Incorrect DDS file generated when compressing BC6H cubemap [4.2.5185]

[sherief]

When compressing a an RGBA16F cubemap, the resulting files has 36 faces for each mip level instead of 6.

Input and output files attached:
grace_cross_mmp_ABGR16F.zip

Command line and output:

Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 256 px  height = 256 px
Destination Texture size = 65536 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 128 px  height = 128 px
Destination Texture size = 16384 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 64 px  height = 64 px
Destination Texture size = 4096 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 32 px  height = 32 px
Destination Texture size = 1024 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 16 px  height = 16 px
Destination Texture size = 256 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 8 px  height = 8 px
Destination Texture size = 64 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Source Texture size = 0 Bytes, width = 4 px  height = 4 px
Destination Texture size = 16 Bytes   Resulting compression ratio = 0.00:1
Compressed to BC6H with 42 iteration(s) in 2.245 seconds
Total time taken (includes file I/O): 2.246 seconds
Done Processing
Processed in 2.28 seconds```

[denislevesqueAMD]

I'm not sure what the issue is here. The input image has 7 mipmap levels per cubemap face, and from the output here Compressonator processed 42 images (6 faces * 7 mipmap levels). I even tried to test myself using both older and newer versions of Compressonator, but it all looked correct to me.

Since this was reported quite a while ago we might just want to close this issue. Unless @sherief happens to remember more details about the issue.

[sherief]

Loading the output file from the attached .zip in Renderdoc shows the following:

Under the "Slice/Face" combo box there's six instances of six faces each. The input file only shows one instance of six faces:

In the former file, all cubemap faces other than the first six show as black.

[denislevesqueAMD]

@sherief Thanks for the update! It looks like the extra cubemap faces only show up in RenderDoc, not in Compressonator. We will look into this further.

[mosra]

I think the error comes from the fact that arraySize is required to store number of cubes, not faces: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddds/dds-header-dxt10#members

I came across the same issue when implementing my own DDS importer. Don't remember which "ground truth" tool I used to compare against, but I think either the legacy NVidia Texture Tools or the NVTT Exporter should be capable of producing correct DXT10 cubemaps.

The line here

compressonator/applications/_plugins/cimage/dds/dds_dx10.cpp

Line 414 in 0bea29d

HeaderDDS10.arraySize = 6;

thus should say 1 instead of 6. Similar changes will be needed for cube map arrays as well in case Compressonator supports them.

[denislevesqueAMD]

@mosra Thanks for the suggestion! We'll see about implementing this fix in the near future.