1XOREOSTEX2TGA(1)          BSD General Commands Manual         XOREOSTEX2TGA(1)
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NAME

4     xoreostex2tga — BioWare textures to TGA converter
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SYNOPSIS

7     xoreostex2tga [options] input_file output_file
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DESCRIPTION

10     xoreostex2tga converts textures of various formats found in BioWare games
11     into plain TGA images.
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13     Supported formats:
14     DDS     Both the common DirectDraw Surface format and BioWare's own, com‐
15             pletely different DDS format are supported, each with a variety
16             of pixel formats
17     SBM     Found in Jade Empire, holding font glyphs
18     TXB     Textures in Jade Empire and the Xbox version of Knights of the
19             Old Republic
20     TPC     Textures in other versions of Knights of the Old Republic.
21     TGA     Textures in various games, in many different pixels formats
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23     The output format is always either 24-bit or 32-bit BGR(A) TGA, depending
24     on whether the input file has an alpha channel or not.  Only the highest
25     resolution mip map will be used.
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OPTIONS

28     -h
29     --help
30           Show a help text and exit.
31     --version
32           Show version information and exit.
33     -f
34     --flip
35           Flip the image vertically while converting.
36     --auto
37           Try to autodetect the format of the input file.  This is the
38           default mode of operation.
39     --dds
40           Explicitly mark the input file as DDS.
41     --sbm
42           Explicitly mark the input file as SBM.
43     --tpc
44           Explicitly mark the input file as TPC.
45     --txb
46           Explicitly mark the input file as TXB.
47     --tga
48           Explicitly mark the input file as TGA.
49     input_file
50           The name of the texture file to read.
51     output_file
52           The resulting TGA file will be written there.
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EXAMPLES

55     Convert texture.dds into image.tga:
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57           $ xoreostex2tga texture.dds image.tga
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59     Convert texture.dds into image.tga and flip the image:
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61           $ xoreostex2tga --flip texture.dds image.tga
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63     Convert the TPC texture.txb into image.tga and flip the image:
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65           $ xoreostex2tga --flip --tpc texture.txb image.tga
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SEE ALSO

68     More information about the xoreos project can be found on its website:
69     https://xoreos.org/.
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AUTHORS

72     This program is part of the xoreos-tools package, which in turn is part
73     of the xoreos project, and was written by the xoreos team.  Please see
74     the AUTHORS file for details.
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