DXTn textures in D3DX9

[Ben Klein]

2009/5/22 Tony Wasserka <tony.wasserka at freenet.de>:
> Hi everyone,
> I'm working on implementing D3DXLoadSurfaceFromFileInMemory right now,
> but I've got a problem. The function
> most convert a loaded surface's data to a user specified surface format
> (I did not yet find a way to do it elsehow,
> UpdateTexture and StretchRect are to limited for that task, suggestions
> welcome if I missed anything).
> Now, if the user specifies that D3DX9 needs to convert e.g. an R8G8B8
> surface to DXT1 (or to save a surface to a
> DXTn compressed DDS file), I'm not sure wether I can implement that
> behavior; on #winehackers I was told that
> the (de)compression part is coverered by S3's patents, but the Gimp DDS
> plugin and this
> (http://mollyrocket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=392) seem to provide OSS
> solutions for it anways.
> So... Can anybody tell me for sure wether I may implement this code or not?
>
>
> Best regards, Tony

If it counts for anything, I'd like to see a converter going the other
way (bug 14939).