Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The DirectDraw Surface file format, from Microsoft, is a standard for storing data compressed with the lossy S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs and consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This makes the format useful for sto ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The DirectDraw Surface file format, from Microsoft, is a standard for storing data compressed with the lossy S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs and consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. This makes the format useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file, both compressed and uncompressed. The Microsoft Windows file extension for this data format is '.dds'.