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NVCOMPRESS(1) General Commands Manual NVCOMPRESS(1)

NAME

nvcompress - Compresses the given image and produces a DDS file.

SYNOPSIS

nvcompress [OPTION] INFILE [OUTFILE]

DESCRIPTION

nvcompress is part of the NVIDIA texture toolset. The tool compresses the given infile into a dds file.

INPUT OPTIONS

-color
The input image is a color map (default).
-alpha
The input image has an alpha channel used for transparency.
-normal
The input image is a normal map.
-tonormal
Convert input to normal map.
-clamp
Clamp wrapping mode (default).
-repeat
Repeat wrapping mode.
-nomips
Disable mipmap generation.

COMPRESSION OPTIONS

-fast
Fast compression.
-nocuda
Do not use cuda compressor.
-rgb
RGBA format
-bc1
BC1 format (DXT1)
-bc1n
BC1 normal map format (DXT1nm)
-bc1a
BC1 format with binary alpha (DXT1a)
-bc2
BC2 format (DXT3)
-bc3
BC3 format (DXT5)
-bc3n
BC3 normal map format (DXT5nm)
-bc4
BC4 format (ATI1)
-bc5
BC5 format (3Dc/ATI2)

AUTHOR

nvcompress is part of the NVIDIA texture tools

This manual page was written by Lennart Weller <lhw@ring0.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

January 10, 2012