KTX Viewer macOS

KTX Viewer MacOS is a domain-focused tool for developers and technical artists to inspect texture containers without modification. It supports KTX1 and KTX2 files, parses headers, and exposes key asset attributes such as width, height, depth, mip levels, faces, and layers. It provides a reliable, programmatic view of texture data to confirm asset characteristics before integration into a game engine or rendering pipeline. By avoiding editing, it preserves data integrity while offering precise visibility into texture contents.

Conceptually, the tool reads the binary container, interprets the internalFormat and colorSpace, and either decodes to a displayable preview or returns a compressed visualization. It is designed for fast workflows in asset pipelines, shader development, and performance profiling. Users can load a file, trigger a metadata extraction, and compare multiple assets side-by-side if needed.

Unique value includes robust support for both KTX1 and KTX2, accurate calculation of mip levels, per-face previews for cubemaps, and exports to PNG or JSON. Use cases include asset validation after import, quality checks for texture compression, and pipeline integration for automated asset verification. The tool minimizes manual decoding effort and accelerates asset validation across large libraries.

Core features include: file load, header parsing, metadata extraction, preview generation, export options (PNG, JSON), and error reporting. It is intended for macOS environments used by game studios, shader developers, and asset teams.