Hacking DDS TO TPL

[GamerzHell9137]

Hi guys i am trying to translate an game for the WII.
I found .dds pics and edited them but idk how to put them back in .tpl.
Does anyone know how???

 

[SifJar]

Never heard of DDS format. What game is this from? How did you edit this format? Where the images originally in TPL format, or why is it that you need to convert them to TPL?

 

[giantpune]

you can get some tools from (iirc) nvidia to convert dds to common image types like png and jpeg. and from there you can use gxtexconv from devkitpro to make the tpl. i havent seen any tool that does direct dds tpl conversions.

 

[lulwut]

Never heard of DDS format. What game is this from? How did you edit this format? Where the images originally in TPL format, or why is it that you need to convert them to TPL?

(7:06:25 PM) Pol C.:
dds?
(7:06:27 PM) Pol C.:
omg
(7:06:31 PM) Pol C.:
you live under a rock?

not sure how you can NOT know DDS as its the most common texture image file type i know off... (and since there are often game editing topics here...)

 

[SifJar]

I never deal with textures.

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Hmmmm giantpune i cant find it on nividia site can u send me the link?
And err is this the gxtexconv program? http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Gxtexconv

 

[SifJar]

http://developer.nvi...y-texture-tools - nvDXT from DDS Utilities looks like the program giantpune referred to.

http://cs.elderscrol...x.php/DDS_Tools - A list of various DDS tools, including a GUI for the above tool and some plugins for different image editors

And yes, that is the gxtexconv giantpune was referring to.

 

[giantpune]

this is the stuff i used when i was messing with dds files. http://code.google.c...-texture-tools/
im not sure of the name, but somewhere in there is a tool to convert the dds to other formats that should work with gxtexconv

 

[lulwut]

this is the stuff i used when i was messing with dds files. http://code.google.c...-texture-tools/
im not sure of the name, but somewhere in there is a tool to convert the dds to other formats that should work with gxtexconv

and if that can't be found there is always the photoshop DDS plugin

 

[GamerzHell9137]

i realized that i need to put the .dds to .tpl :S so i need an tpl editor or an program that can put back the dds to tpl :S

 

[Rikimaruu]

How many of those dds you want to put into tpl file?

 

[GamerzHell9137]

Every tpl has different

1 has 20 dds and other 4 etc.

 

[Rikimaruu]

I thought that 1.
There is a problem with it, because such a tool it is possible only to get from russian people.
Unfortunately, the language and it is not too easy.

 

[Polefish]

The standard TPL-format does NOT contain any DDS-images.
If you want to put DDS-images into a TPL you have to convert the DDS-images to a standardformat and create a new TPL with libwiisharp for example.

 

[Rikimaruu]

libwiisharp he isn't used for it. You don't understand his problem. There are a few graphics inside of one tpl.
This is not native format of tpl. It is other tpl.

 

[giantpune]

what are you talking about by "native format of tpl". that makes no sense.

 

[Rikimaruu]

check in the dictionary. You want to use gxteconv for this?
Good luck! ^^