rusty_dds

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Rust alternative to DirectXTex, ending C texture tooling crashes in game pipelines

rusty_dds is the Remade with Rust pin for this lane: keep the product shape, change the safety floor, and stop shipping the old C or cloud default by accident.

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Instant benefit

rustydds is a memory-safe DirectDraw Surface (.dds) texture toolkit: container + decode + encode + GPU upload plans: pure Rust for game and asset pipelines that need DDS without a C/C++ DirectXTex stack. Container lineage: MIT ddsfile. Status: 0.8 / pre-1.0. Runtime campaign complete (2026-08); encoder campaign complete (2026-08).

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Deploy with GitHub access

1. Confirm you can open https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/rusty_dds.
2. Add the crate to your project (crates.io when published, otherwise git):

   cargo add rusty_dds

   Git pin: cargo add --git https://github.com/Remade-With-Rust/rusty_dds.git

3. Prove the pin with cargo check before the next agent prompt can swap it for a C or cloud default.
4. Read the builder field note for composition: /learn/rusty-dds/.