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NVIDIA Texture Tools

This page contains several useful texture manipulation tools. The tools are listed below, with a description for each tool.

Tool

Description

GPU-Accelerated
Texture Compression 		10x faster and with higher-quality compression than our previous version, our new GPU-accelerated Texture Tools support new DirectX 10 texture formats and come with complete source code.
DDS Utilities This installer includes four separate utilities:
  • nvDXT - command-line binary version of the nvDXT library
  • detach - extracts MIP levels from a .DDS file
  • stitch - recombines MIP levels into a single .DDS file
  • readDXT - reads compressed images and writes .TGA files
3ds max .dds Plug-ins Allows 3ds max to read .dds files. The installer includes versions for 3ds max 3, 4, and 5, as well as source code for the latest version.
Adobe Photoshop Normal Map and DDS Authoring Plug-ins This installer contains two plug-ins.  The first creates normal maps from height maps for per pixel rendering. The other is a DXTC texture compression plugin for Adobe Photoshop that allows you to open and save .dds files in RGB format. It reads and writes .dds files compressed or uncompressed.
DDS Thumbnail Viewer Allows you to view .dds files in Thumbnail view in the Windows Explorer.  Now with an installer.
Texture Atlas Tools A collection of tools for creating texture atlases, which can help to increase batch sizes. Comes with an installer, Atlas Creation Utility User Guide, Atlas Viewer User Guide, and a whitepaper about texture atlases in general.
Windows Texture Viewer
 WTV was developed for simple DDS viewing, especially for those DDS files with an alpha channel.
Documentation Useful documentation.

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Useful Related Links:

  • DevIL reads and writes many image formats (including .dds).  Full source code is also available for it.

  • The GIMP normal map plug-in is a plug-in for GIMP that aims to provide similar functionality.

Thanks go to:

  •   Sean Palmer (www.Treyarch.com) for the 3dsmax .dds plugin
  •   Bruno Silva (Microsoft) for the help with the thumbnail viewer
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