title says it all i tried everything i want to make a texture and im trying to test it
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in more detail i put it 128 x 128 no rle saved it as a tge file and typed /lp 0 prev prev being the name of the folder in the custom folder but its not working toribash version 4.8 please help

there are many programs out there that you can use to preview textures and also guides on how to do so. quick one I found was http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=128153

As it is now, I think you need to update item.dat to acknowledge that you have a texture item, or else it won't show.

Go copy your custom folder and rename it to something like mytexturestest. Then go inside it, open item.dat with notepad or wordpad and replace certain lines with this code:

TEXBODY 0; 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
BMAPBODY 0; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TEXJOINT 0; 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BMAPJOINT 0; 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
TEXTRAIL 0; 0 0 0 0
TEXGROUND 0; 0

Just find the lines similiar to this in .dat file, delete them and place the code in their place.

I took it from my own item.dat, since I have nearly all textures, it should work like a charm for you.


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and of course then you must type /lp 0 mytexturetest ingame. Why make a "mytexturetest" instead of changing your item.dat you might ask - it's because whenever you open TB, it automatically downloads logged-in person's item.dat from the server, so the changes would be gone after restarting TB.

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The tutorial linked above by jmoran98 is rather outdated, for example TB now works with RLE compression as far as I know.

Gonna try it thanks
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oh noes it shows my normal texture instead of the white one but no leg texture as for the previewing programms can you tell me one

Thanks, this really helped