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		exDM69 70 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shipping textures as PNGs is suboptimal GPU texture compression needs fixed bitrate for random access, usually 2 bits per pixel (128b for 8x8 block) with modern formats. Jpeg or other variable bitrate compression schemes are not applicable.

pmarreck 70 days ago [–]

Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. Certainly a technical requirement that is tricky to satisfy.

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