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Use .tgas instead of .lmps for menu graphics, conchars, and hud

Batch .lmp converter

And an explanation on what an .lmp file is. I know its a quake image but i need to know about it (ie how much bit depth, file structure, etc.)

Thanks!

A .lmp starts with two ints - width and height. Following that is a stream of bytes (of length equal to width * height) that are indexes into the Quake palette. Couldn't be simpler.

ok so it has to be the quake palette? Any batch converters or any way to replace them with .tgas?

definatly

several engines support tga conchars (or png or jpeg or ...) you get the drift look in gl_draw.c for draw_chars then compare the code from an engine like say joequake with the original to get an idea
how it works .

tenebrae got a simplistic way of doing it (close to the original) but you might want to go with joequakes textureloader (tenebraes textureloader is rather unstandard).

ok. Were do i find tanebrea's technique? And does proquake 4.70 psp supprt tga conchars and other textures?

32-bit tgas are something you don't want in a texture cache of a sony platform

i never said 32 bit

behind_you wrote:i never said 32 bit

Targas without transparency hm
Makes sense.

Ranger366 wrote:

behind_you wrote:i never said 32 bit

Targas without transparency hm
Makes sense.

They have to be 32 bit to be transparent? Does that include pink color transparency? Can i use pcxs instead?

behind_you wrote: They have to be 32 bit to be transparent? Does that include pink color transparency? Can i use pcxs instead?

1) yes, only 32b targas support transparence
2) pink color transparency? i dont think so. but i never tried it.
3) sure.

ok nd is pcx implemented in proquake 4.7 psp? How do i make the engine look forthe pcx?