Texture Guidelines

This should be a rough guideline for choosing the correct dimensions and format for your custom TDM texture.

Dimensions

• Diffusemap: max. 1024 pixels (when used for smaller areas: 512)
• Normalmap: max. 1024 pixels
• Specular: max. 512 pixels
• Editor image: max. 256 pixels

Compression Standards

• Diffusemaps: DDS (DXT1/DXT3) as well as an TGA for the hires repository (can be RLE-compressed)
• Normalmap: TGA (uncompressed)
• Specularmap: DDS
• Editor Image: JPG (not over-compressed)

Naming Conventions

Assuming your texture is named rough_grey_dirty, the names are

• Diffusemap: rough_grey_dirty.dds
• Normalmap: rough_grey_dirty_local.tga
• Specularmap: rough_grey_dirty_s.tga
• Editor Image: rough_grey_dirty_ed.jpg

Do keep a backup of the ultra hi-res versions of your work as well as your working files (photoshop, gimp files).

See also

• DDS creation