Rule number THREE for the Brain-Dead trying to create Virtual Textures:
Be VERY careful when messing with your registry. You wanna lose Everything?
Okay, now let's install these packages so that they work (and are installed) as the Good Doctor intended:
Use the "RUN" command (available from Windows Start Menu) to execute the gzip-1.3.5-3.exe file you downloaded.
Un-pack the F-TexTools-2.0pre1.zip file you downloaded, and then use the "RUN" command to execute the
F-TexTools-2.0pre1.exe file.
Use the "RUN" command to execute the XnView-win-en.exe file you downloaded.
Use the "RUN" command to execute the NVIDIA_Texture_Tools_2.04.1016.0025.exe file you downloaded.
Un-pack the nmtools-2.0pre1.zip file you downloaded, and then execute the NmTools-2.0pre1.exe file.
Please note that you may have different executable file names than I do here, but the procedures are exactly the same.
If you refer to Doctor Schrempp's tutorial page (You did save it from step 1. Yes?) you'll see that Gzip should be recognized by your Windows system after a reboot. On my Vista system, this simply did not occur. The ONLY way I can get Vista to recognize Gzip is to use the Good Doctor's advice and configure the PATH variable in my Control Panel.
Here are instructions to make ALL of these programs available to Windows. PLEASE CREATE a RESTORE POINT before making these changes. That way, if you screw things up, you can recover your system as it was prior to any changes you will make here.
1. Open your Control Panel either using the start menu option that's included on your system, or by clicking on a Control Panel Icon.
2. Change to the "Classic View" option and then click on your "System" Icon.
3. Next, click the "Advanced system settings" option to open another window into your "System Properties" window.
Note: You MUST have administrator rights in order to be able to do this.
4. Under the "Advanced" tab, you'll see an "Environmental Variables" box which you should click to open.
5. In the "System Variables" panel, (the lower panel on my machine) locate and click on the "Path" statement to highlight it.
6. Now, click on the "Edit..." button to display the contents of your Path Variables.
7. Tap your "End" key to get to the end of this statement line, and then type the following into the path exactly as shown. Please make CERTAIN that you do NOT change ANY of the variable names as they currently exist prior adding this code to the end of the line:
Code:
;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin;C:\Program Files\XnView;C:\Program Files\F-TexTools;C:\Program Files\Nmtools;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Texture Tools 2\bin
This will make ALL of the installed programs available to Windows no matter where you're at in the directory. Please insure that this is done correctly. If it isn't, you will NEVER get your tools to work correctly. Also, please note that I have substituted the values here which work on MY system.
If you have installed any of the downloaded programs to a non-standard location, then, you will HAVE to change the appropriate path variables in the string above. After you are satisfied that you have the code entered correctly, simply click on the okay button to get out of the editor. Continue to "okay" your way out of the Control Panel.
Everyone okay so far? Any experts see any errors with what I have thus far?
Will continue after short delay to make certain that I have no errors here.
One other note here...
You can actually highlight and COPY the code from above, and then simply paste it into the Path variable at the end of whatever you have in there to begin with. Just a bit easier for Brain-Dead users.
