recommend program plz...

gh057ofchurch · Post by **gh057ofchurch** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 4:47 pm

what program do you guys recommend for skinning. i have paintshop, but it doesnt load .dds files. does anyone know of a skinning program that loads dds files, or some way to convert it from .dds to .tif or something and then back to .dds?

bkblabber · Post by **bkblabber** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:43 pm

there should be a dds plugin in the files forum for photoshop and paintshop. (works with both i think). and also, dds is an xbox game format image, so your comon sense instinct would kinda tell u that paint shop pro is not going to open an xbox game image file by default.

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:10 pm

convim will convert dds to any thing like jpeg. DXTBmp will convert them back to dds.

gh057ofchurch · Post by **gh057ofchurch** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:08 pm

hmmm... k thnx for the apps, but i dled convim, and tried to convert a hog skin into .JPEG from .DDS, i opened the file i set it to put .JPEG file in, and there was another .DDS file. did i do something wrong? plz help

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 6:01 pm

with convim, click the file location on the left, in the middle pick the type of file, then on the right click where you want it saved to.

gh057ofchurch · Post by **gh057ofchurch** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:16 pm

nifebender wrote:with convim, click the file location on the left, in the middle pick the type of file, then on the right click where you want it saved to.

yeah thats what i did...

EDIT: nvm i just needed to uncheck the keep original extensions (to BMP only) box

gh057ofchurch · Post by **gh057ofchurch** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:22 pm

ok i did what you said, and it worked, except for one thing:

why is it grey?

RaVNzCRoFT · Post by **RaVNzCRoFT** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 5:29 pm

Forget convim. Download the Paint Shop Pro DDS Plugin and put it into your "C:\Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 9\PlugIns" folder. You can then open up DDS files with PSP, and they will open with color. As simple as that. Hope this helped!

b1@De · Post by **b1@De** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 6:43 pm

bkblabber wrote:.......dds is an xbox game format image, so your comon sense instinct would kinda tell u that paint shop pro is not going to open an xbox game image file by default.

ummmm well first things first dds is the file used for PC as well as xbox and and PSP would open it if you got a plugin, just like photoshop.

nifebender · Post by **nifebender** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:41 am

you picked the jpeg grey scale in convim, dont use that. use the one that jpeg 24 bit or whatever