Texture File

File Extension: .dds

The texture files are a Microsoft format called DirectDraw Surface which are images that can be rendered with a Mesh File or as is. The texture file DDS format is used for storing data compressed with the proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs.

Tooling

• Paint.Net
• GIMP
• Adobe Photoshop
• There are other software projects that provide tooling for working texture files.

See Also

• Game Files Category
• |Wikipedia DirectDraw Surface