DDS

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DDS is a texture container file format, it stands for Direct Draw Surface.

"Container" means it can contain a variety of image formats: compressed or uncompressed, various bit depths, optionally with mip maps, and can be stored in various layouts: 2D, 3D volume texture, or Cube map.

DXT is a popular compression format to use inside a DDS file. DXT compression is widely supported on current graphics hardware, meaning it will stay compressed in video memory, allowing the artist to use more or larger textures.


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