LarryG on 9/8/2016 at 19:17
All you need is notepad to open .mtl files. They're just text.
But you are really trying to unscramble eggs. Yes, I know that they are working on a way to do just that, but my point is that while you can take a high resolution texture and easily make it lower resolution, there is no good way to take a low resolution texture and make it high resolution. You really have to create the higher resolution texture from scratch. Use the low resolution LGS texture as a guide and for color / hue / brightness. But that's all it is really good for. Details you have to add manually.
Steele on 9/8/2016 at 20:51
Ok, what about the DDS files?
LarryG on 9/8/2016 at 21:55
Those are just texture files. There's a plugin for PSP to let you read and write them. IIRC you are using PSP, yes? I believe it is on an AMD website.
Steele on 9/8/2016 at 22:14
Oh, ok cool, thanks!
Tannar on 9/8/2016 at 23:25
There is also a DDS plugin for Photoshop, if you're using that instead.
While I'm here, I'll just echo Yandros and LarryG, the only good way to make a texture hi-res is to make a hi-res texture. It can be time consuming to create one from scratch, but there really is no other way that works. Also, if you decide to do this, make sure your image dimensions are always multiples of two (16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, etc.).
Steele on 10/8/2016 at 01:06
Yeah, that's pretty much my course at this point. Though finding a good replacement for bluestone is a bit tough, none of the brickwork on any of the buildings around here is much of a match. Ah well, at least I'll have some idea what I'm doing when I find it!
Derspegn on 10/8/2016 at 01:59
Paint.net also reads .DDS files. I use that program to convert other formats to .DDS.
Tannar on 10/8/2016 at 02:04
Quote Posted by Steele
Though finding a good replacement for bluestone is a bit tough...
There are a lot of free texture sites online ((
http://texturez.com/) here's an example). I'd be surprised if one of them didn't already have a comparable texture, or one that you could modify so that you wouldn't have to start from scratch.
LarryG on 10/8/2016 at 02:42
I believe that there already is a high res version of bluestone in the texture pack that NV collected / moderated.
Yandros on 10/8/2016 at 02:47
There is, but Steele is saying he doesn't like the one in the EP.
