# Objective
- wgpu 0.13 has validation to ensure that the width and height specified for a texture are both multiples of the respective block width and block height. This means validation fails for compressed textures with say a 4x4 block size, but non-modulo-4 image width/height.
## Solution
- Using `Extent3d`'s `physical_size()` method in the `dds` loader. It takes a `TextureFormat` argument and ensures the resolution is correct.
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## Changelog
- Fixes: Validation failure for compressed textures stored in `dds` where the width/height are not a multiple of the block dimensions.
# Objective
- Support compressed textures including 'universal' formats (ETC1S, UASTC) and transcoding of them to
- Support `.dds`, `.ktx2`, and `.basis` files
## Solution
- Fixes https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3608 Look there for more details.
- Note that the functionality is all enabled through non-default features. If it is desirable to enable some by default, I can do that.
- The `basis-universal` crate, used for `.basis` file support and for transcoding, is built on bindings against a C++ library. It's not feasible to rewrite in Rust in a short amount of time. There are no Rust alternatives of which I am aware and it's specialised code. In its current state it doesn't support the wasm target, but I don't know for sure. However, it is possible to build the upstream C++ library with emscripten, so there is perhaps a way to add support for web too with some shenanigans.
- There's no support for transcoding from BasisLZ/ETC1S in KTX2 files as it was quite non-trivial to implement and didn't feel important given people could use `.basis` files for ETC1S.
