Create dds textures

vvvv beta question
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Hi there,

I’m trying to create some dds textures like volumeMaps or cubeMaps…To achieve that i’m using the nvidia nvDXT tool but the process fail each time i try to create some cubeMaps…there’s is a Photoshop plugin within it but doesn’t work for me under CS2 (should be easier that way!)…so i’m using the executable…writing this:
nvdxt -cubeMap -file filename.tga-output filename.dds
But maybe i have to prepare the original texture in a specific way or specify options in the command process…My knowledge into texturing isn’t that deep…if anyone knows…would be nice…

Thanx…

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i had troubles creating dds when the image dimension exceeded 2048x2048 althought nvidia should support 4kx4k textures.
and if the file wasn’t quadratic.

and in photoshop either backgroundlayer + alphachannel or layer with transparency w/o extra alphachannel

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I create my .dds textures (mainly volume textures) with gimp and this plugin:

http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/

and im very happy with it. i tried that nvidia tools first but i found them rather buggy. this plugin works great for me…
the cool thing is that it uses the normal layers for the mipmaps, volume slices and cube map faces.

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I’ve been using ATIs CubeMapGen which is available for free and works great (though I’m still hoping on a way to create such surfaces from within vvvv in realtime).

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sven, dynamic texture is able to create cubemaps and volumetric textures. just set the texture type in herr inspektor.

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Thanks a lot everybody for fast and precious answers:)
i’ll try this as soon as posible and give some feedback here…

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@elektromeier: As far as gregsn told me, these types are only placeholders yet.

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volumetextures can be created with dynamictextures, cubemaps not.