PAPA texture format

Hey, I was looking to tweak the textures around, basic mod stuff, but they're all in this 'PAPA' format.

Can you please go with a better known format? It would make it easier to mod I think. I think previous iterations of the game had used a different texture format If I remember correctly.

Thanks, and I'm really loving the Beta!

They used to be .png files, but the format changed in build 54357. The content of the .papa files are still ultimately pngs though:

Code:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Planetary Annihilation\PA\bin_x64\tools>papadump.exe -v aa_missile_vehicle_diffuse.papa
1 texture:
  0:
  name: "/pa/units/land/aa_missile_vehicle/aa_missile_vehicle_diffuse.png"
  format: TF_DXT5
  width: 128
  height: 128
  mips: 7
  srgb: 1
0 vertex buffers.
0 index buffers.
0 materials.
0 meshes.
0 skeletons.
0 models.
0 animations.

That's it, I'm now motivated. I'll be writing an importer / exporter for textures

may i redirect your attention to this thread in the Mod Developers Forum: Papa File Format

or, of course, be ninja'd by the guy himself....

OMG, if you do write one for textures i will praise you forever. lol
What would you write this texture import/export plugin for? please tell me you could make one for photoshop

how about one to .png? Then you can edit it wherever....

That's the plan, just an extractor (I believe that the included papatran.exe tool should be able to handle the re-pack).

Wait,, does papadump extract the papa or just spew out verbose info?

@raevn .. lol you answered my question as i hit post

papadump outputs what you see in the above post, it doesn't actually extract anything.

yeah i sorta figured that when you said you were gonna make an extractor