pdn-ddsfiletype-plus

A Paint.NET filetype plugin that adds support for some of the DDS formats introduced in DirectX 10 and later.

Note that a DDS file must be renamed to use the DDS2 file extension before the plugin will load it.

Installing the plugin

1. Close Paint.NET.
2. Place DdsFileTypePlus.dll, DdsFileTypePlusIO_x86.dll and DdsFileTypePlusIO_x64.dll in the Paint.NET FileTypes folder which is usually located in one the following locations depending on the Paint.NET version you have installed.

Paint.NET Version	FileTypes Folder Location
Classic	C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\FileTypes
Microsoft Store	Documents\paint.net App Files\FileTypes

3. Restart Paint.NET.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT License.
See License.txt for more information.

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Source code

Prerequsites

• Visual Studio 2017
• Paint.NET 4.0.17 or later

Building the plugin

• Open the solution
• Change the PaintDotNet references in the DDSFileTypePlus project to match your Paint.NET install location
• Update the post build events to copy the build output to the Paint.NET FileTypes folder
• Build the solution

3rd Party Code

This project utilizes the following code (located under 3rdParty folder)

• DirectXTex (November 16 2018 release)