microsoft/DirectXTex

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DirectXTex texture processing library

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Forks: 498
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 43
Avg merge: 2d 5h
Merged PRs (30d): 6

Dominant language: C++
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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42 open issues indexed

Texture conversion failure within the same file. Open

question

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microsoft/DirectXTex#734 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
DDSTextureLoader for Vulkan Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#729 · Opened Aug 2, 2026
DirectXTexEXR is missing support for "displayWindow" meta data Open

exr

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#724 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 31, 2026
Project feedback Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#719 · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 16, 2026
VS Code Extension for DDS viewing Open

tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#717 · Opened Jul 13, 2026
DirectXTexEXR is missing support for stereo and mipmap images Open

exr

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#680 · Opened Mar 7, 2026
CopyRectangle support for BC compressed format images Open

bc enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#568 · Opened Dec 15, 2024
Support for working with unexpanded P8/A8P8 images Open

proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#520 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 26, 2024
DirectXTex Environment Map command-line tool (texenvmap) Open

tools

microsoft/DirectXTex#509 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2024
Compression artifacts for BC7_UNORM when compressing on CPU (GPU is fine) Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#488 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2024
Add function to convert a texture to Standard Swizzle and vice versa Open

dx12 enhancement

microsoft/DirectXTex#475 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 14, 2024
Allow user to convert single lat-long hdri into cubemap Open

tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#462 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Move PPM/PFM I/O functions to the library Open

proposal tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#415 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2023
DXT5 RGBM encoding support Open

enhancement

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microsoft/DirectXTex#361 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 9, 2023
Vulkan <-> DXGI Format constant utility Open

utility wsl

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microsoft/DirectXTex#352 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 13, 2023
FlipRotate not supported for the Linux platform Open

wsl

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#350 · Opened May 13, 2023
texassemble support to compress DDS to BC formats Open

bc tools

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#331 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2023
Artifact pixels when using -fixbc4x4 on certain DDS files Open

bug tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#315 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2023
D3DXLoadSurfaceFromSurface sample Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#291 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 18, 2022
BC7 (no GPU) compresses (255,255,255,0) to (255,255,255,1) Open

question

microsoft/DirectXTex#269 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 10, 2022
Support for legacy TGA files that have RLE crossing scanlines Open

enhancement tga

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#251 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 7, 2021
D3D12 - Add support for memory allocators Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#246 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 10, 2021
FlipRotate could support operations on some Block Compressed images Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#240 · Opened Jun 11, 2021
BC1-3 Compressor single color optimization Open

bc enhancement

microsoft/DirectXTex#223 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 4, 2021
Support generating radiance/irradiance for PBR IBL Open

proposal tools

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#186 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 5, 2020
DirectX tiled resources tool (textile) Open

tools

microsoft/DirectXTex#157 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 7, 2019
GetWICCodec equivalent for extensions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#90 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 18, 2018
Custom per-channel RGB weighting for DXT1-3 compress Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#84 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 30, 2018
texassemble sprite sheet output Open

tools

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#78 · Opened Feb 12, 2018
CompressGPU is unsupported for DirectX 12 Open

bug dx12

microsoft/DirectXTex#47 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 1, 2017
Loading or capture depth/stencil formats is unsupported for DirectX 12 Open

dx12 enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#46 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 31, 2017
Convert to sRGB color space on load Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#41 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 2, 2016
Add support for generating spherical environment maps Open

tools

microsoft/DirectXTex#39 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 21, 2016
Slight shift in non-WIC point/nearest-neighbor Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#21 · Opened May 24, 2016
GPU Compression for BC1 - BC5 Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#19 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2016
Add support for generating dual-parabola environment maps Open

tools

microsoft/DirectXTex#14 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 8, 2016
Add support for generating octahedron environment maps Open

tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#13 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2016
D3DX11Create*From* Sample Open

documentation

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#8 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2015
Support for loading/saving 'native' premultiplied WIC content Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#6 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 20, 2015
Implement polyphase box filtering for improved non-power-of-2 support Open

proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#5 · Opened Jun 20, 2015
Mipmap support for Kaiser / Lanczos filtering Open

proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/DirectXTex#3 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 20, 2015
Adobe Photoshop Plug-in for DDS Open

dds tools

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microsoft/DirectXTex#1 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 19, 2015

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