It was developed by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball. Gimp is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. Gimp is an open-source image manipulation tool used to edit images, change their sizes, convert their file format, free-form drawing, and much more. 4 How to save images in DDS file format in Gimp:.3 How to install the DDS plugin in Gimp:.If anyone is interested in much more detail on DDS textures, I'm sure Thomas (known as tdev over there) would be happy to oblige. The only reason I know this much is that Rigs of Rods has asked me to convert all of my textures to DDS as that is what they use in their game and the above was their explanation as to why (although I have simplified it). There are ways around this, but I'm not a coder and don't know how it's done. One of the downsides to DDS textures is that it can be quite difficult (nearly impossible) to get them to appear correctly on Apple/Macintosh Operating Systems. This allows users with lower-end video cards to handle much higher resolution images without the massive framerate drops usually associated with those higher resolutions. I don't know the exact percentage offhand, but there is a significant Video RAM savings by using DDS textures and, yes, that leads to much faster refreshes and less lag. The primary benefit of DDS textures is that they are run through the Video RAM compressed whereas PNG and JPG textures are run through Video RAM at full scale resolution. dds load times for a 4096x4096 texture are of about 0.5 seconds or less, and there's almost no stuter while on multiplayer. png cannot.Īlso, if you use the option to generate the mipmaps when converting to. dds files can be compressed further by the archiver, while the. png takes, although when on disk they are sometimes considerably larger. dds texture takes roughly half the space one. One more note, when zipped in the whole package for 'distribution', one. (differing coordinate origins)Ĭheck this post for more 'technical' info from me: One important note though: the final png texture, must be flipped on the vertical axis, before converting it with either method. I prefer the later on linux, due to scripting posibilities (they're command line programs), especialy one liner scripts that convert more textures at once.

There's a plugin for GIMP, or, you can use the nVidia Texture tools.

Gooneybird wrote in Tue 6:50 pm:What program do you use for the DDS files

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