Hello! I cant seem to open these strangley written DDS files in softwares like blender and whatnot

Help/guidance is much appreciated!

Sample files.zip

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 20242 yr by Nova videos
Title correction

Change file type .tga to .dds, then open the files in Hex editor and at 0x54 replace these bytes 41 54 43 41 with 44 58 54 33 and save changes.

Now you can open those .dds but some colors look weird, I don't know why...

Sample files edited.rar

It's ATCA, a proprietary Qualcomm ATI/AMD format. Kuriimu2 gets the job done, just use these settings (change the width and height to 2048 for the HUD): 

 

edit: Nope, the format originated at ATI. It seems to be a slight variation on S3TC, which explains why some of the colors looked weird.

Edited June 25, 20242 yr by applecuckoo
add the converted files

@Nova videosHello... I've solved it for you (look above). You might want to mark my post above as the solution (that is, if one of the admins don't beat you to it). Thanks!