[LE] Gimp issue with texturing

[Bersark93]

I can't no matter what I do seem to get anything saved as a dds texture in gimp, the option to compress it to dds in extensions (even with the plugin ,and I have tried both versions) does not work. I have made several textures I really want to use in my game and I just cannot seem too here are a few I have been trying to get working could someone help me out I am completely new to PC and have no idea why I cannot seem to get even basic things right. I have drawn up many of them but I just want to get the first three I drew working for now at least.

 

The first one is my texture for a fennec fox I wanted to replace the reddish/gold fox texture with (which took an annoyingly long time to draw every single hair individually only to not have it work)

 

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/kallenbearrp/images/2/21/PicsArt_11-12-08.56.07.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161111195541

 

The second is a Dark Brotherhood noble furniture texture I want to make into a standalone set

 

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/kallenbearrp/images/0/0b/PicsArt_11-06-10.33.53.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161106093408

 

The third is my basic bedroll texture (which i have recently found a similar one is included in a Hunterborn expansion mod but id still like to try my own version anyway)

 

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/kallenbearrp/images/7/7d/PicsArt_10-29-05.54.33.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161029045454

[NexusComa]

Just before you save you need to use menu item > Image/Flatten Image

Then save to .dss format.

[nhguy03276]

I'm not sure why you are having issues with them, I downloaded them, loaded them into gimp and saved them in DXT1 compression, (and set mipmaps to generate). I didn't have a issue. I've attached them below for you.

 

If I had to guess, I'd say you probably don't have the DDS Plugin installed correctly. I'd try redownloading and reinstalling that in case you have a corrupt file someplace. Also verify you have the current version of both. I'm using Gimp 2.8.18.

 

Also of note: Keep this link handy: https://aarmstrong.org/content/aspect_ratio_calc.php For some reason, if I compressed a DDS that had a pixel count that didn't match a number in either the height or width (it didn't matter if both numbers came from the same column or not), It would cause CK to crash when you tried to load it. for a 504 x 504 would work, and a 352 x 189 would work, but a 352 x 190 would cause CK to crash. (They would load fine if you loaded then in a .nif file or if you didn't compress them, however) It took me the better part of a day to get that all worked out... This list is incomplete as it only goes to 1280, but it can really help when dealing with smaller non n^2 sizes.

 

 

Your files:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/p7fd47ytajpmmk5/PicsArt_10-29-05.54.33.dds?dl=0

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/v8bhkz81lxj4ghq/PicsArt_11-06-10.33.53.dds?dl=0

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lec0ne76j40lcxa/PicsArt_11-12-08.56.07.dds?dl=0

Edited December 16, 2016 by nhguy03276