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Hey all I have a file it is 900x1210 and when I try to convert it (input is from a jpg I tried others too but same promblem) to a dds format it says ERROR: Filename size = not a power of 2. The file size is 164 kb and I am using DDS converter 2.1 please help
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I chuckled when I heard you say "Is somebody gonna help?" and your name was somebody... sorry. I think the error is coming up because neither 900 or 1210 are powers of 2, which are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 and so on (you might see a pattern). As you can see, 900 and 1210 don't belong in the power of 2 table. The nearest numbers you could try is 1024, and yes, it might look a bit stretched/out of proportion, but thats how it is.

 

I'm not sure if this goes to DDS measurments because the screen resolution doesn't go by these rules and also because I'm not a modder

 

~Juice

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I chuckled when I heard you say "Is somebody gonna help?" and your name was somebody... sorry. I think the error is coming up because neither 900 or 1210 are powers of 2, which are 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192 and so on (you might see a pattern). As you can see, 900 and 1210 don't belong in the power of 2 table. The nearest numbers you could try is 1024, and yes, it might look a bit stretched/out of proportion, but thats how it is.

 

I'm not sure if this goes to DDS measurments because the screen resolution doesn't go by these rules and also because I'm not a modder

 

~Juice

That is mostly correct...

The real question is what you're trying to do with this .DDS. If you are doing a retex for something, you should probably try to fit the image size used in the original and either crop or expand the image you want to use to fit with that size. Otherwise, you may come into issues with how the image is mapped on the object. If you are trying to do loading screens, you should probably look at how they have theirs setup.

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Thanks I realized that one more qeustion lets say its for something that displays on your screen and your game resolution is 800x600 and its 1024x1024 will it automaticly resize it smaller?

Why would it need to resize? Are you using it for a loading screen or other 2D element?

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