I offered to fix those icons, by the way. I use an old photoshop 7, and the interesting this about it is that in order to export a transparent file I have to click on a help option and run a wizard. You can open it and not save it, but remember that if you open it and save it it's gonna screw up. the reason is that every time you open and save a transparent dds and save it, you will lose the transparency. That way when you want to edit the DDS file, open the photoshop file, edit it, then use to overwrite or replace the DDs file. If you're using Photoshop you want to make sure to save the work at the end in DDS for export, and save a copy in the photoshop format. When you open a DDS in an editor you don't want it open the mipmaps, when you save it you do want it to generate mipmaps though.ĭxT3 is a good choice, that's what I use. If it's something my end, I can just accept it, and simply move on. Not that I need the glory or the appreciation, of course.]īut, I would like to know, for my own benefit, if there is something I am missing regarding conversion of. esp.' Sadly, I 'failed to produce' (and, although both the Original Mod Author and the Second Modder have stated that, 'Oh, I can fix that in seconds.', as of this date that has not happened.but, they have other fish to fry, and more important projects they are currently working on, and after all, this is really No Big Deal.). dds) with transparent backgrouds, that could just be dropped into the mod (overwriting the originals) without changing the Mod. I said to myself, 'Self, you can perhaps make a miniscule contribution to this 'joint modding project,' by simply creating new Icons (in. dds files in Morrowind mods?ĭDSConvert offers several options - currently, the 'default' settings on my system are: Might be a Windows Vista 'undocumented feature'. Might be related to my lame 'on-the-motherboard' graphics chip not rendering them properly. dds by 'DDSConvert, on my system, LOSE their 'background transparency'. dds files - but, therein lies the problem.įiles converted to. tga files, so I can edit them.ĭDSConvert will also allow conversion of. I also use 'DDSConvert' - primarily to convert existing. tga files, and what I make works fine for me in-game. I can make textures with 'transparency' but only with. Icons are often SUPPOSED to have 'transparent' backgrounds. A technical question, for any texturing experts out there.

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