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New Features in Version 4.3

Command Line Tools Suite

v4.3.0 contains a new suite of command line tools accessed via an umbrella ktx command.

Tool Description Equivalent old tool
ktx create Create a KTX2 file from various input files toktx
ktx extract Export selected images from a KTX2 file -
ktx encode Encode a KTX2 file to a Basis Universal format ktxsc
ktx transcode Transcode a KTX2 file -
ktx info Prints information about a KTX2 file ktxinfo
ktx validate Validate a KTX2 file ktx2check
ktx help Display help information about the ktx tools -

Equivalent old tools will be removed in a subsequent release soon.

Some features of the old tools are not currently available in the new equivalent.

Old Tool New Tool Missing Features
toktx create JPEG and NBPM input and scaling/resizing of input images.
ktxsc encode ASTC encoding of a KTX2 file. This can be done in create.
Deflation of a KTX2 file with zlib or zstd.

The command-line syntax and semantics differ from the old tools including, but not limited to:

  • KTX 1.0 files are not supported by the new tools.

  • Words in multi-word option names are connected with - instead of _.

  • Individual option names may differ between the old and new tools.

  • The ktx validate tool may be stricter than ktx2check or otherwise differ in behavior, as the new tool enforces all rules of the KTX 2.0 specification. In addition, all new tools that accept KTX 2.0 files as input will be validated in a similar fashion as they would be with the ktx validate tool and will fail on the first specification rule violation, if there is one. It also has the option to output the validation results in human readable text format or in JSON format (both formatted and minified options are available), as controlled by the --format command-line option.

  • The ktx validate tool also supports validating KTX 2.0 files against the additional restrictions defined by the KHR_texture_basisu extension. Use the --gltf-basisu command-line option to verify glTF and WebGL compatibility.

  • The new ktx info tool produces a unified and complete output of all metadata in KTX 2.0 files and can provide output in human readable text format or in JSON format (both formatted and minified options are available), as controlled by the --format command-line option.

  • The source repository also includes the JSON schemas that the JSON outputs of the ktx info and ktx validate tools comply to.

  • The ktx create tool takes an explicit Vulkan format argument (--format) instead of inferring the format based on the provided input files as toktx, and thus doesn't perform any implicit color-space conversions except gamma 2.2 to sRGB. Use the --assign-oetf, --convert-oetf, --assign-primaries, and the new --convert-primaries for fine grained control over color-space interpretation and conversion.

  • The ktx create tool does not support resizing or scaling like toktx, and, in general, does not perform any image transformations except the optional color-space conversion and mipmap generation options. Users should resize input images to the appropriate resolution before converting them to KTX 2.0 files.

  • The ktx create and ktx extract tools consume and produce, respectively, image file formats that best suit the used Vulkan format. In general, barring special cases, 8-bit and 16-bit normalized integer formats are imported from and exported to PNG files, while integer and floating point formats are imported from and exported to EXR files based on predefined rules. This may be extended in the future using additional command line options and in response to support for other image file formats.

  • The new tools and updated libktx support ZLIB supercompression besides the BasisLZ and Zstd supercompression schemes supported previously.

Please refer to the manual pages or use the --help command-line option for further details on the options available and associated semantics for each individual command.

Thanks to @aqnuep and @VaderY of RasterGrid for their excellent work on the new tool suite.

Python Binding

A Python binding for libktx has been added. Applications written in Python can now use libktx functions. The package can be installed via pip install pyktx[==4.3.0]. Huge thanks to @ShukantPal.

Changes

  • libktx has been made much more robust to errors in KTX files.
  • libktx now validates checksums when present in a Zstd data stream.
  • libktx has two new error codes it can return: KTX_DECOMPRESS_LENGTH_ERROR and KTX_DECOMPRESS_CHECKSUM_ERROR.
  • All tools and libktx now correctly process on all platforms utf8 file names
    with multi-byte code-points. Previously such names did not work on Windows.
  • The Vulkan texture uploader can now optionally be used with an extenal memory allocator such as VulkanMemoryAllocator.

Known Issues

  • Some image bits in output files encoded to ASTC, ETC1S/Basis-LZ or UASTC on arm64 devices may differ from those encoded from the same input images on x86_64 devices. The differences will not be human visible and will only show up in bit-exact comparisons.

  • Users making Basis Universal encoded or GPU block compressed textures for WebGL must be aware of WebGL restrictions with regard to texture size and may need to resize input images appropriately before using the ktx create tool, or use the --resize feature of the old toktx tool to produce an appropriately sized texture. In general, the dimensions of block compressed textures must be a multiple of the block size in WebGL and for WebGL 1.0 textures must have power-of-two dimensions. Additional portability restrictions apply for glTF per the KHR_texture_basisu extension which can be verified using the --gltf-basisu command-line option of the new ktx validate tool.

  • Basis Universal encoding results (both ETC1S/LZ and UASTC) are non-deterministic across platforms. Results are valid but level sizes and data will differ slightly. See issue #60 in the basis_universal repository.

  • UASTC RDO results differ from run to run unless multi-threading or RDO multi-threading is disabled. In toktx use --threads 1 for the former or --uastc_rdo_m for the latter. As with the preceeding issue results are valid but level sizes will differ slightly. See issue #151 in the basis_universal repository.

  • Neither the Vulkan nor GL loaders support depth/stencil textures.

