DDS-Utils are a selection of tools to work with DirectDrawSurfaces textures in Java and to provide modding support accross platforms.

benetton194 1.bmp - Radds
Dropps - Dropp a DDS

Radds - Review a DDS

Radds is a utility for preview images in the DDS texture format. Browsing the texture DDS-files on any platform, even those that do not support Microsoft DirectDrawSurface textures. You can zoom. display single color channels and single mip maps.

Dropps - Drop a DDS

The simples DDS-Convert you can find. Just fire it up, drop your images in there and get your DDS textures ready for your game. This supports different dds compression formats and supports dropping BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA and even TEX (GrandPrix4-Textures).

Contribute

DDSUtil is Open Source and licensed under the GNU General Public License and written in Java. To participate in the development have a look at the source code and join us..

Credits

Programming

Daniel Senff

Translations

Alvaro Jiménez, Andrea 'Uff' Candini, Yoss

Used libraries

JOGL, Patriarhou Kyrillou for creating a Java implementation of the Squish DXT-compression library by Simon Brown

Special thanks

Marcel Offermann and Marvin Fršhlich, the latter from the
Xith3d-project, for answering my occasional questions.