I'm very annoyed due the fact I can't find a .dds tool for CS5 x64. Are there other plugins like the Nvidia ones for Photoshop? I would like to work within Photoshop and still save to .dds format. Any suggestions where to get a plugin?
In response to the issue of 64-bit incompatibility, I wrote a simple javascript-based tool (really just a front end for Nvidia's Texture Tools 2 command-line functionality) for exporting DDS files from 64-bit versions of Photoshop. Although the tool works with 32-bit and 64-bit flavors of Photoshop, it's not as feature…
We had to go with the photoshop 32bit as well to get .dds saving abilities, I think I started a thread about this a while ago. Pretty lame but I guess nvidia assumes game teams will have custom texture pipes that convert images as part of the build step.
Nvidia's roadmap for their Texture Tools has the photoshop plugin as part of their furthest release 2.3, which considering it's been 2 1/2 years and we haven't even seen 2.1 yet, it may be quite awhile. However the nvtt command line tools sound like they work in x64, so you could probably use James Taylor's vSavePSDTGA to…