Just a small update. We've put like 99% of our effort into ETC1 and ETC1+DXT1 over the previous 5-6 months. Our ETC1 encoder supports RDO and an intermediate format, and has shipped on OSX/Linux/Windows. I've been modifying the ETC1 encoder to also support DXT1 over the previous few weeks.
Our ETC1 encoder was written almost from scratch. The next major step is to roll back all the improvements and things I've learned while implementing our ETC1 encoder back into our DXT-specific encoder. crunch's support for DXT has a bunch of deficiencies which hurt ratio (which Roy Eltham and Fabian Giesen have pointed out to me, and that I've been aware of for a few months since working on the new codebook generator for ETC1), which I'm definitely fixing in Basis.
Our ETC1 encoder was written almost from scratch. The next major step is to roll back all the improvements and things I've learned while implementing our ETC1 encoder back into our DXT-specific encoder. crunch's support for DXT has a bunch of deficiencies which hurt ratio (which Roy Eltham and Fabian Giesen have pointed out to me, and that I've been aware of for a few months since working on the new codebook generator for ETC1), which I'm definitely fixing in Basis.