Topic: Tutorial For Editing Dds And Xpr Files (Read 61 times)

mgrunge1967 · « **on:** May 15, 2005, 04:10:00 PM »

I am looking for a tutorial on editing dds and xpr files. looked around a few places and couldn't find what i was looking for. I was wondering if any one could help me out with understanding the process of editind these file extentions. I beleive I have all the tools i need to acheive what i want. I just don't know exactly were to start with using them.

yardguy00 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2005, 05:29:00 PM »

what tools do you have exactly? and for what game? elaborate....

HamSandwhich · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2005, 05:52:00 AM »

im think you can edit xpr in notepad and the dds is a photoshop plugin from nVidia, google .dds plugin and it will give you the site first link

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2005, 01:43:00 PM »

I have access to doax tools v2.5 and afs explorer as well as the usual programs such as photoshop. the game that it is for is slightly contraversial at the time so I think everyone is slightly sketchy about it. I will say that I have access to any save that was hosted on xbox-saves which covers basically what i need combined with the xbins items. I do not have XPRbreaker or ninjaAfs unfortunatly but I beleive I can get by without them.

mrjkwik · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2005, 06:42:00 PM »

i use miteexpr or gx to extract the dds files. photoshop with plugin to edit dds. then reinject.

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 17, 2005, 03:58:00 PM »

okay, say i am editing a outfit and i took some material off to make it shorter, but when I reinject and try it out, the material I took off is still there just shown in black. what can I do to fix that?

yardguy00 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 17, 2005, 09:20:00 PM »

you need bossafs... with that you can add transparency to the dxt1 files... normally only dxt4 have transparency flags

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 18, 2005, 01:47:00 PM »

Ok, you guys should put out a book for noobie-isms because I have since seen a lot of stupidity in the hardware modding forums. so here i one for the game mod sections.

what does bossafs do, or rather, how do i make it do what it does. It seems that all i can do is brows and select an xpr, then simply veiw the ddl files within. what am I doing wrong? Oh yeah, I can exit the program also. I'm real good at that.

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 18, 2005, 02:13:00 PM »

ok, don't answer that last one. i figured out how to do more than exit the program. i may be back though. hopefully only to thank you for your help and patients.

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 18, 2005, 02:55:00 PM »

I have got no idea what i am doing here. i get bug errors sometimes so i tried changing some of the stuff, this is in the texures and transparencies option by the way, and when it looks as though it may be working it gives me an error saying it can't veiw the reworked file and something about decompression. If I'm an idiot and you are not sure how to help me, it's cool. I will piss with it to try and make something actually happen but if u have any advise or anything that may be helpful I would be greatfull.

yardguy00 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 18, 2005, 11:55:00 PM »

shoot im a bit rusty.. so forgive me if im incorrect.
to give the dds file transparency
select the dds file desired
click both transparency flags
and press apply
then extract

Instigator · « **Reply #11 on:** May 19, 2005, 08:59:00 AM »

I think that you also must change the resolution of the DDS file, in order to add transparency. So, if you add transparency to a 256x256 DDS file, you need to reduce one of the dimensions by 1/2. Meaning the resulting DDS would be 256x128.

yardguy00 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 19, 2005, 10:29:00 AM »

QUOTE(Instigator @ May 19 2005, 03:34 PM)

I think that you also must change the resolution of the DDS file, in order to add transparency. So, if you add transparency to a 256x256 DDS file, you need to reduce one of the dimensions by 1/2. Meaning the resulting DDS would be 256x128.

i think you only had to do that when you were converting the dxt1 to dxt4... i think

mgrunge1967 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 19, 2005, 01:18:00 PM »

ok, that is solid help. I will try those suggestions and see how it goes. much thanks to you guys.

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