-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > Stefan Dösinger schrieb: >> This may be slightly off topic, but I am wondering if there's any way to >> detect the ability to upload precompressed textures when >> GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc is not available(aka the user hasn't forced >> it). Wine and CrossOver users are regularly complaining that their games do >> not work due to the lack of S3TC, but all Wine needs for D3D is the ability >> to load precompressed textures(*). So I'd be perfectly happy with getting >> just this feature, if the user just didn't have to do anything manually. > >> I think writing an extension spec is outside of the scope, but is there >> something else, like setting an environment variable, or just trying to call >> glCompressedTexImage even thought the extension isn't advertised? > >> Thanks, >> Stefan > >> (*) D3D has a feature to compress textures, but it is independent of the >> hardware's features. > > If you only use DXT1 there's EXT_texture_compression_dxt1. It offers > support for using DXT1 precompressed textures. However AFAIK it'S > currently not supported in the free drivers (even if > GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc is avialable).
Ooh, seems nice, even though it's OGLES. I'm putting that on my todo list for Radeons. ~ C. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiE+1wACgkQeCCY8PC5utDRAwCfX3x3skZxOVvuQt50ICLQ3y2t PSkAn1EasZ9K4vLyq59ecvDjXyMwLFfX =uMT7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
