TxdGen

TxdGen

Current version:	0.9.8
Developed by:	Martin Turski (The_GTA)
Supported games:	GTA III, GTA VC, GTA SA, Manhunt
Type:	Texture Dictionary generator

TxdGen is the RenderWare texture dictionary conversion tool. It supports every known official Rockstar Games TXD archive (PC, PS2, XBOX, PowerVR, ATITC, ...). It scans for TXD files in a source directory and converts them into a desired format into a target directory.

To run this tool you need the Visual Studio 2013 redistributable, x86 version. You can get it from here

NOTE: this tool has been superseded by Magic.TXD.

Features

• Supports all PC TXD formats
• Supports all known raster formats (RGBA, RGB, DXTn, 1555, 565, 4444, etc)
• Outputs TXD in actually working PS2, PC and XBOX format
• Lossless conversion between formats!
• User-friendly configuration file!
• Texture compression on demand!
• Debug output on common errors
• Automatic processing of IMG archives (version 1 and 2)
• DXTn compression!
• XBOX IMG (de-)compression!
• Mipmap generation.
• black-roads fix
• GTA3 mobile TXD support

Media

• Video tutorial on how to generate PS2 textures
• Showing off 'SanAndreas Retextured 3' on PS2 hardware
• Optimizing GTA3 Textures (PC)
• Mipmapping San Andreas (PC)

Configuration settings

The conversion parameters are specified in the txdgen.ini file.

• outputDebug: boolean whether to dump texture debug into a new "debug_output/" directory
• gameRoot: directory where the TXDs, that should be converted, are located (needs trailing slash!); make sure it exists
• outputRoot: directory where the new TXDs should be put into (needs trailing slash!)
• targetVersion: can be GTA3, VC, SA or MH (self explanatory)
• targetPlatform: can be PC, PS2, XBOX, s3tc_mobile, PowerVR, ATITC or uncompressed_mobile
• clearMipmaps: removes mipmaps that shipped with textures (before doing anything else)
• generateMipmaps: decides whether mipmaps should be generated or not
• mipGenMode: hint to the mipmap generator for stylized mipmap generation
• mipGenMaxLevel: integer that denotes the maximum mipmap layer that TxdGen should generate to (main texture is layer 0)
• improveFiltering: enables linear filtering for textures
• compressTextures: decides whether textures should be compressed if they are not already (to save memory and disk space)
• compressionQuality: floating point (0..1) that toggles the quality for compression/optimization (only effective if compressTextures=true)
• palRuntimeType: decides the technique that should be used for palettization/compression; can be NATIVE or PNGQUANT
• dxtRuntimeType: chooses between NATIVE or SQUISH S3TC compression algorithms
• warningLevel: integer that toggles the warning throughput of the TXD parser (the higher the more warnings)
• ignoreSecureWarnings: boolean whether to ignore warnings that do not crash the engine
• reconstructIMGArchives: boolean which decides whether IMG archives should be reconstructed in the target directory
• fixIncompatibleRasters: if this parameter is true then TxdGen attempts to change raster parameters to prevent game engine crashes
• dxtPackedDecompression: if true, then rwtools will pack decompressed DXT texels in a close approximate raster format to prefer small size over quality
• imgArchivesCompressed: if true, then compressed IMG archives will be decompressed upon reading and files inside IMG archives will be compressed on writing (required for XBOX GTA Vice City and GTA III)
• ignoreSerializationRegions: if true, then the converter will ignore RenderWare block length fields while deserializing anything (just like Criterion's implementation)

An Example file:

[Main]
gameRoot=C:/Program Files (x86)/Rockstar Games/GTA San Andreas/
outputRoot=txdgen_out/
targetVersion=SA
targetPlatform=PS2
clearMipmaps=false
generateMipmaps=true
mipGenMode=default
mipGenMaxLevel=6
improveFiltering=true
compressTextures=true
compressionQuality=0.5
palRuntimeType=PNGQUANT
dxtRuntimeType=SQUISH
warningLevel=1
ignoreSecureWarnings=true
reconstructIMGArchives=true
fixIncompatibleRasters=true
dxtPackedDecompression=false
imgArchivesCompressed=false
ignoreSerializationRegions=true

D3DFORMAT compatibility list

Raw colors

• D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8
• D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8
• D3DFMT_R8G8B8
• D3DFMT_R5G6B5
• D3DFMT_X1R5G5B5
• D3DFMT_A1R5G5B5
• D3DFMT_A4R4G4B4
• D3DFMT_A8B8G8R8
• D3DFMT_X8B8G8R8
• D3DFMT_P8

Compressed colors

• D3DFMT_DXT1
• D3DFMT_DXT2 (no compression/decompression)
• D3DFMT_DXT3
• D3DFMT_DXT4 (only decompression)
• D3DFMT_DXT5

Credits

• Uses a fork of rwtools by aap (https://github.com/aap/rwtools)
• Uses the libimagequant library (http://pngquant.org/lib/)
• Uses the libsquish library (https://code.google.com/p/libsquish/)
• Uses the lzo library (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/)
• Thanks to aru from GTAForums for XBOX swizzling and unswizzling algorithms (http://gtaforums.com/topic/213907-unswizzle-tool/)
• Some parts are inspired by research from DK22Pac
• Uses the PowerVR SDK (http://www.imgtec.com/tools/powervr-tools/)
• Uses the ATI_Compress library (http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/archive/legacy-cpu-gpu-tools/ati_compress/)

The licenses (if present) should be bundled with the tool.

See also

• Converting Textures to PS2 Format
• Optimizing GTA3 Textures
• Mipmapping San Andreas for PC

External References

Reviews

• http://br.fenixzone.com/foro/index.php?topic=20804.0 - Review by user "Rachel Sexton"; great comparison images; mipmapping
• http://mixmods.blogspot.de/2016/02/mipmapping.html - Review by Junior_Djir"; great comparison images; mipmapping
• https://forum.revival-gaming.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=381607 - Review by user "Ethan_Aoki"; German/Deutsch

Shout-outs

• http://ashslowgameblog.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1525.html - shout-out by visionary Ashley Slow (know her mods from my MTA days)
• http://forum.brasilplaygames.com.br/t114979-tutorial-ganhando-desempenho-com-mip-mapping - tutorial by user "Pardal_Dillimore"; mipmapping

Good examples

• http://ashslowgameblog.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-1808.html - Ashley's advice regarding black-roads fix
• SA Mipmapped Roads (BR), GTA3 mipmapped textures (RU), GTAVC mipmapped textures (RU)

Known Issues

• Generating mipmaps for raw GTA 3 textures has improved but is not perfect yet.
• "If I view my alpha textures they look messed up in TXD Workshop!" - to workaround this issue please set compressionQuality to 0.5. This will activate TXD Workshop compatibility mode, so that you can still use your favourite TXD editing tool.

External links

•  GTAGarage download
•  GTAForums topic
• Download mirror (temporary)
• the MTA:Eir repository - source code