Most of the formats were introduced in the early nineties, and are still in use today in hardware on practically every modern smartphone, every Mac, and every PC. They are largely old, well established, not subject to unnecessary change, and are relevant on all platforms that have modern rendering hardware, including phones.
Muddled posts from non-developers who think that BC7 is not relevant to Mac users do not understand that these formats are supported by AMD and nVidia hardware. It's a huge market of people who would gladly ditch Photoshop if they could - but this missing feature continues to lock people into Adobe. This functionality is useful to just about every game-development house on the planet.
What's so surprising is that after several years, there still isn't even a firm promise to add this feature, let alone a proposed date to deliver it. I'm currently forced to use an awful mix of Photoshop, Paint.Net and Compressonator to do work that reasonably ought to be handled by Affinity import/export. Filter has many options for Normal Map generation procedure and ability to preview the result in 3D View window.DDS support, or at least the ability to use the existing Photoshop plugins such as Intel Textureworks, or the nVidia plugin, are a must-have for game development. In other words - not any raw image can be converted to quality normal map, and if you need one - it's may be better to process source image by hands. It works on Height2Normal algorithm, so source image must have darker parts representing the "deep" and lighter parts as elevations ( as the Bump Map does ).
Nvidia Normal Map Filter and DDS Plug-in 圆4 ( 64bit ) for Photoshop Bye-bye, x32, we will never see you again xD.
Now hobbyists and professionals from all around the world can stop jumping from Photoshop 圆4 to x32 and reverse if they need to create Normal Maps. At last! After couple of years of waiting, hope and prayers now we have NVIDIA Plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop updated to version 8.5 with support for CS4, CS5 and 圆4 platforms ( that's it, plug-in will work in 64bit versions of Photoshop ).
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