lastly, there is a very impressive image editing program out now for free called Paint.NET. It has many GIMP and Photoshop capabilities with a pretty slick interface:

http://www.getpaint.net/


Hope this helps some.

OldMansBeard
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Post by OldMansBeard »

Hey, that's useful. Thanks.

I use The Gimp and the .plt plugin but I didn't know about the others.

btw - welcome to CTP :)

Tiberius_Morguhn
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Joined: Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:47 am

Post by Tiberius_Morguhn »

One more that I just found that is really neat - supports 400+ image types. Useful for contact sheets or quick browsing......

xnview http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enfeatures.html

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