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Can anyone point me to a binary plug-in for GIMP that handles DDS?

I have the source code, but am having trouble compiling. I do have a binary for Photoshop that is supposed to work with GIMP but haven't figured that out yet either.

Anyone willing to describe what to do in small words (prefereably with puppets) would be greatly appreciated!

i am gussing your box is windows , i gave up on dds and gimp , but the direct x 9.1 sdk has a very nice tool for the .dds format and will handle at least an 8k to 16k map
or use photoshop .

john Van Vliet wrote:i am gussing your box is windows

It was the puppet comment that clued you in, wasn't it?

OK, thanks for the info!

Drake wrote:describe what to do in small words

Install Linux

Pardon my jest ! Couldnt resist the temptation !
The small words above (if your display accepts the PHPpage fonts) say "Install Linux" :)

But seriously - if any Windows users are nervous about moving to Linux you might like to try one of the LiveCD Linux demonstration things. such as Knoppix, FeatherLinux or DamnSmallLinux, all of which can be placed on a bootableCD and run from there without affecting your windows installation on your HD ( the default condition of them prevents writing to the HD, so no damage can be done to your Windows, well not till you go enabling write modes !)
and Knoppix comes with the latest Gimp2 amongst many other things, but it is not too good with winmodem support :( (but then, thats a prob with all Linux unless you is a geek)

I'm in a similar situation: the plug-in in question is this one and I do not have any kind of C compiler or the required libraries on my machine.

It's all very well and good saying "Install Linux" but some of us do not have the disc space etc to install an entire new operating system with all the attendant compatibility problems etc that would result from doing this.

Personally I am unwilling to have to change OS just to look at DDS files when I can already get most of my stuff done in Windows.

If anyone could spare the time to compile this for a Windows machine I would be most grateful.

(By the way I am currently using GIMP 2.0 - hopefully this extension works in this version)

chaos syndrome wrote:It's all very well and good saying "Install Linux"

It was a jest ! ie. a joke! Drake said "in small words" so I wrote "install Linux" in exceedingly small words (joke only works if your browser does not override the phpBB font specified, sigh, wish I had not bothered now, )

but some of us do not have the disc space etc to install an entire new operating system

Quite so, me neither, which is why I mentioned the LiveCD thingummiejigs, not only do they protect your existing OS by not allowing default writing to HD, they run off the CD and do not require HD space to install into (they use ram workspace so you might need a reasonable size there ( I forget offhand how much) ) After one becomes familiar with the liveCD Linux one can enable writing to disk ( I chose to enable writing only to floppy first, just to be safe ! ) Downside for some folk is that it is only (so far)reliable to write to FAT12,16,32 not to NTFS (they can read NTFS ok though).

Personally I am unwilling to have to change OS just to look at DDS files when I can already get most of my stuff done in Windows.

I agree

just to look at DDS files

If you just want to look at them then IrfanView(freeware also) will do that

chaos syndrome wrote:If anyone could spare the time to compile this for a Windows machine I would be most grateful.

A short while ago someone on the GIMP for Windows users group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-users/messages
was offering to re-compile old (pre 2.x) plugins for the new version in windows, it might be worth a shout there ?

hth

hi chaos syndrome the reason i gave up on compiling the gimp dds was i neaded to compile gtk ( and this one even gives VERY exp. programers a hard time)
but i will look back into it
over the next few days i dont have much planed
i think i will have to do a visual studio biuld insted of a mingw one
.....OH What Fun ...

hi am still looking in to it , but mingw is crashing gimptool apon calling make
so it may be a while

in the meantine howabout using nVida's comand line tool
at http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite/DDS_Utilities_6.6.0827.1500.exe

http://download.nvidia.com/developer/NVTextureSuite

well the last thing to do is compile all of x11r6 in mingw ( and i am not going to be doing that for a while ) because the dds plug-in neads some x11 dll's and lib's to build


if someone has those dll's built to tor's specs then i can have gimptool make it

sary but i wont be able to do the plug-in

john