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I am having the same problem as described here.

I'm looking for support for DXTn textures. I ran worldwind in terminal and got the following error message:

Aug 22, 2012 5:28:12 PM gov.nasa.worldwind.layers.TextureTile initializeTexture

SEVERE: Exception attempting to read texture file

javax.media.opengl.GLException: DXTn compressed textures not supported by this graphics card

I tried the suggested solution from here

sudo apt-get install driconf

driconf

Under "Image Quality" change "Enable S3TC ..." to Yes. Save.

The driconf solution did not fix the problem. There was no "Enable S3TC..." option in the Image Quality tab.

I think I am using Nouveau driver and I wonder if I should switch to the Nvidia driver?

• Computer: Dell Precision M6400


• Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU T9550 @ 2.66GHz × 2 Ubuntu: 12.0.4 LTS


• Video Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M


• Graphics: Gallium 0.4 on NV94

Any ideas?

Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression

While S3 Graphics is no longer a competitor in the graphics
accelerator market, license fees are still levied and collected for
the use of S3TC technology, for example in game consoles and graphics
cards. The patent-encumbered status of S3TC and its wide use in
software, despite non-encumbered alternatives, have led to a de facto
requirement for OpenGL drivers to support it and present a major
obstacle to open source implementations.

Which explains why Nouveau driver does not support it. I guess you need to switch to the binary NVidia drivers.

Otherwise:

..and tell WorldWind not to use S3 texture compression (.dds format) but rather PNG default texture format.

You can download the sources (SDK 2.0 now):

wget http://builds.worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/worldwind-releases/2.0/builds/worldwind-2.0.0.zip

unzip worldwind-2.0.0.zip -d worldwind-2.0.0

Then apply the changes to the source files listed here and here.

Since those links are a little outdated, there are a few more changes you should apply in order to make things work on WW 2.0 release (see appendix).

Afterwards, you can re-build your new worldwind.jar:

cd worldwind-2.0.0/

ant worldwind.jarfile # or simply `ant'

I personally verified it by running the SDK from Netbeans.

$ sudo lshw -C video | egrep "product|driver"

   product: RV635/M86 [Mobility Radeon HD 3670]

   configuration: driver=radeon latency=0

HTH

APPENDIX: patch for SDK 2.0

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer.xml

@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@

     <!-- day month year hours:minutes:seconds timezone -->

     <LastUpdate>26 03 2009 00:00:00 GMT</LastUpdate>

     <DataCacheName>Earth/BMNGWMS/BMNG(Shaded + Bathymetry) Tiled - Version 1.1 - 5.2004</DataCacheName>

-    <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

+    <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

     <AvailableImageFormats>

         <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

         <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.png</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="5" numEmpty="0"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer2.xml b/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer2.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer2.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/BMNGWMSLayer2.xml

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@

         <ImageFormat>image/jpeg</ImageFormat>

         <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.png</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="5" numEmpty="0"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/CountryBoundariesLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/CountryBoundariesLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/CountryBoundariesLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/CountryBoundariesLayer.xml

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@

     <AvailableImageFormats>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthHybridLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthHybridLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthHybridLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthHybridLayer.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

     <AvailableImageFormats>

         <ImageFormat>image/jpg</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.jpg</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="16" numEmpty="4"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@

     </Sector>

     <ActiveAltitudes max="1000e3"/>

     <UseTransparentTextures>true</UseTransparentTextures>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthRoadsLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthRoadsLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthRoadsLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/MSVirtualEarthRoadsLayer.xml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@

     <AvailableImageFormats>

         <ImageFormat>image/jpg</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.jpg</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="16" numEmpty="4"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@

     </Sector>

     <ActiveAltitudes max="1000e3"/>

     <UseTransparentTextures>true</UseTransparentTextures>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/ScankortDenmarkImageLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/ScankortDenmarkImageLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/ScankortDenmarkImageLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/ScankortDenmarkImageLayer.xml

@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@

     <!-- day month year hours:minutes:seconds timezone -->

     <LastUpdate>25 06 2009 22:45:32 GMT</LastUpdate>

     <DataCacheName>Earth/Scankort Denmark</DataCacheName>

-    <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

+    <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

     <AvailableImageFormats>

         <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

         <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.png</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="16" numEmpty="0"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

