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== <center>Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins</center> ==
{| cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%"
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!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;"  width="100"  | Description
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
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.
|-
!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
[http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html Photoshop DDS plugin]
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!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Download
|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]
|}
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== <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]
|}
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== <center>DDS Converter 2.1</center> ==
== <center>DDS Converter 2.1</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 .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.
|-
!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
[http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/file/DDS_Converter;29412 link to DDS Converter 2.1]
|}


This tool allows you to convert .dds files to tga/bmp format, and then back again.  It is a GUI interface that uses NVIDIA's nvdxt.exe command line tool
<BR>
 
== <center>NConvert</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 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.
|-
!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
[http://www.xnview.com/en/download_nc.html link to NConvert's site]
|}
 
<BR>
== <center>WTV</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"|
NVidia's "Windows Texture Viewer" is a small and very fast dds-viewer. Very useful when you just want to view textures.
|-
!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
[http://developer.nvidia.com/object/windows_texture_viewer.html link to WTV]
|}
 
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== <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]
|}


[http://eliteforce2.filefront.com/file/DDS_Converter;29412 link to DDS Converter 2.1]
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<BR>
== <center>NVIDIA Texture Tools</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 page contains several other useful texture manipulation tools.
|-
!style="background:#ffdead;border-bottom:1px solid;" | Homepage
|style="background:#ffeded;border-bottom:1px solid;" colspan="2"|
[http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html link to NVIDIA's tools]
[http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html link to NVIDIA's tools]
|}
<BR>
== <center>GIMP DDS 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 dds import/export 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://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]
|}
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== <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]
|}


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.<BR>
[http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/en_nconvert.html link to NConvert's site]


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Latest revision as of 12:42, 19 January 2012

Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Description

This page contains several other useful texture manipulation tools.

Homepage

link to NVIDIA's tools


GIMP DDS Plugin
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Description

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

Homepage

link


ATI .TGA Normal Map Generator
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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
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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

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