A16R16G16B16 Paint Program

[Garett20]

Does anyone no a decent paint program which can save dds files with A16R16G16B16 format?

 

[Galacticat42]

Does anyone no a decent paint program which can save dds files with A16R16G16B16 format?

Erm... If you mean a 16bit RGB with alpha channels then GIMP is the program you want... As it is, there is no 'A16R16G16B16' however upon breakdown A = Alpha channels, RGB = Red, Green, Blue while 16 is the number of bits.

 

[Garett20]

Nope that doesn't work.

 

[nodrownboy]

The only way I've discovered to view these(I only have access to free image editors) is to download the DirectX SDK and install the utilities that includes. The DirectX Texture Tool can open the A16B16G16R16 and convert to something like DXT5 that other editors can open.

NOTE: The only dds files that I've seen use the A16B16G16R16 are the height maps used in the Terrain Editor.

 

[Zyxpsilon]

As i recall, the NVidia plugin for Photoshop (and PSPro, but slightly unstable) does have an option for such odd DXT compressions.

There's also the ATI Compressonator executable but i've never used it to create a channeled 1555 DDS_DXT.