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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=248926Project DescriptionDirectXTex, a shared source library for reading and writing DDS files, and performing various texture content processing operations including resizing, format conversion, mip-map generation, block compression for Direct3D runtime texture resources, and height-map to normal-map conversion. This library makes use of the Windows Image Component (WIC) APIs. It also includes a simple .TGA reader and writer since this image file format is commonly used for texture content processing pipelines, but is not currently supported by a built-in WIC codec.
Supported platforms:
- Universal Windows Platform apps
- Windows Store apps for Windows 8.1 / RT 8.1
- Windows Phone 8.1
- Windows desktop
- Windows 7
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server equivalents of the above
- Xbox One
Xbox One XDK developers: See the xtexconv sample which also includes some auxiliary platform-specific functionality for XDK development on the Microsoft Game Developer Network site https://developer.xboxlive.com/en-us/platform/development/education/Pages/Samples.aspx

