DDS and JPG Not usable in T3D Mat Ed.

#1 I've imported tons of dds and jpgs without problems. What are your texture sizes? Mine are all powers of two, dds work with both dtx1 and dtx3 compression.

#2 256 512 and 1024 pwr2 both Jpg and DDs now for some odd reason
I have even tried some PIC's of non Pwr2 that were like bmp and jpg in my pic's folder and they work for some reason. But none of the many
textures that worked prior to 1.1 work now I cant even paint terrain
with them like I used to.

#3 You do have the "updated" 1.1alpha download don't you? First one they put up was the wrong build.

#4 What will one say over the other? I pretty sure I might have the 1.1a

#5 Check this here to see if you got the dodgy "early download"

#6 Hi had similar problems with my .dds textures with the latest T3D 1.1.
When I would assign textures to to the material it would show up blank in the Material Editor. For the time being I converted them to .png format as temporary work around.

I however do remember reading a separate forum about proper .dds export choices in the photoshop and gimp dds exporter plugins.
Sorry I could not find the link to post, if I do I'll post it.

#7 I just downloaded the new version. And then went to work all happy and
and shit then BAM. After doing saves every few mins T3D crased. So
o'well no real issue I'll load my save session...Humm Wait there
isn't any sesssions there that I saved.....

So now not only do my DDS and Jpg's still not work but T3D is back to
NOT saving....Can we get a quick fix on this????

Hope to hear from someone real soon. thnx

#8 Bump is there a fix for this anyone????

#9 Pardon me but isnt being able to save your work a really important
problem if you are not able to do so? Am I posting in the wrong location to get help on these issues?

#10 I'd check your PC.

#11 Check my pc? , Lets see Unity will save, UKD will save but when it comes to T3D I need to check my PC? How interesting.

#12 Yep, I'd check Administrative Tools -> Event Viewer -> Local -> Error for things like IAstor timeouts, and then My Computer -> rightclick C: (or other main drive) -> tools -> Error Checking -> Check Now -> schedule -> restart, to see if anything is up with the MBFT, orphaned files, etc.

I'd also check that the directory T3D is reading/writing (or not as the case maybe) to is the correct version of T3D and not one of the older versions - which bizarrely happened to me once and I was sure it wasn't my mess up.

I'd also check that you're including .mis at the end of a new save name, as this has been an issue since TGEA.

#13 Steve just so I understand you right If i am not putting an extension on that it wont save at all????

#14 LOL I just tried what you said about the .mis ext and it worked DAM what a really ez thing for them to tell everyone and to fix wonder why it hasnt been done???? Thank you much on the SAVE Issue.

#15 Steve you would not know how to get the DDS or Jpg issue fixed would you?

#16 Regarding .mis:
That's been an issue since some betas - they I think it might have been fixed in one and then crept back in ... not sure.

Another long running issue is Gideon moveing sideways (strafing) whilst auto firing the rocket launcher causes a crash related to impact decals, but only with Gideon and the rocket launcher, my custom stuff which basically does the same thing doesn't crash (though I've not ported all my stuff to 1.1a yet), just been playing with the new editors.

No idea about your DDS troubles though. Try exporting a pre-textured model, select it, and then try adding the texture. Also try writing a material.cs manually with the correct texture loactions.

And disk check every so often - especially if you've got Dell's Samsung HDs, I swear that they are dodgy. Which reminds me, I shoulda bought some new Seagates or something when I was Xmas shopping today ...

#17 Yea you should treat yourself to those Seagates or some nice fast WD's.
K I will cont to try to fig out the Texture issue
Thank you for your help.

#18 My DDS files are working just fine, jpgs are evil anyway and nvidia should add funtionality to their drivers to verbally abuse anybody who uses such things.

Just to confirm however, what settings are you using to save your DDS files, what software and converter are you using?

could you upload a couple of these problem files so that others can check?

Theres a possibility i guess that some errant setting or custom code has caused some disruption, but ive used my DDS files in both 1.0.1 and 1.1a with no problems, all files are DXT3 btw

#19 Just ran a quick test.

All of my 32 bit tests worked

DXT1
DXT1a
DXT3
DXT5
32bit ARGB

these formats failed to display

16-0555
16-1555
16-4445
16-565
24-888

#20 Found out what it was, I was trying to pull my textures from a shared
network drive. T3D for some stupid reason has to have you COPY them into the T3D Dir structure before it will work with them which is
CRAZY how user friendly.