Talk:Switching default texture format to DDS: Difference between revisions

[[File:Automatic format convert 01.jpg|thumb|800px|DDS-PNG-JPG Automatic format convert]]

The idea is simple, you can use various formats, such as SVG which is also very useful for liveries, when the format is read a process transforms it into the format you want to use for your graphics card, such as the DDS , PNG or S3TC, the transformation could also use an appropriate pixel density as a function of monitor used! The everything is sent to a cache that can only be in RAM or, as I often do, mixed RAM-HD according to the type of use. This approach allows to minimize the load of conversion and at the same time allows to have the images already ready for use. Normally a pilot flies in areas fairly restricted and then the cache may already contain all what interests him limiting in this way the load of the CPU. An index, if the cache is mixed RAM-HD can handle various things, such as whether a file has been updated and then redoing the conversion, manage LIFO etc ... This seems like a solution is not too complicated, but extremely flexible, which separates the authors of the texture from the problems of format and its licenses. When the cache is stabilized, the CPU load is very small compared with its other activities. Fact that I have always occurred when I implemented these features in Java. --[[User:Abassign|Abassign]] ([[User talk:Abassign|talk]]) 09:11, 6 September 2014 (UTC)