DDS FileType Plus (9-5-2024)

[null54]

Release version 1.12.7.

Changes:

 

Fixed saving in the BC5 signed format.

[null54]

Release version 1.12.8.

Changes:

 

Added support for loading a legacy DDS variant used by S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

[disgusting]

this plugin seems super useful, but i've hit a snag in my intended usage

trying to create a lod spray to use in tf2, and this guide video says to save the intended images as .dds files with specific settings, none of which are present in my installation of paint.net

what gives

[null54]

12 minutes ago, disgusting said:

what gives

 

That video was made for a very old version of Paint.NET, the DDS plugin that it used was replaced with this one in Paint.NET 4.2.2.

Not all of the settings shown in the old plugin are present in this plugin, the two plugin use different code for DXT compression and mipmap resizing.

Mapping the common options shown in your screenshot:

 

DXT5 (Interpolated Alpha) is the same as BC3 (Linear, DXT5).

The Error Metric section should be identical between the two plugins.

The SuperSampling resampling mode has been replaced by Cubic.

[disgusting]

16 minutes ago, null54 said:

 

That video was made for a very old version of Paint.NET, the DDS plugin that it used was replaced with this one in Paint.NET 4.2.2.

Not all of the settings shown in the old plugin are present in this plugin, the two plugin use different code for DXT compression and mipmap resizing.

Mapping the common options shown in your screenshot:

 

DXT5 (Interpolated Alpha) is the same as BC3 (Linear, DXT5).

The Error Metric section should be identical between the two plugins.

The SuperSampling resampling mode has been replaced by Cubic.

awesome, thanks for the help

pasted your message into the comments section (credited of course) for others who'll run into the issue

[muermo]

Hello.

I am working with texture in .btx file compressed in bc7, is there any way to work with this file in paint.net?

 

Thanks.

 

[null54]

1 hour ago, muermo said:

I am working with texture in .btx file compressed in bc7, is there any way to work with this file in paint.net?

 

You would need to use another tool to convert the .btx files to DDS before loading them into Paint.NET.

[muermo]

Thanks.

[Shakes4cc]

On 12/4/2022 at 3:04 AM, null54 said:

There currently is no easy way to support multiple layers in this plugin.

I plan to eventually support loading mipmaps and cube maps as layers, once the Paint.NET plugin API adds the features that I need for it.

Hi, I was wondering if the Paint.NET plugin API has received support for having plugins create their own layers recently.

[null54]

27 minutes ago, Shakes4cc said:

Hi, I was wondering if the Paint.NET plugin API has received support for having plugins create their own layers recently.

No, it has not yet received the features I need.

[Rick Brewster]

On 5/25/2024 at 4:01 AM, null54 said:

No, it has not yet received the features I need.

 

FileType plugins have always been able to read/create multiple layers. What other functionality are you waiting on?

[null54]

29 minutes ago, Rick Brewster said:

What other functionality are you waiting on?

 

The ability to configure the save UI based on the document.

[null54]

Release version 1.12.9, which adds support for reading files that have fewer mipmaps than the header specifies.

[null54]

Release version 1.12.10, which adds detection of TGA 2.0 files with a dds file extension.

[null54]

Release version 1.12.11, which updates DirectXTex to the September 4, 2024 release.

[AnyOldName3]

I've got an RGBA8 DDS file containing a cubemap with mipmaps. When I load it in Paint.NET 5.1, it's corrupted, with loads of data in obviously-incorrect places and what I believe to be bits of mipmaps used instead of the full-quality image:

 

 

The DDS file is available from here: https://github.com/vsg-dev/vsgExamples/blob/master/data/textures/skybox.dds

 

It works fine with other applications.

[frio]

For what it's worth the Windows thumbnail is broken exactly like the above example (no idea what provides .dds thumbnails on my system), IrfanView is unable to view the file (no error, just black) and some online converters fail on it, guess the cubemap format is not widely supported. Another converter was able to convert it into 6 pngs correctly.

Edited November 26 by frio

[null54]

8 hours ago, AnyOldName3 said:

I've got an RGBA8 DDS file containing a cubemap with mipmaps. When I load it in Paint.NET 5.1, it's corrupted, with loads of data in obviously-incorrect places and what I believe to be bits of mipmaps used instead of the full-quality image:

 

It is a DirectXTex bug. The full-size image(s) are being read, but for some reason only the first cube map face is extracted correctly. I reported the issue to the DirectXTex developers.