Hacking Smash Wii U - editing certain DDS files?

[PKBeam]

I extracted CSS textures and I used texconv2 to convert from GTX to DDS. However, I'm having problems editing them.

I tried paint.net, GIMP with DDS plugin, Photoshop with (NVIDIA) DDS plugin but none of them could open the files (at best, Photoshop gave me a black image in the correct size).

The only thing that could even display the DDS was NVIDIA's Windows Texture Viewer, although the colour was wrong for anything that wasn't black & white. WTV displayed the format as "32 bit X8R8G8B8".

Attached is an example. Does anyone know if I did something wrong extracting the textures?

 

[LoganK93]

Bumping this as I just ran into the exact same issue. I get a cyan Pikachu portrait with WTV but photoshop loads me a nearly all black garbage file, even though I just extracted and edited another texture just fine.

Edit: Other people seem to have gotten them working. They are an XRGB file. I tried saving my own but it results in the alpha channel (the strange fuscia color) covering the entire image, followed by my image in the proper color with a garbage data background instead of where there should be transparency...

 

[SmashSplatMaker]

Just follow what Logan said above.

 

[LoganK93]

Just follow what Logan said above.

Well I'm not 100% sure it works that way. It got close but the game promptly freezes at the css with my modded files. I added an extra character slot using someone else's files which did work correctly. It seems they had just used the stock icons from vanilla smash renamed, as the one I made had some oddities. The alpha layer seemed to cover the entire image. If you removed it you would see my custom stock image on top of a layer of corrupted looking textures. Wtv reads it as the same file type but something seems to get messed up somewhere. I will be restarting my process from scratch later today and will update if I make better progress.

 

[PlasmoidThunder]

You'll need to convert them to .png using DDS2PNG.bat, which is bundled with the InjectPack. In order for DDS2PNG to work, you'll need to install at least the command line function of AMD Compress and change the program folder from 'AMD Compress' to 'AMDCompress'. You can then open the .png in Photoshop or Paint.NET, do whatever you want to it and then save as .dds (Photoshop will need a plugin) using the correct format.

 

[Blazingflare]

You'll need to convert them to .png using DDS2PNG.bat, which is bundled with the InjectPack. In order for DDS2PNG to work, you'll need to install at least the command line function of AMD Compress and change the program folder from 'AMD Compress' to 'AMDCompress'. You can then open the .png in Photoshop or Paint.NET, do whatever you want to it and then save as .dds (Photoshop will need a plugin) using the correct format.

Are the output files for DDS2PNG the same as the PNGs uploaded to the Spriter's Resource?
http://www.spriters-resource.com/wii_u/supersmashbrosforwiiu/sheet/65129/
http://www.spriters-resource.com/wii_u/supersmashbrosforwiiu/sheet/65144/
If they are, then it would probably make a lot of people's lives easier.

 

[PlasmoidThunder]

They're a different colour, but they are indeed fundamentally the same; in the end, it's what format the .dds file at the end of the process is.

 

[LoganK93]

They're a different colour, but they are indeed fundamentally the same; in the end, it's what format the .dds file at the end of the process is.

Hmm... think the Nvidia dds plug in is fine? I had to completely rebuild my update because the extra files seemed to freeze the game.

Edit: Didn't see the other post. Will give dds2png a try.