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Edit norm.dds textures

Socorrista22198

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Hi all, how can I resize a norm.dds texture? I've done it with paint.net and gimp (only scale image) but the result looks like shadows in the sim:
edit_normals.jpg


I have some norm.dds textures at 4096px but I want resize to 1024px.

Cheers
 
Or maybe normals can't be edited? Searchinfo about it confuse me more, but seems normals aren't textures like the albedo and composite :/
 
Finally I found the solution for if someone need it. The compression type used by the norm textures in MSFS is BC5 (linear, signed). Resizing and saving with the proper format (albedo and compossite can use DXT1 if aren't transparent) we can make lighter those AI version liveries.

Also works with the R8G8 (Linear, Signed, V8U8) but it doubles the size.

Cheers :)
 
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