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PVR Viewer

PVR Viewer

David Sun

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Image preview for PVR texture files
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PVR Viewer

Extension for Visual Studio Code that adds image preview for PVR (.pvr) texture files. All texture decompression is written in JavaScript, so any format will work on any graphics card.

Features

  • Large textures are scaled down to fit the window.
  • Textures with premultiplied alpha are shown correctly.
  • Linear textures not converted to sRGB colorspace for display.
  • No zooming or other user control of the viewer.
  • No support for viewing cubemaps, mipmaps, arrays, 3D textures.
  • Floating point textures have no exposure control for display.
  • Packed YUV formats are not supported.

Texture Formats

Initial goal is to support all formats required by OpenGL ES 3.2, listed below:

❔ Format Enums
🟢 ETC1 ETC1_RGB8
🟢 ETC2 RGB RGB8_ETC2, SRGB8_ETC2
🟢 ETC2 RGBA RGBA8_ETC2_EAC, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ETC2_EAC
🟢 ETC2 RGB A1 RGB8_PUNCHTHROUGH_ALPHA1_ETC2, SRGB8_PUNCHTHROUGH_ALPHA1_ETC2
🟢 EAC R11 R11_EAC, SIGNED_R11_EAC
🟢 EAC RG11 RG11_EAC, SIGNED_RG11_EAC
🟢 PVRTC 2bpp RGB RGB_PVRTC_2BPPV1
🟢 PVRTC 2bpp RGBA RGBA_PVRTC_2BPPV1
🟢 PVRTC 4bpp RGB RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1
🟢 PVRTC 4bpp RGBA RGBA_PVRTC_4BPPV1
🟢 PVRTC2 2bpp RGBA_PVRTC_2BPPV2
🟢 PVRTC2 4bpp RGBA_PVRTC_4BPPV2
🔻 PVRTC HDR 6bpp RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1 + RGB_PVRTC_2BPPV1
🔻 PVRTC HDR 8bpp RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1 + RGB_PVRTC_4BPPV1
🔻 PVRTC2 HDR 6bpp RGBA_PVRTC_4BPPV2 + RGBA_PVRTC_2BPPV2
🔻 PVRTC2 HDR 8bpp RGBA_PVRTC2_4BPPV2 + RGBA_PVRTC2_4BPPV2
✖️ BC1 RGB_S3TC_DXT1, RGBA_S3TC_DXT1, SRGB_S3TC_DXT1, SRGB_ALPHA_S3TC_DXT1
✖️ BC2 RGBA_S3TC_DXT3, SRGB_ALPHA_S3TC_DXT3
✖️ BC3 RGBA_S3TC_DXT5, SRGB_ALPHA_S3TC_DXT5
🔻 BC4 RED_BC4_ATI1_UNORM, RED_BC4_ATI1_SNORM
🔻 BC5 RG_BC5_ATI2_UNORM, RG_BC5_ATI2_SNORM
✖️ BC6H RGB_BPTC_SIGNED_FLOAT, RGB_BPTC_UNSIGNED_FLOAT
✖️ BC7 RGBA_BPTC_UNORM, SRGB_ALPHA_BPTC_UNORM
❌ ASTC 4x4 RGBA_ASTC_4x4, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_4x4
❌ ASTC 5x4 RGBA_ASTC_5x4, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x4
❌ ASTC 5x5 RGBA_ASTC_5x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x5
❌ ASTC 6x5 RGBA_ASTC_6x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x5
❌ ASTC 6x6 RGBA_ASTC_6x6, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x6
❌ ASTC 8x5 RGBA_ASTC_8x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x5
❌ ASTC 8x6 RGBA_ASTC_8x6, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x6
❌ ASTC 8x8 RGBA_ASTC_8x8, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_8x8
❌ ASTC 10x5 RGBA_ASTC_10x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x5
❌ ASTC 10x6 RGBA_ASTC_10x6, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x6
❌ ASTC 10x8 RGBA_ASTC_10x8, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x8
❌ ASTC 10x10 RGBA_ASTC_10x10, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_10x10
❌ ASTC 12x10 RGBA_ASTC_12x10, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_12x10
❌ ASTC 12x12 RGBA_ASTC_12x12, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_12x12
⚠️ ASTC 3x3x3 RGBA_ASTC_3x3x3, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_3x3x3
⚠️ ASTC 4x3x3 RGBA_ASTC_4x3x3, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_4x3x3
⚠️ ASTC 4x4x3 RGBA_ASTC_4x4x3, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_4x4x3
⚠️ ASTC 4x4x4 RGBA_ASTC_4x4x4, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_4x4x4
⚠️ ASTC 5x4x4 RGBA_ASTC_5x4x4, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x4x4
⚠️ ASTC 5x5x4 RGBA_ASTC_5x5x4, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x5x4
⚠️ ASTC 5x5x5 RGBA_ASTC_5x5x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_5x5x5
⚠️ ASTC 6x5x5 RGBA_ASTC_6x5x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x5x5
⚠️ ASTC 6x6x5 RGBA_ASTC_6x6x5, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x6x5
⚠️ ASTC 6x6x6 RGBA_ASTC_6x6x6, SRGB8_ALPHA8_ASTC_6x6x6
🟢 R8 G8 B8 A8 RGBA8, RGBA8_SNORM, SRGB8_ALPHA8, RGBA8UI, RGBA8I, BGRA8
🟢 R8 G8 B8 RGB8, RGB8_SNORM, SRGB8, RGB8UI, RGB8I
🟢 R8 G8 RG8, RG8_SNORM, RG8UI, RG8I
🟢 R8 R8, R8_SNORM, R8UI, R8I
🟢 R10 G10 B10 A2 RGB10_A2, RGB10_A2UI
🟢 R4 G4 B4 A4 RGBA4
🟢 R5 G5 B5 A1 RGB5_A1
🟢 R5 G6 B5 RGB565
🟢 L8 A8 LUMINANCE8_ALPHA8
🟢 L8 LUMINANCE8
🟢 A8 ALPHA8
🟢 R32 G32 B32 A32 RGBA32F, RGBA32UI, RGBA16I
🟢 R32 G32 B32 RGB32F, RGB32UI, RGB32I
🟢 R32 G32 RG32F, RG32UI, RG32I
🟢 R32 R32F, R32UI, R32I
🟢 R16 G16 B16 A16 RGBA16F, RGBA16UI, RGBA16I
🟢 R16 G16 B16 RGB16F, RGB16UI, RGB16I
🟢 R16 G16 RG16F, RG16UI, RG16I
🟢 R16 R16F, R16UI, R16I
🟢 R11 G11 B10 R11F_G11F_B10F
🟢 RGB9 E5 RGB9_E5
🟢 RGBM RGBA8*
🟢 RGBD RGBA8*
✖️ RGTC1 RED_RGTC1, SIGNED_RED_RGTC1
✖️ RGTC2 RG_RGTC2, SIGNED_RG_RGTC2
✖️ BW1bpp
✖️ RGBG8888
✖️ GRGB8888
✖️ BASISU_ETC1S Basis Universal ETC1S
✖️ BASISU_UASTC Basis Universal UASTC
✖️ UYVY_422 https://www.fourcc.org/pixel-format/yuv-uyvy/
✖️ UYVY_422 https://www.fourcc.org/pixel-format/yuv-yuy2/

Release Notes

Not much supported yet, but could still be useful to people. Just wanted to get something out there.

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