ktx_validate(1)

🦋 ktx_validate(1) — the KTX Tools Reference glow-up

okay so bestie, welcome to ktx_validate, aka the vibe-check bouncer for your textures 💅 it lives in the KTX Tools Reference and honestly? it's giving "quality control queen."

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✨ NAME ✨

ktx_validate — ktx validate. literally just validate a KTX2 file. that's the whole job, and she does it well 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ktx validate [option...] input-file

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so ktx validate validates the Khronos texture format version 2 (KTX2) file that you pass in as the input-file argument. she prints any found errors and warnings to stdout, no cap ✨

and periodt — if your input-file is -, the file gets read from stdin. iconic, flexible, we love a stdin queen 🫶

the validation rules and checks are based on the official specification: KTX File Format Specification — https://registry.khronos.org/KTX/specs/2.0/ktxspec.v2.html

the JSON output formats conform to the https://schema.khronos.org/ktx/validate_v0.json schema. so like, if you're piping it into something, it's gonna behave 🧚

Note 🙈 — ktx validate prints using UTF-8 encoding. if your console is not set for UTF-8, you'll see incorrect characters in the output of the file identifier on each side of the "KTX nn". so like... set your encoding, bestie, it's 2024 💀

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

the following options are available:

• --format text | json | mini-json — specifies the report output format. possible options are:
  • text — human readable text based format.
  • json — formatted JSON.
  • mini-json — minified JSON.

the default format is text. lowkey the safest choice if you just wanna read it 👑

• -g, --gltf-basisu — check compatibility with the KHR_texture_basisu glTF extension. glTF girlies, this one's for you 🌈
• -e, --warnings-as-errors — treat warnings as errors. strict queen behavior, honestly 💅
• -h, --help — print this usage message and exit. the classic "wait what do i do" button 🎀
• -v, --version — print the version number of this program and exit. know your icon ⭐

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🌟 EXIT STATUS 🌟

• 0 — success 🎉
• 1 — command line error 😭
• 2 — IO failure 💀
• 3 — invalid input file 🚩
• 4 — runtime or library error 🫠
• 5 — not supported state or operation 🙈
• 6 — requested feature is not yet implemented 👀

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💜 HISTORY 💜

Version 4.0

• initial version 🐣

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

• Mátyás Császár [Vader] — RasterGrid www.rastergrid.com
• Daniel Rákos — RasterGrid www.rastergrid.com

absolute legends, both of them 🫶✨

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from Version 0.0.0, dated Tue Jan 1 1980 00:00:00 🎀 go forth and validate, iykyk 💖