Hi. I dont know why, but my textures are losing quality while being imported to OpenIV. They get much pixelated and with bright colour.

 

The texture:

In OpenIV:

So I'm not alone. I've been struggling with this problem for days now. It just looks like OpenIV doesn't like certain colors palettes like dark grey or dark blue. I have moderate success by saving the image as a dds file instead of png. You can install a DDS plugin for Photoshop, then save it as dds and choose from the menu that pops up "DXT-5" as the file format. The image seems to lose less quality by saving it like that. It's a major pain in the ass though.

So I'm not alone. I've been struggling with this problem for days now. It just looks like OpenIV doesn't like certain colors palettes like dark grey or dark blue. I have moderate success by saving the image as a dds file instead of png. You can install a DDS plugin for Photoshop, then save it as dds and choose from the menu that pops up "DXT-5" as the file format. The image seems to lose less quality by saving it like that. It's a major pain in the ass though.

Thanks, that works and at least now it looks fixed.
I use GIMP, this is the configuration I used to export the .dds textures, do you recommend any change?

 

Thanks, that works and at least now it looks fixed.I use GIMP, this is the configuration I used to export the .dds textures, do you recommend any change?

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I'm not familiar with GIMP but in Ps I don't change anything beside choosing DXT5. I also let it generate mipmaps even though OpenIV does it also.