diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3febc1839..f99368d97 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@
 [submodule "external/vulkan-headers"]
 	path = external/vulkan-headers
 	url = https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Headers
+[submodule "external/gli"]
+	path = external/gli
+	url = https://github.com/g-truc/gli.git
diff --git a/Source/Falcor/CMakeLists.txt b/Source/Falcor/CMakeLists.txt
index d1e34a015..b975c2605 100644
--- a/Source/Falcor/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Source/Falcor/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ target_link_libraries(Falcor
     PRIVATE
         git_version
         FreeImage assimp ffmpeg OpenEXR OpenVDB lz4 zlib pugixml
-        glfw mikktspace nvtt
+        gli glfw mikktspace nvtt
         $<$<BOOL:${FALCOR_HAS_D3D12}>:d3d12>
         $<$<BOOL:${FALCOR_HAS_D3D12_AGILITY_SDK}>:agility-sdk>
         $<$<BOOL:${FALCOR_HAS_NVAPI}>:nvapi>
diff --git a/Source/Falcor/Core/API/Texture.cpp b/Source/Falcor/Core/API/Texture.cpp
index 3410dd822..e93198ece 100644
--- a/Source/Falcor/Core/API/Texture.cpp
+++ b/Source/Falcor/Core/API/Texture.cpp
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
 #include "Utils/Image/ImageIO.h"
 #include "Utils/Scripting/ScriptBindings.h"
 #include "RenderGraph/BasePasses/FullScreenPass.h"
+#include "NativeFormats.h"
 
+#include <gli/gli.hpp>
 #include <pybind11/numpy.h>
 
 #include <mutex>
@@ -441,16 +443,41 @@ void Texture::captureToFile(
     Bitmap::ExportFlags exportFlags
 )
 {
+    RenderContext* pContext = mpDevice->getRenderContext();
+    
     if (format == Bitmap::FileFormat::DdsFile)
     {
-        throw RuntimeError("Texture::captureToFile does not yet support saving to DDS.");
+        gli::dx dxc;
+        auto dxgiFormat = getDxgiFormat(mFormat);
+        auto gliFormat = dxc.find(gli::dx::D3DFMT_DX10, gli::dx::dxgiFormat{ gli::dx::dxgi_format_dds(dxgiFormat) });
+
+        if (mType != Type::Texture2D) throw RuntimeError("Texture::captureToFile dds files must be texture 2d");
+        gli::texture2d_array gliTex = gli::texture2d_array(
+            gliFormat,
+            gli::extent2d(mWidth, mHeight),
+            mArraySize, mMipLevels);
+
+        // transfer data
+        for (uint32_t level = 0; level < mMipLevels; ++level)
+        {
+            const auto size = gliTex.size(level);
+            for (uint32_t layer = 0; layer < mArraySize; ++layer)
+            {
+                auto subresourceIndex = getSubresourceIndex(layer, mipLevel);
+                auto srcData = pContext->readTextureSubresource(this, subresourceIndex);
+                auto dstData = gliTex.data(layer, 0, level);
+                assert(size <= srcData.size());
+                memcpy(dstData, srcData.data(), size);
+            }
+        }
+
+        gli::save_dds(gliTex, path.string());
+        return;
     }
 
     if (mType != Type::Texture2D)
         throw RuntimeError("Texture::captureToFile only supported for 2D textures.");
 
-    RenderContext* pContext = mpDevice->getRenderContext();
-
     // Handle the special case where we have an HDR texture with less then 3 channels.
     FormatType type = getFormatType(mFormat);
     uint32_t channels = getFormatChannelCount(mFormat);
diff --git a/external/CMakeLists.txt b/external/CMakeLists.txt
index 7e7e9db36..4ab27bfd9 100644
--- a/external/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/external/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ add_subdirectory(glfw)
 message(STATUS "Configure glm")
 add_subdirectory(glm)
 
+# gli
+message(STATUS "Configure gli")
+set(GLI_TEST_ENABLE OFF)
+add_subdirectory(gli)
+
 # imgui
 add_library(imgui INTERFACE)
 target_include_directories(imgui INTERFACE imgui)
diff --git a/external/gli b/external/gli
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..779b99ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/gli
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 779b99ac6656e4d30c3b24e96e0136a59649a869