Legal stuff with bethesda and all
but with the template how easy it would be to import data from different fileformats or imageformats might be better if that just loaded on nif it could incorporate more features. Current situation seems to be that it has to be uv mapped to work and any procedural (math generated) textures give an error or doesn't just wotk.
Don't know of the code but is the reflections, bump maps, vectorwrawings and such baked into the texture ?
Blender got generated to UV baking script what trying to make work but as it is the skyrim and oblivion are also suffering from modeling pain according to nifstool forum what have seen. Is the original engines using nif as a link to make them readable .?
Basically thinging that it would just need to make the model in blender to export nif but bake the texture out. The texturecoordinates are basically what is needed to make the engine combine in the simple case.
If that feature is in oblivion or skyrim then some sort of hydrid should in the safe zone as long as the newer files would say wrong file type in game.
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http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/tiki-ind ... le+Formats ogre has freeimage library to handle other formats and manually taking dds files to directx. Made by directx so it have support. Uses s3 compression in par with hardware compression to apply more effects. Wonder if those compressions and supporting alpha channels, mipmaps and such is inside ogre if they leave the directx behind?
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/features.html this seems more to image transformations and compression supplying that to directx or opengl.
