CTool help

[herowithoutacape]

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm not sure how to search for it. After a several-year absence, I'm using character tool 2, and it appears I'm having an issue with meshes with .dds files. For example, I downloaded AA's AoA Astonishing X-Men pack, and they won't show up in ctool (the Standard skin isn't there), but other meshes that use .tga show up just fine. I have the .dds plugin for photoshop, and the files themselves open just fine in PS. What am I missing?

[JKCarrier]

What do you mean by "won't show up"? If you mean the mesh won't load at all, then you might need to convert it to FFv3R format: http://alexff.com/eznif.php

If the mesh shows up, but the skin is all pink or all white, then double check your skin folders to make sure everything is where it should be.

[herowithoutacape]

What's happening is the mesh is loading and the keyframes are running, but there is no skin to select from, not even standard. The folder tree appears to be fine.

[JKCarrier]

That's a strange one, I've never heard of DDS skins not showing. You mentioned you have Photoshop...if you take one of the DDS skins and re-save it as a TGA in the same folder, does it show up then?

Another thing to check for is missing _refl and _glow files in the skin folder. That can make the mesh look solid white.

[herowithoutacape]

Ok, re-saving as TGA did the trick. Don't know why it won't open DDS, unless I'm missing a patch or something. Now, however, I'm having a different issue. Again with AA's AoA meshes, this one with Rogue, Sunfire and Sabretooth: I'm getting an error where I can't open it period - alert: CDataLoader::loadNIF, Unable to locate fallback NIF thing.