Mod:Creation Kit/Keyword

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The texture files are a Microsoft format called Direct Draw Surface which are images that can be rendered with a Model File or as is. The texture file DDS format is used for storing data compressed with the proprietary S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs.

Tooling

 * Elric
 * Paint.NET
 * Adobe Photoshop
 * There are other software projects that provide tooling for working texture files.