[Setekh]

Ice:

[q]From MSDN:
The Microsoft® DirectDraw® Surface (DDS) file format is used to store textures and cubic environment maps, both with and without mipmap levels. This format can store uncompressed and compressed pixel formats, and is the preferred file format for storing DXTn compressed data. This file format is supported by the Microsoft DirectX® Texture tool (DXTex Tool), as well as some third party tools, and by the Microsoft Direct3DX library.[/q]

AFAIK, you'll need DXTex (part of Microsoft's DirectX SDK) to save to it. IIRC, this is out of PhotoShop's league... but the last time I looked at PS was a couple of years ago, so I could be mistaken.

[Bobboau]

there is a photoshop plugin, I beleve

[Setekh]

There you go. It's a very versatile format, and would be excellent given all the spec/self-illum and eventually bump () maps we'll have. How much work do you think it'll take to implement, Bob?

[redsniper]

for the few minutes I got spec mapping to work it was frikkin' awesome, but now I haven't had a version of FSO work since. I've got some sort of crazy issues with D3D (and no, it's not because the 'VideocardFS2Open' registry key is missing it's way beyond that). I've been communicating with RandomTiger via email about this for a while now and he seems to be making progress, slowly though. If any SCP coder gods feel like helping me out you can email me or something, but you'd probably be better off talking to RT.

[Ypoknons]

Yes there is a Photoshop plugin for DDS files.

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