How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop

#How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop skin#
#How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop license#

This is unusually effective and proves the usefulness of optimization. Note that RLE compression reduces the 1024 TGA version to less than a third of the uncompressed original. This is largely due to extensive use of optimization for RLE compression. The lowest file sizes are clearly the lower resolution TGA files.

#How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop skin#

The reason I'm publishing these results is so no-one will unnecessarily upload a 10 MB skin again. Uncompressed our files are nearly 10 MB, so it's good we have all of these tools at our disposal. This can result is a noticeably increase in speed. Mip maps are an array of reduced resolution versions of the image included in the file so when viewed at a distance the difference is minimal. It is designed to be loaded easily into your graphics card's memory and to have 'mip maps' built in. The DDS format: DDS is much more compressed than TGA. You may want to use this for small accessory textures. 16 bit is like GIF compression resulting in a maximum of 256 colors. This refers to color resolution, not height/width. The only other option on the Photoshop save dialogue is 'Resolution'. If you do not to this, and your skin is filled with detail or noise, then you may get no file size benefit from this tactic.

You can take advantage of this by filling empty portions of your skins with pure black. RLE works simply grouping identical colors. The TGA format: TGA, or Targa, can only be compressed in one way Run-length encoding, or RLE. It has a graphical interface but neither is particularly user friendly. It has been acceptable but I found that ATI has it's own DDS application, Compressonator. I've been using Nvidia's Texture Tools for some time now to create DDS files from TGA files. I'm currently using Adobe Photoshop CS4 but their TGA implementation hasn't changed in some time.

#How to use nvidia texture tools for adobe photoshop license#

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