To MIP or Not to MIP

[TSR2]

Hi chaps, its been ages since I've done this and I cannot remember what to do. I'm using imagetool to batch convert BMP textures to DDS, however I cant remember if I should use the -nomip switch as I cant remember what the heck mips do. I'm wanting to do this for use in P3D v4 so any other switches that are recommended would be appreciated. It seems like there are now quite a few options in the switches for imagetool that I don't recall being there in the days of v2.

All advise greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[DaveB]

Hi Ben,

From what DaveG has said about P3D (though this was v3 not v4) it prefers mips whereas FSX didn't/doesn't.

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

Cheers Dave, MIPs it is

[DaveG]

As Dave said, I found with v3 that mips seemed to give a better result as P3ds AA settings didn't work that great and using nVidia Inspector to boost the AA was hard on the system. With v4 the built-in AA seems better so I'm still undecided on mips now.

[TSR2]

I got a new card yesterday and it seems to be slower than my old one! Although the first thing I did was to move the sliders more "right"

I bought that Shorts Commuter pack... I'd never seen it before, so for £16 I thought, in for a Penny, and I desperately need some AI in P3D.

So the commuter pack is being converted to DDS as we speak. Actually DG, strange one, Do you remember that repaint you did for me of Ricks Hawk for RAE Bedford? It wont display in v4... all black and I've no idea why. Any thoughts as to what it could be?

[DaveG]

Don't know Ben. Just tried it here and it displays fine.

[TSR2]

Got it Dave, I had copied it back from the file history drive, and File history appends the date and time to the file name. File name updated and normal service resumed.

Now... how many other things have I done that with

[TSR2]

Dave, here is the command line syntax I'm using. I think it may be convering the format to dds, but not updating the filename to .dds. What do you think?

IMAGETOOL -r -brief -DDS -detail -nowarning -e bmp *.bmp

It seems to run the first time, but when I check, the files still have a BMP extension. If I try and re-run it I get "illegal bitmap file identifier"

[DaveG]

Change the "-e bmp" to "-e dds". That defines the extension for saving.

[TSR2]

Perfect! Thanks again!