Compressed Texture support (ETC1, PVR)

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Hello Community,

the past days I've been implementing support for compressed Textures to AndEngine. During that change some refactoring was necessary. For you nothing will change besides a couple of renaming with anything that deals with Textures.

I.e. what was previously simply called 'Texture' is now called BitmapTextureAtlas, what represents its actual purpose a lot better.

On the 'new feature' front there are now ETC1Textures and PVRTextures (Also PVRGZTextures. Soon PVRCCZTextures), which have a few benefits, when compared to PNGs.

More on all that tomorrow.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[dorasoft]

Actually, a lot of rename By the way, Find & Replace will do that, but I believe new amazing feature will be on soon

[tajny]

Great news, most important to me are PVR Textures.

Regards
Paul

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Great news, most important to me are PVR Textures.

Regards
Paul

Note: It's not PVR-"TC" as this is not the TextureCompression to go for on Android PVR is just a container format, that contains Texture-Dumps, which are loaded quicker than PNGs, which need to be decoded first and possibly converted first.

Best Regards,
Nicolas

[muchos.hornos]

Hi Nicolas,

I just spent half a day trying to figure out how to pass my code through compilation with the new Andengine version:)

I agree that the necessary changes in code were trivial, but only if you are familiar enough with the framework. Hence it seems very important to sustain backward compatibility.
Think about all those Andengine tutorials on the web that use "new Texture(...)" and now are useless for beginners.
Andengine is poorly documented and changing basic API makes it much harder to understand how to work with it.

What do you think?

[Duiker101]

the examples are updated

http://code.google.com/p/andengineexamp ... ample.java

[natypc]

Great update! thanks!

I'm trying to use the new PVRTexture and loads perfectly but the color components are swapped in my Nexus One.

I'm doing something wrong?

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1.                 try {
2.                         mSprTexture = new PVRTexture(PVRTextureFormat.RGBA_8888) {
3.                                 @Override
4.                                 protected InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
5.                                         return getAssets().open("sprites.pvr");
6.                                 }
7.                         };
8.                 } catch (Exception e) {}
9.  

Parsed in 0.031 seconds, using GeSHi 1.0.8.4

I'm using TexturePacker to create the PVR file. Any other suggestion to test other PVR makers?

[vertti]

Aaagh, even if it's more precise, on what planet BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegion is a good name for a class

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Aaagh, even if it's more precise, on what planet BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegion is a good name for a class

There is no such class as "BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegion", it does not even make sense

[Nicolas Gramlich]

Btw, PVRCCZ is now also supported.