Re: [Flightgear-devel] Heads up: Texture compression system

[David F. <dav...@ya...>]

On Saturday 19 May 2001 23:47, Christian Mayer hit his keyboard with a hammer 
and this was the result:
> It's great to decrease the size of the base package (as written before),
> but it won't help you for potorealistic scenerey. There you need lots of
> texture RAM - or textures that are compressed and can be used in the
> compressed form. So unless (nearly) all 3D chipstets support that
> compression scheme it's not very useful for the scenery. There we should
> switch to a format that's supported (a few of those are already around;
> dunno where to find the specs)

Yes, but it will save disk space. That was all I was suggesting it for. It 
would be a much smaller download. For texture memory probs we need to 
resample on the fly.

David

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