Dear All!
I was playing with imported textures and faced the restriction that the texture had to have the size that is power of 2.
Say, I have a texture from google and want to import it into wz4. I copy it into irfanview or a similar utility, resize it so that the size is a power of 2 (128, 256, 512 etc.) and save as .png file. Then I import it and resize by Rotate back to normal proportions (because after resizing in irfanview the image often becomes squashed).
I wonder how you guys prepare your textures for importing into wz4? Are there any simpler ways to do that?
Thank you.

Maybe it's less destuctive to cut a rectangle (power of 2 size) inside the texture instead of 2 resize ?

Yes, but what lightweight and free software might support such type of selction
(pre-sized selection rectangle movable across the image)?

mspaint lol

with manual selection

OK. I don't have wz here, but I have irfanview. And as it turns out, it can do that!
1. Copy the image into IrfanView
2. Press Shift-C (Create custom crop selection)
3. Set Ratio (e.g. 1:1), Height and Width in pixels (e.g. 256x256)
4. Click 'Save and apply to image'
5. Drag the rectangle selection with Right mouse button.
6. Ctrl-C to copy the selection
7. Shift-N to create a new file, then 'OK' (doesn't matter which size IrfanView suggests)
8. Ctrl-V to paste selection in the new file (after that it should be sized as 256x256 px)!
... and voila! You are all set

thanks for info, i'll try.

Unfortunately there is one contra point to this approach... and a rather strong one:
if the initial texture is looped (wrapping), you will lose its 'loopability'

Now check this out!
A seamless texture generator for total idiots. Absolutely free!
http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/pos ... opic=46368
The tool is old and it generates .bmp only but does the job well.