DDS viewer and convertor here

[Fidcal]

Maybe everyone already knows about these but I didn't so maybe someone else doesn't too.

 

Anyone not able to access the textures in DDS image files, there is a simple but effective viewer program here...

 

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/windows...ure_viewer.html

 

At first sight it looks restrictive - hey no zoom, no thumbnails, one at a time? - but you can scroll through a directory and zoom using the arrow keys with a mousewheel option too. The TDM DDS files are not in the usual textures folder but in doom3\darkmod\dds\textures\darkmod. If you associate DDS files with WTV then you can browse them right in those folders just by clicking them in Explorer. One easy way is in WTV's Help there is an associate option.

 

I don't know what the possibities are for converting to jpg or tga using a screengrab program but worth considering - but you may not need to. I found another program that can convert from DDS back to TGA. Dev Team take note as I vaguely recall someone saying you might possibly include both DDS and original TGA versions. But don't know if you are aware of this which you could call from Dark Radiant or some other program or it can be run from a command line. It's an NVidia dev tool at....

 

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/texture_tools.html

 

It's awkward for the average user. I tried making an old DOS batch file but I think XP could not figure out the path. Prob it could be typed in the command line. I finally used my old faithful Ztree but no doubt someone can figure out an easy way for anyone in Windows. If desperate let me know and maybe I'll write a mini prog to do it, perhaps with batching if I'm in a good mood.

 

The syntax to convert from DDS to TGA is just...

 

nvdecompress NAME.DDS

 

Do not specify an out file as in the compressor example in the readme as it didn't like it. Just use the DDS name and you get a TGA file output with the same name, eg, NAME.TGA.