Command Line Options¶
Usage CompressonatorCLI.exe [options] SourceFile DestFile
| Mip Map Options: | |
|---|---|
| -nomipmap | Turns off Mipmap generation |
| -mipsize <size> | The size in pixels used to determine how many mip levels to generate |
| -miplevels <Level> | Sets Mips Level for output, (mipSize overides this option): default is 1 |
| Compression Options | |
|---|---|
| -fs <format> | Optionally specifies the source texture format to use |
| -fd <format> | Specifies the destination texture format to use |
| -decomp <filename> | If the destination file is compressed optionally decompress it to the specified file. Note the destination must be compatible with the sources format,decompress formats are typically set to ARGB_8888 or ARGB_32F |
| -UseGPUDecompress | By default decompression is done using CPU when set OpenGL will be used by default, this can be changed to DirectX or Vulkan using DecodeWith setting |
| -EncodeWith | Compression with CPU, HPC, OCL or DXC Default is CPU. OCL & DXC is only available on Windows Version |
| -DecodeWith | Sets OpenGL, DirectX or Vulkan for GPU decompress Default is OpenGL, UseGPUDecompress is implied when this option is set |
| -doswizzle | Swizzle the source images Red and Blue channels |
| Channel Formats | |
|---|---|
| ARGB_16 | ARGB format with 16-bit fixed channels |
| ARGB_16F | ARGB format with 16-bit floating-point channels |
| ARGB_32F | ARGB format with 32-bit floating-point channels |
| ARGB_2101010 | ARGB format with 10-bit fixed channels for color and a 2-bit fixed channel for alpha |
| ARGB_8888 | ARGB format with 8-bit fixed channels |
| R_8 | Single component format with 8-bit fixed channels |
| R_16 | Single component format with 16-bit fixed channels |
| R_16F | Two component format with 32-bit floating-point channels |
| R_32F | Single component with 32-bit floating-point channels |
| RG_8 | Two component format with 8-bit fixed channels |
| RG_16 | Two component format with 16-bit fixed channels |
| RG_16F | Two component format with 16-bit floating-point channels |
| RG_32F | Two component format with 32-bit floating-point channels |
| RGB_888 | RGB format with 8-bit fixed channels |
| Compression Formats | |
|---|---|
| ASTC | Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression |
| ATC_RGB | Compressed RGB format |
| ATC_RGBA_Explicit | ARGB format with explicit alpha |
| ATC_RGBA_Interpolated | ARGB format with interpolated alpha |
| ATI1N | Single component compression format using the same technique as DXT5 alpha. Four bits per pixel |
| ATI2N | Two component compression format using the same technique as DXT5 alpha. Designed for compression object space normal maps. Eight bits per pixel |
| ATI2N_XY | Two component compression format using the same technique as DXT5 alpha. The same as ATI2N but with the channels swizzled.Eight bits per pixel |
| ATI2N_DXT5 | An ATI2N like format using DXT5. Intended for use on GPUs that do not natively support ATI2N. Eight bits per pixel |
| BC1 | Four component opaque (or 1-bit alpha) compressed texture format. Four bit per pixel |
| BC2 | Four component compressed texture format with explicit alpha. Eight bits per pixel |
| BC3 | Four component compressed texture format with interpolated alpha. Eight bits per pixel |
| BC4 | Single component compressed texture format for Microsoft |
| BC5 | Two component compressed texture format for Microsoft |
| BC6H | High-Dynamic Range compression format |
| BC7 | High-quality compression of RGB and RGBA data |
| DXT1 | An opaque (or 1-bit alpha) DXTC compressed texture format. Four bits per pixel |
| DXT3 | DXTC compressed texture format with explicit alpha. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5 | DXTC compressed texture format with interpolated alpha. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_xGBR | DXT5 with the red component swizzled into the alpha channel Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_RxBG | Swizzled DXT5 format with the green component swizzled into the alpha channel. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_RBxG | Swizzled DXT5 format with the green component swizzled into the alpha channel & the blue component swizzled into the green channel. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_xRBG | Swizzled DXT5 format with the green component swizzled into the alpha channel & the red component swizzled into the green channel. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_RGxB | Swizzled DXT5 format with the blue component swizzled into the alpha channel. Eight bits per pixel |
| DXT5_xGxR | Two-component swizzled DXT5 format with the red component swizzled into the alpha channel & the green component in the green channel. Eight bits per pixel |
| ETC_RGB | Ericsson Texture Compression - Compressed RGB format. |
| ETC2_RGB | Ericsson Texture Compression 2 - RGB format |
| ETC2_RGBA | RGB with 8 bit alpha |
| ETC2_RGBA1 | RGB with 1 bit alpha |
| Codec Options | Reference developer SDK documentation for range of values |
|---|---|
| -UseChannelWeighting <value> | Use channel weightings |
| -WeightR <value> | The weighting of the Red or X Channel |
| -WeightG <value> | The weighting of the Green or Y Channel |
| -WeightB <value> | The weighting of the Blue or Z Channel |
| -AlphaThreshold <value> | The alpha threshold to use when compressing to DXT1 & BC1 with DXT1UseAlpha Texels with an alpha value less than the threshold are treated as transparent value is in the range of 0 to 255, default is 128 |
| -BlockRate <value> | ASTC 2D only - sets block size or bit rate value can be a bit per pixel rate from 0.0 to 9.9 or can be a combination of x and y axes with paired values of 4,5,6,8,10 or 12 from 4x4 to 12x12 |
| -DXT1UseAlpha <value> | Encode single-bit alpha data. Only valid when compressing to DXT1 & BC1 |
| -CompressionSpeed <value> | The trade-off between compression speed & quality This setting is not used in BC6H and BC7 |
| -Signed <value> | Used for BC6H only, Default BC6H format disables use of a sign bit in the 16-bit floating point channels, with a value set to 1 BC6H format will use a sign bit |
