A lot would depend on whether the added bytes are constant or if they change depending on some feature of the texture (or maybe the use it is to be put to)

The other problem is that .texture as an extension is not unique to this application. Other games have used it (Trainz I think is one) for their own particular formats. This means that a general reader would need some alternative method of identifying the format.

All my programs use my shared graphics library for reading/writing the different formats so any addition would need to work in all situations

What might be easier to implement is a custom viewer for this format....

Actually the reading of these images was easier to incorporate directly into mwgfx.dll

Download the latest version and you should get 4.00.215. This now reads .texture files (or at least it reads the ones I dummied up by adding 48 bytes to some DDS textures) and displays them as DDS ..... (nonstandard)

So with this version installed TView and Show should display them. My Enhanced Thumbnail view will also display them (though you may need to add the extension manually). Even DXTBmp should load them but probably without alpha information.

At least you should be able to view them easily

WOW Martin...have been out and just read this; let me check this out and I'll post back. I'll test all those programs with the mwgfx.

TView and MWThumb both work great!

And yes, DXTbmp will load and display, but not the alpha.

Even so, this is a huge benefit and is much appreciated!

Here is a small collection of the *texture in different sizes if you want to check out..

http://www.4shared.com/file/33411417/70a69ff6/MTW2textures.html

Happy New Year!

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Actually the reading of these images was easier to incorporate directly into mwgfx.dll

Download the latest version and you should get 4.00.215. This now reads .texture files (or at least it reads the ones I dummied up by adding 48 bytes to some DDS textures) and displays them as DDS ..... (nonstandard)

So with this version installed TView and Show should display them. My Enhanced Thumbnail view will also display them (though you may need to add the extension manually). Even DXTBmp should load them but probably without alpha information.

At least you should be able to view them easily

That link doesn`t seem to work.
May be easiest if you just mail me a zip with a few examples in

Just dropping a note to say hi ;-)

Been quite busy but next week or so am going to spend some time directing more MTW2 modders to your *.texture tools.

Have gotten some very positive feedback!

Best wishes, M