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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Kiloku on July 19, 2010, 08:00:47 pm

Title: Opening DDS files?
Post by: Kiloku on July 19, 2010, 08:00:47 pm

I'm not sure if that's the place to ask, but I've downloaded MV_RadarIcons.vp. When using it, I felt the icons were to low-res, so I wanted to edit them. When I extracted the vp, I got a bunch of dds files. I've looked on the wiki, and didn't quite understand how I could convert them to and editable format and back to dds... Can someone help?

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: FUBAR-BDHR on July 19, 2010, 08:18:36 pm

Several ways.  Paint.net, Photoshop with the plugin for dds, Infanview can convert but not convert back, There is also a command line utility.  I suggest you check the modding forum for more info.

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: Droid803 on July 20, 2010, 12:54:43 am

GIMP's probably you best choice for a good image editing program free, but if you just want to convert, plenty of things can do that.

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: Angelus on July 20, 2010, 05:38:43 am

Yeah, Gimp is one of the best free tools for this task.
Alternatively you can use the nvidia commandline tool (http://developer.nvidia.com/object/dds_utilities_legacy.html), very powerful, as it gives you total control.

ATIs Compressionator (http://developer.amd.com/gpu/compressonator/Pages/default.aspx) does the same.

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: AugustusVarius on July 20, 2010, 12:34:04 pm

If you use GIMP, you'll need the dds plugin (http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/).

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: Rodo on July 20, 2010, 12:39:42 pm

Also, you can directly edit the DDS files with GIMP, no conversion needed.

Title: Re: Opening DDS files?
Post by: Aardwolf on July 21, 2010, 04:47:45 pm

Rodo, that's been said already!