DXTn textures in D3DX9

[Roderick Colenbrander]

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Ben Klein <shacklein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
>
>
>

Note that there is some basic s3tc support in mesa these days which
you can activate using driconf. I forgot what its limitations are. I
believe it is enough for rendering.

Roderick