DirectX Content Tools

This section describes tools to help you create and maintain 2D and 3D content for your applications. This includes:

• DirectX Extensions for DCC applications - Digital context creation plug-ins.

Texture tools for Windows Explorer:

• Texture Viewer (Windows Explorer Extension)
• Texture Converter (Windows Explorer Extension)

Other menu-based and command-line tools for working with textures:

• DirectX Texture Editor (dxtex.exe)
• Texture Conversion Tool (texconv.exe)

Other tools:

• DirectX Viewer (dxviewer.exe)
• DirectX Ops (dxops.exe)

DirectX Viewer replaces some of the functionality previously found in effectedit and mview. EffectEdit and MView are no longer shipping with the DirectX SDK.