KTXorientation not available in metadata

KTX
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According to the ktx documentation I use the following code to check an image orientation:

char* pValue;
uint32_t valueLen;
if (KTX_SUCCESS == ktxHashList_FindValue(&kTexture->kvDataHead,
                                          KTX_ORIENTATION_KEY,
                                          &valueLen, (void**)&pValue))
 {
      char s, t;
      if (sscanf(pValue, KTX_ORIENTATION2_FMT, &s, &t) == 2) 
      {
         ...
      }
 }

When t equals “d” I know that data should be flipped (y axis). For testing I use ktx files from the ktx repository. It works fine with hi_mark.ktx but other ktx file - etc.ktx doesn’t contain KTXorientation (ktxHashList_FindValue returns KTX_INVALID_VALUE) and is rendered upside down. Infact many other ktx files doesn’t contain KTXorientation metadata. How should I handle it ? Maybe I should also flip data (y-axis) when an appropriate metadata is not available.

2

The default origin is upper-left with s increasing down so if there is no KTXorientation metadata you should indeed flip the data or, preferably, transform the texture coordinates.