[DNF FRANCE]

Why, and how can I fix this problem ? :

When I open any DDS texture, it appears green.
So, it is illegible and not usable...

Edit :
Example

[Micky C]

DNF FRANCE, on 21 July 2013 - 05:59 AM, said:

Why, and how can I fix this problem ? :

When I open any DDS texture, she appears green.
So, it is illegible and not usable...

In english regular nouns don't have genders, so "it appears green"

If I'm not mistaken, the green textures are the normal maps or something like that? Doesn't really help with your problem though.

[Tea Monster]

DNF was a strange beast technically. Those may be bump maps as opposed to normal maps.

[Gambini]

STALKER also uses green bumpmaps. But I think the case here is that they wanted the game´s content not to be readable by anything else than the game. I didn´t look at skins and textures but I did look at sounds and all them are stored in mp3 batchs that include about 100 samples each one, all with different pitchs and in a completely random order. Broussard was really worried that other companies like Valve, Monolith or even ID would want to steal his wonderful assets for their games

[DNF FRANCE]

Micky C, on 21 July 2013 - 06:29 AM, said:

In english regular nouns don't have genders, so "it appears green"

If I'm not mistaken, the green textures are the normal maps or something like that? Doesn't really help with your problem though.

The misspelling is corrected !
Thank you.

Gambini, on 21 July 2013 - 07:34 AM, said:

STALKER also uses green bumpmaps. But I think the case here is that they wanted the game´s content not to be readable by anything else than the game. I didn´t look at skins and textures but I did look at sounds and all them are stored in mp3 batchs that include about 100 samples each one, all with different pitchs and in a completely random order. Broussard was really worried that other companies like Valve, Monolith or even ID would want to steal his wonderful assets for their games

I thought the same thing, but before, I could extract the textures correctly. Someone did not do a backup unprotected DDS files ?
I want to use for the site DNF FRANCE. It uses parallax scrolling technology (HTML5). And the idea of sailing around the DukeBurger tower. So I need the real textures for rendering the map.

[Hank]

To first post - a greenish bump map has four channels, and the bluish one three, so the green have more flexibilities in defining height, but are not noticeable in most engines, so no one uses it.
If you use The GIMP you can filter out the fourth channel and stick with RBG only.


here are various comparisons of using ddt
http://www.poopinmym.../dds_types.html

[DNF FRANCE]

Hank, on 21 July 2013 - 08:09 AM, said:

To first post - a greenish bump map has four channels, and the bluish one three, so the green have more flexibilities in defining height, but are not noticeable in most engines, so no one uses it.
If you use The GIMP you can filter out the fourth channel and stick with RBG only.


here are various comparisons of using ddt
http://www.poopinmym.../dds_types.html

In GIMP 2.6 + Plugin to import DDS files :
- Image -> Mode -> RVB* (already selected...)
*RVB = RBG

- Channels tab :
Red (preview:black only)
Green (preview:gray texture)
Blue (preview:black only)
Alpha (preview:white only)

Example of the problem :

[Hank]

Both of those images you showed seem to have an alpha channel.
Theoretically, if you move the alpha data of the green normal map into its, hopefully empty, red channel, you should get the average purple normal map.

Or use the GIMPs normal creator to simply make a normal from the original.

Cheers

[DNF FRANCE]

Hank, on 21 July 2013 - 10:10 AM, said:

Both of those images you showed seem to have an alpha channel.
Theoretically, if you move the alpha data of the green normal map into its, hopefully empty, red channel, you should get the average purple normal map.

Or use the GIMPs normal creator to simply make a normal from the original.

Cheers

"Normal" textures OK, but this trick does not work to find the "Diffuse" textures.

[Hank]

DNF FRANCE, on 21 July 2013 - 11:23 AM, said:

"Normal" textures OK, but this trick does not work to find the "Diffuse" textures.

If what you are showing is the diffuse map, it only needs one colour, you may be able to convert this to a grey scale.
Or they put everything into one image, with different layers? Check if this thing has layers, or upload the texture set in question.