5 Replies Latest reply: Aug 11, 2011 3:09 PM by MTSTUNER RSS

    DDS for windows 7/64

    Bavari69 Community Member

      I'm posting here because I feel like I'm being swallowed by this big program. I just bought it a couple of month ago and needs to get on with the things I wanted to do.

       

      I have downloaded this 64 bit plug in to use with CS5 and TSR Workshop. Put it in the place TSR said I should use. I don't think I have to click on these plugins to install them, i can't find anywhere to click.

      http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

       

      Photoshop still insists it doesn't know the DDS files I want to import. I think I have to update photoshop or something?

        • 1. Re: DDS for windows 7/64
          MTSTUNER Community Member

          You either download the 32 bit or 64 bit version for the relevent

          version of photoshop, they are installers. In other words you use the

          installer to install the plugins by double clicking on the installer exe.

           

          You may have to right click on the installer and choose Run as Adminstrator

          to be able to install the plugins.

           

           

          MTSTUNER

          • 2. Re: DDS for windows 7/64
            Bavari69 Community Member

            I can't find any installer file where I put the plug in, but it did put something on my C drive. Finding that now can be hard.

            • 3. Re: DDS for windows 7/64
              Bavari69 Community Member

              There is no installer.exe file

               

              So I don't need to do anything in photoshop for this to work? I'll go to TSR then.

              • 4. Re: DDS for windows 7/64
                JJMack Community Member

                I used your link http://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-texture-tools-adobe-photoshop

                and found two plugin installation files there

                Photoshop_Plugins_8.51.0621.1635.exe and

                Photoshop_Plugins_x64_8.51.0621.1635.exe

                I downloaded the first 32 bit version and installed/ran it on my system

                It install three PDF files in

                C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA Photoshop Plug-ins

                NVJavaScript.pdf

                PhotoshopDDSPlugin.pdf

                PhotoshopNormalMapFilter.pdf

                and two Photoshop 32bit Plug-ins

                C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Plug-ins\Filters\NormalMapFilter.8bf

                C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS5\Plug-ins\File Formats\dds.8bi

                 

                When I open Photoshop I now see "NVIDIA tools>NormalMapFilter" in the Filter menu item list. I do not have any DDS files to see if I can open one a plugin was installed for them in Plug-ins\File Formats\. In the "Save As" dialog in the File type pull-down menu list I see a D3D/DDS (*.DDS;*.DDS) menu item.

                 

                I do not know if these require a NVIDIA grapgics card on one machine I do not have one and will mosy likely un-install these installed files.

                 

                Save failed when I tried DDS and tiied to see a preview so I used add removed progams to remove the NVIDIA Photoshop Plug-ins

                • 5. Re: DDS for windows 7/64
                  MTSTUNER Community Member

                  When you downloaded the file from Nvidia, what did you do after that?

                   

                   

                  MTSTUNER