KTX (Khronos Texture) Library and Tools
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This is the official home of the source code for the Khronos KTX library and tools.
KTX (Khronos Texture) is a lightweight container for textures for OpenGL®, Vulkan® and other GPU APIs. KTX files contain all the parameters needed for texture loading. A single file can contain anything from a simple base-level 2D texture through to a cubemap array texture with mipmaps. Contained textures can be in a Basis Universal format, in any of the block-compressed formats supported by OpenGL family and Vulkan APIs and extensions or in an uncompressed single-plane format. Basis Universal currently encompasses two formats that can be quickly transcoded to any GPU-supported format: LZ/ETC1S, which combines block-compression and supercompression, and UASTC, a block-compressed format. Formats other than LZ/ETC1S can be supercompressed with Zstd and ZLIB.
Download KTX Software Releases to get binary packages of the tools, library and development headers described below. The Releases page also has packages with the Javascript wrappers and .wasm binaries.
See the Doxygen generated live documentation for API and tool usage information.
The software consists of: (links are to source folders in the KhronosGroup repo)
lib
interface/js_binding
interface/js_binding
interface/java_binding
tools/ktx
tools/ktx2check
tools/ktx2ktx2
tools/ktxinfo
tools/ktxsc
tools/toktx
See CONTRIBUTING for information about contributing.
See LICENSE for information about licensing.
See BUILDING for information about building the code.
If you need help with using the KTX library or KTX tools, please use GitHub Discussions. To report problems use GitHub issues.
IMPORTANT: you must install the Git LFS command line extension in order to fully checkout this repository after cloning. You need at least version 1.1. If you did not have Git LFS installed at first checkout then, after installing it, you must run
git lfs checkout
A few files have $Date$
keywords. If you care about having the proper
dates shown or will be generating the documentation or preparing
distribution archives, you must follow the instructions below.
The tests and test files for the generic command line ktx
tool can be found in a separate
CTS Repository. To save space and bandwidth this repository
is included with git submodule and by default it is not required for building the libraries or the tools.
For more information about building, running and extending the CTS tests see BUILDING
and CTS README.
$Date$ keywords are expanded via smudge & clean filters. To install the filters, issue the following commands in the root of your clone.
On Unix (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.) platforms and Windows using Git for Windows' Git Bash or Cygwin's bash terminal:
./install-gitconfig.sh
./ci_scripts/smudge_date.sh
On Windows PowerShell (requires git.exe
in a directory
on your %PATH%):
install-gitconfig.ps1
./ci_scripts/smudge_date.ps1
The first command adds an [include] of the repo's .gitconfig
to the
local git config file .git/config
, i.e. the one in your clone of the repo.
.gitconfig
contains the config of the "keyworder" filter. The script in
the second command forces a new checkout of the affected files to smudge them
with their last modified date. This is unnecessary if you plan to edit
these files.