redleaf on 7/7/2016 at 12:15
I read there is a limit of 32 texture families for a mission. Does that limit refer only to New Custom families? Or does it also include OM families used in your fm?
If that's the case, I might be better off placing all my new textures in a few custom folders rather than replacing original textures and having to add all their folders as well.
Random thought - is it a bad idea to add new textures (rather than using the same names and replacing original ones) to original family folders?
LarryG on 7/7/2016 at 13:57
Yes. It includes OM families. But no to worry, only palette indexed textures care what family they are in. You should now be using .png files without palettes, and they can all go into a single family. Just don't mix paletted and non-paletted textures in the same family. IrfanView is a nice, FREE utility to convert between texture types. I used it to convert my old paletted custom textures to png.
Le MAlin 76 on 7/7/2016 at 18:06
Quote:
Max texture families: 32 (from 16)
Max family textures: 1024-ish (from 256-ish)
In the document of New Dark.
So with non-paletted textures you can just use one familly for one FM!
Personally i do if like the map was divided in two or three part, and i use 3 familly to found precisly a texture because with 100 textures in a familly it can be hard ^^
redleaf on 9/7/2016 at 08:50
Thanks, Larry. I have created some png textures to replace some OM textures, and placed them in folders by the family names. These new textures are not palettized. I haven't seen any problems. What kind of problems might crop up in the future?
redleaf on 9/7/2016 at 08:52
Hi Le MAlin! I like that idea, thank you. I will just have to get into the habit of keeping a file to credit authors of borrowed textures, rather than placing them is such-named folders.
LarryG on 9/7/2016 at 13:18
Quote Posted by redleaf
Thanks, Larry. I have created some png textures to replace some OM textures, and placed them in folders by the family names. These new textures are not palettized. I haven't seen any problems. What kind of problems might crop up in the future?
Be sure to check you're using unpalettized png textures. PNG also supports palettes. For unpalettized png textures in a folder with palettized png, gif, pcx, and so on, you can expect DromEd to get confused and throw a hissy fit. Check your monolog.
Le MAlin 76 on 9/7/2016 at 14:00
You can do it in comment on .mtl for all textures (now i do this, because then i can forget ^^')
redleaf on 11/7/2016 at 07:12
Ahhhh - coolness! Will do, and ty for that tidbit.
redleaf on 11/7/2016 at 07:14
Quote Posted by LarryG
Be sure to check you're using unpalettized png textures. PNG also supports palettes. For unpalettized png textures in a folder with palettized png, gif, pcx, and so on, you can expect DromEd to get confused and throw a hissy fit. Check your monolog.
Hissy fit - lol
