Texture mod support

[Eyef]

I tried to run the mod https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-bfg-ultimate/downloads/doom3-bfg-ultimatehd-v21-full
on Doom bfa, but nothing happens when I run it. If you run this mod through Rbdoom3bfg, it starts binarising and there is a generated folder with lots of bimage files. And Doom bfa at startup does nothing. It does not create bimage and does not load the original tga or jpg images. Checked the same thing on the mod
https://www.moddb.com/mods/d3hdp-doom-3-essential-hd-pack/downloads/d3hdp-doom-3-essential-hd-pack-v20
If you unpack the textures and materials folders from pk4 files of this mod and throw as a mod in RbDoom3bfg, run it with the command +set fs_game mod_name, it starts binarising, after which hd textures on the maps are displayed. Because bimage files are created.
If you throw a folder with unpacked tga and jpg textures (and a folder with materials too), then Doom bfa still does nothing. It doesn't load the unpacked images and doesn't try to make bimage from them. So it should be? The only mod for Hd textures that works in Doom bfa is the mod
https://www.moddb.com/mods/doom-3-bfg-hi-def/downloads/doom-3-bfg-hi-def-40-full-release.

But there all textures are already converted to bimage and packed in resources. How then to make other mods with textures work in Doom bfa?

The hi-def mod is terrible. It's got ugly blurry textures, clearly made through esrgan neural net. The d3hdp mod is the highest quality, but doesn't work in Doom bfa. I tried to get bimage files through rbdoom3bfg, then slip the resulting folder to the Doom bfa port, but there are some artefacts instead of textures. Looks like Rbdoom3bfg when creating bimage files uses not the standard bimage format, but its updated version. According to the hex dumps, there's some bim 11, while in the regular Doom 3 bfg, it's bim 10.

I still haven't figured out how to get this mod to work on Doom BFA...

https://www.moddb.com/mods/d3hdp-doom-3-essential-hd-pack/downloads/d3hdp-doom-3-essential-hd-pack-v20

[MadDeCoDeR]

I think you answer your question yourself. The mod uses file formats that are exclusive to RBDoom3BFG.
I need to point that out, that even though BFA WAS a fork of RBDOOM, It's not RBDOOM.
This will require work in order to port the new file formats from RBDOOM to BFA (assuming they work with OpenGL)

[Eyef]

The mod uses file formats that are exclusive to RBDoom3BFG.

Mod uses tga and jpg textures. And Doom bfa don't works with it.

I said that Doom BFA doesn't run mods with TGA and JPG textures. It simply doesn't do anything with them. It doesn't convert them to BImage and doesn't use them without conversion. As a result, when running a mod with HD textures, nothing happens.

If you put the same mod with TGA and JPG textures in the folder with the RbDoom3bfg port, it starts converting them to BImage and runs mod normally.

The question was, why doesn't Doom BFA run mods with HD textures, where these textures are stored as TGA and JPG files in the materials folder?

I mentioned RbDoom3bfg only as an example of how the mod itself is clearly working. Since another port was able to run it.

I was initially trying to run a mod with HD textures created for Doom 3 (2004), not for RbDoom3bfg. The mod that has a textures folder with tga textures and a materials folder with mtr files does NOT work in Doom bfa.

I downloaded a HD texture mod for Doom 3 (2004), unzipped it from the .pk4 files, created a new folder for the mod, placed the unzipped mod folders (textures, materials) there, and ran the mod in Doom BFA with the command +set fs_game .
As a result, Doom BFA doesn't do anything and no new textures appear.

However, if I run the same folder with TGA and JPG textures and materials in the Rbdoom3bfg port, the mod runs immediately and I see HD textures and new BImage files created from the TGA textures.

The question was: why doesn't Doom BFA do anything with the Doom 3 (2004) mod, while the other port detects and runs it immediately.

[Eyefinitys]

I downloaded an older version - Doom BFA 1.3.2
I tested HD texture mods there.
And here's what I noticed:

Doom BFA 1.4.0 - from a folder with hundreds of HD textures, creates bimage files for less than 5% of all textures. And those that it does create look corrupted and mesh-like in-game.

Doom BFA 1.3.2 - creates bimage files for all HD textures. But the resulting bimage files also look broken. In-game, they also look like they have noise applied to them. I even opened the resulting bimage files with a simple bimage viewer. It also shows that these textures are broken. The original bimage files for normal maps look like uniform green textures, but the ones created by Doom BFA look like a mess of square noise on top of the textures. Even the regular diffuse textures also look distorted and noisy. And no, this isn't a problem with the bimage file viewer. In the game itself, the bimage files generated by Doom BFA as wall textures also look broken.
I don't know why no one has noticed this yet.

Typical results of how Doom BFA created its bimage textures from jpg and TGA HD texture files:

Typical bimage files created by Doom BFA (when opened separately):

What I did:

Downloaded the Ultimate HD mod for Doom 3 (2004), unpacked the contents of the .pk4 files, and placed them in the "unpack" folder inside DOOM 3 BFG Edition. Launched Doom BFA with the following parameters: DoomBFA.exe +set fs_game unpack +seta com_allowconsole 1
Then launched the Mars City 1 map.
The result is shown in the screenshots above.

bimage files examples taken from
\DOOM 3 BFG Edition\Unpack\generated\images\textures
all bimage files made by Doom bfa.

Preview pictures made with
https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/154493-bimage-viewer-for-doom-3-bfg-edition/
(simple bimage viewer for unpacked .bimage)

Conclusion: Doom bfa creates broken bimage files.