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I know Erik has been looking into other compression methods to shrink DDS files even more, so we'll see what happens with that. I hope to get some commentary regarding the status of DDS on other systems. Mipmaps should be enabled they increase file size a tiny bit, but decrease processing required. dds, and the DDS window will appear.įor textures with no alpha channel, choose "BC1/DXT1"įor textures with an alpha channel, choose "Alpha Exponent/DXT5" (this file will be larger DXT5 does not compress as well as DXT1, but is higher quality and can have an alpha channel) Now do a vertical flip on the entire image. If you're working with a 4096x4096, scale it down by 50% (or you'll have a > 20MB texture file).
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Install the plugin, and open your PNG in GIMP (let's call it mytexture.png).
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Next, you'll want to download the GIMP dds-plugin from. In any case, you're going to need to manipulate the image with an editor beforehand, so the first step is to go get GIMP. So, you might be asking yourself: "how do I make DDS textures?" There are various tools around the web, from Nvidia and ATI, but I have found them to be a bit buggy or difficult to use. Would someone with Linux and/or Mac please check the 2.4 Release Candidates when they come out? I can confirm that it works 100% on Windows including alpha-channel DDS.
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The problem I have heard: DDS is not supported on all platforms for which FlightGear is distributed. They require no re-encoding, and can be created with or without embedded mipmaps. They are only marginally larger in file size than their 4096x4096 PNG counterparts, and will load as fast as they can be read from your hard drive ( less than 1s in my case, whether it's 2048 or 4096).
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Caveat: it's considerably larger in file size. This causes considerable lag for high quality textures (about 17s load time for 4096x4096 on my machine).ĭDS on the other hand is native. PNG images are not native to video cards they must be re-encoded (and generate mipmaps) when they are loaded into VRAM. I've mentioned it a few times when the "lag" question regarding liveries/other aircraft in MP comes up, but now I am starting a dedicated thread for this purpose.