DDS Tools

Revision as of 13:07, 20 May 2006 by imported>JOG (Put all DDS Tools together into one page)

Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins

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 here (Exe installer)


DDS Converter 2.1

Description

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.

Homepage

link to DDS Converter 2.1


NConvert

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


NVIDIA Texture Tools

Description

This page contains several useful texture manipulation tools.

Homepage

link to NVIDIA's tools