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[AWW_boss]

Hmm, i don't seem to have the problem with those textures you posted Sarrene. Although the model seems a bit washed out... What did you do? Increased brightness?

[HE-SARRENE]

I played around a little after I removed and saved yours with no mips. Then I re saved with mips again.

Bennett actually found the problem, and quite quickly. He found that your mips are all dark/black minus the glow map. So the issue was in the texture itself.

View comparison here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mt0sr5r189p7qkg/mips.PNG?dl=0

I can easily darken the one again no problem for you.

Re-darkened image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xqbouw5zlb4lhwi/glow1b_d.dds?dl=0

[AWW_boss]

Bleh, i'm using Paint.net and the only option it has is generate mip maps checkbox . Gonna have to find some other solution, prolly with photoshop.

Thanks for your assistance!

[HE-SARRENE]

For Normals: Take a look at Crazy Bump: http://www.crazybump.com/
There is a free trial, and the cost is relatively low.

EDIT: I am not sure about this programme, but it is one someone suggested at one of the dev sites:
 http://www.imageconverterplus.com/news/convert_images_to_dds_926/

[keeperofstars]

nvidia also has a way to process mip maps via using scripts and a command line tool. Its one of their older options before they really just focused on building plug-ins for things.

Still works though is free and not too horrible to deal with once you get hand of the settings.
If you get hard pressed for a mip tool.

[Amarak]

GIMP is very close to Photoshop and is free.
http://www.gimp.org/
It can create Mip Maps as long as the original image is in powers of 2, which is pretty much the standard anyhow.