.dds usage

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Hi, I recently attempted to play with a skin on an in game model, followed everything I could but of course, not everyone has the same tools and things went wrong.

I do remember my file output being a different size to the original, by a long shot. But I know very little about the file requirements when saving the file. Sure that's no help here.

But does anyone know much about dds files ? I'm trying to understand how a file has to have matching settings, a layer channel etc when output or it simply doesn't work but I am very new to this. Any help would be great. Thanks