ba2, you need to go to File > New and under Format change it from General to "DDS" or "XboxDDS". Next you just make your changes to the textures in whatever program you want, and drop them back into XnConvert and convert them back to DDS.Īrchive2 - In order to repack your files into a. I would also suggest choosing a separate folder to save your png's, as it can get annoying having them all in the same folders. If you want to keep the previous DDS files, uncheck "delete original". XnConvert - Drop your DDS files in here, and under Output > Format, change DDS to PNG. You can get away with no compression at all, but there's no reason not to compress these, at least IME. Normal/Specular - Save as Normal Map, BC5 compression (the blue channel doesn't do anything anyway). The settings are as follows:ĭiffuse - Save as Color Map, BC7 8bpp, Fine (Linear, DX11+) for quality, or BC1 4bpp (Linear) for lowest size possible at the cost of compression artifacts. According to u/WhiskeyRiver223 Use Intel's Texture Works Plugin for direct Photoshop editing. I haven't been able to find a decent, free Photoshop plugin that handles DDS very well yet, so I have to convert them to PNG. Make sure to always keep the folder structure that get decompressed, and don't move textures to different folders as F76 won't know where to find these new textures. One of them took an hour to decompress for me.Īrchive2 - Open your archives in here, then Archive > Extract all to. Might take a fat minute depending on how big the ba2 is. It's pretty self explanatory, just drag and drop, then extract. (Bethesda Archive Extractor) - Use this to extract the game texture files into DDS.
There are four tools that I use to modify DDS textures:ī.a.e. NOTE: these are tools you can download for free, I've just put them in a convenient location.
I've also included the tools in one zip folder so you don't have to go scavenging. I've put together my workflow for anybody that wants to get into it.
#Remove pixel error xnconvert dds how to
Hey guys, I've had a couple of people send me messages on NexusMods about how to modify DDS textures, as there aren't many helpful tutorials.
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