debian man page for nvcompress

NVCOMPRESS(1)						      General Commands Manual						     NVCOMPRESS(1)

NAME
       nvcompress - Compresses the given image and produces a DDS file.

SYNOPSIS
       nvcompress [OPTION] INFILE [OUTFILE]

DESCRIPTION
       nvcompress is part of the NVIDIA texture toolset. The tool compresses the given infile into a dds file.

INPUT OPTIONS
       -color
	      The input image is a color map (default).

       -alpha The input image has an alpha channel used for transparency.

       -normal
	      The input image is a normal map.

       -tonormal
	      Convert input to normal map.

       -clamp Clamp wrapping mode (default).

       -repeat
	      Repeat wrapping mode.

       -nomips
	      Disable mipmap generation.

COMPRESSION OPTIONS
       -fast  Fast compression.

       -nocuda
	      Do not use cuda compressor.

       -rgb   RGBA format

       -bc1   BC1 format (DXT1)

       -bc1n  BC1 normal map format (DXT1nm)

       -bc1a  BC1 format with binary alpha (DXT1a)

       -bc2   BC2 format (DXT3)

       -bc3   BC3 format (DXT5)

       -bc3n  BC3 normal map format (DXT5nm)

       -bc4   BC4 format (ATI1)

       -bc5   BC5 format (3Dc/ATI2)

AUTHOR
       nvcompress is part of the NVIDIA texture tools

       This manual page was written by Lennart Weller <lhw@ring0.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								 January 10, 2012						     NVCOMPRESS(1)