solved Dynamic DDS files

[JohnM]

Hey all,

 

I am trying to use a dds file as a cube texture. it works fine if i link to it in the usual way, but i am trying to instead load a file into my html5 page of which would then be turned into a cube texture as so - 

new BABYLON.CubeTexture(reader.result, scene);

 

i have got this working with a normal texture as so - 

new BABYLON.Texture(reader.result, scene);

 

so im wondering, is it the base64 encoding that is messing up the dds file? if so does anyone know a better way of doing this? 

the dds file im using is from the playground textures

 

many thanks!

[Guest]

Can you try something like that:

new BABYLON.CubeTexture(reader.result, scene, null, false, null, null, null, BABYLON.Engine.TEXTUREFORMAT_RGBA, false, ".dds");

This will force the system to use the DDS code path

[JohnM]

hmm this still doesnt seem to work for me, reflection texture still appears as undefined.

here is a PG of what i am  trying to do on a very basic level. although there seems to be an error that I am not getting on my local project so not sure if this will actually work with PG

 

hope that helps 

[dbawel]

@JohnM

I would use the PVRTexTool to help figure out the format of your DDS file. Also, read the following post, as it's full of info:

DB

[JohnM]

thanks for the link it was interesting indeed however - 

I would assume seeing as the .dds file i am using is included in many of the babylon examples that its the best .dds format i could get with regards to compatability? ? 

also the .dds file does work when used "normally" but when i want to insert it dynamically, this is where my issue is. so i would then assume my problem is how I am passing the data from reader to babylon as i dont have much experience with reader

 

[Guest]

The CubeTexture expects that you send data as base64 which seems to not be the case here

[JohnM]

seems to be base64 to me? 

[brianzinn]

You have the right Base64.  I've created a PG that works for me:
https://playground.babylonjs.com/index.html#JPMIF9

[JohnM]

thats perfect, thank you! fixed what ever my issue was. dont really understand what i was doing wrong, only thing i see different is that you didnt use onload or onloadend?