Problem with opening .dds files

[J***@adobeforums.com]

Hello,

I have a question about opening a .dds file to make skin for a car in RACE 07.

I have already installed the NVIDIA DDS plug-in and it used to work on PS CS2. Now I tried it on CS3 and at first it said that it was an unknown file format or something (don't remember the exact error). So I first re-installed the plugin. When that didn't work, I copied the dds.8BI file from the Plug-Ins folder in the CS2 folder to the Plug-Ins folder in the CS3 folder on my external HDD. Then I had the same error on both photoshops: "Could not complete your request because the file-format module cannot parse the file."

Sorry, if the question was posted on this forum before, but I'm a bit too lazy to check the 2000 topics ;) I did check the FAQ topic, but I didn't find anything there...

Many Thanks,
Jan

[M***@adobeforums.com]

Well, what kind of DDS does the program use? Just like e.g. for TIFF, there are various sub-formats for DDS and it's quite possible that the one included uses additional flags to protect the files, is compressed in a format handled by the main engine, contains multiple sub-images/ channels and a number of other things. If the files are meant for editing, this is certainly documented somewhere, otherwise you may just have to live with not being able to do anything, I would presume.

Mylenium

[J***@adobeforums.com]

First of all: many thanks for your reply :)

Because I didn't immediatley know what you meant with the TIFF-format and I certainly don't know different kinds of DDS's, I concentrated on your last sentence. I knew for sure the manufacturers of the game wanted (or at least didn't mind if) that the players made custom skins and tracks for the game, so I knew their was a way to do it. So I just googled on "how to skin cars ..." (I didn't do that before I posted this topic because it had worked before with other DDS-files) and the first site I clicked on was the official site of the game, with the templates of all the cars in PSD :D So, now it should work.

Sorry to have bothered you when the solution was so easy, so thank you very much for your help ;)

Greetz, Jan