how to unpack bf2 atlas .dds file

[Sonic030X]

hey i making an personal mod but i cant unpack the HUD images i follow this post from other forum but i cant understand

What i did was i used few command line tools and the new "prompt" powershell, which i assume is the new thing that comes with Vista.

Firstly, i installed Nconvert and "unpacked" the atlas .dds files to .png's. I then wrote script with powershell to parse etc. the atlas .tai file which contains all the needed data to extract the lightmaps from the atlas. I used imagemagick convert tool to do the image manipulation stuff (crop). Lastly, i then took those new extracted images from the atlas textures and used Nvidia's DDS Utilies (nvdxt) to repack them into DDS. Thats it.

This makes the shadows for all the objects work again...

thanks in advance

EDIT : Im using Windows 7 Ultimate x64

[marsh]

This can make multiple pngs from a multipage dds:
nconvert.exe -v -in -1 -xall -out png -o convertedfile_###.png inputfile.dds

[Sonic030X]

Oh very very thanks i discover some easter eggs like have an LCAC in game in bf2 hehe and i can make an personal mod for me

EDIT : How to convert from .png to .dds

[marsh]

EDIT : How to convert from .png to .dds

That depends on multipage. For a rough idea of capabilities, I suggest looking at gui version (XnConvert). This didn't exist when games were made.

[Sonic030X]

thanks now i accidentally make an funny texture huhu . But thanks anyway.