@@ -46,4 +46,4 @@

             <Time units="milliseconds" value="30000"/>

         </ReadTimeout>

     </RetrievalTimeouts>

diff --git a/src/config/Earth/USDANAIPWMSImageLayer.xml b/src/config/Earth/USDANAIPWMSImageLayer.xml

--- a/src/config/Earth/USDANAIPWMSImageLayer.xml

+++ b/src/config/Earth/USDANAIPWMSImageLayer.xml

@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@

     <!-- day month year hours:minutes:seconds timezone -->

     <LastUpdate>23 04 2009 17:55:00 GMT</LastUpdate>

     <DataCacheName>Earth/USDA NAIP</DataCacheName>

-    <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

+    <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

     <AvailableImageFormats>

         <ImageFormat>image/png</ImageFormat>

         <ImageFormat>image/dds</ImageFormat>

     </AvailableImageFormats>

-    <FormatSuffix>.dds</FormatSuffix>

+    <FormatSuffix>.png</FormatSuffix>

     <NumLevels count="15" numEmpty="6"/>

     <TileOrigin>

         <LatLon units="degrees" latitude="-90" longitude="-180"/>

@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@

             <Time units="milliseconds" value="30000"/>

         </ReadTimeout>

     </RetrievalTimeouts>

diff --git a/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/BasicTiledImageLayer.java b/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/BasicTiledImageLayer.java

--- a/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/BasicTiledImageLayer.java

+++ b/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/BasicTiledImageLayer.java

@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ public class BasicTiledImageLayer extends TiledImageLayer implements BulkRetriev

             params.setValue(AVKey.TILE_HEIGHT, 512);



         if (params.getValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX) == null)

-            params.setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, ".dds");

+            params.setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, ".png");



         if (params.getValue(AVKey.NUM_LEVELS) == null)

             params.setValue(AVKey.NUM_LEVELS, 19); // approximately 0.1 meters per pixel

diff --git a/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/rpf/RPFTiledImageLayer.java b/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/rpf/RPFTiledImageLayer.java

--- a/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/rpf/RPFTiledImageLayer.java

+++ b/src/gov/nasa/worldwind/layers/rpf/RPFTiledImageLayer.java

@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ public class RPFTiledImageLayer extends TiledImageLayer

         if (params.getValue(AVKey.TILE_HEIGHT) == null)

             params.setValue(AVKey.TILE_HEIGHT, 512);

         if (params.getValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX) == null)

-            params.setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, ".dds");

+            params.setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, ".png");

         if (params.getValue(AVKey.NUM_LEVELS) == null)      

             params.setValue(AVKey.NUM_LEVELS, 14); // approximately 0.5 meters per pixel

         if (params.getValue(AVKey.NUM_EMPTY_LEVELS) == null)

After the WorldWind model is created, and before the window is displayed, you can loop through all the layers and force them to not use DDS for storing tile textures:

// Before the WorldWind window displays (which triggers the data retrievers)

// loop through the levels for each tiled image layer and mutate any level

// constructed to use DDS to instead use JPG (best compression) or PNG (best

// quality, but much larger files).

String cacheFormat = "jpg"; // could load this via configuration file

for (Layer layer : model.getLayers()) {

    if (layer instanceof BasicTiledImageLayer && ((BasicTiledImageLayer)layer).getTextureFormat() == null) {

        ((BasicTiledImageLayer)layer).setTextureFormat("image/" + cacheFormat);

        ((BasicTiledImageLayer)layer).setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, "." + cacheFormat);

        ArrayList<Level> levels = ((BasicTiledImageLayer) layer).getLevels().getLevels();

        for (int i = 0; i < levels.size(); i++) {

            Level level = levels.get(i);

            if (level.getFormatSuffix().equals(".dds")) {

                AVList params = level.getParams();

                params.setValue(AVKey.FORMAT_SUFFIX, "." + cacheFormat);

                levels.set(i, new Level(params));

            }

        }

    }

}