DDS to PGM Converter - free, no upload

Convert DDS to PGM

The texture as raw greyscale. DDS files often hold single-channel data anyway - height, roughness, occlusion - and this gets that channel out where other tools can read it.

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What is DDS?

DirectDraw Surface, which is how game textures are stored for the graphics card. Block-compressed so the GPU can read it without unpacking, and usually carrying a whole chain of mipmaps. Open a game's files and this is most of what you'll find.

What is PGM?

Greyscale, uncompressed, with a header you can read in a text editor. PGM is part of the netpbm family, and it exists because sometimes you want pixel values you can do arithmetic on without a decoder in the way. Image processing and computer vision code loves it.