0.73, build 2000(ish) DDS support is not working for weapons

[Argh]

Ok, after Tobi's fix, my TGA Lightning texture now works. Tried the compile AF put out... and DDS does not work. Tried DXT1, and DXT5... no-go.

As Caydr mentioned earlier, this is a big deal for people wanting to distribute new textures for weapons in their mods, as there aren't any compressed formats out there that are even close to competitive.

[Tobi]

Hmm.

If I look at the CTextureAtlas code (which compiles lot of small textures into 1 big one) it makes the whole point of using DDS moot (for projectiles & groundFX that is). Let alone that it doesn't support them. And I doubt a decompress, compile, recompress solution would make sense.

I'll poke Yeha about it...

[Argh]

Aha. I wasn't aware it was stitching them into one big texture. Won't that make mods with a lot've specific effects impractical, though, as total sizes go above ATI's 4096-square limitations?

[Tobi]

The maximum size it makes the texture is 2048x2048 (that's the ATI limit AFAIK, nvidia was 4096x4096). When more is needed the rest of the textures is just skipped.

I guess I'll modify it to show a warning in the infolog in that case...