I have my picture that's gonna be in a skin, which means i need to make it DDS. So i fix it and save as...., put in my save options(including Generate MipMaps) but when its done its still only one layer. Why wont it generate? :s:

Anyone?

there is a plugin for DDS, are you using it ?

Not sure it will solve but i'm sure that without that you can't edit DDS

Offcourse i have it It worked a couple of weeks ago but now it wont generate

Ok..
something you may try to do to get more data on the problem is starting Gimp from command line, if you are using linux for that you just need to type gimp in the terminal ...for windows is needed to type the path to gimp exe, then all errors should be reported in the the console output, ready for copy and paste

Few chances that i can interpret that info,but hopefully somebody more competent will do
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Then you may try also something more empirical

.If the plugin was working till 2 weeks ago, with similar files (similar also as size and other propriety ) but not now there are good chances that in the while you installed some other plugin that may conflict.

if so..you should try to revert gimp to the previous state.(most painful but safe way with a new CLEAN install ,see FAQ for clean install, but if you remember what you add you may just move all that on another folder and see if that fix.)

Much less luckily is the chance that the problem come from some other change in your computer ( as new Software )
if that the most quick way (sometimes works, not always ) is use the system restore using a restore point older then 2 weeks (i'm supposing here you use windows )

Note , you didn't upgrade Gimp to a newer version in this 2 weeks?
compatibility of third party plugin with newer version is usually not a problem, but obviously gimp staff can't test compatibility of all third party add-on at each release

1It was the exact same file that worked before that failed
2No update lately no

Q1Clean install means deleting all custom stuff?(Don't know what FAQ you're talking about
Q2(this as nothing to do with this)Installing 2.4 without removing 2.3 could be the reason for my skinning fu*king itself?

2 Yes gimp 2.4 was a major change many scripts and few plugin ceased to works

The Author of DDS plugin instead advice that now his plugin work ONLY on gimp 2.4 he release a new version for gimp 2.4
delete the old and try the new one http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/dds/#download

About clean install to make the long history short, first run the gimp unistaller then go in C://documents and Setting/ your name/gimp and delete the whole gimp folder that you will found there, and only them reinstall

And anyway Faqs are on the top of each page , just under the banner

Last point was not a good idea upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4, upgrade is not a problem when there are minor changes (let say from 2.4.1 to 2.4.3 ) but is better to avoid when there are major change (as from gimp 2.3 to 2.4 ...next major change will be from 2.4 to 2.6 (odd numbers are for the beta)

Nope that didn't work
When is the next major update? Just wondering if it is any use reinstalling?

what didn't work , unistalling deleting the gimp user folder and reinstall ?

Also if yo go to the DDS author side you will see that the plugin was updated no more then 2 weeks ago for improve compatibility with gimp 2.4,...so if you have the plugin from more then 2 weeks good chance that you have a outdated copy, good for 2.2, maybe for 2.3 not for 2.4.

that even if file size is the same...size is not all

Saw your link now, it works now But it doesn't autoupdate the layers(mipmaps)

see if this can help http://nifelheim.dyndns.org/~cocidius/download.php?filename=gimp-dds-doc-pdf

And... THERE it started getting errors for everything!