tga converter

[paradoxharbinger]

this is a little windows app i threw together to that will compress tga images to rle, thought it might be of use to people out there. it will take 24 or 32 bit non-rle and rle images and output 24 bit rle images. i suppose of there is a demand for it i could expand the functionality, but right now this suits my purposes fine.

i remember seeing somewhere that old dom2 maps sometimes used the alpha channel, though it had no in game affect, and the alpha bits were causing problems in dom3. this app will fix that problem, as it just strips out the alpha channel if it is present.

to use it, drag a supported tga (or multiple at once) onto the app. the files will be converted and saved in the same directory, with .rle.tga extension rather than .tga. other than that the names are identical, none of the old files are overwritten, deleted or modified.

hope this is useful

[Gandalf Parker]

Just for clarity...
it converts a tga to a different form of tga which still works but doesnt have the alpha transparency channel?
Feel free to add a post for this to the tools stickied thread.

[paradoxharbinger]

yeah thats the idea. it takes 24 bit tga, 32 bit tga, 24 bit rle tga and 32 bit rle tga and they get converted to 24 bit rle tga's.

[wildshane]

it's says the app configuration is incorrect

[paradoxharbinger]

yeah, i made that with ms visual studio, had this happen with some other apps i've made. you need to have a few dll files to run stuff developed with vs,here they are

[lch]

You can achieve the same results with Imagemagick, if you need a cross-system approach to change the TGAs.