Thread: [Graphic] DDS Tools

DDS Tools

AcdSee DDS Plug-ins
Useful plugin for AcdSee. Allow only viewing .dds files
AcdSee_DDSPlugin.rar

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DDS Converter 2.1
This program was initially designed to generate DXT-compressed textures out of common image files (convert .dds files to tga, bmp, jpg, psd etc. and vice-versa). It is a GUI interface that uses NVIDIA's nvdxt.exe command line tool.

Homepage
DDS_Converter_2.rar

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Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins
This installer contains two plug-ins and several helpful scripts for Adobe Photoshop:

• NVIDIA Normal Map Filter
• NVIDIA DDS Plug-in
• NVIDIA Mipster Script
• NVIDIA Cube Map Shuffler

The NVIDIA Normal Map filter creates normal maps from height maps for per pixel rendering.
The DDS plug-in supports the DXTC texture compression format and allows you to open and save .dds files in RGB format. It reads and writes .dds files compressed or uncompressed.
Homepage | Download

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WTV
NVidia's "Windows Texture Viewer" is a small and very fast dds-viewer. Very useful when you just want to view textures with an alpha channel.
Download

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NVIDIA Texture Tools
This page contains several other useful texture manipulation tools.
Homepage

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GIMP DDS Plugin
A dds import/export Plugin for the open source graphics editor The Gimp.
Homepage | Download

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ATI Compressonator
Another Stand-alone application for viewing .dds images, as well as converting other images into various .dds formats. Has a useful feature for quickly viewing mipmaps, or viewing the difference between two images.
Homepage

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DDStoBmp
Rough and ready tools to convert the DDS files output by the nVidia DXT plugin for Photoshop.
GUI and CLI versions to convert these images to CFS2 DXT format without altering the Image data are available. It will convert DDS images to the FS70 DXT1 Bmp format used by Combat Flight Simulator 2.
ddsbmp.ZIP

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MipEdit
MipEdit is a program for the editing of the individual mips contained within a DDS file or within the Extended 16 bit format textures used with CFS2 and FS2002.
MipEdit.rar