A downloadable tool for Windows

(Updated: February 24, 2025)

An open source image viewer with features specific to viewing textures. It was first created to replace (at least in my own workflow) WTV (Windows Texture Viewer) tool by NVIDIA, which was handy but had limited features..

Features:

- View MIP maps, 3D texture slices, cube faces

- Tile (to check the quality of the seams)

- View separate channels, overlay alpha

- Simple file management (cut, copy, delete), file list exporting

- Formats supported: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WEBP, DDS, TGA, BMP; (plugin extensible, see plugin examples in the source code (available below))

- Can export images (what you see) to simple bitmaps (can be opened by Paint, etc.). Note: I would recommend using specialized soft for texture conversion.

- Simple processing (this is only available for the view mode (no exporting)): rotate/mirror, adjust levels/gamma (Note: this feature is new and not thoroughly tested)

Requirements:

Minimum tested on: Windows XP 32-bit (compatible with Windows 10)

Minimum 1GB RAM recommended

Notes:

- I haven't yet fully figured out how to handle file associations on Windows 10, so I would currently recommend you to do it via the Windows Shell menu: Open with -> Choose another app -> Always use this app... Extensions supported: *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jfif, *.png, *.tiff, *.tif, *.webp, *.dds, *.tga, *.bmp.

- Shortcut key assignments can currently be edited through the config file (which is in the application directory).

The source code is available here (for 0.9.1):

https://github.com/ilyal451/TextureViewer

0.9.2 changes (not on github yet):

- File list menu optimization and enhancement (removed unused items, clarified item names, cutting or deleting files now automatically removes them from the list)

- Processing window enhancement (some option changes now update the image view automatically).

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