How to display DDS images?

Hey guys, I have been surfing these boards for while and figured I should finally join and contribute to the community :)

I am hoping this is a trivial issue for someone out there.

I have a ton of .dds images I want to create a simple thumbnail viewer for. I have tried QImage and Pixmap, but none of those currently support .dds file types. I know openGL, and QtOpenGL does, but will I need to create a Plane to apply an image to it? Is there a way to just display a .dds that I am overlooking? Does anyone have a simple example using .dds files?

Any help or direction is greatly appreciated,

Thanks
JAM

DDS it's not image, it's a collection of texture images (1D, 2D, 3D, cubemap texture) with optional all mipmapping levels. And how do you show cubemap texture like a image?

But, there are tons of DDS loader on the internet, and you can "ripoff" code from QtOpenGL.

Write the texture into QGLPixelBuffer and then use QGLPixelBuffer::toImage() to write it to an image. Note that you may have to switch colour channels afterwards.

Thanks guys for your help. Unfortunately I still can't get it to display anything.

Is the proper way to specify a "bindTexture" then convert it with "toImage"?

Obviously the png works great, but the dds isn't displaying anything.

Thanks Guys
JAM

Code:

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from PyQt4 import QtGui
from PyQt4 import QtOpenGL
 
ddsPath = "C:/ddsImage.dds"
pngPath = "C:/pngImage.png"
 
class Example(QtGui.QWidget):
    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        QtGui.QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
 
        self.initUI()
 
 
    def initUI(self):
 
        hbox = QtGui.QHBoxLayout(self)
        pixmap = QtGui.QPixmap(pngPath)
 
        GL = QtOpenGL.QGLPixelBuffer(512, 512)
        GL_ID = GL.bindTexture(ddsPath)
        GL.makeCurrent()
        qimag = GL.toImage()
 
        pixmap2 = QtGui.QPixmap.fromImage(qimag)
 
        label = QtGui.QLabel(self)
        label.setPixmap(pixmap)
 
        label2 = QtGui.QLabel(self)
        label2.setPixmap(pixmap2)
 
        hbox.addWidget(label)
        hbox.addWidget(label2)
        self.setLayout(hbox)
 
        self.setWindowTitle("DDS Test")
 
 
app = QtGui.QApplication([])
exm = Example()
exm.show()
app.exec_()

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Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you have to use the GL_ARB_texture_compression extension or the glCompressedTexImage2D() function to load the compressed texture?

I know this discussion is somewhat old, but I originally found it while looking for a way to load a DDS image in Qt. I figured out one way to do it eventually so if anybody else comes here looking for the answer, there it is:

https://gist.github.com/bjorn/4635382

Code:

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QImage readDDSFile(const QString &filename)
{
    QGLWidget glWidget;
    glWidget.makeCurrent();
 
    GLuint texture = glWidget.bindTexture(filename);
    if (!texture)
        return QImage();
 
    // Determine the size of the DDS image
    GLint width, height;
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture);
    glGetTexLevelParameteriv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_TEXTURE_WIDTH, &width);
    glGetTexLevelParameteriv(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_TEXTURE_HEIGHT, &height);
 
    if (width == 0 || height == 0)
        return QImage();
 
    QGLPixelBuffer pbuffer(QSize(width, height), glWidget.format(), &glWidget);
    if (!pbuffer.makeCurrent())
        return QImage();
 
    pbuffer.drawTexture(QRectF(-1, -1, 2, 2), texture);
    return pbuffer.toImage();
}

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For information on the supported formats see http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qgl...#bindTexture-2.

The main problem with the code snippet above is that it didn't actually draw the texture to the pixel buffer.