Texture Native Struct

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This article is about the Struct section accompanied by a Texture Native parent section.

The Texture Native Struct section can usually be found in texture archives used by the PC and XBOX versions of the GTA III game trilogy. They are the most important sections inside a .txd file since they contain the names, dimensions and the actual image data for textures. The typical location in the file's section hierarchy is Texture Dictionary > Texture Native > Struct.

Header

There is a 88 byte header with general image information:

 4b - DWORD    - Platform ID
 2b - WORD     - Filter Flags
 1b - BYTE     - Texture Wrap V
 1b - BYTE     - Texture Wrap U
32b - CHAR[32] - Diffuse Texture Name (null-terminated string)
32b - CHAR[32] - Alpha Texture Name (null-terminated string)
 4b - DWORD    - Raster Format
 4b - DWORD    - Alpha/FOURCC
 2b - WORD     - Image Width
 2b - WORD     - Image Height
 1b - BYTE     - Bits Per Pixel (BPP)
 1b - BYTE     - Mipmap Count
 1b - BYTE     - Raster Type, always 0x04 ("Texture")
 1b - BYTE     - DXT Compression Type

Platform ID

This is 8 for GTA3 and VC on the PC, 9 for GTA SA on the PC, and 5 for GTA3/VC/SA on the XBOX.

Filter Flags

FILTER_NONE                0x00
FILTER_NEAREST             0x01
FILTER_LINEAR              0x02
FILTER_MIP_NEAREST         0x03
FILTER_MIP_LINEAR          0x04
FILTER_LINEAR_MIP_NEAREST  0x05
FILTER_LINEAR_MIP_LINEAR   0x06

Texture Wrap

WRAP_NONE     0x00
WRAP_WRAP     0x01
WRAP_MIRROR   0x02
WRAP_CLAMP    0x03

Raster Format

FORMAT_DEFAULT         0x0000
FORMAT_1555            0x0100 (1 bit alpha, RGB 5 bits each; also used for DXT1 with alpha)
FORMAT_565             0x0200 (5 bits red, 6 bits green, 5 bits blue; also used for DXT1 without alpha)
FORMAT_4444            0x0300 (RGBA 4 bits each; also used for DXT3)
FORMAT_LUM8            0x0400 (gray scale)
FORMAT_8888            0x0500 (RGBA 8 bits each)
FORMAT_888             0x0600 (RGB 8 bits each)
FORMAT_555             0x0A00 (RGB 5 bits each - rare, use 565 instead)

FORMAT_EXT_AUTO_MIPMAP 0x1000 (RW generates mipmaps)
FORMAT_EXT_PAL8        0x2000 (2^8 = 256 palette colors)
FORMAT_EXT_PAL4        0x4000 (2^4 = 16 palette colors)
FORMAT_EXT_MIPMAP      0x8000 (mipmaps included)

Alpha/FOURCC

Usually this defines if the alpha channel is used (0: no, 1: yes), but for platform 9 this is the FOURCC of the used DXTn compression type or something else for other formats (currently unknown).

BPP

8, 16 or 32; 8 usually comes with palette

DXT Compression Type

If greater than 0 the raster data is DXT compressed. This value directly defines the DXT compression (e.g. 3 means DXT3). For more information, refer to S3 Texture Compression.

However, for GTA SA (platform ID 9) this is slightly different. The DXT version is derived from the FOURCC, while this seems to be 9 for textures with alpha channel and 8 for those without.

Raster Data

The header is followed by an optional palette and the raster data (pixels), according to the Raster Format flags.

If Raster Format is FORMAT_EXT_PAL8 | FORMAT_8888 or FORMAT_EXT_PAL8 | FORMAT_888, then a color palette of (up to) 256 RGBA colors is included. This is used in GTA3 quite often. The raster's one byte for each pixel is an index into the palette.

1024 byte  - BYTE[256][4] - palette of RGBA colors
4 byte     - DWORD        - raster size
w*h*1 byte - BYTE[w*h]    - pixels, 1 byte each

If no palette is included, the header is followed by raster size and data. If mipmaps are included (FORMAT_EXT_MIPMAP) then this is repeated for each mipmap. With increasing mipmap levels the raster size is decreased by the factor 4 (side lengths halved). Small initial textures can result in mipmaps of the size 0. For uncompressed images:

4 byte         - DWORD            - raster size
w*h*bpp/8 byte - BYTE[w*h][bpp/8] - pixels

Note: FORMAT_888(8) rasters use BGRA colors!

If DXT compression is used, blocks of 4x4 pixels occupy only 8 or 16 bytes (depending on the type).