PowerVR Insider Utilities

PVRTrace is a tool for analysing OpenGL ES applications, capturing the EGL and OpenGL ES API calls made by an application. PVRTrace is compatible with hardware devices and the PVRVFrame emulator, and no recompilation of the application is required. The captured data can then be analyzed with the standalone PVRTrace GUI analysis application.

A set of emulation libraries that allow OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1/2.0 and Direct3D Mobile applications to run directly on any desktop PC with an OpenGL and DirectX9 compliant graphics accelerator. OpenGL ES is supported for Windows, Linux and Mac OS; Direct3D Mobile is only supported under Windows.

Tools to convert bitmap files (e.g., BMP, JPG, PNG, TGA) to any texture type supported by PowerVR MBX and/or PowerVR SGX hardware including PVRTC, DXT and ETC compressed formats. Both a GUI and command line version are supplied for Windows, Linux and Mac OS. There are also plug-ins for Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya and Adobe Photoshop.

Texture compression, decompression and processing library to allow easy integration with custom artwork toolchains.

Official PowerVR geometry and animation export plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya. Exports model data into optimized PowerVR POD file format. PVRGeoPOD also supports special features such as tangent space generation and bone batching.

Stand-alone tool that converts Khronos COLLADA Digital Asset geometry and animations into the optimized PowerVR POD file format.

PVRVecEx is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator enabling the export of vector graphics artwork into the PowerVR vector graphics (PVG) file format optimized for efficient rendering through the Khronos OpenVG API.

Graphical front-end for the PVRUniSCo shader compiler allowing easy creation and editing of OpenGL ES 2.0 shading language vertex and fragment shader programs in addition to PowerVR FX (PFX) files.

PVRShaman is an integrated development environment designed to ease the creation of GLSL ES vertex and fragment shaders. PVRShaman uses POD files, exported from 3ds max or Maya (using PVRGeoPOD from the PowerVR SDK), and applies PowerVR FX (PFX) files to them. COLLADA files are also supported.

PVRTune is a remote, hardware performance profiler for SGX platforms used to graph on-chip and driver counters in real time. PVRTune includes shader performance and memory efficiency statistics.