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by PockyWitch
Fri Sep 23, 2016 12:46 am
Forum: Graphic file formats
Topic: Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps
Replies: 4
Views: 1589

Re: Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps

I finally got one extracted. Just had to a 16bit (8.8, 2 channel) DDS header to it and it opens and looks perfectly fine in Photoshop. Just gotta figure out how to save these again, because saving it in 8.8 for some reason brightens them up, although this might be a bug in the nvidia plugin. Thanks ...
by PockyWitch
Thu Sep 22, 2016 12:51 pm
Forum: Graphic file formats
Topic: Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps
Replies: 4
Views: 1589

Re: Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps

They don't, I tried them already. And it's not always DDS, I already wrote scripts to handle both DXT1 and DXT5 and also the RGBA8888 files. It's the normal maps that seem to be using some sort of RGB format that I cannot comprehend.
by PockyWitch
Wed Sep 21, 2016 8:54 pm
Forum: Graphic file formats
Topic: Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps
Replies: 4
Views: 1589

Dead Rising 1 (PC) Normal Maps

Hello everyone over the last few days I managed to get most .tex files converted into either .dds or .bmp, but I cannot figure out in which format the normal maps are stored. Most capcom games seem to use some sort of DXT, whereas DR1 seems to be NOT using DXT. Tried a lot of things. Here's a descri...