Texture problem (again) - Length cannot be less than zero....

Alex Kyriak · Jul 28, 2010

I've made a dds texture, xpacked it, tried to load it in BTB, I get an error saying "unhandled exception..... length cannot be less than zero". Any ideas anyone? It's a 1024x1024 dds.

Much appreciated.

Kyle Puttifer · Jul 28, 2010

Strange. The dimensions are powers of two, so that's not the problem. I for one have absolutely no clue.

It might have something to do with how many metres the texture covers? If you look around the XPacker texture properties, I think the default value for this is usually 12.00.

Alex Kyriak · Jul 29, 2010

Whatever properties I set, it still errors.

I "fixed" the problem in another way by using Add From Texture button, instead of creating a material from scratch..... wierd!

Kyle Puttifer · Jul 29, 2010

Oh, yes, of course, a material would contain textures, sounds, and textures that spring off. For example, gravel would have little stone textures flying from the back of the car. A wet track would use RAINSPRAY.tga. But all you wanted was a texture.
That makes sense.

Alex Kyriak · Jul 30, 2010

I actually wanted a new material. The add texture button just creates a new material, using a texture as the basis. (not sure why Piddy made it like this). I then gave it all the usaul properties - surface type, etc. So it's almost identical to create new texture, just with a different method. So not really sure why one way worked and the other didn't.

Kyle Puttifer · Jul 30, 2010

Just remember that BTB isn't exactly complete yet, and still slightly buggy, although a lot less than when it was being coded.

Alex Kyriak · Jul 31, 2010

Even if it's not complete, it's still fairly awesome!!!!

Most addictive piece of software ever...!

Kyle Puttifer · Jul 31, 2010

I'm spending a lot of my summer holidays on a major update for Croydon Grand Prix.
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Croydon Grand Prix
Google SketchUp and street view is helping a lot! And it is really addictive, I don't think I can go a single day without making changes of some sort to either CGP or my 600m figure 8!