Hey guys, from time to time Im looking for a *.dds texture loading library in C++ that isn't specific to any Rendering API, as I have both OpenGL and D3D API supported (and planning to do a little ray-tracing as a toy).
So do you know a library that does that thing?
WIC supports DDS files as well: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee719654(v=vs.85).aspx
WIC supports DDSYeah but it's not 'multiplaform'.
I can post the source to my DXT tool when I get home.<A greedy emoticon>
If you only need minimal parsing (to map byte offsets to cubemap sides/mipmaps for some common color formats), this might help:
https://github.com/snake5/sgs-sdl/blob/master/src/dds.h
https://github.com/snake5/sgs-sdl/blob/master/src/dds.c
Usage example: https://github.com/snake5/sgs-sdl/blob/master/src/ss3d_engine.c#L745
What I am putting together will only do the basic loading and give you the chunks you would send to the hardware.This is exactley what i want.
The the above library looks more complete, except that it doesn’t handle mipmaps (it appears to just load them as part of a big chunk, whereas mine separates them into separate memory blocks).This is exactley what i want.What I am putting together will only do the basic loading and give you the chunks you would send to the hardware.
DDS is such a simple format that i'm not even sure that it needs a library. There's no parsing/etc involved, it's just a simple header followed by data which can be directly consumed by the API without conversion.
