Murielkai Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I am using the intel plugin and there are several options for saving, which ones should I use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahCreations Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 I used Nvidias plugin and if I remember I saved all mine as DTX1 and RGB with Alpha channel. And usually that's what I've seen most other use. Not sure how much of a difference it makes. Because my first 2 mods were on a different setting and not sure how it would've made a difference. Where I saw the specific settings, was on a glow map tutorial here: http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/How_to_add_glow_maps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyVein Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 BC7 gives you best quality but is only dx11 compatible, so people cry foul for using it in a game that supports dx11. The vanilla options are BC1, also known as DXT1 for diffuse maps and BC3/DXT5 for diffuse maps with alpha. Normal maps and spec maps are saved as BC5, with only 2 channels supported. NVIDIA's dds plugin is outdated and Bethesda suggests using Intel's to save from in photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RahCreations Posted September 29, 2016 Share Posted September 29, 2016 On 9/29/2016 at 8:43 AM, TrickyVein said: BC7 gives you best quality but is only dx11 compatible, so people cry foul for using it in a game that supports dx11. The vanilla options are BC1, also known as DXT1 for diffuse maps and BC3/DXT5 for diffuse maps with alpha. Normal maps and spec maps are saved as BC5, with only 2 channels supported. NVIDIA's dds plugin is outdated and Bethesda suggests using Intel's to save from in photoshop.Thanks for this information! It can be a pain trying to piece together people information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murielkai Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murielkai Posted September 30, 2016 Author Share Posted September 30, 2016 If you are working on a texture from another persons mod should you choose to auto generate mip maps or use the ones in the layers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyVein Posted September 30, 2016 Share Posted September 30, 2016 Generating them again while saving doesn't break anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted15964729User Posted October 1, 2016 Share Posted October 1, 2016 This is a petty straightforward guide for most textures: http://www.stuyk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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