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

[Jean-Roc Morreale (ml)]

Hi Even,

Out of curiosity, what are the possible usecases for geospatial tasks,
georeferenced normal/displacement mapping straight to the gpu ?

regards,
JR

Le mercredi 15 juin 2022 à 16:51 +0200, Even Rouault a écrit :
> 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
>