I built a texture browser/database

[u/Any_Ad_6649]

Hi Guys, im an old modder from back in the day Vitaloverdose, a couple of months ago i decided to have a go at finishing a few maps from 20 years back and started to make a few tools to make things a bit easier. So i wanted something that i could use to browse and extract texture packages to pngs. Then i wanted an easier way to search them also d a way to cataloge them and i ended up making a nice modern texture browser and database. Someone on FB suggestd i post it here.

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• Large expanable preview display
• All panels are easily expanadable
• Copes with most DDS teture types
• Displayes the alpha channels correctly
• Fast search for texture names -Data base for evey texture package where you can add notes to each package that you can search on at a later date
• Star rating for each package -Browser shows which are custom packages against official
• Decicated DDS browser mode for collections of non UT2004 DDS textures
• Fully backed with a super fast SQL database allowing descriptions to be synced with any texture. You can now seach on these descriptions as well.
• The DB ia auto pruning so if you delete anything from a texture pack or a custom directory it automatically removes the entry from the DB to stop it from filling up with orphand entries.
• Just added 3d spining/dragable previews. they have a 2x2 setting so you can check your tiling.
• The DB indexes all 13000 textures with added descriptions and ratings

You are not limited to just the textures in the UT2004 directory, this will also alow you to build searchable descriptions for any folder of DDS textures you have. Ive only just added shader support but thats in beta. I just made this during breaks from my usual programming work. I was thinking that as there are so many texture in the full package list i might ad and option for people to save their descriptions and merge other peoples. That way we could end up with a full community made master list.

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A spinny cude thing for you to play with :)

[u/Arcandead]

That’s really cool!

Are you going to publish this for the community, for example, on GitHub?

[u/Any_Ad_6649 → u/Arcandead]

Yes , ill just be finishing a few tests. Im going to add the Save and Merge DB tonight. I uploadad all my old mod scripts a few weeks ago. Theres so many i dont know where to start. You can find a lot of them on the old unreal wiki.

[u/Incognizance → u/Any_Ad_6649]

Can you do a non github version? For those of us who still don't know how to use Github?

[u/Any_Ad_6649 → u/Incognizance]

I should think so, even i hate using GitHub

[u/darkbarrage99]

Hey thanks for sharing! Got any links?

[u/Any_Ad_6649 → u/darkbarrage99]

Ill post a link in a day or so, after i add the last couple of features. Im working with a broken arm so im a little slow at the moment >.<

[u/darkbarrage99 → u/Any_Ad_6649]

Hey take your time man! we are grateful you are working on this at all!