DDS file format

[Smallpox]

The features page says DDS is supported, but whenever I try to load them into sf::Texture I get a blank texture.

I used gimp to create the DDS file with BC2/DXT3 compression. Works with PNG that has the same file name and location.

Could this be a graphics card/OS problem? I use Intel on Linux.

What am I doing wrong?

[Laurent]

The features pages is still about SFML 1.6. For an updated list of supported formats, please have a look at the API documentation of the sf::Texture::loadFromFile function.

[Smallpox]

Thanks. I found the relevant information in sf::Image::loadFromFile, though.

Why did you decide to remove support for DDS?

Is there another way to do texture compression in SFML?

[Laurent]

Why did you decide to remove support for DDS?

The library that I use internally doesn't support it anymore. And I think it was pretty useless anyway (see below).

Is there another way to do texture compression in SFML?

There's no way and there's never been, textures are stored as 32-bits RGBA regardless their source format.