How can I read png files and transcode them to pvrtc by using c/c++ code?

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HI, as the title said, I want to find a way to transcode png to pvrtc,



and I found PVRTexLib.lib, but it can only read pvr file.



how can I read png files and use PVRTexLib.lib to transcode it to pvrtc?

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Hi Chloe,



PVRTexLib doesn’t have any way to natively handle image file formats. If you need to turn images into textures, you need to use a separate image processing library to do this. For png you can either use a low level library to do it, such as libpng, or something a bit more multipurpose like tinyimageloader. There’s a lot of image loading libraries out there if you don’t like the looks of either of those however!



Once you’ve loaded it into a raw bitmap, you can then put that data into a CPVRTexture by defining the header and passing in the raw data. If you have any questions about this step when you get there, let us know :)!



Thanks,

Tobias

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thanks, I will try

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I have loaded a png image using http://lodev.org/lodepng/ .

Now I have got a pointer ready to the raw data. From the loading code:


  const char* filename = "test.png";<br />
<br />
//load and decode<br />
std::vector image;<br />
unsigned width, height;<br />
unsigned error = lodepng::decode(image, width, height, filename);<br />
<br />
if(error) {<br />
// handle error<br />
}<br />
else {<br />
//the pixels are now in the vector "image", 4 bytes per pixel, ordered RGBARGBA..., use it as texture, draw it, ...<br />
}
```<br />
<br />
Now how can I load the data to a texture? Can I use `PVRTTexture` or do I have to write my own GL code?<br />
<br />
Thanks for your help!
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Hi Dan,



Are you talking about loading into a CPVRTexture for manipulation with PVRTexLib, or are you wanting to load it directly into OpenGL (ES) as a texture?



If you are looking to use it in OpenGL, you should load it directly with the OpenGL texture loading functions.



Regards,

Tobias