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senator

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Changing M8 Dds Picture
« on: October 14, 2004, 07:19:00 AM »
How do you change or should I say create the dds files from a jpg...  To what I believe is a directdraw file ?? which can then be inserted into the bios with EVTool...The image you can have in the top left of the screen when it boots...
Something with directx or a certain program to use ???
Anyone got ideas?
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NghtShd

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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2004, 09:50:00 AM »
Did you read the nfo file that came with EVtool?
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2004, 04:02:00 PM »
Ahh good point !!! I did browse it but but obviously when I was tired... :lol:
Thanx for the Wake Up !!!! :D

Evox Logo Notes

The logo is in DDS format.

You can create these using Photoshop or using apps which can use Photoshop
import/export plugins or with any image editor and a conversion tool. You can
find the plugin and commandline conversion utility need at nVida's web site
<http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html>. MS's DX9
SDK also has a converter, but it didn't allow enough control over the ouput
file to give me the exact format I needed.

The output file format should be 128 * 128 A4R4G4B4 DDS with no mip maps.
Exporting from Photoshop I chose 16-bit (4:4:4:4) no mip maps and left the
other settings alone. Using nvdxt.exe I use the command:
nvdxt.exe -nomipmap -u4444 <your_image_file.tga>.

Nvdxt handles pretty much any common image format (tga/jpg/gif.etc).

I've included a sample DDS texture files for demonstration purposes.
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NghtShd

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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2004, 04:54:00 PM »
BTW, some people report a hang when they change that image. All the tests I made worked, but I have seen images that cause the hang. Pressing the eject button will allow the xbox to finish booting so it isn't an unrecoverable error (for those who can't recover from a frag).
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