[gdal-dev] Proposed new driver to handle Basis Universal / KTX2 textures

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

There's interest for adding a new read/write raster GDAL driver for the 
Basis Universal and KTX2 (https://github.khronos.org/KTX-Specification/) 
texture formats, used in 3D/BIM formats like I3S and glTF. That would 
use the https://github.com/BinomialLLC/basis_universal software (Apache 
2.0 licensed) to do the encoding/decoding.

I just wanted to know if people were comfortable to have this as a 
in-tree (optional) GDAL driver. Texture support is not necessarily where 
GDAL is most known but we do already have a few drivers specifically 
handling that like the DDS/crunch one 
(https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/dds.html) or the TARGA one 
(https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/tga.html), not mentioning more generic 
purposes formats like JPEG or PNG.

Even

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