Changes since v4.3.0 (by part)

Tools

  • Fix lingering KTXwriterScParams metadata from encode/transcode inputs (#852) (d3010bd) (@aqnuep)

Version 4.3.0

Changes since v4.3.0-beta1 (by part)

libktx

Tools

Version 4.3.0-beta1

Changes since v4.3.0-alpha3 (by part)

libktx

Tools

Java Wrapper

Version 4.3.0-alpha3

Changes since v4.3.0-alpha2 (by part)

libktx

  • Improve documentation (#730) (69b1685) (@MarkCallow)

    • Rework navigation among the multiple Doxygen projects for much easier use.
    • Rename new ktx tool man pages from ktxtools\_* to ktx\_*
    • Add ktx tool mainpage based on RELEASE_NOTES info.
    • Make minor formatting fix in ktx man page.
    • Update acknowledgements.
    • Remove outdated TODO.md.
    • Add script to do $Date$ keyword smudging. Use it in CI and reference it from
      README.md to avoid repetition of list of files needing smudging.
    • Add $Date$ keywords to some docs.
    • Remove $Date$ and #ident keywords that are no longer needed or used.
    • Document the parts of khr\_df.h relevant to the libktx API.

  • Implement the extended scope and further improvements for ktxtools (#722) (2189c54) (@VaderY)

    • tools: Implement stdout support
    • tools: Implement stdin support
    • tools: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • tools: Implement support for 10X6 and 10X4 formats
    • tools: Implement support for B10G11R11_UFLOAT and E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT formats
    • tools: Complete support for Depth-Stencil formats
    • tools: Improvements, cleanup and bug fixes
    • extract: Implement fragment URI support
    • extract: Implement 4:2:2 sub-sampling
    • validate: Fix and extend padding byte validation checks
    • cts: Add support for stdin/stdout test cases (including binary IO)
    • cts: Add tests to cover new features and capabilities
    • cts: Extend existing tests to improve coverage
    • cts: Test runner now deletes matching output files (this enables easy packaging of mismatching files)
    • cts: Added a new cli arg to the runner script: --keep-matching-outputs to prevent the deletion of matching output files
    • dfdUtils: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • dfdUtils: Implement support for 10X6 and 10X4 formats
    • imageio: Fix stdin support
    • ktx: Add stringToVkFormat to mkvkformatfiles
    • ktx: Implement 3D BC support (ASTC 3D Blocks)
    • ktx: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • ktx: Complete support for Depth-Stencil formats
    • ktx: Improve interpretDFD
    • ktx: Improvements, cleanup and bug fixes
    • cmake: Add CMake generator expression for output directory on Mac

Tools

  • Improve documentation (#730) (69b1685) (@MarkCallow)

    • Rework navigation among the multiple Doxygen projects for much easier use.
    • Rename new ktx tool man pages from ktxtools\_* to ktx\_*
    • Add ktx tool mainpage based on RELEASE_NOTES info.
    • Make minor formatting fix in ktx man page.
    • Update acknowledgements.
    • Remove outdated TODO.md.
    • Add script to do $Date$ keyword smudging. Use it in CI and reference it from
      README.md to avoid repetition of list of files needing smudging.
    • Add $Date$ keywords to some docs.
    • Remove $Date$ and #ident keywords that are no longer needed or used.
    • Document the parts of khr\_df.h relevant to the libktx API.

  • Implement the extended scope and further improvements for ktxtools (#722) (2189c54) (@VaderY)

    • tools: Implement stdout support
    • tools: Implement stdin support
    • tools: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • tools: Implement support for 10X6 and 10X4 formats
    • tools: Implement support for B10G11R11_UFLOAT and E5B9G9R9_UFLOAT formats
    • tools: Complete support for Depth-Stencil formats
    • tools: Improvements, cleanup and bug fixes
    • extract: Implement fragment URI support
    • extract: Implement 4:2:2 sub-sampling
    • validate: Fix and extend padding byte validation checks
    • cts: Add support for stdin/stdout test cases (including binary IO)
    • cts: Add tests to cover new features and capabilities
    • cts: Extend existing tests to improve coverage
    • cts: Test runner now deletes matching output files (this enables easy packaging of mismatching files)
    • cts: Added a new cli arg to the runner script: --keep-matching-outputs to prevent the deletion of matching output files
    • dfdUtils: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • dfdUtils: Implement support for 10X6 and 10X4 formats
    • imageio: Fix stdin support
    • ktx: Add stringToVkFormat to mkvkformatfiles
    • ktx: Implement 3D BC support (ASTC 3D Blocks)
    • ktx: Implement 4:2:2 support
    • ktx: Complete support for Depth-Stencil formats
    • ktx: Improve interpretDFD
    • ktx: Improvements, cleanup and bug fixes
    • cmake: Add CMake generator expression for output directory on Mac

JS Wrappers

  • Improve documentation (#730) (69b1685) (@MarkCallow)

    • Rework navigation among the multiple Doxygen projects for much easier use.
    • Rename new ktx tool man pages from ktxtools\_* to ktx\_*
    • Add ktx tool mainpage based on RELEASE_NOTES info.
    • Make minor formatting fix in ktx man page.
    • Update acknowledgements.
    • Remove outdated TODO.md.
    • Add script to do $Date$ keyword smudging. Use it in CI and reference it from
      README.md to avoid repetition of list of files needing smudging.
    • Add $Date$ keywords to some docs.
    • Remove $Date$ and #ident keywords that are no longer needed or used.
    • Document the parts of khr\_df.h relevant to the libktx API.

Version 4.3.0-alpha2

Changes since v4.3.0-alpha1 (by part)

libktx

Version 4.3.0-alpha1

Changes since v4.2.1 (by part)

libktx

Tools

JS Wrappers

Java Wrapper

Contributors

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