DDS Textures

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gameshastra (Posted 2008) [#1]

Hi, I have downloaded the exrloader and freeimage modules. Which is the module to use for S3TC compression. Does the image read into memory go into Video Ram in Compressed format(S3TC). This is to help save usage of video Ram your suggestions and help appreciated. Regards

gameshastra (Posted 2008) [#2]

Associated problem: THe exrlaoder test example doesn't build. There were linking errors after compilation.

Brucey (Posted 2008) [#3]

S3TC? I've actually never heard of it.

Brucey (Posted 2008) [#4]

Okay... Wikipedia explained it for me... I see. It looks like FreeImage can load DDS images (according to the documentation). The image will load into a pixmap, or rather, the image will actually load into a FreeImage data type, which you can extract to a Pixmap with getPixmap(). It's up to the user to decide how they want to use the pixmap :-)