Max 7 .dds error

Phobos

When trying to load a .dds file into the mat editor in max 7 I get a pop up that has the title "Image I/O error" and the body of the box contains the file path and under that it says "unknown error"

I installed service pack 1 which had a fix for some I/O issues with .dds files but it doesn't seem to help. I'm pretty sure its not my file. I'd tried all the other .dds textures I've exported, but none of them seem to work.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Fordy

Iv had the same problem. Get the nVidia .DDS plugin for photoshop. Open the texture up in photoshop & save it again. Worked ok here.

Phobos

Thanks fordy. That works
Bit of a round about way. But I can live with it until there is a fix.

Eric Chadwick

I noticed Max seems to save DDS files badly, like if you try to save certain DXT formats with alpha, it'll munge the file. That might be the cause...

Phobos

Actually I'm getting the .dds files as exports from UED. I had not problem with max 5. But max 7 seems to have a problem with them.

I've read around a little and it seems there is a problem with the .dds I/O in max7. Sp1 was supposed to fix it, but it doesnt' want to work with my copy.

Fordy

I export stock UT2004 textures and then re save them as bitmaps for use in Max. In both max 6 & 7, .DDS files appear kinda milky when they are rendered.

Eric Chadwick

The Nvidia site had a better DDS.bmi for max5 than the one that Discreet shipped. They offer the source too, so maybe you could recompile it for max 7...

http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html