
More information about the native format and how it overrides/replaces DDS or TGA should come in time (for inclusion in nwsync manifests for instance).ĭDS doens't load on iOS and need KTX files instead, more info on them to follow. The toolset also uses TGA files.ĭDS on Android - these work well enough there, but are not native. TGA files are also useful for all game Icons since BIoware checks for a TGA file existing to load any texture.


See Content Load Order for more information.ĭDS files themselves are compressed and efficient at loading onto a GPU - so are, like for like size, smaller than TGA (even with RLE compression) but if the TGA file exists it will be a (slightly) lower quality but have improved load times and proper mipmaps - and nowadays a higher resolution DDS would look better than a smaller resolution TGA file. DDS files override TGA files - name.dds is loaded instead of name.tga in most cases.
