BinPbo and dt textures

[USSRsniper 0]

When I binirize any addon, channels in detail maps are lost, making the detail texture pure white? Any ideas?

[wld427 1705]

is everything in your p drive?

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

I've got the same problem

[armored_sheep 56]

Only alpha channel is used in detail texures.

Edited September 23, 2009 by Armored_Sheep

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

Only alpha channel is used in detail texures.

Thanks for that. That really made a difference.:bounce3:

[Synide 0]

When I binirize any addon, channels in detail maps are lost, making the detail texture pure white? Any ideas?

As with A1 always look at TexConvert.cfg. This is the 'rules' file that pal2pace.exe and texview2.exe utilizes when it is saving out a .paa file.

As Armored_Sheep already pointed out the _detail.* only uses the 'alpha' channel. If you look in the TexConvert.cfg file you'll note...

class detail {
 name = "*_detail.*";
 format = "DXT1";
 enableDXT = 1;
 // only alpha channel is used in detail texures
 channelSwizzleR = "A";
 channelSwizzleG = "A";
 channelSwizzleB = "A";
 channelSwizzleA = "1";
 dynRange = 0;
 mipmapFilter = FadeOut;
};
class detail_short: detail {
 name = "*_dt.*";
};

The above tells pal2pace/texview2 to 'swizzle' the R,G,B channels for files called '*_detail.*' by copying the 'alpha' channel to the RGB channels and then setting the alpha channel to 1. Then, later in the file 'detail_short' is defined for files matching '*_dt.*' which inherits the processing details of 'class detail'. Simple huh?! RTFM FTW!