TheGreenLion Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 (edited) My issue was solved by using the Intel Plugin as throttlekitty suggested! THANK YOU! Alright so I have some serious trouble with Photoshop CC (with .DDS Plugin) completely destroying Normal and Specular Maps on export. I'm trying to save the Normal as 3Dc (which is supposedly the correct format) and while it looks great before export, opening it back up looks mangled beyond belief with an insane amount of noise and strange pixelation. :confused: I am very unused to the color of the Specular maps as well, should it be 3Dc format as well? My attempt to save it also results in a very similar look to the Normal map though. Apparently I'm missing something, as it does just fine with Diffuse textures and DXT5 export. Any idears? :sad: - More Info: I have the Nvidia Normal Map Filter (which crashes when I try to use it...*sigh*) so I've *cringe* been using the built-in Normal generator and making manual edits to smooth it out. I tried one method that was to adjust the Dark Level to 128 (as the exported Normals are much brighter for some reason) before saving as 3Dc. I'm not sure why it can't export Normals properly, only thing holding me up from finishing a retexture of the Grognak Costume. P.S. Screw you Photoshop CC! :pinch: Edited December 16, 2015 by TheGreenLion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throttlekitty Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 the nVidia dds plugin doesn't handle BC5 format, use the Intel one instead, still in beta but it works fine for now. Not sure why you're getting the strange color artifacts however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenLion Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 I haven't a clue about the artifacts either, lol! :tongue: Made a random discovery that it does seem to still read a yellow/green Normal Map saved as DXT3 format (what I used to use for the violet/blue ones ala Skyrim), and it doesn't screw it all up on export. However, I will be checking out that Intel plugin! Want to do things the right way, in case there's a problem with it not being BC5/3Dc. Thank you for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreenLion Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Wanted to say thanks again, throttlekitty! Solved the issue so I no longer have funky Normals! :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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