DDS Plugin for Paint Shop Pro 8.10

[mjahn]

Img2DDS

Hi,

For what it's worth, I do all my FSX DDS conversions using a little custom prog that invokes ImageTool, DxTex, and IrfanView as needed. It usually does what I expect it to do. You basically drag your source files onto a desktop link and that is it. No switches, no batch file editing. Have just added a readme and some notes:

ImgToDDS

Img2DDS creates FSX DDS files from various input formats. Creates alpha
channel DXT5 DDS's if there is an additional _a file in the same folder (NOT psd or tga), else
creates DXT1 DDS. Creates bump map if PSD file name contains string
_BUMP. Auto-flips images. No MIP's by default. Invokes local copies of
IrfanView, ImageTool, and DxTex.

Installation: Copy the zipped files to C:\Img2DDS\ and drag the link file
Img2DDS.bat-link.lnk to desktop.

Operation: Set an FSX target folder and drag and drop source files onto the desktop icon.

To set FSX target folder drop a texture folder's texture.cfg onto Img2DDS.bat-link
once. Note, the file name texture.cfg must be all lower case!

Link here, hope it will work for you.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/51024107/Img2DDS.zip

 

[anthony31]

In regards to PSP...

I also prefer PSP, I use 9, and the main gripe I have is; limited to 32bit (4gb memory)....

Any way around that one?

Joseph

A big limitation that one. Even the latest version is still only 32 bit which is unhelpful.

This forum page discussed the issue and provides a link to a program which let's you use the full 4GB (rather than the 2GB PSP seems to use). Haven't tried the program myself. Any guinea pigs?

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?t=44319&f=56

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112556

 

[roger-wilco-66]

Did you ever get bump maps working?

Here's what I do to make bump maps:

You will need the following tools though:

GIMP
Normal Map plug in for GIMP
ImageMagick
dxtex

In PSP I create a greyscale image. Black is low bumps and white is high bumps with mid grey being flat. Export that as a bmp

[...]

Interesting discussion. I found that Arno's ModelconverterX is a great help with bump maps. Just create the normal map in Gimp / PS and wash it through the texture converter under /special tools/ in MCX. It separates and reassigns all the rgb/alpha layers automatically into the proper format, and can save it in dds.
It also converts bmp textures assigned to a model in dds, needless to say. I use that tool extensively as post processing tool for GMAX 3D work.


Cheers,
Mark

 

[fsxar177]

A big limitation that one. Even the latest version is still only 32 bit which is unhelpful.

This forum page discussed the issue and provides a link to a program which let's you use the full 4GB (rather than the 2GB PSP seems to use). Haven't tried the program myself. Any guinea pigs?

http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?t=44319&f=56

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=112556

Ant,

Actually, I just tested this out... Seems to be working. Now about processing 2048x2048 .dds within dxtbmp...


Joseph

 

[falcon409]

Ant,
Actually, I just tested this out... Seems to be working. Now about processing 2048x2048 .dds within dxtbmp...
Joseph

I also just ran the program for PSP 8.10. I do my FSX textures at 4096x4096 and after you get a dozen or two layers, just trying to copy something sends it into a tailspin. . .in many cases, causing it to lock up and before I've had a chance to save. There have been many projects I dropped because I couldn't bear the thought of starting over from scratch. I'll have to load one of those and see what happens. Thanks for the HU!!