RenderDoc 1.8 has Compressonator support

June 23, 2020

RenderDoc now supports Compressonator Core API with its latest version 1.8!

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. This is used to convert various DDS formats to bitmap format to display them as thumbnails in Windows® Explorer. The thumbnail is also shown in the preview window if enabled.

Find out more about Compressonator and RenderDoc with the links below:

Compressonator

Compressonator is a set of tools to allow artists and developers to more easily work with compressed assets and easily visualize the quality impact of various compression technologies.

RenderDoc 1.8

RenderDoc is a stand-alone graphics debugging tool.

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Brotli-G (v1.1 onwards) now supports pre-conditioning of block compressed textures. Take a look for a quick summary!

Introducing Compressonator v4.5 with up to 20% improvement in Brotli-G compression

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.

Introducing Compressonator v4.4 with AVX-512 support for BC1 Encoding

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Introducing Compressonator v4.3 – Brotli-G, multi-texture mipmap generation, and more

Compressonator v4.3 is out now! v4.3 features Brotli-G lossless compression, multi-texture mipmap generation, and much more.

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