Pre-condition block compressed textures with Brotli-G
Brotli-G (v1.1 onwards) now supports pre-conditioning of block compressed textures. Take a look for a quick summary!
Brotli-G (v1.1 onwards) now supports pre-conditioning of block compressed textures. Take a look for a quick summary!
Compressonator v4.5 introduces improved BC1-BC5 compression that reduces file sizes on average by 10%-15% using a new Brotli-G zip packaging feature, mipmap changes, ETC codec fixes, and more.
Compressonator v4.4 adds AVX-512, AVX2, and SSE4 variations of BC1 encoding in the Compressonator Core library, new CLI options, and more.
Compressonator v4.3 is out now! v4.3 features Brotli-G lossless compression, multi-texture mipmap generation, and much more.
Brotli-G is an open-source compression/decompression standard for digital assets (based on Brotli) that is compatible with GPU hardware.
Compressonator v4.2 brings improvements for BC1 and BC7 codecs, plus API, SDK, and CMake updates.
Compressonator v4.1 adds SNORM support for BC4 and BC5, MIP map filter support using either GPU or CPU, GPU-based compression and MIP map generation, and much more.
How Creative Assembly have evolved their engine, which originally targeted DirectX® 9, to abstract over the disparate graphics APIs they need to support for Warhammer now, including DirectX®12.
Binomial are the creators of Basis, a very exciting new take on multi-platform texture compression that has wide applicability, and not just to games. This talk by Stephanie Hurlburt is a great primer on Basis and the problems it’s designed and engineered to solve.
When associated with DDS files, RenderDoc generates thumbnails for DDS formats and displays them in Windows Explorer. Compressonator Core provides functions for compressing and decompressing DDS files.
The Windows version of Compressonator 4.0 supports GPU encoding with DirectX® Compute (DXC) or OpenCL™ (OCL) shaders.
The latest version of Compressonator is now available, featuring new BCn codec kernels, framework interfaces, cube maps, and more.