The device's textureCompressionBC is asked for and remembered (gvk_has_bc). tex_load_ex prefers a
DX10 .dds with the full chain beside the .png (not for an edge-padded cut-out atlas):
texture_dds.ludic reads BC7 / BC5 / BC4, gpu_tex_compressed makes the image with every level and
no colour-attachment use (a compressed image is only sampled and copied into), and
gvk_tex_upload_blocks copies each level's blocks from one staging buffer. A colour map is BC7
sampled as sRGB, a data map BC7 read as it is. examples/rendering/bc.ludic holds it, in the suite;
ludic.lab's plate carries its .dds (its three shots render at 56-60 dB against the .png's).
ludic-dev test 307/307, no Vulkan SDK in the environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A scene is an entry in the open registry LabScenes, shown on a plate: a
flat lit disc, the package's own small sky with the sun at one hour, and
a frame clock. Headless each camera (lab_shot, lab_shot_at) settles and
is written as build/lab/<scene>/<shot>.png (a stored PNG, written here);
in a window N and P step through them. tools/lab/run.sh and sheet.py
make the contact sheet; tools/lab/plate_build.py makes plate/.
ludic.render3d gains r3d_plate_mode (no terrain, grass or water is made)
and r3d_sky_path. quit() in a program with no frame loop links. The
example takes ~120 MB resident, 417 MiB peak footprint. Reseed.
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