Warcraft Image Lab

[eejin]

The tool works and is useful for (batch) converting textures. Having full BLP transparency support would be nice, but it might still be of use even though alpha has issues. For more advanced use refer to the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter for Photoshop which does not support BLP, but does allow you to finetune a lot of settings.

 

[LazZ]

The tool works and is useful for (batch) converting textures. Having full DDS support would be nice, but it might still be of use even though alpha has issues. For more advanced use refer to the NVIDIA Texture Tools Exporter for Photoshop which does support alpha among other things.

Alpha works in DDS conversion for this tool. It's the BLP reading library that has issues.

 

[eejin]

Alpha works in DDS conversion for this tool. It's the BLP reading library that has issues.

My bad, I will change the review accordingly. You can check this out for a BLP implementation that does support alpha.

 

[LazZ]

Updated War3Net.Drawing.Blp to a more recent version. The tool now reads BLP alpha channels properly.

 

[LazZ]

Updated to v0.4 and renamed the tool Warcraft Image Lab.

The primary addition is a new 'Filters' menu, allowing for WC3 icon creation for both Classic and Reforged icons along with some other settings.
View the changelog tab to see all changes.

 

[I3engal]

hmm i look forward to trying this but nothing happens for me when i run the launcher.exe. is there something more than just installing .net core? i tried on another PC and does the same thing.

 

[LazZ]

hmm i look forward to trying this but nothing happens for me when i run the launcher.exe. is there something more than just installing .net core? i tried on another PC and does the same thing.

You should just run 'Warcraft Image Lab.exe'.

Updated the bundle to a single executable to avoid confusion.

 

[Kick King]

This worked perfectly for me. Saving me soooo much time over using photoshop and some janky actions.

Thank!! 5/5

 

[GingerCookie]

Good morning! Thank you for sharing this tool. I came to ask if you'd mind adding an export feature to allow folder structure of the original files to be maintained or recreated?
Importing allows subfolders to be included which is perfect but then exporting all goes into one folder and it makes the mod I'm attempting impossible to sort out afterwards. Unless there's something I missed?

 

[LazZ]

Good morning! Thank you for sharing this tool. I came to ask if you'd mind adding an export feature to allow folder structure of the original files to be maintained or recreated?
Importing allows subfolders to be included which is perfect but then exporting all goes into one folder and it makes the mod I'm attempting impossible to sort out afterwards. Unless there's something I missed?

Hi there. I need to dedicate my time elsewhere, which means I consider this tool finished. I will only update the tool if people find bugs.

I suspect you're attempting to convert your entire map folder using the tool, and that is the wrong way to go about it. The type of DDS compression should depend on the type of texture you're converting. I recommend BC1 no alpha for loading screen textures, BC1 1 bit alpha for icons and console UI, BC2 or BC3 for all other textures (anything with varying transparency).

 

[Nealdros]

This tool is PURE GOLD.

In case someone here is having a hard time finding a Passive or Autocast version of icons that are already in game, and don't have a tool to extract them, i finally found a way to get my hands on those icons: Wowpedia has them all, in the right resolution, in a list page. So by combining this tool and THIS page you can make the passive version of any icon in game, too. I hope this helps someone save some time searching on their own, as it took me about half an hour to find them.

I needed these...

 

[xorkatoss]

any chance this tool supports directly converting .dds to .blp ?? I can't seem to be able to do that.

 

[LazZ]

any chance this tool supports directly converting .dds to .blp ?? I can't seem to be able to do that.

It does not. You can use BLP Lab or Imperial BLP to convert to BLP.

 

[Malmgrev]

I get error image dimensions did not match selected icon dimensions even if I tried rescale to 256x256 or choose an already 256x256 image. Does not matter which settings I select. Any suggestions? It's for reforged icons.

 

[LazZ]

I get error image dimensions did not match selected icon dimensions even if I tried rescale to 256x256 or choose an already 256x256 image. Does not matter which settings I select. Any suggestions? It's for reforged icons.

It only applies icon filters to images that are already 256x256 (I should probably change that). Have you tried to resize, export and then import the exported image?

 

[Malmgrev]

It seemed to be some issue when I resized it, when I did it manually in PS it worked in the tool.

 

[LazZ]

Updated to V1.0.0

Changes:

• Now supports writing BLP files.
• Updated UI appearance.
• No longer overwrites existing files when exporting.
• Removed the 'BLP2 Color Format' check in the 'Filters' menu. The tool now switches to the correct color format when reading BLP2 files.
• Updated .NET runtime to 6.0.

 

[Lt_Hawkeye]

Blplab supports making changes to the alpha layer. Is there any planned changes to making it also possible to do so with this tool?

Other than that, tool is fantastic and significantly faster when converting to blp.

 

[LazZ]

Blplab supports making changes to the alpha layer. Is there any planned changes to making it also possible to do so with this tool?

Other than that, tool is fantastic and significantly faster when converting to blp.

The tool actually runs a command-line version of BLPLAB to write BLP files. I could look into the issue one day, but I'm not very invested in WC3 at the moment :/

 

[Eldrazor]

Would be nice if this tool could support adding borders to smaller images without scaling.

I have some icon sources with 56x56 icons & the default icon border is 4px each so it would end up in the perfect 64x64. Right now this tool first scales the original 56x56 image to 64x64, then overwrites the borders.

Maybe some feature that allows you to center images & just fill the rest in with black before applying borders? It's what I'm doing manually now. Might shoot a PR into your GitHub repository if I ever get tired of the manual process

Good stuff regardless!

 

[aloH]

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[Aldeia]

Any way to add custom icon borders to it?
(i really want a different DISBTN variation for the Reforged version - one that would be closer to Classic version but working with bigger sizes)

 

[Tommi Gustafsson]

Just the right tool to convert image files to and from DDS.