How to convert .jpg to .blp?

[RobertMKD]

Hey guys, I've made an icon for my custom ability, and I wonder, how do I convert it to blp so it will work in the game? I've tried changing the .jpg extension to .blp but that didn't seem to work..

 

[Nichilus]

Of course it won't work. That's like painting banana red and saying it's tomato. It obviously ain't one even if colors match.

Download Warcraft III Viewer (it's listed here: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/warcraft-editing-tools-277/complete-list-modding-tools-212411/ ). It's one of the easier to do programs I encountered.

Open the program, in the top bar menu there should be menu for conversions. There's a ".tga, jpg etc -> .blp" option. Use that option to convert your image to .blp.

 

[RobertMKD]

I already have that downloaded, lol. Thank you xD

edit:
Okay, I converted it, but when I open the game and try to open the Hero's research abilities the game crashes and this is what I get:

I also had an error when I was converting the icon:

 

[Nichilus]

no idea on my part. I use .tga file extension as it supports alpha channel.

 

[RobertMKD]

More downloadings.... -_-

Nevermind, thank you guys

 

[Deleted member 242951]

Use War3 Viewer it's a gr8 tool ! You can find it on PlayDotA.com or I also think this site..

 

[Ardenian]

I always use .tga for skins and .png for icons, only using the Warcraft Viewer.

I never had problems with these, but .bmp or .jpg caused some errors for me, too.
No clue why, tho.

 

[PublishedShadow]

Did you click yes when converting? You have to use an alpha channel. You could save the JPG using an image tool (Paint.net, paintshop, gimp) as a PNG or TGA and then convert it to BLP. WC3viewer itself works fine.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It is recommended to store the icon uncompressed before converting it to blp. This is so that all compression artefacts are introduced during the conversion rather than both before and during. JPEG also does not mirror the features blp supports since blp is actually a texture format as opposed to an image format (so supports alpha and mipmaps).

I think the icon image has to be 64*64 pixels. If it is not then problems can occur. Specifically WC3 does not support BLPs which do not have a dimension the power of 2 or are larger than 2048 (not sure about limit, probably due to D3D8 API).

 

[RobertMKD]

Woops, my icon is 40x40.. So, that's the problem, okay, it is a blizzard icon, so I'll just have to find it through the viewer I guess?

edit: Okay, I've exported it from Warcraft 3 Viewer and I can edit it now, thank you all, my problem is solved.

 

[Ardenian]

You can use the Button Manager ( tool on Hive) to automatically resize it to 64x64 and create the necessary buttons you need, like BTN or PAS and so on. It also supports custom borders.

 

[Fang]

I have figure this out long time ago all I need is Magos War3 World Editor!
1. Open any .mdx model
2. Import the picture of any extension
3. Export the imported picture and rename its extension Example: from Exmpl.jpg and rename it to Exmpl.blp/.tga/.png/.bmp

Got no errors when I do that

 

[Dr Super Good]

3. Export the imported picture and rename its extension Example: from Exmpl.jpg and rename it to Exmpl.blp/.tga/.png/.bmp

When saving in the program, not in the file system.

 

[RH90]

Use War3 Viewer it's a gr8 tool ! You can find it on PlayDotA.com or I also think this site..

Yes it used to be here

Complete List of Modding Tools

There have been countless of threads appearing in various places around the forums concerning what software/tool to use for [insert modding field here]. This list compiles as many possible known tools, free and paid, used among the Warcraft III communities for modding in each separate field...

www.hiveworkshop.com

but this file has been removed... :<

 

[ThompZon]

Tool for converting jpg -> blp?
I use BLP Lab v0.5.0