DDS Converter

DDS converter does not work for vista, though there are other solutions. Most importantly, there are plugins for both photoshop and gimp that allow them to direcly open and save .dds files. Gimp dds plugin: http://code.google.com/p/gimp-dds/ Photoshop dds plugin: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/photoshop_dds_plugins.html

Yes ... just make duplicate copies of the textures with _n in the filename: So, for example you will have txduskyalit01.dds txduskyalit02.dds txduskyalit03.dds .... and txduskyalit01_n.dds txduskyalit02_n.dds txduskyalit03_n.dds ... Next just open txalit01_n.dds directly with gimp using the plugin and make it into a normal map using the method described (remove alpha channel if it exists ... then run the normal map plugin ... then re-add the alpha channel ... then erase it with 90.0 opacity brush to make it semi-transparent) and finally save it as dds. Repeat with all the _n.dds files. However you may need to tweak its export settings a bit (ask on the official beth forums).