Sorry... don't know where else to put this: I am a programmer, but need to make textures for a game (I am 16, its nothin professional). The program only uses .RAW files as textures, so I was wondering what freeware is out there that can be used to edit .RAW images. So, uh, yeah, what is there, and where can I get it? Thanks!

Infraview can. RAW files are just dumps of the actual image data. You will have to know the bit depth and height/width of the files when trying to open them.

You can use Imagemagick to convert them into a more sensible format (say PNG), edit them in that format, then convert them back again.

Keep them in PNG permanently for editing purposes - create a small shell (Batchfile in NT) script to convert all the files in a directory.

You will of course have to specify the width/height, as raw files have no image size header.

Mark

Do you mean I'll have to specify the height/width in the program, or somehow in the file? I'm confused...

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Original post by silverphyre673 Do you mean I'll have to specify the height/width in the program, or somehow in the file? I'm confused...

In the program. Because a RAW data file is just that... raw data. It's a dump of the image data direct from the program into a file. You have to input the height and width of the file and input the size of the header in bytes so it can be skipped over(usually 0).

How do I convert them to .png in imagemagick? I downloaded the windows static executable, and it lets me import lots of formats, but only lets me save as jpgs.

Grab infraview.

silverphyre: the program you're looking for is called "convert" - it's part of imagemagick.

This is controlled by the command-line interface. I'm afraid many young windows users don't really know what this is, anyway, you'll have to use it to make "convert" work.

"convert" supports a great deal of formats, including raw RGB files or raw grey files.

Mark

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2192-10021962.html

:) It's free and easy to use.

Oh, come on, I know how to use the command prompt. Geez. Windows and Linux. I'm not THAT inept :) Anyways, how exactly do you run convert (what arguments d you pass, etc)