Basis Universal GPU texture library v2.5 will add full .DDS file format support, including 2D textures, cubemaps, texture arrays with mipmaps, BC1-7 formats, and uncompressed data. The implementation is compatible with standard .DDS files produced by AMD Compressonator and Microsoft DirectXTex texconv. This enables desktop texture content to be deployed on mobile/tablet platforms with minimal quality loss, as BC1 to ASTC 4x4 transcoding is nearly lossless and BC7 mode 6 to ASTC 4x4 is near-lossless.
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