Exporting / importing Quake 2 .wal textures

[spirit]

Hi,

I'd like to edit a Quake 2 texture, it is in .wal format. I hate Wally and I'd like to work in PS or Gimp. What's the best way to do this?

I searched for a wal plugin but the only one I found was for PS 4 (no, not CS4 but 4.)

So I tried to export the wal to jpg using Wally (version 1.55b), edit in in PS and then convert it back to .wal using Wally. This totally screwed the colors though:


2 shows my edited texture as a jpeg in PS, 1 shows what it looks like after converting it to wal with Wally (yes, the surrounding texture is the original one). What did I do wrong?

(I also tried to save the palette of the original texture and then reload it before conversion in Wally, the result is 3. )

Which programs do you use to export and edit wal textures?

[spirit]

I don't like to bump threads but I'll do it this time because I'm quite sure that someone in here knows a good answer...

[tehSandwich]

It's always a good idea to keep the same palette while doing anything with Q2 textures.

[spirit]

I didn't intend to change it. All I did was export, edit, re-import => image f**ked.

Then I tried open, save palette, edit, import, load old palette => image *really* f**ked.

Maybe I should export to something else than jpeg?

[tehSandwich]

Jul 22, 2010 16:08:49 GMT -5 spirit said:

Maybe I should export to something else than jpeg?

Indeed, preferably something that will keep the palette.

[knightmare]

Try exporting to PCX instead.

EDIT: Doesn't seem to work with Wally 1.55b under XP 64-bit. It gives an all-black image with an all-black palette. Attempting to do a wal->pcx batch conversion crashes Wally.

I've done this before, under Win2000. I'll give it a try soon under XP 32-bit.

[tehSandwich]

PNG works, keeps the pallette and the overall image intact.

[spirit]

Yeah, I noticed (and I also noticed the black image with pcx).