What software could show thumbs for dds exported from Designer?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
September 7, 2024
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I see dds is a file format substance could quickly export and import .. Much quicker than any other file type. What picture browser could show them ? Not Adobe bridge it sseems? A sort of addon to Windows maybe?

Luca Giarrizzo

Community Manager

Hello,

XnView has partial support for DDS files (partial in that some files cannot be displayed).

NVIDIA offers a good set of legacy tools for DDS workflows, including a app/plugin for real-time visualization of compressed textures.

I hope this helps!

Luca Giarrizzo | Quality Engineer - Substance 3D Designer | Adobe

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kirkr5689Author

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Nothing of those are working 😞 . I think I had some other addon before that did it . Can't recollect its name now.

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Dean22517655aei7

Known Participant

Substances Native dds export isn't of much use as it doesn't include mip maps.

A comprehensive exporter plugin was written and released free to the community by

https://github.com/OlafHaag/substance-mipmaps-exporter

but it seems version 14 of Designer has changed something in Python so the plugin no longer works. I hope Adobe are supporting him in updating it as its become essential to my workflow and saves a LOT of time.

As for your question, Windows 11 displays them natively if you have a preview window open in Explorer.

Or you could try Irfanview.

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