ETC Compression Errors are a Deal Breaker

Linux editor fails to compress ETC1 and ETC2 textures regularly. This makes it impossible to effectively work on many production projects from Linux. I submitted case #1222219 and included that in one of the original discussions here. I hope it can get some priority as a fix because otherwise, this looks ready to go!

 

Since there has been no response from Unity about this, does anyone know of any workarounds?

 

Uhh... could you use another compression type for your textures, one that Linux recognises?

 

ETC and ETC2 are hard requirement for proper Android support (and are increasingly useful for iOS build targets) and the ETC tools are definitely supported for use in Linux, as evidenced by the fact that this compression format does at least sporadically work even in Unity on Linux today - it just doesn't work reliably (as described at great length in the referenced forum threads and bug report). Furthermore, using those tools directly from the command line manually works fine on the same Linux systems.

This isn't about switching to texture format that is targeted toward Linux or supported by Linux - the target platforms here are Android and iOS, not Linux, and there's no reason these tools shouldn't work properly from Linux.