Image format
What is a .dds file?
Microsoft's DirectDraw Surface, introduced with DirectX 7 to store textures compressed in blocks of 4×4 pixels, known as DXT or BCn. Nearly every game keeps its textures in DDS because the graphics hardware decodes them on the fly.
fileclay opens DDS but doesn’t write it
When to use DDS
- Best for
- Game textures and 3D assets.
- Advantages
- Useful compression for GPU textures.
- Disadvantages
- Not suitable for normal photos.
Convert DDS files
Questions about DDS
Which formats can I convert DDS files into?
fileclay can write 24 formats from a DDS file, including PNG, JPG, WebP, BMP, TIF and TIFF. Pick any of them as the output format when you drop the file in.