The Compressonator

Now in its fourth iteration of development, Compressonator is a high-tech, comprehensive suite that allows any aspiring digital artist or developer to handle various compression technologies.

In short, it's a set of tools developed specifically for texture compression, useful for creating compressed texture assets or modern mesh optimizations, as well as visualize the quality impact of various rendering technologies.

Compressonator boasts many benefits, chief among which is the ability to help developers achieve fast compression speeds, adjustable bit rates and various quality settings, the ability to process multiple compression, decompression, and transcoding of images.

Other advantages include the fact that it allows multiple processing interactions for a single source image, the visualization of compression results both visually and analytically, as well as the fact that it uses a single image viewer that supports a large number of compressed and uncompressed image formats.

The suite is composed of 5 main components: a modern GUI app, a command-line component (useful for batch processing), an SDK (for effortless integration into a developer toolset), a framework, and a core component.

The core component provides block-level API access and is driven by BCn codecs. The framework includes the core component with interfaces for processes such as multi-threading, mipmap generation, file access of images and HPC pipeline interfaces.

The suite's SDK component supports various codecs that are available in a singular library instance. These include BC1-BC7/DXTC, ETC1, ETC2, ASTC, ATC, ATI1N, and ATI2N. As mentioned before, the CLI is useful when it comes to batch processing. The component also supports texture compression, decompression, format transcoding, 3D model optimization, mesh compression, and others.

Finally, the GUI is the component that allows users to visualize the results.

For more information about the suite as well as the latest news, users are encouraged to visit the official website.