How Crucial is ATM these days?

[almagnus1]

Active Texture Management - that which has allowed me to play KSP with over 40 mods for a a good while now.

Yet I wonder how much longer this foundation upon which the modding scene for KSP has practically been built will be relevant, especially since DDS can be used by KSP now.

Can anyone shed some insight into this?

[Nothalogh]

This is something I've been wondering, myself

[raidernick]

It's good for mods that haven't updated their texture format yet. The DDS converter for windows has issues with TGA and PNG files often and ATM doesn't have the same problems converting these files. It's best to have at least the basic package installed.

[almagnus1]

It's good for mods that haven't updated their texture format yet. The DDS converter for windows has issues with TGA and PNG files often and ATM doesn't have the same problems converting these files. It's best to have at least the basic package installed.

That's what I've been running, and hopefully there will come a day when we won't need it, but until that happens....