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[Benman2785]

thank you Flocke

[Benman2785]

16bit TGA converter doesnt work in current UE build (Win11; Java 8 251)

[thunderchero]

16bit TGA converter doesnt work in current UE build (Win11; Java 8 251)

I have 2 copies of UE installed

UE in my documents
The converter still work, but the default location UE sets fails to save files in that location.
if you browse to different location it will convert
here is location UE is trying to use when it fails
C:\Users\****\Documents\UE_0.8.0\9.0\::{031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\Pictures.library-ms
real location
C:\Users\****\Documents\UE_0.8.0\9.0

UE in tools works as I expect setting to same folder as file as I am converting

both attempt used same file/location to convert.
C:\Users\****\Pictures

but very strange.

Important note; all version when using from "Documents" as location of UE has same issue even UE 0.7.2dev5d

[Benman2785]

thunderecho: about problem in document folder - this is a new windows feature - it blocks access to some Windows related folders

about TGA - i tried it from D:/boft_aio/tools/ue to convert D:/boft_aio/modded_files/!my_ships/D'Kyr/D'Kyr/*.tga - wanted to overwrite orginal with converted (here windows feature is not blocking access) - this works with old version of UE but not with new provided by AiO_2.0.3

[thunderchero]

thunderecho: about problem in document folder - this is a new windows feature - it blocks access to some Windows related folders

about TGA - i tried it from D:/boft_aio/tools/ue to convert D:/boft_aio/modded_files/!my_ships/D'Kyr/D'Kyr/*.tga - wanted to overwrite orginal with converted (here windows feature is not blocking access) - this works with old version of UE but not with new provided by AiO_2.0.3

has this been edited or real folder name?
/!my_ships/

if real folder name I expect this is causing issue

[Benman2785]

D:\botf_aio\modded files\!_my_Ships\D'Kyr\D'Kyr is the real path/folder name

!* because it will be the first folder on top

[Benman2785]

here a video:

i try to convert 32bit TGA to 16bit
folder is D:/dkyr
overwrite org files with converted ones
nothing happens

https://youtu.be/A1EeALqrypo

[Flocke]

can't watch the video either, but I guess I messed something up when I fixed to not silently delete original files on conversion
will check on it for the next update

[thunderchero]

I did a little testing

converting 32 bit tga to 16 bit tga fails if overwrite file or save to new location (file is still 32 bit tga)
converting png to 16 bit tga works

so work around would be to save as png or jpg before converting

this is only happening with 9.0

[Benman2785]

video is now playable - but bug is already confirmed by thunderchero

[Benman2785]

backup doesnt work - and actually makes it WORSE by asking if you want to save changes - which overwrite one backup...

[Flocke]

here is location UE is trying to use when it fails
C:\Users\****\Documents\UE_0.8.0\9.0\::{031E4825-7B94-4DC3-B131-E946B44C8DD5}\Pictures.library-ms
real location
C:\Users\****\Documents\UE_0.8.0\9.0

Important note; all version when using from "Documents" as location of UE has same issue even UE 0.7.2dev5d

I did some research on this. The UUID above refers to the library folder, and Pictures.library-ms is the virtual picture library folder.
It is returned by the java.io.File getParentFile call and can't be used to resolve any file path. In addition, getAbsolutePath erronously prefixes the application work path.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/933 ... range-file
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/107 ... ctures-etc

I however found a workaround using the java.nio.file.Path API to fix this weird Windows Java bug.

i try to convert 32bit TGA to 16bit
folder is D:/dkyr
overwrite org files with converted ones
nothing happens

Fixed that one as well. Furthermore, I added a progress notification and some proper image replacement checks.

[thunderchero]

I have been trying to test as you do your development, so far I have not seen any issues.

edit I take that back gui interface is not saving changes.

in add and remove ship models, on ship export could UE also export new resolution tga's
example if user want to export ship model from 1366 UDM he could add model to 1366 UCW without any tga's missing.

[Flocke]

backup doesnt work - and actually makes it WORSE by asking if you want to save changes - which overwrite one backup...

that one is now fixed as well (pull request pending)
plus I implemented that restored backups now must be explictly saved after restore and some further improvements

[Flocke]

edit I take that back gui interface is not saving changes.

I think that refers to the trimmed palette issue you posted:

Edit; UE issue?

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Info: in palette.lst: Trimmed 3 entries and removed 0 unused palettes.

even after saving I keep getting same entry in integrity check and wants to save again

"on palette issue AAM has 90 un-registered texture, so not sure what UE is listing "Trimmed 60 entries""

Like already replied by PM, it's been caused by invalid textures referenced from palette.lst.
While UE can't fix missing textures, I fixed it to not report the trimming again, when the texture palette has already been trimmed.
Plus I improved the confusing error message.

Given that missing textures still is a serious issue, that might lead to combat crashes, I now also added further integrity checks for missing HOB textures. Plus I changed to now check all stbof.res files by defalt, not just some core files and the loaded ones.

For the ship model view I already implemented to report missing textures, too. But there it could be easily overlooked.

E.g. in GALM there was one model listing a missing "x" texture.

x_texture.jpg (15.66 KiB) Viewed 1085 times

This I guess was set by UE in a former version when some other model was removed using same texture. When UE removes a texture reference it is set to "x" as a place holder to keep the other texture indices valid.

in add and remove ship models, on ship export could UE also export new resolution tga's
example if user want to export ship model from 1366 UDM he could add model to 1366 UCW without any tga's missing.

I implemented to export all images matching the i_ + prefix + number schema. For some mods this includes textures of other slots, like i_m0160.tga for 'm0' amd 'm01'. But I still prefer this generic approach over hard coding specific resolutions. To avoid the mess, just don't use any numbers for the ship model names.
I further added an 'import all graphics' option, that uses same schema to detect image files. If disabled, it instead limits to the trek.exe image names loaded by the .wdf files.