List of free converters that support WEBP as source: It also adds WEBP thumbnail preview support in Windows Explorer, but does not really help much if you want to convert from WEBP to do that you can use one of the FREE converters/image viewers below. Windows Photo Viewer, MS Office 2010, and FastPictureViewer). Interestingly, a WEBP codec is available for Windows, which provides WEBP support for a number of common Windows applications (e.g. If you have come across WEBP and, like me, found that your image conversion and editing programs will not recognize or convert it to other formats, this post will suggest a number of ways to do it. While Google’s introduced the WEBP image format in 2010, it seems to have taken a while to become more widely used on the internet. For example, it supports both lossy and lossless compression, and can result in a file size saving of 45% over PNG (preserving transparency) and 28% over the same PNG’s that are re-compressed with compression tools (source: Wikipedia). bin file might change with updates, but it should be the only file in that folder.Why WEBP? The format introduces improvements on many fronts, according to Google. (The exact path may vary depending on where you installed Steam on your computer.
If it still doesn't, start up a game world with the mod enabled and SE will downloaded it if it hadn't already.)
(After you subscribe, Steam should download the mod, if it doesn't, make sure the game is closed, unsubscribe, and subscribe again. I am happy for you to modify and test it to your heart's content, you can even re-upload it if you like, just be sure to change the name! If you want to download a mod that uses custom textures to see how they are implemented, you can download (by hitting "subscribe") a mod I made called "Better Stone":
I mostly made this guide for myself because every 3-9 months, whenever I come back to my mod I forget how to do things, and the problem of the texture converter having gone missing almost made me give up on updating it entirely.
Whether Keen decides to stop supporting PNG files (not impossible) to optimize the code or whether you're working on an entirely different DDS project, this guide should help you make DDS files and then remake them into another form of DDS files.
PNGs take that and throw it out the window.Īlthough Keen has now re-included the primary EXE file that you need to add transparency, what makes things super easy is that that SE now natively supports PNG files with transparency so you don't even have to convert your PNGs into DDS to begin with.īut a need still might arise in the future where you need to convert DDS files between different formats. That's assuming you're using a DDS file at all.
Apparently, some time before the end of this year (2019) with the current version being 1.193.x, they have started including the conversion files again so that somewhat obsoletes the purpose of this guide as knowing that you're even supposed to use them, where to get them, and what parameters to use with them were really the largest obstacles.
Yet as of SE v1.179.x, the converting exe files were no longer included in the SE SDK or regular SE game package. The DDS file type has generally not been natively supported by most art programs and especially not in the exact format that SE requires.īecause of this, for a while, Keen included a converter that allowed for the conversion of various commonly used file types into DDS files. Formerly when you wanted to add icons to the Graphics User Interface (GUI) in Space Engineers (SE), you had to use the same DirectDraw Surface (DDS) file type that is normally used for surfaces on 3D models.