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by niv
2014-09-06T14:51:58-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: conversion from DDS failed
Replies: 11
Views: 11716

Re: conversion from DDS failed

Apparently, the format Bioware used is standard DXT5 (google tells me), but with a custom, terser header.

I'm not sure how to parse it though.

This is what I've got:


data.unpack("I I I I f")
=> [64, 64, 4, 4096, 1.0]


The first 4 DWORDs are size_x, size_y, bpp(?) and data_size (I assume ...
by niv
2014-09-06T12:55:35-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: conversion from DDS failed
Replies: 11
Views: 11716

Re: conversion from DDS failed

Heh. You're right, I guess.

Apparently, Bioware used a custom file format that is called .dds, but isn't actually .dds ..

Never mind then. Thanks!
by niv
2014-09-06T10:28:45-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: conversion from DDS failed
Replies: 11
Views: 11716

Re: conversion from DDS failed

Hi,

Sorry for hijacking this thread!

I'm seeing conversion issues as well, using the latest imagemagick version available in homebrew (6.8.9-7). I'm trying to convert DDS files as used by a older game, probably created with the NIVIDA dds photoshop plugin (don't have it though, so I can't check ...