====== ArmA 1 Pal2PacE ======

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**ArmA 1** aka Armed Assault (ArmA)

The official BIS tool Pal2PacE is a command line tool for texture conversion. The conversion engine is identical to [[arma:tools:texview2|TexView 2]]. See [[arma:texturing:texture_naming_rules|ArmA Texture Naming Rules]] for more information about the conversion process.

Buldozer comes with pal2pace.exe and pal2pac.dll.

The call is like this:
<code>
pal2pace -combine 4.tga 3.tga 2.tga 1.tga 1234.pac
</code>

(only tga -> pac possible as far as I know)

So for example - texture name:
<code>
e1f2g4a2
4 = a2 (top right)
3 = g4 (top left)
2 = f2 (down right)
1 = e1 (down left)

34
12

pal2pace -combine a2.tga g4.tga f2.tga e1.tga e1f2g4a2.pac
</code>

This is a 4 texture transition. so for a half half texture 2 two its like this:
<code>
pal2pace -combine g4.tga g4.tga e1.tga e1.tga e1e1g4g4.pac
</code>
You are best to work with some text editor capable of handling regular expressions, like EditPadPro.

Search text:
<code>
([a-z0-9][a-z0-9])([a-z0-9][a-z0-9])([a-z0-9][a-z0-9])([a-z0-9][a-z0-9])
</code>
Replacement text:
<code>
D:\pal2pace\pal2pace -combine \4.tga \3.tga \2.tga \1.tga \1\2\3\4.pac
</code>

It looks for a string of two characters or numbers each and makes the output command for it.


====== Notes ======

See also [[ofp:tools:pal2pace|OFP pal2pace tool]].