can someone please send me a link or something for a program which can edit .dds files so i can make my own interiors and things please

cheers mike

There is a whole sticky devoted to editing DDS files. In the cryptic style favoured by the devs and mods, it is entitled Editing DDS Files, so that can be confusing.
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yes but the links there give you hundreds on the next page i just want a program to edit them not to extract the 3d imagery

It really depends what program you use. The very first link on that page will point you at the plugin for Photoshop (and possibly Paint Shop Pro too). That'll just open them like any other 2d graphic file. Any 3d parts come from the way it's mapped, not the DDS file itself.

The link in the second post on that page is a converter which will turn it from DDS into (I assume) bitmap, jpeg or some other more common file.

which one on the nvidia page should i download then?

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which one on the nvidia page should i download then?

For Photoshop there is only one, so that would be it.
And yes, it works for Paint Shop Pro too. And for the GIMP which is free.

can i have a link please, coz i dont know which one to download illepall

what do you have? Paintshop Pro, Photoshop, GIMP, what?

I give you two links
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/nv_texture_tools.html
http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/File_Formats#DDS

Edit: Oh, that's the same as posted above... so what info do you need?

i have photoshop 7

There are 7 tools on that page, one of them says photoshop...
It's the third from the top...
it's...http://developer.nvidia.com/ob ... hotoshop_dds_plugins.html

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