Combining multiple DDS files

[Brady]

Is there an application or script that can combine multiple DDS files into a single texture map so it can be used with a 3rd party 3D app?

[selden]

Do you mean append them side-to-side and top-to-bottom to produce a larger texture image?
Or to combine them as mipmaps for viewing the optimal resolution image?

At any rate, Nvidia provide utilities for manipulating DDS/DXT files. See the texture and image tools at the bottom of the page http://developer.nvidia.com/page/tools.html

[Brady]

Thank you for your response.

Yeah, I've tried the NVIDIA tools, they don't work. Celestia can map a planet simply by choosing alternate surface and linking the folder containing the multiple dds files. I was wondering if there's
a way to do that outside of Celestia.

Yes I mean append them side to side and top to bottom automatically. Is there a way?

Thank you

-B

[selden]

A lot of coding was involved in getting Celestia to support tiled textures -- which it calls "virtual textures".

Imagemagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ ) supports at least some of the DDS formats. Its command-line utility "convert" can append images to one another either horizontally or vertically.

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# +append concatenates left-to-right
convert pic1.dds pic2.dds pic3.dds +append row1.png
convert pic4.dds pic5.dds pic6.dds +append row2.png
convert pic7.dds pic8.dds pic9.dds +append row3.png
# -append concatenates top-to-bottom
convert row1.png row2.png row3.png -append merged.jpg


An alternative would be to use its "montage" utility. It might do "the right thing" if *.dds is specified. I haven't tried that.