Doe the flags on VTF images matter? *help please*
By TopHATTwaffle 1 year agoI'm making some textures, and whilst using VTFedit to make them I noticed that there are some flags that can be set for images. Will to extremely matter if I don't set some? (I'm working with a large amount of images 1,500+) My main question is: Does it matter if I don't set the "Normal Map" flag for the normal mapped images?
Thanks!
For general use the flags don't matter that much. Checking the Anisotropic and Trilinear flags is enough.
The compression method is what matters more really. For normal diffuse textures DXT5 is ok (only save it once as DXT5 to avoid recompressing a compressed image) and for normal maps BGR888 or BGRA8888 should be used (latter if it has an alpha channel)
Yes, the flags do matter quite a bit in some cases.
I don't know much about them or what they do exactly, but if you don't want to make a normal map for every single texture, you can tick the normal map flag, and it will do it's best to make a normal map for that texture. Hand made normal maps are much more precise, however.
