TexConvert.cfg

TexConvert.cfg is a configuration file for TexView/ImageToPAA which defines parameters to be used for packing PAA files.

Config values

name

name = "*_co.*";

This is a wildcard pattern which matches the input filename, it is used to detect which config class should be used.

format

format = "DXT5";

This is the target format of the output PAA file. Possible values are:

• Default //auto detect
• ARGB1555
• ARGB4444
• ARGB8888
• AI88
• DXT1
• DXT2
• DXT3
• DXT4
• DXT5
• P8

limitSize

limitSize = 4096; // Default: 4096

This sets the maximum width/height for the resulting texture. Default value is 4096. Setting it to higher allows TexConvert to create up to 32k resolution paa files (Which Arma can't load).

enableDXT

enableDXT = 1; // Default: 1

Sets whether DXT compression is used. Not sure what the difference between that, and format DXT is.

dynRange

dynRange = 1; // Default: 1

Enabled dynamic range "compression"

mipmapFilter

mipmapFilter = "Default"; // Default: "Default"

Sets the filter to be used for down-sizing image into lower mip levels.

• Default,
• FadeOut //all components get closer to 0.5/128 the lower the mip level gets
• NormalizeNormalMap
• NormalizeNormalMapFade //Fades to surface normal with distance, like FadeOut
• NormalizeNormalMapAlpha //Same as NormalizeNormalMap
• AlphaNoise //Replaces alpha channel with perlin noise and flattens the histogram
• NormalizeNormalMapNoise //NormalizeNormalMap + AlphaNoise
• AddAlphaNoise //Adds alpha noise. res = (source + perlin) * 0.5 * (source > 0 ? 1.0 : 0.0)

errorMetrics

errorMetrics= "Eye"; // Default: "Eye"

Configures color error coefficients for DXT compression

• Eye
• Distance //intended for XYZ normal map
• DistanceXY //intended for XY normal map

channelSwizzleA

channelSwizzleA = "A"; // Default: "A"

Defines which input channel, becomes output alpha channel. Expression "1-A" can be used to store inverted channel.

channelSwizzleR

channelSwizzleR = "R"; // Default: "R"

Defines which input channel, becomes output red channel. Expression "1-BR" can be used to store inverted channel.

channelSwizzleG

channelSwizzleG = "G"; // Default: "G"

Defines which input channel, becomes output green channel. Expression "1-G" can be used to store inverted channel.

channelSwizzleB

channelSwizzleB = "B"; // Default: "B"

Defines which input channel, becomes output blue channel. Expression "1-B" can be used to store inverted channel.

virtualSwizzle

virtualSwizzle = 1; // Default: 1

Store information about what swizzling was done inside the result paa as a tag.

autoreduce

autoreduce = 0; // Default: 0

Check if texture is uniform color, and if so automatically only output a 4x4, single-mip paa.

dithering

dithering = 0; // Default: 0

Enables Dithering: https://opengameart.org/content/chapter-7-textures-and-dithering Using Floyd Steinberg dithering.