Getting Started - matyalatte/Blender-DDS-Addon GitHub Wiki

Installation

installation

  1. Update Blender if you are using Blender 2.7x.
  2. Download blender_dds_addon_*.zip from the releases page.
  3. Launch Blender.
  4. Open the Preferences window (Edit > Preferences).
  5. Select the Add-ons tab.
  6. Click Install....
  7. Select the zip file you downloaded and click Install Add-on.
  8. Enable the installed addon.

Import

import

  1. Open the image editor. (You can see it on the Texture Paint workspace for the default scene.)
  2. Open the DDS panel.
  3. Click Import Files and select .dds files.
  4. Or click Import from a Directory and select a directory.

Drag and Drop Import

With Blender 4.1 or later, you can drop dds files onto the addon's panel to import them.

[!WARNING] Do NOT drop files on the image editor. It calls built-in functions to import dds.

dnd

Custom Properties

CustomProps
The addon can store meta data (e.g. DXGI format) for each image. You can see them on the DDS panel.

[!Note] If you don't want to use custom properties, uncheck Use Custom Properties in the addon's preferences (Edit > Preferences > Add-ons > Imoprt-Export: DDS textures). It'll remove the DDS properties from Image objects.
Setting

Export

Export

  1. Open the image editor.
  2. Open the DDS panel.
  3. Edit custom properties if you want to. (They will be used as export options.)
  4. Click Export Selected Image and select a file path.
  5. Or click Export All Images and select a directory.

[!Note] If you have images that you don't want to export, use None as DXGI format. The addon will skip the images when executing Export All Images operation.

Allow Slow Codec Option

Allow Slow Codec is an export option for BC6 and BC7 formats. The addon will discard the export operation for them if it can NOT use GPU, as the CPU codec will use a very slow function for them. If you want to use the slow codec, you should enable the Allow Slow Codec option.

Non-2D Textures

The addon supports non-2D textures except for partial cubemaps.
See the other pages for the details.

Uninstallation

  1. Uncheck the checkbox to disable the addon. (Preferences > Addons > DDS textures)
  2. Click Remove to remove the installed files.

uninstall

[!Note] If you get an error when removing the addon, restart Blender and try to remove it again.