This tool originates from here
BLPaletter converts BMP, TGA and JPG images to paletted BLP images.
These often compress better than usual JPG compressed BLPs.
For example it compresses a 256x256 texture to 33kb in a map of mine.
Note that paletted blps work better with MPQ archive compression than ordinary jpg blps,
so that you can only accurately compare file size after importing them into a map.
Since version 1.3 it can also create JPG compressed BLPs.
Fixed Mipmapping issues in version 1.4.
Fixed an alpha channel issue in version 1.5b.
Simply drag and drop the input image onto the executable and it'll be converted to blp.
To make use of the available options use a command line such as:
BLPaletter <input.tga|input.bmp|input.jpg> [<output.blp>] [<number of colors / quality>] [-j | -p] [-mipN]
Replace the N of the -mip parameter with a number between 1 and 16.
This will limit the number of generated mipmaps to a max of N.
For icons and interface textures always use -mip1 because they do not use mipmapping .
Or -mip2 if you support people with really old computers who have the texture quality setting at low.
For model textures simply leave out the -mip parameter.
Examples:
Code:
BLPaletter D:\icons\BTNSomeIcon.tga -mip1
-> Will create D:\icons\BTNSomeIcon.blp with 256 colors and 1 mipmap
BLPaletter D:\icons\BTNBlah.bmp 128
-> Will create D:\icons\BTNBlah.blp with 128 colors
BLPaletter D:\icons\a.tga D:\icons\b.blp 64
-> Will create D:\icons\b.blp with 64 colors
BLPaletter "C:\Program Files\Something\SomeTexture.tga" Target.blp
-> Will create Target.blp with 256 colors in the current directory (watch out: you need " when a path contains a space)
BLPaletter C:\x.bmp C:\y.blp 85 -j
-> Will create C:\y.blp with JPG compression and a quality of 85%
BLPaletter ..\Textures\MountainKing.bmp -p -mip8
-> Will create ..\Textures\MountainKing.blp with 256 colors (paletted) and 8 mipmaps at max
You can also download this additional
GUI frontend made by Acaykath, put it in the same directory and use that.
It will give you nice buttons and things you can click on.
Keywords:
BLPaletter, BLP, Paletted BLP, TGA, BLP Converter, Compression