[?] New Vehicles Textures (correct .dds format)

[A.Finest]

Greetings!,

So to get right to the point of this post.. Me and and a few of my clan members are making new textures for some of the vehicles how would we go about rendering our psd into dds? using the correct format and template and so forth..

Using for example a 1024x1024px image?

We've tryed a few things, some seem to work somewhat, others dont etc.. So how does the rest of the PR Community render their textures into dds?

EDIT: As far as im aware this is possible with the Nvidia dds plugin and we've got that installed

[Spush]

This --->NVIDIA Texture Tools for Adobe Photoshop | NVIDIA Developer Zone

Diffuse DTX5, bump map DTX1

[AncientMan]

With mipmaps.

[Rhino]

Diffuse DTX5, bump map DTX1

Depends on the texture but for most vehicles/weapons, yes that is normally the case but not always, especially if the texture has an opacity map, then normal map also needs to be DXT5 etc.


Your best bet to finding out what format of DDS you need to save a texture as, when replacing a texture is to use the Nvidia WTV tool: Windows Texture Viewer

This tool can open DDS textures, but it also tells you in the bottom left, how many mips the texture has and more importantly, what format the texture is saved in. Note some textures, like 1st person textures should be saved with no mipmaps so it is important to look at mip values too.

[A.Finest]

Rhino;1791754']Depends on the texture but for most vehicles/weapons, yes that is normally the case but not always, especially if the texture has an opacity map, then normal map also needs to be DXT5 etc.


Your best bet to finding out what format of DDS you need to save a texture as, when replacing a texture is to use the Nvidia WTV tool: Windows Texture Viewer

This tool can open DDS textures, but it also tells you in the bottom left, how many mips the texture has and more importantly, what format the texture is saved in. Note some textures, like 1st person textures should be saved with no mipmaps so it is important to look at mip values too.

Great Thanks mate!