Difference between revisions of "DDS Tools"

Latest revision as of 12:42, 19 January 2012

Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins[edit | edit source]

Description

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

Photoshop DDS plugin

Download

Download Nvidia Photoshop Plugins v6.74 here (Exe installer)

Download Nvidia Photoshop Plugins v8.23 here (Exe installer)

Older version 5.18, compatible with Paint Shop Pro 9

DDSopt[edit | edit source]

Description	This tool allows you to convert and optimize texture files for Oblivion /and Skyrim) automatically. It has full knowledge of the valid texture types and which compression it can use. It also comes with several better algorithms which are more advanced than those present in nVidia exporter. If you want to deploy optimal DDSs this is the tool for it. (nVidias plugin and this tool both are based on the same library, there is no difference in the baseline, but DDSopt adds a few more advanced things).
Homepage	DDSopt Wiki

DDS Converter 2.1[edit | edit source]

Description	This tool allows you to convert .dds files to tga, bmp, jpg (J-peg), psd, and even more formats, and then back again. It is a GUI interface that uses NVIDIA's nvdxt.exe command line tool.
Homepage	link to DDS Converter 2.1

NConvert[edit | edit source]

Description	An additional resource for DDS files is NConvert (freeware). It can convert to and from DDS allowing DDS files to be converted to other formats. I recently used this tool to convert the DDS files that the TCS generates from the "Generate Local Maps" functon to jpegs. It is a console app (dos box) and not GUI. It will batch convert and is very fast.
Homepage	link to NConvert's site

WTV[edit | edit source]

Description	NVidia's "Windows Texture Viewer" is a small and very fast dds-viewer. Very useful when you just want to view textures.
Homepage	link to WTV

IrfanView[edit | edit source]

Description	An alternate to WTV, IrfanView is a small and fast image viewer with .dds support, as well as sizable support for many other graphics formats. IrfanView can also do basic image editing and can run free filters designed for Adobe® Photoshop®.
Homepage	link

NVIDIA Texture Tools[edit | edit source]

Description	This page contains several other useful texture manipulation tools.
Homepage	link to NVIDIA's tools

GIMP DDS Plugin[edit | edit source]

Description	A dds import/export Plugin for the open source graphics editor The Gimp.
Homepage	link

ATI .TGA Normal Map Generator[edit | edit source]

Description	A stand alone .exe which generates simple normal maps from .tga files. Less powerful than the PS and GIMP plugins since it lacks scaleability and other functions. Also does not generate mip maps and so would need to be combined with DDS Converter 2.1 above.
Homepage	link

ATI Compressonator[edit | edit source]

Description	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	link

GIMP Normal Map Plugin[edit | edit source]

Description	A normal map creation plugin for the open source graphics editor The Gimp.
Homepage	link

Crazybump[edit | edit source]

Description	While not strictly a .dds tool, CrazyBump excels at creating Normal Maps from textures or height maps.
Homepage	link

ShaderMap[edit | edit source]

Description	ShaderMap allows you to create normal- and height-maps from either color or both normal- and height-maps. Very easy too use and effordable.
Homepage	link

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 *NVIDIA Normal Map Filter
-*NVIDIA DDS PLug-in
+*NVIDIA DDS Plug-in
 *NVIDIA Mipster Script
 *NVIDIA Cube Map Shuffler
@@ Line 24: / Line 24: @@
 |style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
 [http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite/Photoshop_Plugins_7.83.0629.1500.exe Download Nvidia Photoshop Plugins v6.74 here (Exe installer)]
+[http://developer.download.nvidia.com/tools/texturetools/Photoshop_Plugins_8.23.0307.1915.exe Download Nvidia Photoshop Plugins v8.23 here (Exe installer)]
 [http://www.zyworld.com/redwoodtreesprite/Files/PSP-ddsSave.zip Older version 5.18, compatible with Paint Shop Pro 9]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>DDSopt</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+This tool allows you to convert and optimize texture files for Oblivion /and Skyrim) automatically. It has full knowledge of the valid texture types and which compression it can use. It also comes with several better algorithms which are more advanced than those present in nVidia exporter. If you want to deploy optimal DDSs this is the tool for it. (nVidias plugin and this tool both are based on the same library, there is no difference in the baseline, but DDSopt adds a few more advanced things).
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://obge.paradice-insight.us/wiki/DDSopt DDSopt Wiki]
 |}
@@ Line 53: / Line 69: @@
 !style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
 |style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
-[http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/en_nconvert.html link to NConvert's site]
+[http://www.xnview.com/en/download_nc.html link to NConvert's site]
 |}
@@ Line 67: / Line 83: @@
 |style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
 [http://developer.nvidia.com/object/windows_texture_viewer.html link to WTV]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>IrfanView</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+An alternate to WTV, IrfanView is a small and fast image viewer with .dds support, as well as sizable support for many other graphics formats.  IrfanView can also do basic image editing and can run free filters designed for Adobe® Photoshop®.
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://www.irfanview.com/ link]
 |}
@@ Line 92: / Line 121: @@
 !style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
 |style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
-[http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/ link]
+[http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/ link]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>ATI .TGA Normal Map Generator</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+A stand alone .exe which generates simple normal maps from .tga files. Less powerful than the PS and GIMP plugins since it lacks scaleability and other functions. Also does not generate mip maps and so would need to be combined with DDS Converter 2.1 above.
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://www.ati.com/developer/sdk/radeonSDK/html/Tools/ToolsPlugIns.html link]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>ATI Compressonator</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+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.
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://ati.amd.com/developer/compressonator.html link]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>GIMP Normal Map Plugin</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+A normal map creation plugin for the open source graphics editor [http://www.gimp.org The Gimp].
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/%7ecocidius/normalmap/ link]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>Crazybump</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+While not strictly a .dds tool, CrazyBump excels at creating [[Normal Maps]] from textures or height maps.
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://www.crazybump.com/ link]
+|}
+<BR>
+== <center>ShaderMap</center> ==
+{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+ShaderMap allows you to create normal- and height-maps from either color or both normal- and height-maps. Very easy too use and effordable.
+|-
+!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
+|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
+[http://shadermap.com/ link]
 |}