DDS Converter

[Fëanor]

i'm having no sucess in loading dds files in photoshop (even with the Nvidia plugin) so after searching the web i found this extremely usefull Free converter

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/dds_converter_v21.zip

 

[Corey]

Thanks for this post.Usefull.

 

[Jay I.R.i.R.]

Yes, very useful.
I have a question though: I convertet a file to psd and chaged it, but now I can't convert it back because it says "size not a power of 2". What do I do?

 

[Gaius Julius]

i'm having no sucess in loading dds files in photoshop (even with the Nvidia plugin) so after searching the web i found this extremely usefull Free converter

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads10/dds_converter_v21.zip

Yes, very useful.
I have a question though: I convertet a file to psd and chaged it, but now I can't convert it back because it says "size not a power of 2". What do I do?

You can get an alternative:http://www.twcenter.net/downloads/db/?act=download&id=362&agree=yes
It might be Rome Total War but try

 

[Jaraxle]

Yes, very useful.
I have a question though: I convertet a file to psd and chaged it, but now I can't convert it back because it says "size not a power of 2". What do I do?

That means that your image dimensions are not in a power of 2 (i.e. 2, 4, 8...128,256,512,1024..etcetc)
For example, you can have 128x512, or a 256x256 but you can't have something like 10x32 or 401x378

 

[David Smith]

Download link doesn't seem to work here there.

 

[thtycho]

When I go through some .dds with the pogram, in Desert War in my case, the program closes by itself. Is that a known issue?

 

[Mercade]

You can get an alternative:http://www.twcenter.net/downloads/db/?act=download&id=362&agree=yes
It might be Rome Total War but try

This is a nice and simple program that works both ways (DDS -> BMP -> DDS). I like it. However, does anyone know which settings to use for the DDS conversion? When I edited a file as BMP and tried to conver it back, the original colours had changed and the transparency was no longer recognised by the program.

 

[ZabMilenko]

Compression is DXT3, which should be all you need.

 

[Tommy1234567890]

what do I use this for???

 

[Promenthus]

It's a useful program sometimes, but I use it sparingly because it often doesn't identify alpha channels for some odd reason.

 

[Granias]

This program works excellent

 

[wotan321]

I have installed the program, but when I pull up a *.dds file that works in the game, all I get is a blank square. When I convert that to another format, I get a blank square in a new format.

What am I doing wrong? I don't see any instructions with the software.

 

[Punisher]

well when i try to ompen a dds file, the program get close and i'm back to windows...

 

[wotan321]

I believe the program is designed to close when you do the conversion. It seems the default input and output file formats are the same, so it would appear you have done nothing. Change the output type, and see if that helps.

 

[edu2003mdq]

well when i try to ompen a dds file, the program get close and i'm back to windows...

Same happens to me. I can't get it to work!!!

 

[Granias]

Same happens to me. I can't get it to work!!!

Ehm, when does this happen? When you click on a dds file or when you click on "Convert"? Because the program automatically shuts down after converting.

 

[TheLopez]

So here's my problem, when I convert a photoshop file to a dds and use it in Civ4 it looks blurry. I though I might have done something wrong in the ps file so I converted an existing icon to a ps file and converted it back to a dds and used that file and it too looks blurry. Any ideas?

 

[jasonhol]

I am having a problem. Everytime I convert my .BMP to .DDS, when I enter the game, the flag is blank. Any ideas?

 

[Renobe]

The converters seem to work on the dds files of other games but on the CIV4 dds files for the flags I just get a blank square.