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Who does Affinity want as their user base? As of now I feel game devs are left out of the loop. I can't promise how many users they would gain by adding support for TGA (and hopefully DDS), but I dare to say it will be very interesting for a lot of people to jump on board. Besides this, I will have less of an issue to recommend Photo to others in various forums, friends, connections in the industry, modders etc.
 
It's not a great selling point when I say "Photo is awesome. It's got that MacOS flair of intuitive usability, performs great and it's affordable", and people are truly interested at this point, but I have to be honest with them, "BUT it does not support impot/export of X, Y, Z, and you need to have Photoshop handy to convert to the formats X, Y, Z"
 
Like TGA, DDS isn't evolving much.. It's a stable format. The last update for the Photoshop DDS exporter by nVidia was in 2013! 

Exactly!
 
 
Well then.. Good bye?  
 
It might not be requested as much as you'd like, but I and other have voiced our opinion and wishes about this before here on the forums. The same for DDS. Both are crucial for game dev.
 
TGA might not be the hottest format but it's still widely used for game dev. Affinity Photo is just the perfect price range for a lot of indie devs or students as well, looking for a cheaper alternative to Photoshop - but lack of TGA support is nothing but a huge "what the..?" 

Hey Affinity team, 
we need DDS 🙂 For all flight simulators out there, DDS is a must. Probably also for many other games. 

Thx 
Stephan 
citysim.de

+1
even GIMP supports it

DDS support? yes please. I sincerely hope they are working on this. 

I'm another looking for DDS support. The new MS Flight Simulator 2020 requires DDS textures so I need to stick to Photoshop to export my work for this sim.