.tif files

Moron66213 · Post by **Moron66213** » Tue May 18, 2004 3:22 pm

When I am making a map, do I have to convert my textures into .tif files like in the tutorial, or can I leve them as .jpg?

kirks4 · Post by **kirks4** » Tue May 18, 2004 3:38 pm

Yeah, you need to use tifs...tool won't recognize jpegs (as far as I know..I'm not at my computer right now...) and won't export them.

Using tif files has several great advantages over jpgs anyway...Jpegs are great for the web and other such uses because of the compression...they would be terrible for making games because of the compression...you end up with artifacts and odd colors sometimes and they can only hold the picture information where tiff's can hold information on alpha channels and the like....Anyway, that was a long winded round about way of saying no...don't even try to use jpegs in a level.

Moron66213 · Post by **Moron66213** » Tue May 18, 2004 4:31 pm

Ok, thx! I just put all the textures I used in the map in the bitmaps folder, right?

kirks4 · Post by **kirks4** » Tue May 18, 2004 6:00 pm

Yes siree

Moron66213 · Post by **Moron66213** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:43 pm

Alright, thx man. Awesome tuts by the way, now I actually know what I'm doing!.... sorta, lol.