In Arma texture files come usually in the format of paa which is great if you want to have them as part of a addon but for the simple purpose of a memory efficient mission skins jpg seems to be a better format that is supported by Arma as well. Requirements • • A graphics program that can load png and export jpg, paint should do the job I just Gimp. Carta Semilogaritmica 6 Ducati Pdf Editor there. HowTo • Open the paa you want to convert in TexView 2 open the file menu and select Save As • Save the paa as png (make sure to select All Files (.) ). • Open the png in your favorite graphics program and export it as a jpg While the exported png might be larger than the paa, the jpg can be quite considerably smaller and depending on your patience and export settings in your graphics program you should be able to export the texture at the perfect fidelity required by you while still being easy on a player of a mission to download - or just allows you to add even more textures without increasing the size of you mission. Additional reading •.
Open the.PAA with Texview. Click File >Save As 3. Go to 'Save as Type', and select 'All Files' 4. Then, for the name write whatever you wish and put.JPG after it. Now, I would NOT recommend JPEG.
It destroys the file quality, but does use a lower file size. For very accurate, high resolution textures always just.TGA or.PNG..PNG works with nearly anything, while.TGA I believe (Correct me if I am wrong) only works with Photoshop. Regardless, if you want to do re-skins, definitely use Photoshop. The features are excellent especially since you can get.paa plugins I believe and other cool stuff for game work. About the different texture types you'll find in use. Notice the different file suffixes - _co, _ca, _nohq, _nopx, etc - if you check the Wiki page you'll see that some of these textures have an Alpha Channel, and some don't. By reading the file suffix you can decide whether to save the texture out from TexView2 in either.tga (best for files with an alpha channel), or.png (good for general purpose textures that don't require transparency, or 4 channels for some other sneaky purpose).
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Both filetypes should load no problem in either Photoshop (get your 100% legit and free copy of CS2 from Adobe;)), or in. You should use the appropriate file suffix for new textures you make too, like 'blahblah_co.png' for a plain texture, or 'blahblah_ca.tga' for one with transparent bits - TexView2 will read the suffix as it loads the file and it helps ensure you get the correct 'type' of.paa file when you convert. B Edited May 22, 2013 by Bushlurker.