Cool tests! I do know that Nvidia's DDS plugin has some problems reading the 3Dc it creates, and they look bad in other tools too, like XnView. I bet Nvidia is writing the file incorrectly. I would depend more on AMD to get it right. I don't quite understand the reasoning behind sticking X in both red and green, as you…
Eric> Thanks :) Sorry if my text elements are confusing. I'm writing which channels i use of the RGBA space and which original input. So for example the DXT5_nm example i wrote "xGxR". I took the contents of the red channel and put it in the alpha channel. Then I blanked (black) the red and blue channel. I then saved this…
I updated the pic in the original post. Included your suggestion cman2k. Works quite nice with this particular scenario. One thing that does not come through in my examples is that the half-res version would not have as crisp details if there were any? I mean my normal map in this case is mimicking a quite soft shape. A…