Anyone got Nvidia tools to convert from tga to dds?

[Fidcal]

I've used nvidia tools to convert from dds to tga many times but I can't get the reverse to convert from tga to dds: I've tried the following but only get a zero bytes dds and nvcompress crashes...

 

nvcompress name.tga

 

I've extracted the following useage from which I've tried -nomips. Any of the others I should try?

 

usage: nvcompress [options] infile [outfile]

Input options:

 -color	The input image is a color map (default).
 -normal   The input image is a normal map.
 -tonormal Convert input to normal map.
 -clamp	Clamp wrapping mode (default).
 -repeat   Repeat wrapping mode.
 -nomips   Disable mipmap generation.

Compression options:
 -fast	 Fast compression.
 -nocuda   Do not use cuda compressor.
 -rgb	  RGBA format
 -bc1	  BC1 format (DXT1)
 -bc2	  BC2 format (DXT3)
 -bc3	  BC3 format (DXT5)
 -bc3n	 BC3 normal map format (DXT5nm)
 -bc4	  BC4 format (ATI1)
 -bc5	  BC5 format (3Dc/ATI2)

[greebo]

Do you have to use the nvidia tools? I'm always using ATI's Compressonator and I never had any problems with it.

[New Horizon]

Best to use compressonator since it's the only thing that can make the proper format DDS normal maps.

[Fidcal]

Just downloaded Compressonator but doesn't seem to run when I double click it. No docs on the site at all. Searched elsewhere and it looks to be a Windows gui program but it does not show on my system.

[greebo]

Ah, crap, I recall now that the FTP is still down. We had the correct version of ATI's compressonator on our FTP, but it's gone now. Newer versions won't work for Doom3, so you need to get that specific one. I can upload the correct version when I get home, I've got it buffered on my local hard drive.

 

As for documentation: look at my DDS creation article on our wiki: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php/DDS_creation

[Fidcal]

It appears to briefly show a console window suggesting it needs parameters on a command line like the nvidia effort but the other website I found showed a gui.

[greebo]

We posted at the same time - please look upwards in case you missed my post.

[Fidcal]

OK, thanks, no hurry. I'll try again later.

[greebo]

I put the compressonator ZIP on the darkradiant website:

 

http://darkradiant.sourceforge.net/files/a...nator_v1.21.zip

[Fidcal]

OK, thanks. Working now.