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

2011-03-23 Thread Lauri Peltonen
Shouting again from the back row, but I want to point out that pregenerated mipmaps is not something dds specific, it can be done with any texture format. It's just about storing them. Like in http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/img/wiki_up/MipMap_Example_STS101.jpg . Of course dds has the pro side

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

2011-03-23 Thread Emilian Huminiuc
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