[re-formatted for your 80x25 pleasure] On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:22:44AM -0600, Russell Valentine wrote: > Gimp Developers: > > This patch was made against The Gimp stable 1.2.2 file plug-ins/common/tga.c. > > It allows a user to save a tga in down-top format instead of top-down > format. This is very useful for many OpenGL programs. It is very useful > if you are working with the Quake 3 engine as Quake 3 will display the > image upside down. Russell, please don't take any of the ranting below as aimed at you... I don't think Quake 3 and "many OpenGL programs" should do this. They CAN fix this up on the fly when loading, and presumably they're not trying to squirt textures straight off disk into 3D hardware. So personally I'd be happy to say "Blame JC and his ilk for their laziness, not us"... In this case there is something Gimp can do which helps and is still legal (and so doesn't extend the Wrong Thing any further) so I suppose we should actually add this feature since it seems to be popular with users(TM). > If this is the wrong place to post this let me know. If someone doesn't > think Gimp default should be able to save tga's please explain. Gimp does save TGAs, the flags in them are correct (AFAIK) and it does so quickly because it chooses an order that was convenient to program in Gimp. TGA gives the choice of scanline order to the creatinng software, and it was convenient for us to choose top-to-bottom order. > Many imaging application save tga's in down-top by default. If you need > the patch a different way, let me know as this is the first time I've > submited a patch to a project. Unfortunately this patch modifies the source image (at least AFAICT) and is therefore unacceptable. But the idea is correct, you might want to contemplate actually reading the scanlines in reverse order out of Gimp to achieve what you want. Nick.
