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AppGameKit Classic Chat / No DDS Support?

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PartTimeCoder
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Posted: 26th Aug 2017 19:08
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Ok so I just discovered AppGameKit does not support .dds files and having searched around all I can seem to find is batch UI's and online tools, I find myself stumped in needing a commandline tool or dll (preferably the latter) to convert .dds to .png programmatically, any ideas?
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MikeMax
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Posted: 26th Aug 2017 19:22
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ImageMagick in command line or XnView (command-line) ... No ?
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Markus
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Posted: 26th Aug 2017 20:02
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often i found a online converter for this problems.
i not tested maybe it works for you.
https://online-converting.com/image/convert2dds/
or see here at external links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectDraw_Surface
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There are Nvidia tools knocking about, but likely discontinued.

I had a plugin for paint shop pro and there was one for photoshop back in the day
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Paint NET can load dds and export png, that part is easy, I need (want) to add the functionality to my tool, I'll give image magic a try but I think I'm goner abandon the idea, just wanted a seamless bulk converter but its not that important.
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GIMP has a plugin for DDS files.
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GG Loader has a way to do it, perhaps ask preben about it.
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How about IrvanView it also has a Command line tool

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XnConvert and IrfanView are my favorites to do it before you have the game assets. But if your program has to do it on the fly ...
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Posted: 14th Sep 2017 15:16 Edited at: 14th Sep 2017 15:17
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Preben uses nconvert
So call the file with the following command to convert 3 different files to dds:

Never did that myself... I just googled for you

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Posted: 14th Sep 2017 15:17 Edited at: 14th Sep 2017 15:19
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Thats useful, I will try it out, I also found some .dds importer code for PureBasic I can adapt to suit my needs so I can natively convert images without using 3rd party tools, have to see what solution presents less headaches! lol
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