.tga - help

[joao93]

How do I open .tga files? For those who don't know,.tga are the screenshots you took at glquake or wqpro. I took a lot of cool ones,but I can't open them. Please,help!

[=peg=]

well just get a descent picture viewer.. like ACDsee or IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/)

[ORL]

One of my favorite image editors is Wally 1.55b. Maybe it isnt the best editor out there, but it can do alot of cool things, mainly quake related. This is what I use to make most of my textures. It can open .tga format as well. Best thing about it, its free.

http://www.telefragged.com/wally/downloads.shtml

[Canadian*Sniper]

I use "Advanced Batch Converter" but I think my trial ran out

[joao93]

Thank you,thank you,thank you.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

i use adobe photoshop cs , and yes,it was free too (Isnt everything on the internet free? lol)

[kbdrate]

How do I open .tga files? For those who don't know,.tga are the screenshots you took at glquake or wqpro. I took a lot of cool ones,but I can't open them. Please,help!

I personally would use the GIMP (free GPLed) to view and edit them. There's a port for Windows here:

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

Get the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program .. in case you were wondering) and GTK+ 2.6 or 2.8 from that link.

Here are screenshots of it:

http://www.gimp.org/screenshots/

And the list of features:

http://www.gimp.org/about/introduction.html

It's not for everyone and it takes some getting used to. But it's been in active development for 10 years and has nice features. I won't do the comparison to photoshop that some people make because it's not really on par with that. But it's certainly better than say Paint Shop Pro or something like that.

[kbdrate]

I use "Advanced Batch Converter" but I think my trial ran out

I would use ImageMagick for this (free GPLed). It supports batch conversions and manipulations.

ImageMagick is command line only. But that's what you want for batch jobs anyway. ImageMagick is a library with a collection of stand alone applications. You would use convert to convert images between different types. Here's how easy it is:

convert file.tga file.jpg

Or put it in a script to recursively find all tga files and convert them

for file in `find /dir -type f -name "*.tga"`; do
NEW=$(echo $file | sed -e 's/\.tga$/.jpg/i');
convert $file $NEW ;
done

You can also do resizing, cropping, adding text, etc etc all with command line programs and options.

Get the windows version here:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/bi...es.php#windows

[Canadian*Sniper]

awesome thanks!