Hi,

I am creating an engine using C# and SharpDX. To load DDS files, I was originally decoding the file to a R8G8B8A8 format which defeats the purpose of using DDS as it removes all compression. I am now trying to load DXT5 textures into my engine whilst keeping the compression but I am stuck when trying to copy the texture into the Texture2D DX resource. I have the texture format set as BC3_UNORM.

I'm not quite sure what part of the DDS file I am meant to be copying to the resource and whether or not I am meant to be reordering some channels of the file before doing so. I have tried to find documentation online but it seems to be scarce as everyone wants to use helper functions whereas I am trying to avoid using them solely for the task of loading a DDS file.

Any help or insight into what part of the file I am meant to be copying to the Texture2D resource and any modifications I need to perform would be helpful.

Thanks.

Thanks for the info, I think I should be able to get it done now. Also, just double checking, is BC3_UNORM the correct format to be using with DXT5?