Guide:DDSopt/Batch Files/ Main ReadMe

Readme for DDSopt batch files used for steps in the DDSopt guide

The contents of this archive should be extracted to the Working folder.

They are used to process vanilla textures files as part of the steps in optimizing vanilla Skyrim textures as described in the DDSopt guide at ( https://stepmodifications.org/wiki/Guide:DDSopt ) .

Four batch files are included along with the associated readme files:
1_HRDLC_Clean.bat
1_HRDLC_Clean-START.bat
2_Pre-Optimization.bat
3_Compress_7z_in_path.bat
3_Compress_7z_in_folder.bat

The first two are used to repair the HRDLC as described in the "Repair the HRDLC Textures" subsection of the of the DDSopt guide (https://stepmodifications.org/wiki/Guide:DDSopt#tab=DDSopt_Optimization )

The next file file is used to sort texture files into three temporary subdirectories as described in the next subsection, "Final Preparation of the Textures for Optimization", of the DDSopt guide.

The final batch file is used at the end of the "Optimize the Textures" subsection of the DDSopt guide to create 7zip archive files the resulting optimized textures.

There are two versions of the batch file, one (3_Compress_7z_in_path.bat) used when 7z.exe is already in the command path, and the other (3_Compress_7z_in_folder.bat) when 7z.exe is copied into the Working folder used for processing the textures.

In case the user wants to add the 7zip directory to the command path if it is not already there, "_Main_ReadMe.txt" describes how to do this.

As additional batch files are created to automate steps in the DDSopt guide they will be added to this archive.

These batch files are only useful when following the procedures in the DDSopt guide as they expect that prior steps from the guide have been completed.