Help ! Icon texture not loading properly

[Armise]

I finished the hard-coding part of my mod some days ago (which adds a new civ to the game btw), and I thought, why not adding custom icons for the new units and the new civ. So did I, following the Kael's holy scriptures a.k.a modder's guide, using GIMP instead of PS (but I tried PS after that : no more success).
The result is, I can read the DDS pictures with my computer, no problem, but once the mod is loaded in the game, an error windows pops up saying "Unable to load texture [CivSymbolsColorLegends64.dds]".
Why is that happening ? And when I click OK, back in the game there is a red square instead of the icon.
Can you help me ?

EDIT : my civs are fascists from WW2, so anyone having proper hammer-sickle or svatiska icons in proper .dds format would be very much appreciated too, but I'm still interested in why bit doesn't work and how to make my own icons.

 

[Troller0001]

There are two possible problems that I can think of right now:
1) You did not use the proper export settings. Here is a pic for how I export my civ icons:

(RGBA8 encoding is of main importance here)

(Mipmaps are only necessary for Strategic view icons. As for compression, I usually only use that when exporting a civ map, leaderscreen, or DOM screen)

2) you did not set VFS=true for the .dds files in modbuddy

 

[Armise]

Thanks, great, it works ! It was the second option, if you wonder.