When opening DDS files into GIMP for editing, should I be loading the mipmaps?
I've never had a need to edit the mipmaps, but that's what I'm doing now. Since I often create a layer out of the same "main" texture, the result is that each of the layer and main texture have loads of (identical I guess) mipmaps. If the answer to the above question is yes, when merging down should I also merge the layer's mipmaps or delete them first?
Something tells me that a better practice is to open DDS's without mipmaps and simply generate them on export, but I thought I'd double-check.
Thanks
Edit: strange how many basic tutorials don't address this, but I finally did stumble upon a couple of them that advised to not load mipmaps when loading an image into Gimp, but just generate them on export. I'll do that from now on, unless someone knows of a reason not to. (Again, I haven't had any need to touch the mipmaps during the edit process.)
I've never had a need to edit the mipmaps, but that's what I'm doing now. Since I often create a layer out of the same "main" texture, the result is that each of the layer and main texture have loads of (identical I guess) mipmaps. If the answer to the above question is yes, when merging down should I also merge the layer's mipmaps or delete them first?
Something tells me that a better practice is to open DDS's without mipmaps and simply generate them on export, but I thought I'd double-check.
Thanks
Edit: strange how many basic tutorials don't address this, but I finally did stumble upon a couple of them that advised to not load mipmaps when loading an image into Gimp, but just generate them on export. I'll do that from now on, unless someone knows of a reason not to. (Again, I haven't had any need to touch the mipmaps during the edit process.)