.jpeg to .vtf/.vmt

[Flamincactus.]

Can someone convert some images for a Tiger I'm making? whenever i try importing the image into VTFEdit it says error converting image. If someone could do that or let me know why i might be getting this error message i would REALLY appreciate it

[green]

Either use the Source plugin for Gimp or Photoshop, or use VTFEdit (I recommend the former, but whatever floats your boat).

For Gimp/Photoshop, if the image doesn't have an alpha channel, save as a DXT1. Oh, and if it does have an alpha channel, save as DXT5

[Zappy]

I highly suggest using PNG rather than JP(E)G up to the point of converting it to a VTF.

JP(E)G images are lossfully compressed, meaning that their quality is often not quite a perfect match of what you tried to export. And even worse than that is that the JP(E)G image format doesn't support alpha/transparency/translucency, while the need for alpha is not that uncommon for certain effects.
PNG images can be (and usually are) losslessly compressed, however, meaning that they can retain full quality when exported (possibly unless you use an odd and/or very high bits-per-channel amount... but if you don't know what that means, you probably aren't using that). They also support full alpha/transparency/translucency blending with no trouble.

Whether or not you want the VTF to be (lossfully) compressed (the DXT-related VTF formats, usually a good choice) or not (all other VTF formats), it's still best to retain an image's quality as much as possible until it's ready to be converted into a VTF.


It's also possible that VTFEdit will happily import a PNG image for you even if it doesn't want to import a JP(E)G image.