.vtf aka Valve Texture Format under Utilities you can find some usefull tools and plugins to handle this file format ;-) This thread serves as a "database" for quick lookup wich parts of the game need to be safed how. GUI icons like weapons/armor/engine compression format: BGRA8888 flags: No Mipmap (don't forget to uncheck Mipmap generation) No LOD (isn't that already mipmap related?) Eight Bit Alpha don't generate mipmaps nor normal maps! thumbnail can be generated, im not sure for what that is but think it makes no difference ingame! Version: 7.3 usual image size: 128x64px usual file size: ~32,15kb
ups - forgot it... xP well, at least theres much more to note down but i can't explain everything so that would be more a task for the graphic asset guys! but yea, maybe the wiki is the better place for this!
updated - better? - like that style or how to change it better? i wish this forum would have table and header codes :-/
wiki's hate me, especially their editors xP (kay, 1 part is myself, i hate the simplified wiki markup language - prefer clear formatting languages like xml - tough i hate html and know that xml isn't the best, yet alone because troubleshooting it is a nightmare!) but wikias have better editors, wich allows to ignore theire markup languages - tough because i'm not such a great writer i mostly just correct or add data! ;-)