Images & DDS

The image editor is a viewer that handles most image formats CA uses, including DDS, PNG, JPG and the various atlas formats.

What it does

• Preview the image — most DDS formats decode to PNG for display, including the BC1–BC7 compressed variants.
• Zoom with the mouse wheel; pan by dragging.

What it doesn’t do

There’s no in-app pixel editor. To edit an image:

1. Extract it from the Pack (Pack tree → Extract).
2. Open it in your image editor of choice (GIMP, Photoshop, Krita…).
3. Save it back to disk.
4. Add it back to the Pack at the same path (Pack tree → Add File…), or use Open with External Program to wire your editor up so the round-trip happens automatically.

Atlases

.atlas files are layout maps for sprite sheets — each entry references a region of an associated DDS. They open in their own simple table editor (under Specialised editors) rather than the image viewer.