karmacowboy wrote:
> Yes, I have tried it but the creature is all blue and not the original colours.
> 
> It is a bit special because I use a game editor to design a creature then I use
> a program called spview to extract the .mesh ...later on converts it to .obj
> along with the .dds which should be able to render in povray.
> 
> There are perhaps a problem with the spview program which is not commersial. So
> I will contact the maker of it!
> 
> Thanks for your help. I was just not sure if it was possible to use .dds files
> in povray or I do need tga for it to texture my creature!

DDS files are not supported directly AFAIK.  I'm not familiar with the 
format myself, but I did run into a GIMP plugin for DDS files you could 
try: http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/  If this DDS format 
stores more than just a raster image, it may be why you are having trouble.

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