Re: [Flightgear-devel] Mipmaps (was: Adventures in dds)

[Emilian H. <emi...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 23 March 2011 13:32:25 Lauri Peltonen wrote:
> 
> Also one thing point mentioning is that DDS format might not be
> supported on older hardware. And I think FG is supposed to support
> also older hardware.
> 

I think BC3/DXT5 is pretty well supported by older hardware. 
There would be issues with the BC5/ATI2 mode (used for normalmaps) which is a 
newer appearance (ATI-x800 timeframe and newer, nVidia too), but then again, I 
don't think the older hardware supports the shaders that would use these 
textures (bumpspec, reflectbumpspec.. etc).