Page 1 of 1
GIMP Plugins for BMP's
Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 23:07
by TSR2
Hi Chaps,
I'm looking to see if anyone has a plugin for "The Gimp" to allow it to open FS BMP texture files? I'm not going to start with photoshop or PSP when the Gimp is free and just as good. I've had a quick search on the net and can't see anything, so wondering if anyone on here has such a thing.
Re: GIMP Plugins for BMP's
Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 23:22
by Garry Russell
Why not just use DXT BMP to convert them Ben?? :think:
There may be such a plugin but I've not heard of it and if it existed I would think it would be mentioned in lieu of DXT BMP???
.
Garry
Re: GIMP Plugins for BMP's
Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 23:33
by TSR2
Surely you loose quality etc when you conver, edit then convert back? Is there not a way of editing them natively, or can this only be done with PSP and PS?
Re: GIMP Plugins for BMP's
Posted: 14 Jul 2008, 23:59
by Garry Russell
Depending of the res of the original and the DXT compression you may lose a lot of nothing noticable and you will lose the same converting it whether it is done through DXT BMP or straight in.
If it is a 32 bit extended you will probably see no difference. If a DXT compressed image was from a high res original you may well get on with uncompressing once.
Sometimes the damage is minor and easily fixed like white going slightly pink or green.
Most of my repaints stemmed from originals that were DXT3 compressed and then converted in DXT BMP
It's the converting that does the damage...resaving it then calling that into Gimp should not do any harm to it at all.
Garry