NVIDIA Texture Tools 2024.1

NVIDIA Texture Tools is a professional toolkit from NVIDIA Corporation for authoring, compressing, and optimizing textures used in real-time graphics and game development. It delivers high-quality encoders for modern block-compressed GPU formats (including BC1/DXT1, BC3/DXT5, BC4/BC5, BC6H for HDR, and BC7), with optional GPU acceleration on NVIDIA hardware for faster processing. The suite supports robust texture workflows such as mipmap generation, normal map handling, color space–aware filtering (sRGB/linear), and precise resizing, and it reads/writes DDS for seamless engine integration. Available as a cross-platform library with command-line utilities and plug-in integrations, it fits well into both automated build pipelines and creative toolchains.

Key capabilities:

• High-quality compression for BC1–BC7, including HDR via BC6H and high-fidelity BC7
• Optional CUDA-accelerated and multithreaded encoders for speed
• Configurable mipmap generation and texture filtering
• Normal map processing and advanced alpha handling
• Support for 2D, cube, array, and volume textures
• Command-line tools for batch processing and automation
• Cross-platform C/C++ API suitable for Windows, Linux, and macOS
• Integrations for content creation tools (such as an exporter for Adobe Photoshop)

Use NVIDIA Texture Tools to reduce texture memory footprint and loading times while preserving visual quality in your rendering pipeline.

NVIDIA Texture Tools is developed by NVIDIA Corporation. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2021.2, 2023.1, 2023.2, 2023.3 and 2024.1. The name of the program executable file is nvtt_export.exe.