Not possible to use DDS textures?

lonewulf · 16th March 2017, 05:46 AM

Hi fellows,

Unfortunately I'm unable to do a search for "DDS textures" as obviously the keyword "DDS" is too short and so I'm confronted with hundreds of entries regarding "textures" - which makes it virtually impossible to find anything pertinent within reasonable time. So I have decided to set up this question, although I presume that it has been asked already a few times.

I'm brand new to AC3D and just bought the newest release 8.0.80. My idea was to redo a few sceneries for X-Plane that I have done in the past with other 3D modeling software. I wanted to use the same DDS texture sheets that I used at times but just learned that it seems not possible to use DDS textures (with and without Alpha channel) in AC3D. There is no error message when loading but they simply do not show up.

What am I missing? Are there other easy-to-use tools to create Alpha-channel textures (so far I used DXTBMP)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Oskar

16th March 2017, 05:46 AM	#1
lonewulf Junior Member Junior member Join Date: Dec 2013 Posts: 6	Not possible to use DDS textures? Hi fellows, Unfortunately I'm unable to do a search for "DDS textures" as obviously the keyword "DDS" is too short and so I'm confronted with hundreds of entries regarding "textures" - which makes it virtually impossible to find anything pertinent within reasonable time. So I have decided to set up this question, although I presume that it has been asked already a few times. I'm brand new to AC3D and just bought the newest release 8.0.80. My idea was to redo a few sceneries for X-Plane that I have done in the past with other 3D modeling software. I wanted to use the same DDS texture sheets that I used at times but just learned that it seems not possible to use DDS textures (with and without Alpha channel) in AC3D. There is no error message when loading but they simply do not show up. What am I missing? Are there other easy-to-use tools to create Alpha-channel textures (so far I used DXTBMP)? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oskar