NVCOMPRESS

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).