Hello Everyone recently I have ran into some trouble while creating custom textures for hk-47 in new vegas I created the texture fine but when it came to preview it in the geck my texture did not appear instead it was completely black I used paint.net to create the texture if anyone wants to assist I have included the link below

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/fyeukc3g3krg33k/hk47+gold+tint+2.dds

i opened it up and re saved it with photoshop, give it a try now

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Neither of the links posted go directly to either of the files. Would you all be so kind as to fix them, please? Thanks!

i see that, was working fine last night until that crap started happening, stupid adf.ly, and i see what's going on now, it's removing the / between .com and download, sending you to adf.ly first, now it will take you right to it.

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/6x16kv2nvoto452/hk47+gold+tint+2.dds

Thanks I downloaded it and sadly nothing has changed the textures still show up as black

okay, i downloaded your texture and resaved it with paint.net. try if this works...

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/pdbdb1y55q9qb6z/hk47+gold+tint+2.rar

that did the trick rex thanks although what I don't get is I made the texture using paint.net and saved it using paint.net

It's black because you don't have mipmaps. Don't worry about it, it usually shows up in FNV/FO3 anyway.

Also, don't use DXT5 unless you have an alpha map: you doubled your texture memory for no benefit. Stick to DXT1 otherwise.

dazzerfong wrote:

It's black because you don't have mipmaps. Don't worry about it, it usually shows up in FNV/FO3 anyway.

Also, don't use DXT5 unless you have an alpha map: you doubled your texture memory for no benefit. Stick to DXT1 otherwise.

In photoshop, how does one choose dxt5 or dxt1?

Voivre wrote:

dazzerfong wrote:

It's black because you don't have mipmaps. Don't worry about it, it usually shows up in FNV/FO3 anyway.

Also, don't use DXT5 unless you have an alpha map: you doubled your texture memory for no benefit. Stick to DXT1 otherwise.

In photoshop, how does one choose dxt5 or dxt1?

It's simple, you just click on "Save as" and save your file (i'm guessing it's a .dds file). After that this should appear and you just choose DXT5.

Spoiler:

That's it, hope it helps.

mpaz96 wrote:

Voivre wrote:

dazzerfong wrote:

It's black because you don't have mipmaps. Don't worry about it, it usually shows up in FNV/FO3 anyway.

Also, don't use DXT5 unless you have an alpha map: you doubled your texture memory for no benefit. Stick to DXT1 otherwise.

In photoshop, how does one choose dxt5 or dxt1?

It's simple, you just click on "Save as" and save your file (i'm guessing it's a .dds file). After that this should appear and you just choose DXT5.

Spoiler:

That's it, hope it helps.

When I go to save, this is all I see..

@Voivre What version of photoshop do you have? Also, did you install NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop?

This one here:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

mpaz96 wrote:

@Voivre What version of photoshop do you have? Also, did you install NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop?

This one here:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

I think that's what Dazzerfong had me delete, but I may be mistaken.

Voivre wrote:

mpaz96 wrote:

@Voivre What version of photoshop do you have? Also, did you install NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop?

This one here:

https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

I think that's what Dazzerfong had me delete, but I may be mistaken.

I don't know any reason why this would be deleted.

You should ask him anyway though, since he knows more about this stuff than me.

@Voivre: BC3 is the same as DXT5. You chose 'Color + Alpha', so that's all you have. If you want BC1 (or DXG1), you need to select 'Color' only.

@mpaz96: I don't use the Nvidia DDS anymore because it doesn't support BC7 and BC5, which FO4 uses. Worse, if you open up a BC5 with Nvidia DDS, it imports it incorrectly: rather than an empty blue channel (as BC5 only contains R and G), it decodes it incorrectly, thus the plentiful array of faded blue normal map imports.

So, to summarise into a neat table:

	FO3/FNV/Skyrim	FO4
Normal Map	DXT5/BC3	BC5
Diffuse	DXT1/BC1	BC7
Diffuse w/ transparency	DXT5/BC3	BC7

Thus, if you want to get FO4 ready, use the Intel Texture Works tool instead. If you don't have Photoshop, you can use TexConv instead.

For more info, check this this out.

I had a feeling that the nvidia dds plugin wasn't saving the textures right for FO4, and is this the one dazzer, not really sure if it is

Code:

http://gametechdev.github.io/ITW-Beta-Test/