[ART] DDS issues

[Acies]

Look at this:
http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thread-20345.html

Better tutorial - Should answer a lot of questions. Anyway:
1. Download a dds plugin for Photoshop
2. It's either the resolution of the texture, the model isn't triagulated yet, multiple UV maps on the same mesh, incorrect type of texture file, incorrect naming
3. There is no "simple answer". There is a technique to everything. For wood I recommend a base color of brown, some shadowing using AO or displacement, an "image of wood from CG textures/google" overplayed with a low opacity, as well as extra details painted on top of that (could be scratches, dirt etc.) You might want to use the displacement to "layer color tones" of brown. I suggest you look at Traggeys texturing tutorial for some other ideas.
4. Open the material editor in your amnesia base folders. Select "soliddiffuse" in the drop down menu. Add textures. Save.
5. Crazybump is bad for generating normals on a model/texture. It will pick up "noise" from your image and generate that too - so your normal map will be very "messy", which make it look worse. Best would be to generate a normal map from a High poly and include a low opacity "crazy bump" normal map - for some random noise but perhaps that is for later (as in you are more experienced modeling).

To answer the other questions:
If you name you diffuse "WoodThing.dds" the normal map shall be namned "WoodThing_nrm.dds" and the specular "Woodthing_spec.dds" for Amensia Modelview to automatically create a .mat file including all of the textures. The main thing is to add your diffuse texture in your modeling program, as the rest of the maps/textures will be "looked after/upon" depending on the DIFFUSE MAP YOU LINK IN YOUR MODELING PROGRAM. You can adjust that later by opening .mat files in the amnesia materialeditor and manually adding textures.

Cheers!