| -NumThreads <value> | Number of threads to initialize for ASTC,BC6H,BC7 encoding (Max up to 128). Default set to 0 (Auto) |
| -Quality <value> | Sets quality of encoding for BC7 |
| -Performance <value> | Sets performance of encoding for BC7 |
| -ColourRestrict <value> | This setting is a quality tuning setting for BC7 which may be necessary for convenience in some applications |
| -AlphaRestrict <value> | This setting is a quality tuning setting for BC7 which may be necessary for some textures |
| -ModeMask <value> | Mode to set BC7 to encode blocks using any of 8 different block modes in order to obtain the highest quality |
| -Analysis <image1> <image2> | Generate analysis metric like SSIM, PSNR values between 2 images with same size. Analysis_Result.xml file will be generated. |
| -diff_image <image1> <image2> | Generate difference between 2 images with same size A .bmp file will be generated. Please use compressonator GUI to increase the contrast to view the diff pixels. |
| -imageprops <image> | Print image properties of image files specifies. |
| -log | Logs process information to a process_results.txt file containing file info, performance data,SSIM,PSNR and MSE. |
| -logcsv | Logs process information to a process_results.csv file containing file info, performance data,SSIM,PSNR and MSE. |
| -log <filename> | Logs process information to a user defined text file |
| -logcsv <filename> | Logs process information to a user defined csv file |
| -ff <ext><ext>,…,<ext> | File filters used for processing a list of image files with specified extensions in a given directory folder supported <ext> are any of the following combinations: DDS,KTX,TGA,EXR,PNG,BMP,HDR,JPG,TIFF,PPM |
| Output Options | |
|---|---|
| -silent | Disable print messages |
| -performance | Shows various performance stats |
| -noprogress | Disables showing of compression progress messages |
Example Compression¶
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC7 -EncodeWith HPC image.bmp result.dds
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd ASTC image.bmp result.astc
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd ASTC -BlockRate 0.8 image.bmp result.astc
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd ASTC -BlockRate 12x12 image.bmp result.astc
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC7 image.bmp result.dds
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC7 -NumTheads 16 image.bmp result.dds
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC6H image.exr result.dds
Example Compression using GPU¶
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC1 -EncodeWith OCL image.bmp result.dds
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC1 -EncodeWith DXC image.bmp result.dds
Example Decompression from compressed image using CPU¶
CompressonatorCLI.exe result.dds image.bmp
Compression Followed by Decompression¶
(Useful for qualitative analysis)
CompressonatorCLI.exe -fd BC7 image.bmp result.bmp
GPU Based Decompression¶
CompressonatorCLI.exe -DecodeWith OpenGL result.dds image.bmp
Mesh Compression¶
(support glTF and obj file only)
The following mesh compression uses default quantization bits with Google Draco library settings (These default settings are currently not programmable):
- Compression level = 7.
- Quantization bits for position = 14.
- Quantization bits value for texture coordinates = 12.
- quantization bits value for normal = 10.
CompressonatorCLI.exe -draco source.gltf dest.gltf
Mesh Optimization¶
(support glTF and obj file only)
The following uses default settings that optimizes vertices with cache size = 16, overdraw with ACMR Threshold = 1.05 and vertices fetch.
CompressonatorCLI.exe -meshopt source.gltf dest.gltf
CompressonatorCLI.exe -meshopt source.obj dest.obj
Specifies settings:
CompressonatorCLI.exe -meshopt -optVCacheSize 32 -optOverdrawACMRThres 1.03 -optVFetch 0 source.gltf dest.gltf
CLI mesh optimization include settings:
| -optVCacheSize <value> | optimize vertices with hardware cache size in the value specified Default is enabled with cache size = 16 |
| -optVCacheFIFOSize <value> | optimize vertices with hardware FIFO cache size in the value specified Default is disabled |
| -optOverdrawACMRThres <value> | optimize overdraw with ACMR (average cache miss ratio) threshold value specified (value range 1-3) default is enabled with ACMR value = 1.05 (i.e. 5% worse) |
| -optVFetch <boolean value> | optimize vertices fetch . boolean value 0 - disabled, 1-enabled. -default is enabled. |
| -simplifyMeshLOD <value> | simplify mesh using LOD (Level of Details) value specified. (value range 1- no limit as it allows users to simplify the mesh until the level they desired. Higher level means less triangles drawn, less details.) |
Test Analysis Logging Features and File Filters¶
(Windows OS only)
CLI will generate an output “process_results.txt” when -log is added to the compression command line options, users can change the default log file using the command -logfile, the log captures details of the source and destination files along with statistical data on performance and quality.
Example:
Generates a “process_results.txt” file with content:
Multiple processes will append results to this file with a dash line separator. The option is valid only for compressing images and not for 3D models or image transcoding.
In addition to the -log and -logfile two command-line options are avilable to output analysis data into comma-separated file format. use -logcsv or -logcsvfile to generate a .csv file suitable to use in any application that supports viewing these files in a table as shown in this sample:
The CLI also support processing image files from a folder, without the need to specify a file name. Using a file filter, specific files types can also be selected for compression as needed.
Examples:
Processes all image file with BC7 Compression into results folder
Processes only images with extension bmp, png and exr. Notice that BC7 compression is been applied to HDR images, this is an automatic Adaptive Channel Format feature (ACF) that transcodes the image half float channels to byte prior to processing.