An update to Epsillon's bmp to dxt3 converter

[Roger]

Great tool but the Dos commands don't work with win98.

So the eminent "Dos Tsar" Jeff 'Wuhwuzdat' came up with a single shot option. You need Imagetool from the Fs9 sdk in a folder with either of the 2 statements below saved as a text file on your computer, then resaved as a xxx.bat file.
Then put your bmp texture folder in the folder with the Imagetool and .bat (I called mine "bmp to dxt3.bat") and away you go. Note there is no backup made so make your own.

<<TWO batch files

First one, titled "dxt3 mips.bat" would contain this single command:

IMAGETOOL -r -brief -DXT3 -detail -nowarning -e bmp *.bmp

Second one, titled "dxt3 no mips.bat" would contain this single command:

IMAGETOOL -r -brief -DXT3 -detail -nomip -nowarning -e bmp *.bmp

WARNING: These files will execute IMMEDIATELY upon double clicking them, with NO failsafe type backout option!

Jeff>>

Cheers

Roger

[Admin]

I still love the power of MS-DOS batch language.

[wuhwuzdat]

for dealing with multiple files at the same time, working with windows is like playing a piano while wearing mittens!

dos and .bat files have much more precision...especially when doing things like renaming a group of files with similar names....windows just &^%^&%^&'s it up royal..while dos gives me what i want.

My "windows" front end for the shine program is a good example..the only "windows" portions of it are the "triggers" for the bat file "guns"..you may aim it and shoot it in windows, but the gunpowder is pure DOS!

Jeff

[Admin]

wuhwuzdat said:

the gunpowder is pure DOS!
Jeff

Amen!