.Tga to .Ace Can't find any convertor that works

[Pascal Good]

These are the three I've tried:
-makeAce, doesn't change anything
-AceIt, error message "unable to create direct 3D device
-RWAce Tool, error message "An error occured during conversion. The message was: Width must be a power of 2!"

Are there any other convertors, and if not, how do I get one of them to work?

[charland]

TGA Tool 2 that comes with Route-Riter.

Paul :-)

[baldwin]

TGATool uses makeace or Aceit, depending on version used, but either should get the job done.

[charland]

Just wondering about this, not sure AceIt works on Windows 10 does it?

Paul :-)

[Pascal Good]

TGA Tool 2 that comes with Route-Riter.

What do you mean by that?
Edit: Oh yea, I have TGATool2, so I can use makeAce, but it still doesn't work

[rdayt]

I have it on Win10/64. Works fine.

Randy

[Huecuvoe]

You might try ConvIm which is available from www.mwgfx.co.uk. Look under "Program List". You'll also need the DLLs. It's pretty old so it may not work on a 64 bit OS.

[Pascal Good]

Downloaded both, however the extra-DLLs are still not in ConvIm. What do I do?

[charland]

Go into the folder and there should be a program called AceIt. That's what you use.

Paul :-)

[Huecuvoe]

As I said, ConvIm may not work in Windows 7+. A simple manual installation:

Extract convim.exe from convim.zip and copy it to the installation folder you want ConvIm to be in.

Using 7-Zip (or similar) open mwgfxdll.exe and extract the Data folder. Copy all of the files in the data folder to the same folder as convim.exe.

A disadvantage of this installation is that it doesn't register the dlls so that other MW Graphics tools unless they are placed in the same installation folder.

[tonyhap]

Try Googling your error message as "texture width must be a power of 2".

Regards,
Chris

[conductorchris]

Pascal, have you installed MakeAce or Ace it in the PROGRAMS folder? That might be causing some kind of permissions error? (For the purposes of open rails, things seem to work better in a folder outside of PROGRAMS, especially content but also some utilities).

Is it having trouble finding FFED?

I remember that I had to struggle a bit when I reinstalled everything on my latest windows 10 machine. But I don't remember how I resolved things (sorry). searching around these forums might help because this has all come up in the past (the search engine here isn't very good so you might need to persist).

I use three programs for this sort of thing, depending on the circumstances: route riter; AceIt Conversion Utility and shape File Manager. Most often I use AceIt because it has a super handy right click menu item under "open with" that just converts a .tga file without even having to open the file (and it compresses it when shape file manager doesn't.)

Christopher

[R. Steele]

There should not be any problems with AceIt -- it's a stand-alone program, Version 1.3.4 can be downloaded from the venerable site

https://www.railserve.com/Computers/MSTS/Utilities/

and from my version 1.3.1:

Requirements

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Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
DirectX 8.1 (or higher)
a graphics card capable of 32-bit texture modes in Direct3D
10 MB of free space (for installation + temp files - more may be required if you work with images greater than 1024x1024)

AceIt uses Direct3D to manipulate textures. This requires that the graphics card support 32-bit modes. Unfortunately, this means that AceIt will not work in systems with 3dfx cards, among others, as they only support 16-bit modes.

Just keep it outside of the windows protected program folders.

[Pascal Good]

Hello Christopher, i have all the MSTS stuff, including Open Rails, makeAce and AceIt in a separate folder. The permission should not be needed, because, I moved it. I had to move it previously, because TSRE5 could not work without permission. Also, makeAce is in the UTILS folder. It doesn't say anywhere it can't find FFED. Also, when I start up AceIt, I directly get a message saying unable to create Direct3d Device.

[Pascal Good]

There should not be any problems with AceIt -- it's a stand-alone program

So, I do have a 32-bit graphics card, but the error message "unable to create Direct3d Device" still displays, even after reinstalling.