# Introduction #

The best documentation for the new D3D11 formats is in the OpenGL BPTC spec:

http://www.opengl.org/registry/specs/ARB/texture_compression_bptc.txt

A good overview is available at:

http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/2012/02/12/understanding-bcn-texture-compression-formats/


# Compressors #

  * NVIDIA Compressors written by Walt Donovan:
    * https://code.google.com/p/nvidia-texture-tools/downloads/detail?name=bc6h_export.zip
    * https://code.google.com/p/nvidia-texture-tools/downloads/detail?name=bc7_export.zip

  * Volition GPU Compressor:
    * https://github.com/volition-inc/bc7_gpu

  * http://gamma.cs.unc.edu/FasTC/