pvrtc_compress quality issue

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hello, I use pvrtc_compress of the latest 2.10 release sdk to compression texture.


But when I check these images between PVRTexToolGUI and pvrtc_compress, quality much different.


I’v confirmed they are same params passed in, same width/height, same as 4bits.


Some pixels missed at pvrtc_compress image, and with many artifacts.





And, would you please give come tutorial or sample for how to use these lib?





thanks for great work.





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Hi Oiram,

The library “pvrtc.lib” is now considered legacy so starting next release, support for this will be completely removed. This library uses different compressor entry points to PVRTexTool/PVRTexLib which is probably why you’re seeing differing images between the two. It should also be noted that the “quality” argument also differs slightly - a value of 0 in pvrtc_compress is the equivalent of ‘Normal’ (1) in PVRTexTool/PVRTexLib. Basically all the values are one lower in pvrtc.lib.

Thanks,

Tobias



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Hi Tobias,





OK, I know that. Then I change to use PVRTexLib.lib.


Could you please show any sample code to use it?


I just want to use it to compress tga/png/bmp/jpg to pvr in my 3dmax export plugin.





Thank,





Oiram

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Hi Oiram,

The PVRTexLib manual shows examples of how to compress bitmap data into a pvr file. For conversion from the various image file formats you’ll need to use your own code or functionality within 3dsmax if available.

Thanks,

Tobias



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Thanks for reply.





I just follow the manual:





unsigned char* bytes = new unsigned char[width * height * 4];


memset(bytes, 5, width * height * 4);





PixelType PVRTC4BPP(ePVRTPF_PVRTCI_4bpp_RGBA);


CPVRTextureHeader header(PVRTC4BPP.PixelTypeID, height, width);


CPVRTexture texture(header, bytes);


bool r = false;


r = texture.saveFile(“2.pvr”);


delete [] bytes;





but colour of the image is not correct.


any advice?

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Hi Oiram,

You’ll actually need to convert the texture seperately, essentially what you’ve done is tell PVRTexLib that your RGBA data is actually PVRTC 4bpp data. What you’ll need to do instead is this:

unsigned char* bytes = new unsigned char[width * height * 4];


memset(bytes, 5, width * height * 4);





CPVRTextureHeader header(PVRStandard8PixelType.PixelTypeID, height, width);


CPVRTexture texture(header, bytes);









PixelType PVRTC4BPP(ePVRTPF_PVRTCI_4bpp_RGBA);


//This line converts from RGBA8888 to PVRTC 4bpp
bool bSuccess = Transcode(texture,PVRTC4BPP,ePVRTVarTypeUnsignedByteNorm,ePVRTCSpacelRGB);

bool r = false;


r = texture.saveFile(“2.pvr”);


delete [] bytes;






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Thanks, it works now!