REspawn

Stand alone conversion tool seems like the best and most fun way to do this. I'll update this thread when I put the code up somewhere.

Thanks for all the help.

Thanks for the replies. Yep, this is just for a tool / my own education, so I don't mind the extra processing step.

@MJP - Yea that's what I thought too, but the channels are switched. So I'll need to switch them.

So from doing some reading and testing, looks like the best option is read the data from the file into a buffer, create my texture, lock the rect and then switch the channels as needed. I can't seem to find anything here or on Google that suggests a better way. 

It produces the correct texture data and it's not too slow. Is there a better way?

Thanks,

Dave

Thanks for the replies.

When I say non standard I mean that it's not in the D3DFORMAT enum, so I can create a texture in that format and then memcpy the data in.

So for example one of the formats the game stores it's files in is ABGR8888. In the D3DFORMAT enum there is D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8. 

So would the best way to read this texture in be to create a D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8 texture, lock the texture and manually copy in each pixel of data? Or is there a better / faster way to go from one format to another?

Hope that makes it easier to understand my question. 

Thanks,

Dave