Starcraft II Image Viewer

[TriggerHappy]

Well, I was bored so I made a little program that lets you view SC2 textures (dds) and convert them to other formats. Yes I am aware there are other programs which can view dds, oh well. So far I've included support for the following formats;

• Targa (.tga)
• PNG (.png)

If you have any format requests, just reply here.

Screenshot

Requires .NET framework.
Download here.

 

[ikillforeyou]

Doesn't PaintDotNet have .dds (direct draw surface) comaptibality? if it doesn't i must of gotten the addon from somwhere, either way, why not just use paint dot net it can change to all sorts of things..

Plus, if you get the paint dot net .blp thing in the tools you could change .blp textures to .dds textures. =o

Just saying.

Nice tool anyways.

 

[Warhunter]

But not everyone wants to use paint.net.
Good work.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

Also I use GIMP and it has a DDS plugin. However, do not underestimate this program. You may have already found how handy those little programs like War3ModelEditor, War3viewer etc are. Just click and it opens fast, doubleclick and it shows the image. For GIMP it takes loading time for every single you click. So GJ, we have the 1st tool for SC2, you are the 1st one.

 

[Alfagar]

Nice! :O

 

[overload119]

Cool. Can you post the source anywhere plox?

 

[CHA_Owner]

What do you use to extract the textures from the maps in the first place?

 

[kingbdogz]

Do you think you could allow it to convert JPG's to DDS? I want to see if I can alter the skin and use it.

 

[MGCǂSpectre]

With gimp and photoshop you can save any opened image as dds.

 

[kingbdogz]

With gimp and photoshop you can save any opened image as dds.

Thanks for the heads up

 

[CloudMax]

What do you use to extract the textures from the maps in the first place?

They use MPQ files in Sc2 just like in Wc3. So if you know how to extract files from wc3, it shouldent be hard to do the same with sc2.

 

[CHA_Owner]

They use MPQ files in Sc2 just like in Wc3. So if you know how to extract files from wc3, it shouldent be hard to do the same with sc2.

Yea but i don't have the beta i just have the maps from SC2 and when i open their MPQ files it just shows the minimap .tga image and some of the listfiles it doesn't let me extract any textures/models/etc....

 

[CloudMax]

Yea but i don't have the beta i just have the maps from SC2 and when i open their MPQ files it just shows the minimap .tga image and some of the listfiles it doesn't let me extract any textures/models/etc....

It is not in the maps.
Download the beta client from some random site and open the installation MPQ files if you do not want to install it, and you will find everything in there.
Most files does not have the .mpq extension (it is .sc2data, etc) , but you can still open them as mpq files.

 

[Hero_Lief]

They use MPQ files in Sc2 just like in Wc3.

Just like Wc3. And SC. And SC BW. And Diablo. And Diablo II. And Diablo II LoD. And WoW. And WoW TBC. And WoW WotLK. And most likely WoW CATA. And most likely Diablo III... Need I say more?

We need one single universal MPQ viewer that can open all of Blizzard's MPQs and have listfiles for all.

 

[CloudMax]

Just like Wc3. And SC. And SC BW. And Diablo. And Diablo II. And Diablo II LoD. And WoW. And WoW TBC. And WoW WotLK. And most likely WoW CATA. And most likely Diablo III... Need I say more?

We need one single universal MPQ viewer that can open all of Blizzard's MPQs and have listfiles for all.

I do not see a reason in mentioning any of those games like you did.
Also, all games does not build the MPQ files in the same way, making it impossible for some MPQ viewer to open an MPQ file made for a special game.
Most MPQ Editors also make the sc2 MPQ files corrupt.

So most of them is different but under the same name.

It would be nice if someone could show me a MPQ Editor compatible with the sc2 files, becouse they get corrupt when i try to modify them (i have tryed a several programs), this issue have temporarily stopped my translation project..

 

[TriggerHappy]

http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/download.html
That MPQ editor works just fine.

 

[CloudMax]

I have actually tryed that one (one of the few that works) but after i have opened it, the file somehow get corrupt making it impossible for starcraft II to read it. That problem is really getting annoying. (the file becomes impossible to read for almost all programs, except the MPQ editor..)
Maybe i have wrong options or something, i dont know. But i cant get it to work anyway :/
I want to add files not extract, so if the MPQ file gets corrupt, im screwed : |

 

[wd40bomber7]

http://shadowflare.samods.org/dwnload.html#WinMPQ
I have been using winmpq to edit Mo'PaQ (MPQ) archives for years and years and years... it's very dependable. Make sure you download it from there, that's the latest version.