Textures, Color 'diffuse' Textures - these usually end with '_d.dds' * Specular - Reflection maps, this determines how shiny or reflective a texture ends up looking in the game. It effectively determines how smooth things are. Essentially dips and ridges and various shadows can be described in this type of texture. * Normals - Normal Maps, this is a way for a texture to describe 'bumpiness' and shadows. * Alpha - this is for transparent parts of a texture, like seeing through holes in a flag or a piece of clothing (like the holes in a belt). * Textures - Color or 'diffuse' Textures, the colors that appear in the game. * XBox can run BCx files, they just take up more space and have worse performance * BCx files won't compress at all on XBox but DXTx will * Normals are almost always DXT5 since they have alphas for the shine values. * If your textures DO include alpha save the file as DXT5. * If your textures DO NOT include alpha, save the file as DXT1.
