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Basis Universal by Binomial LLC is an open-source GPU texture compression and transcoding system for LDR and HDR textures. It uses its own .basis format along with Khronos .KTX2 and Microsoft .DDS interchange formats to enable rapid transcoding to virtually any GPU texture format across platforms, including WASM. The system includes eight codecs, such as ETC1S and UASTC LDR 4x4, designed to maximize compression and fast transcoding for portable textures.
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“Basis Universal (originally developed by Binomial and heavily adopted across the industry) allows textures to compress into a GPU-friendly intermediate format”
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