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== Conversion == | |||
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|Automatic conversion script is welcome indeed. Also I'm pretty sure that we have some people here ready to convert a PNG to DDS as soon as you say "Hey boys I created a new PNG file, can you convert this file for me please ?" :-) | |||
|{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/32785592/ | |||
|title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] Download size, | |||
and hardware support (was .dds textures)</nowiki> | |||
|author=<nowiki>Clement de l'Hamaide</nowiki> | |||
|date=<nowiki>2014-09-02</nowiki> | |||
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{{FGCquote | |||
|A few world about the conversion: once a png/rgb/jpg found, the script <br/> | |||
try to guess the suitable dds format: with or without alpha channel, <br/> | |||
bumpmap, if a .dds is allready found we just erase the png one, if not <br/> | |||
we use nvcompress to get the dds. After we change the textures name <br/> | |||
called in the differents files and that's it. There's a way to tell the <br/> | |||
script what to do for each file, if the automatic mode is a failure.<br/> | |||
<br/> | |||
I guess speaking theorically is not the best to make an opinion, so if <br/> | |||
some of you are interested to make a test, I will make a 3.2 minimal dds <br/> | |||
fgdata this we, once on my FG pc. | |||
|{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/32785602/ | |||
|title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] .dds textures (was Unused and/or sourceless textures)</nowiki> | |||
|author=<nowiki>jean</nowiki> | |||
|date=<nowiki>2014-09-02</nowiki> | |||
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== Pros == | == Pros == | ||
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|I always got a loading problem with png textures, large textures take <br/> | |||
seconds to load and convert, and that ruin my close flight where you <br/> | |||
can't afford to take pause in the air.<br/> | |||
that's why i did a batch script to convert to dds ALL the textures in <br/> | |||
the data, not only the matérial set, but everything. Now i only flight a <br/> | |||
dds version of flightgear, and am quite happy with it, that's why i <br/> | |||
propose to provide a dds fgdata for test, and maybe to make it an <br/> | |||
alternate download possibility. | |||
|{{cite web |url=http://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/mailman/message/32785602/ | |||
|title=<nowiki>Re: [Flightgear-devel] .dds textures (was Unused and/or sourceless textures)</nowiki> | |||
|author=<nowiki>jean</nowiki> | |||
|date=<nowiki>2014-09-02</nowiki> | |||
}} | |||
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== Contra == | == Contra == | ||
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