What is DXT2??

I Trunks I · Post by **I Trunks I** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 5:18 pm

i was making a skin in paint shop pro 8, i saved then it said somyhing about it has to be DXT2 or DXT3... what does this mean???? plz help!!

DremolitoX · Post by **DremolitoX** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:54 pm

oh my god you can talk!?!?!

Audio's Slave · Post by **Audio's Slave** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 3:55 pm

DremolitoX wrote:oh my god you can talk!?!?!

What?

Edwin · Post by **Edwin** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 3:20 pm

DremolitoX wrote:oh my god you can talk!?!?!

Double-u Tee F.uck?

Audio's Slave · Post by **Audio's Slave** » Tue Nov 09, 2004 4:38 pm

Edwin wrote:
DremolitoX wrote:oh my god you can talk!?!?!

Double-u Tee F.uck?

Lmao, dude I was like sitting there repeating your post out loud like 10 times trying to figure out what it meant....oh god im stupid

K-Bosch · Post by **K-Bosch** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:56 pm

Im getting this same problem.. when i go to Inject the skin back into HMT it comes up with this error Image being injected must be DXT2 or DXT3 im not sure what we are doing wrong. Please help.

maze · Post by **maze** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:06 pm

just look at wut you need to save it ass halo map tools tells you..ok
Sooooooooo just save it as wut ever it says

AIGHT!!!!

oh and for the 3rd type of texture ull need to save it as 32bits
like the sky and stuff...ok im off too bed,,,,in pooped

Onetoomanysodas · Post by **Onetoomanysodas** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 1:22 pm

AGH!!!! MY TUTORIAL!!! http://www.halomods.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17876

Right click and view image if the pictures don't show.

G0DF47H3R · Post by **G0DF47H3R** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 10:48 pm

^Listen to this guy^^

the_mztr · Post by **the_mztr** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 11:10 pm

Edwin wrote:Double-u Tee F.uck?

I must be stupid too cause i hvae no idea what the hell that means.

G0DF47H3R · Post by **G0DF47H3R** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:39 am

WT = white trash

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:35 pm

G0DF47H3R wrote:WT = white trash

wrong lol

Double-u = W

Tee = T

F.uck = F

WTF

yay

G0DF47H3R · Post by **G0DF47H3R** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:43 pm

My bad. U R Right. And Pie, love the sig lmao.

EqUiNoX · Post by **EqUiNoX** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:04 am

Well, lets see if I can remember, I belive that it is a image format that has to be used in the injection process, but i really don't remember...

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 10:35 am

Oh yes.

Certian files when being injected back into Halo need to be in certain formats.

For example, when you save a file as a .dds file in photoshop, a message appears asking what type.

In this picture, it shows the options.
DXT1 (No Alpha) --------------------- Never select that.
DXT (1 bit Alpha) -------------------- This is what you would select when exporting a weapon/vehicle skin.
DXT3 (Explicit Alpha) -----------------This is the only other option you should ever choose. If it does not work on DXT (1 bit Alpha) then it will work on this.
The Rest ------------------------------- Pretend they do not exhist