DdsFileFormat

DDS File Format Reference

References

Microsoft has some documentation available:

• Programming Guide for DDS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb943991.aspx

• Reference for DDS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb943992.aspx

• Compressed Texture Resources (Direct3D 9): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb204843.aspx

• Block Compression (Direct3D 10): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb694531.aspx

The OpenGL extensions also document the block compression formats:

• DXT1, DXT3 and DXT5 (equivalent to BC1, BC2 and BC3): http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/texture_compression_s3tc.txt

• LATC and RGTC (equivalent to BC4 and BC5): http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/texture_compression_latc.txt
  http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/EXT/texture_compression_rgtc.txt

• BPTC (equivalent to BC6 and BC7): http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/texture_compression_bptc.txt