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[Vorick]

Hi there,

I'm currently building a fansite for the upcoming german release of Atlantica. So I was really excited to find this thread in here. It would really help me in content creation if it worked. Sadly, for me - it doesn't. I tried the xvi-script as well as the python one and never ended up with a usable dds file which I could open in irfanview or gimp. irfanview states a decode error and gimp says "unexpected EOF". I tried numerous files, but to give an example I tried the atlantica\NMap\DeathCastle1\DeathCastle1.dds file since I am mostly interested in usable map data. Model DDS-Texture didn't work either.

I also noticed that my file sizes differed from the ones given in the xvi-script-post.

Can anyone help me out with this?

Thanks in advance,

Vorick

Edit: For easier analysis, I've uploaded my unmodified version of the DDS-File: http://www.atlantica-mmorpg.de/temp/DeathCastle1.zip

[Yorick]

"It works here" ?

Here's what I can suggest:
- Open your converted file with WTV, The Compressonator or ddsview, see whether it displays okay there. If it does, the issue is not with the decode.
- Run ndoordds.py with the -v flag and compare to the output of my run, which created a file that was readable by WTV:

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ndoordds.py -v DeathCastle1.dds
Header values for DeathCastle1.dds
Length: 0000007C
Flags: 000A100F
Header field at 12: 0000018E
Header field at 16: 00000200
Header field at 20: 000C7000
Header field at 24: 00000000
Header field at 28: 00000003
DeathCastle1.dds has been converted

[Vorick]

You are right. It is working. I just wonder why both Irfanview and Gimp refused to open the files. They used to work with oder dds-images.

Thanks for your help.

[potemkis]

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I can't get the tool to work...

Is there any way that someone could upload the converted dds textures up? I'm really curious to see how they're made up.

[AceAngel]

Sorry to necro, but I am unable to get the Script running (most likely, doing something wrong in the commands).

Could anyone give me a dummies outline as how to use it.

[Yorick]

Sorry to necro, but I am unable to get the Script running (most likely, doing something wrong in the commands).

Could anyone give me a dummies outline as how to use it.

It should be as simple as installing Python 3 and running the script from command line.

What version of Python do you have installed? And copy/paste the relevant bits from your command line window, please, so we can see the way you invoke the script and the error message you get back.

Another alternative is to say "this whole Python business is silly", take the code, and port to language-of-choice.

[pixellegolas]

the only thing I do when doing python things is copy the python exe to the folder and make a .bat with:

sctipt.py command input output
pause

The pause can be good because the window stays and doesnt close so you see what actually happens

[AceAngel]

OK, well, here is what I did:

-Downloaded ndoordds.py
-Extracted to 'C:\Python30\Tools\Scripts', 'C:\Python30' and 'C:\nDoors\Atlantica\NChar3D\Texture'
-Double-Click 'Python.exe'
-Type in the CMD window: 'ndoordds.py -r C:\nDoors\Atlantica\NChar3D\Texture'

Here is what I get:

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>>> ndoordds.py -r C:\nDoors\Atlantica\NChar3D\Texture
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    ndoordds.py -r C:\nDoors\Atlantica\NChar3D\Texture

Invalid Syntax

I'm pretty sure it's me, I'm doing something wrong.

[Yorick]

Yeah, you can just run the script from your windows command line. I have no idea how it would behave inside python.exe, I never tried that. If python is in your path and was allowed to bind itself to .py - which is the default install - then you can just run the script itself. If that's not the case, then "python ndoordds.py <parameters>" should do the trick.

[Makina]

This script does not work, upload one better, Donate this forum for this script and does not work :S:S

anyone can explain?

Thanks.

[Yorick]

You know, I'd love to help. But I have no idea what "does not work" is supposed to mean. A bit more information would be awesome, such as "I get this error message when I do that".

Donate the forum - you lost me, buddy.

May I also point out: It is a Python script. Which means it isn't just useful, it's also source code. Nifty! If your "doesn't work" isn't just caused by "I don't know how to run a Python script" (please do Google), then having the source right there does allow you to tweak it to be just what you always wanted it to be, rather than the ungainly, ugly thing you received in the forum.

[deltaone]

http://www.progamercity.net/game-files/ ... 014-a.html

Anyone can repost here this converter ?