What software could show thumbs for dds exported from Designer?

[kirkr5689]

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]

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!

[kirkr5689]

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

[Dean22517655aei7]

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.

[Dean22517655aei7]

Theres also Nvidias Texture Tools and Intels DDSs tools if you need plugins for Photoshop.

[Luca Giarrizzo]

Hello @Dean22517655aei7,

Thank you for sharing this. The plugin most likely needs to be updated to use PySide6 instead of PySide2, following Designer's upgrade from Qt 5 to Qt 6. You can learn more about this required plugin update in our dedicated post. I suggest reaching out to the plugin's author so he can perform the update.

Regarding the absence of mipmaps in Designer's DDS exporter, I will raise this topic with the rest of the team.

Best regards.

[Dean22517655aei7]

Thanks for the link, Luca. I passed that onto the author.

[Dean22517655aei7]

If you've not already found it the Intel Texture Works plugin for Photoshop is here

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/tool/intel-texture-works-plugin.html

[Dean22517655aei7]

Note that theres also a DDS exporter for Painter though its not been updated for a year so is likely also broken too.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/m8dyvv