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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
  1. Restart Paint.NET.

License

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

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)