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arma2:tools:paadecompressor [2009-07-26 11:58]
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 ====== PAADecompressor ====== ====== PAADecompressor ======
  
-**PAADecompressor** ​by T_D+This little tool is for people that can't or don't want to use PAA Plugin for Photoshop ​by Kegetys to view and edit A2 textures. It decompresses A2 textures back to the A1 format. This way you can easily use TexView2 for the textures.
  
-This little tool is for people that can't or don't want to use [[arma2:​tools:​paaplugin|PAA Plugin]] for Photoshop by Kegetys to view and edit ArmA 2 textures. It decompresses the textures back to the [[arma:​tools:​texview2|TexView2]] readable format. +For v1.2 PAACompressor.exe was added to produce compressed textures, which can be used in ArmA2 but use lesser ​disk space.
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-For v1.2 PAACompressor.exe was added to produce compressed textures, which can be used in ArmA2 but use lesser ​diskspace. +
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-====== Usage ======+
  
 +Syntax:
 +<​code>​
 PAADecompressor.exe [source [destination]] PAADecompressor.exe [source [destination]]
 +</​code>​
 If no parameters are given a dialog appears where you can choose the file that should be decompressed. Decompressed files are ending with "​_decompressed.paa"​ if destination name wasn't specified. If no parameters are given a dialog appears where you can choose the file that should be decompressed. Decompressed files are ending with "​_decompressed.paa"​ if destination name wasn't specified.
  
 PAACompressor.exe is used the same way. PAACompressor.exe is used the same way.
  
-**Shell extension**+Shell extension:
  
-This package contains a PAAD.reg file that register the tool for your registry, so that you can quickly decompress paa files by RMB clicking on them. You just have to edit the path in it.+This package contains a PAAD.reg ​(thx to kju) file that register the tool, so that you can quickly decompress paa files by right clicking on them. You just have to edit the path in it.
  
 PAAC.reg for adding PAACompressor to shell. PAAC.reg for adding PAACompressor to shell.
  
- +Requires ​.NET Framework 3.5 and Bis.dll - Check [[http://​dev-heaven.net/​projects/​tdt|T_D tools homepage]] in Dev-Heaven.
-====== Changelog ====== +
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-<​code>​ +
-v1.+
-ADDED: PAACompressor.exe for compressing textures +
-FIXED: fixed other crashes +
-FIXED: some uncompressed textures couldn'​t be read by TexView2 +
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-v1.+
-FIXED: crash on certain files (due to wrong compression threshold size) +
-</​code>​ +
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-====== Notes ====== +
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-You can contact T_D by [[t_dittmar@web.de|email]] +
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-Download this util from [[http://​dev-heaven.net/​projects/​list_files/​mikero-pbodll|Dev Heaven ​pbodll]] download page.+
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