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[Judgement]

HEy anyone know where I can find the .BIG extractor that was mentioned in the "Tools you need" topic in modding tutorials. I just started and made a couple models but want to finish them with skinning first and than bone them. It said it was in the utilities page but... I dont know where that is.

[Golan]

The most common extractors are Finalbig and the XCC-Mixer.

Edited by Golan, 31 August 2006 - 09:35.

[Judgement]

Thank you. ONe more thing. I tried using it and it works but I keep getting the textures in the .dds format. I dont know what that is and how can I make it work on RenX?

[Golan]

You can either use the XCC-Mixer to export textures as .tga (right-click -> export as .tga) or use the dds-plugin for Photoshop (Google is your friend) or the freeware tool DXTBmp to convert it to .tga .

The .dds is a compressed texture-format that includes both alpha-channel and mip-maps (there are dds-types that might not include one of these in order to improve quality or lower the file-size). Generally, they load faster, take less memory capacity and also improve game-performance a bit.

Edited by Golan, 31 August 2006 - 09:15.

[General]

I can't edit with using Finalbig ? why it can be ?

[Golan]

You can, if you use DXTBmp or Photoshop-plugin after exporting.

[General]

 Golan, on 31 Aug 2006, 11:32, said:

You can, if you use DXTBmp or Photoshop-plugin after exporting.

What is a DXTBmp and Photoshop-plugin ?

[Golan]

Have a look at my second post.

DXTBmp is a freeware tool that allows you to edit various file formats like .dds, .tga and others. The Photoshop-plugin is a tool released by NVidia that adds .dds export/eimport functions to Photoshop.

And who the hell edited my post?

[General]

Ok thanks ( I didn't see it , strange )

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Which one I should edit for make explosions bigger and different in colours ?

[Judgement]

Ok. So I downloaded that. Now do I extract the textures from the ZH folder with FinalBIG(already did that but when I went to open them with Dxtbmp it didnt find any of them even ones that were already .tga or the .dds alltogether). Need some more help with this. Anyone wanna give me step by step info? Wait I think I figured it out. I go to browse for images with Dxtbmp after extracting them with FinalBIG to a folder and than save them in the same folder. What does .tga stand for again? Cause im trying to save my thing now after browsing for it but I dont know with which to save it with.

Edited by Judgement, 01 September 2006 - 02:08.

[Golan]

.tga is Targa file format. DXTBmp uses the extended format that includes an Alpha-channel (Targa with Alpha).

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

 General, on 31 Aug 2006, 10:35, said:

Ok thanks ( I didn't see it , strange )

attachment

Which one I should edit for make explosions bigger and different in colours ?

INIZH>ParticleSystem.ini

[General]

Ok then , I edit it with notebook but I don't know how to save it for work

[Futschki]

fle / save

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

 General, on 3 Sep 2006, 09:29, said:

Ok then , I edit it with notebook but I don't know how to save it for work

I personally just edit it in Finalbig and save it, but if you want to edit it in notebook, just save it and when you've done that, go back to INIZH and go EDIT>ADD FILE and select your file

[General]

Problem is , I can't edit directly in Finalbig , also another problem is ( which is bigger ) ;

I edit Particle Systems but I can't send and save it to INI directory because when you click it , nothing happens , and I can't edit INI file directly in Notebook

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

why can't you edit it in FinalBIG, does it come up with an error message or something?

[General]

No , I see fonts at right and read them but can't touch them

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

so when you open up INIZH it should look like this:

yeah?

and then what happens when you click on the right?

Edited by Bob, 03 September 2006 - 13:35.

[General]

And this is it , I can't do something to the codes at right , I just can read them

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

hmmm, the only thing i can suggest is maybe try re-installing FinalBIG, maybe it wasn't installed properly or something

[General]

Is there an installation ? O__O I just unzip and use it I_I

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

to be honest i can't remember, it was so long ago, if it was just a simple unzip, maybe try redownloading it and unzipping it again

[General]

ok , so you mean that I can edit directly like in the screenshot you give right ? without do any extra thing !

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

yeah